The last two years were hell. At 16 weeks pregnant my wife found out she had kidney disease, she spent alot of time in the hospital was induced two months early due to issues with kidneys, our son came out fine and is few days short of one year. I'm very active so sitting around a hospital was driving me crazy I needed something to do but the wife was sleeping alot so I for some reason went with knitting I'm still a noob but working at it
A 59-year-old banking CEO is dead, and likely would have never been a story on this blog. But this obnoxious, vaxx-zealot LGBTV (for vaccine) “husband” may cause readers to re-think the hierarchy on The COVID Blog™ wall of shame.
Standard ASCII is one byte per character, ending at 0x7F, which gives just about enough space for control bytes, spaces, punctuation and uppercase/lowercase Latin.
Extended ASCII uses the upper half to include some accented letters, and there have been attempts to use dreaded "code pages" for switching alphabet entirely, but Unicode is the proper international solution... in return for accepting that the character encoding is no longer one byte each, and moreover may be variable width.
UTF-8 is proudly variable-width, matching ASCII in most documents while using only those upper half byte values to encode non-ASCII, a robust system which reduces impact when an unaware program reads it as ASCII. The variable width is an issue for a few types of program such as word processors, though most operations (copying, sorting, searching) need not care.
Then some butthurt happened in the early 1990s, and someone just had to insist on fixed byte width, and out popped UTF-16. Two bytes per character, costing a load of extra storage for most files, and absolutely no plan for what happens when we reach 0xFFFF. Java, C# and JavaScript all signed up to it for their fixed width string storage.
The Unicode character space started getting flooded with every alphabet in existence with all the durka durkas and the ching chang chongs, and symbols for mathematics, music and such. It looks to me that they got up to 0xD000 before admitting that it is going to run dry.
The solution? Reserve 0xD800 to 0xDFFF... for using pairs of characters in that range to represent 0x10000 and above. So, a variable width encoding.
This is indeed literally as retarded as having to use a gas-powered generator to recharge an electric car.
Even worse, the UTF-8 system could store Unicode up to 0x7FFFFFFF, but that UTF-16 extension only takes it up to 0x10FFFF, and now Unicode itself specifies 0x10FFFF as the limit just to appease UTF-16.
UTF-16 has fucked everything up for zero benefit in return. Even C++ has an entire wide-string type and string library suite for it which is widely known as a massive trap to avoid and put UTF-8 bytes inside normal strings instead. Windows purports to use wide-strings for files, but it is broken.
Python (a.k.a. programming for niggers) 2 tried to "help" with Unicode in the same way that cats "help" ensure that everything is knocked successfully onto the floor. Python 3 sort of behaves itself, while in the background it insists that if a single string character would be multi-byte in UTF-8 then the entire fucking string gets converted to a fixed width encoding big enough for that. Actually that is really a different manifestation of insistence on fixed width rather than UTF-16 specifically, but that type of thinking is still the problem.
Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman of Children’s Health Defense, filed their 26th lawsuit against Merck — this one on behalf of Victoria Trevisan who was 13 when she was injured — alleging the drugmaker fraudulently concealed the risks of its Gardasil human papillomavirus vaccine.
i dont understand why a prepubescent girl took something like this. was she already having intercourse at that age?
The Florida Board of Medicine voted on Aug. 5 to advance a plan that would ban doctors from providing gender-affirming treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers to youth under the age of 18.
This is interesting cause I have put the tomatoes in the same spot for 6 or 7 years and never had a problem. Anyway, put out mose and rat traps last night, but caught nothing by morning. I'll keep the traps out, but I'm gonna keep looking for a creature to kill. Updates to come 😁
Let my aim be true and my hand faster than those who would seek to destroy me. Grant me victory over my foes and those that wish to harm me and mine. Let not my last thought be “If I only had my rifle”; and Lord if today is truly the day that You call me home, let me die in a pile of empty brass.
It requires only four things: poached eggs, English muffins, Canadian bacon, and Hollandaise sauce. Poaching eggs properly can be tricky if you've never done it before, but it gets easy with practice. Always poach eggs in water, never dry, and leave the yolk a bit runny.
This is the recipe for Hollandaise sauce I use. I used to think it was difficult to make, but I tried this one and it worked perfectly and it requires only a few ingredients.
3 egg yolks 1/4 cup water 1 to 1-1/2 tablespoons lemon juice (try with just 1 tablespoon at first, and adjust to taste for later preparations) 1/2 cup butter, melted salt and pepper to taste
In a double boiler or metal bowl over simmering water, constantly whisk the egg yolks, water and lemon juice until mixture reaches 160° or is thick enough to coat the back of a metal spoon. Reduce heat to low. Slowly drizzle in warm melted butter, whisking constantly. Whisk in the salt and paprika until it is thick and creamy.
This will make enough sauce for four eggs.
Fry the Canadian bacon until lightly browned. Toast the English muffins to one's preference.
I prefer using a double boiler because it's easier to control and has easy clean-up. Don't bother with Knorr's packaged mix, and the kind you buy in a jar is overpriced. This is easy enough for anyone to make.
