Stupid Weather.

[JBR]

Why is it that when we get a hair on our chin.. and we do... It has grown with great speed overnight..!!!!

Don't worry.  It's just the beginnings of your beard.

[klondike]

It hasn't. Or at least I don't think it has. 

I have problem hairs that appear on my nose occasionally. When I spot them they are almost always quite long and I'm pretty sure I've been going round with them for quite some time. The problem is they are not overly visible unless you check in the mirror which isn't something I do that often. When I do see them it is when I trim the edges of my beard.

Sadly this means you've been going round with a hair on your chin for however long it took to grow. Most hair grows about half an inch a month so I'd guess on them being undiscovered for about a week.

[Dextrous63]

[klondike]

I declare that to be faked.  I see ended on the wrong video from the link as they can slip over to the next in a long chain of shorts if you have sausage fingers like me.

I'll fix it to appear inline. If needs  the ?si=13yKVEkXsOKlki9j known in the trade as the "query string" removing. I think they've fixed the mod to ignore it on normal videos but not shorts like that one.

[Dextrous63]

Ta.  Sometimes doing that doesn't seem to work, so I'm getting into the habit of just pasting the link.

[klondike]

That'll maybe be when you take more off or leave a little bit on the end. It has always worked for me. I think shorts are new for the mod and maybe weren't supported in the past. It's daft that the mod didn't support that format as it's what you get with a share and probably do for shorts. I imagine that the query string is some tracking crap as the videos play the same without it.

[Dextrous63]

Are YouTube links always the same number of characters (either in total or the number after the ?si= bit?).  If so, then creating a subroutine to truncate the address wouldn't be an onerous task (I'd imagine).

You can just feel my excel training coming through here😬🤣🤣

[klondike]

Youtube links appear in a variety of formats. The problem isn't just stripping out the query string as the video works OK with it there when linked


I don't know exactly how the mod was coded to identify a link it can handle which is a lot more than just youtube but for some reason the query string stops it identifying it as a link it will convert to the code needed to embed the video. I just found that by stopping ih out manually the mod did its job

[Dextrous63]

May I ask what was your initial programming software that you were trained/experienced in?   I was never really into that aspect, apart from some ridiculous Basic (courtesy of Sinclair ZX 81) and a brief soirée into Pascal.

It's all a different mindset- imho akin to learning a new language, which was never my forte.

My elder sister's friend got a job involving C (or C+?).  Complete voodoo to me.

[klondike]

I was what was called a systems programmer on IBM mainframes which in my case meant looking after the operating system and some assembler (machine code) routines that were written as sub routines to do stuff that either couldn't be done in Cobol or would have been too slow if they were.

I moved on to be a tech support bloke for a software company selling a database and software that ran online programs. That was pretty much all IBM assembler but I needed to know Cobol and an online language specific to our other software called ADSO

That company got bought out and I spent 5 miserable years watching the company that bought us out ripping off and reducing support to our customers until I was made redundant with a nice payout and went contracting which was far more lucrative.

This site along with more than half the Internet uses a scripting language called PHP which I learned in order to produce websites. I earned a fair bit from those from Google advert revenue   but things moved on and I dumped all of those when revenues dropped unless I spent ages tweaking them to keep them high in the rankings.

[Dextrous63]

I'm sure you can understand that that all sounds complete voodoo to the likes of me. Hats off to you for knowing wtf it all meant.

I pretty much gave up on the idea of getting into that field during the second assignment of a first year degree "course" (ie, read the book that the lecturer co- wrote and work it out yourself 🙄) using Pascal.

Got a first for the initial task (this was 1983/84) due to my using a somewhat arcane mathematical method. But, to this day I still have no idea how to write a program designed to find the solutions (real and imaginary) for a quadratic correct to 40 decimal places.  

Feel free to advise of the matrix operation to evaluate the square root to any number of dp, which is essentially the problem.

[klondike]

It's all a lot easier these days. Just Google what you want and what language and you'll find something close you can use. Might need a bit of tweaking.

Or pay for AI access and ask it to write the code for you.  That will need a bit of tweaking.