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.

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@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.

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

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

@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/...

@retoor Oh yeah.

I've seen those, too.

The spam had a far reach.

@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)

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.