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March 4, 2022: Pointless Polls

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We should do more of these.

What Do You Use Is Your Main Preference To Separate Digits In Phone Numbers?

  • - (53%, 8 Votes)
  • . (33%, 5 Votes)
  • Other (13%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 15

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32 thoughts on “March 4, 2022: Pointless Polls”

    1. for me, spaces or nothing

      As a programmer, I'm always irked with lazy-@ss coding on websites that ask for phone #/SSN/whatever and require you to include dashes or other fixed formatting. Parse it yourself, you freeloader

      1. These days I go with nothing. I haven't found a site that either doesn't accept it with no spaces or will automatically format it properly with parentheses and a dash.

    3. Previous job involved signing off on many (up to 100) things a day with a date, time, and initials. I think I kept the slash for date but it didn't take long for the colon in the time to become a floating period.

        1. If I’m doing anything with version control, it’s always YYYYMMDD. If I’m writing a date in a format I need a human to read easily, I go with DD Month (YYYY, if necessary).

            1. I should add, if I’m writing a date for my own reference, like on notes in a meeting, I use the following (using today’s date): 04/III-22.

              I’m glad I no longer need to know what the Julian date is for any given day.

                1. That’s where I learned it. My understanding is that it was common in Europe to write dates that way, but that the practice has changed as technology has changed. If the practice lingered in Russia & other European SSRs later than other parts of Europe, I suppose that may have been a function of the Iron Curtain.

                  1. I don't recall ever having come across that in any Irish/British documents I studied.

                    Though these days I may just not remember.

          2. I tend to use the Irish Historical Studies style guide when typing/writing dates - 4 Mar 2022

            For folders, files and similar where it needs sorted like that its 20220304

        2. The year wasn't necessary and wouldn't fit. The box was intended for only month and day. The lifecycle of them was measured in days. Plus there was an order number that I'm sure correlated to more in depth accounting within some database.

            1. Absolutely. Some software still logs to YYMMDD files and I always wonder why they couldn't spare two more bytes in that name.

  6. Hey local Citizens, I have one (or two if that makes this work) Tickets to tonight's Not The Beths show at the Fine Line. Let me know if interested. Tix were roughly $22 but I would take two or so in person beers for reimbursement.

    If you really want both tix, I could sell them both. I'm kind on the fence on going but will probably go if I only sell one.

    Must show proof of vax to get into the Fine Line.

  7. Seeing as how Rhu complained that I had polluted the caucus timeline, I figured I might as well pollute the cuppa as well with this.

    I am seeing some possible hysteria about Kaspersky Lab products. Is there any (good) reason to be concerned? I use the free antivirus product on my droid phone.

    If so, recommended alternatives? I am cheap, but willing to pay a little for peace of mind.

    1. From Wikipedia

      Kaspersky has faced controversy over allegations that it has engaged with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)—ties which the company has actively denied. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security banned Kaspersky products from all government departments on 13 September 2017. In October 2017, subsequent reports alleged that hackers working for the Russian government stole confidential data from the home computer of an American National Security Agency contractor via Kaspersky antivirus software. Kaspersky denied the allegations, reporting that the software had detected Equation Group malware samples which it uploaded to its servers for analysis in its normal course of operation. The company has since announced commitments to increased accountability, such as soliciting independent reviews and verification of its software's source code, and announcing that it would migrate some of its core infrastructure for foreign customers from Russia to Switzerland

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    2. Not that many years ago I found this free VPN software online. I used it for a few months and then one day it stopped working, so I looked it up to see what the issue was and found out it was based in Russia and it may or may not have been shut down by the government. So I'm plenty happy to pay cash money for a reputable VPN these days. There are many black hats in Russia.

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