It's always the 'Poll Of The Day' on some other site that reminds me that there's an actual word for the fear of the Friday the 13th...

superstitious idiots 😄

Indeed.

Superstitions are dumb.

@Lensflare / @D-4got10-01 I'm a bit superstitious. I believe in karma, especially as well functioning human being. I think you will apply the karma to yourself one way or the other if you function well. Stuff what I did wrong on younger age hurt for years. But - time heals everything.

@retoor I wouldn't say that karma is a form of superstition.

- 'Broken mirror? Oh noes x years of misfortune to me'.

- 'Black cat crossed my patch? Better go around / take a different route, else bad luck to me'.

- 'To go forward I need to go underneath a ladder? Oh hell no!'

*Getting the ladder out of the way before proceeding.*

&& so forth.

...Those are superstitions, as far as I'm concerned.

I'd like to think, however, that if I were a dumb fuck craving the pleasure of seeing the world burn,

using UTF chars in hacking wars in an attempt to avoid spam filters to bother good people by sending them bullshit, I would sooner or later get what was coming to me.

@D-4got10-01 I don't have superstitions like that. I consider karma my only one.

The UTF spam is hilarious. So first they do the email address in utf8 and then again with spaces in between. Of course the spam filter catches that. They only give more stuff to trigger on.

Have you seen the new army? Creative new bot names created with https://random-name.molodetz.nl.

Here are some soldiers doing it's thing: https://devrant.com/rants/11558732/...

No small down vote count anymore. Straight into the ground.

@retoor Nice to hear that the spam filters are so efficient.

- Haven't seen the new army, yet, but taking a look right now.

@D-4got10-01 it's a part. They run async and not all on the same time. To not bash server, they work with random times spanning over a few minutes. If a rant became invisible by down votes, the other bots won't come.

@retoor whew... finding this one has taken me way longer than I thought it would...

anyway, the creative new army reminded me of this bit:

https://securityreactions.tumblr.com/...

@D-4got10-01 haha. I found also spam on the most popular rants (136d old). Time to clean that up too. Today or tomorrow. I have found a complete new hobby.

@retoor Oh yeah.

I've seen those, too.

The spam had a far reach.

@D-4got10-01 you're a C programmer right? Maybe you could review some of my source for an SQL ORM made in C I've made? I have professional experience with almost any common language in exception of C, C(++) and Rust. So a check would be nice.

@retoor I'd love to, but as explained in detail in this terrible wall of text here:

https://devrant.com/rants/11556589

sadly I'm not capable of that at the moment.

My day job is quite different && I'm only starting to learn C++.

♪ Sad but true ♪

@retoor

Well, funny to hear from a dutch, when I was there I clearly remember the hotel explicitly not having a 13th floor XD, and I liked teasing the receptionists because I was in the actual thirteenth (14th) floor XD.

I can take a look at your ORM off you want (and I find myself bored, which is likely given the upcoming subzero temperatures)

@CoreFusionX using this library, selecting and inserting takes exactly the same amount of lines it would do as if it was written in python: https://molodetz.nl/retoor/sorm

I have no idea in what state I left it, i hope it's good. I just refactored that db is an int. I did that for a reason, see sorm.py. It has c bindings. sorm.py is not very serious, just a fun experiment.

But it would be nice if you can find smth that I do structurally wrong or extremely against philosophy in.

That the code is not donkey proof is just because it's just not made for donkey's.

You can find source at bottom of page. It's a reversed github kinda thing.

Thank you very much!

This actually reminded me that the Japanese && other Asians have a problem w/ number 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

@D-4got10-01

They do indeed.

As a Japanese speaker, it's because the kanji for "shi/yon" is derived from Chinese characters for death (root for shinu, death in Japanese), so it's very much like triskaidekaphobia.

@CoreFusionX That's cool to know.

For now, kanji are too advanced for me.

I've only managed to learn Hiragana, thus far.

Before even attempting to tackle kanji, I should probably learn Katakana first, though.

@D-4got10-01

You need to learn katakana, yes, but kanji should be part of your learning schedule really. Like, most teaching books have a companion workbook that teaches kanji as you learn words, and it's much easier when you learn the word with the kanji than if you do so after the fact.

But anyway,

Nihongo benkyosuru koto de ganbatte kure!

@CoreFusionX Thanks!

/* I am so glad we have google translate, nowadays. */

@D-4got10-01

Just gonna say it now.

Google translate ain't so good at Japanese as people think.

It only covers textbook Japanese which is really really uncommon when speaking or writing.

For example, kure is the informal form of kudasai, and you'll never see it in textbooks, but it's quite common in informal speech.

@CoreFusionX I take google translations w/ a grain of salt.

I'd never use them in anything official, like translating software into other languages.

/* I've seen way too many examples of poor grammar in those. */

It is helpful, though, when you can't grasp a language && need some context.