We just got an offer for a conglomerate worth €700, that we had put in for €350. The first offer was someone who only wanted some of it (basically all of the good parts, which is 90% of the value), and only offered €100.

So, a white bread is USD0.77?

I fondly remember regularly logging into simtel20.wsmr.army.mil back in the days (WSMR=White Sands Missile Range). No issue, just used “anonymous” as the username, and your email address as the password. And even the email address was just a convenience…

In nearly forty-ish years on the internet (yes, I was around before the web), I have not seen someone expressing an internet address in octal (before this discussion), although I remember that it is legal. Using hex, yes, but not octal.

But it does not work by definition, it is non-routable. That some systems use it as an alias is a different issue.

This is a special case. This resolves to 0.0.0.0, and technically cannot be routed. Some(!) systems use it as a kind of alias for all local network addresses, but it is not a given.

The only of them that we had in Germany: Toys’r’us.

It’s all in the documentation. But people don’t read anymore.

Yes, but you can write it in different ways. If the numeric string contains a dot, left of it must be between 0 and 255, and is put in the highest byte of the address. If the rest also contains a dot, repeat, but put it into the second highest byte.

BUT: if the string does not contain a dot, the number is put into the remaining bytes.

So 123.256 is a valid address. The 123 goes into the top byte, the 256 goes into the remaining three bytes, so the address would be 123.0.1.0.

Most common example is 127.1, which is short for 127.0.0.1 - the localhost address.

Try pinging 127.1 - it is the same, but shorter.

Just another tipp from someone who learned TCP/IP from reading the sources over three decades ago…

This depends on what you are actually looking for, and how you are looking for it.

Do you really need pattern matching, or do you only look for fixed strings? Then other tools may be faster.

If you need case independent search on an upper- and lowercase data set, make a copy that is all upper or all lower, and search there.

If you only search in certain columns, make a copy that only includes these.

Or import the data into a database.

What’s those balls on the plate?

The killer collective.

There you might be right. Shows that they are to dumb to know the meaning of it.

“Homo” in the sense of a taxonomy genus is Latin and means human, while the “homo”-prefix from e.g. “homosexual” comes from the Greek “homoi”, meaning same, equal.

I remember installing a fresh PC with win98. During installation, I disabled some windows bloatware (Imagine! You actually could do this!), and ended up with an unresponsive, non-windows app blocking the system. I killed that app and removed it from the system. Keep in mind that at this point, no network connection was set up, nor did I install any driver or program yet, this was straight from the windows install medium.

After reboot, the app was back, and again blocking the system.

Wiping the harddisk and starting installation over did not help either.

Turned out this was some bloatware installed by the BIOS whenever it detected at boot that there was a) a Windows installation that was b) “missing” their “register your PC with us” app. This needed some Windows bloatware to work, and thus failed on this machine.

This was the only time I angrily screamed at a hotline worker.

Well, they probably consider them to belong to the “homo superior” species.

Yes, yes indeed. Remove brown people, enslave black people. That’s the plan.

First of all, he should drop Python for anything resource intensive as such a simulation. And then think about how to optimize the algorithm.

You are an adult (mostly), not a child/toddler. Yes, there are sources.

I was not talking about adults, but children. Especially of toddlers, who put a lot of things into their mouths. There have been confirmed deaths of toddlers from chewing on cigarette butts, but I’m to lazy to dig out references just for your enterteinment.