Just google "GME Short Float". I would also suggest not using so strong language and almost accuse someone, without at least googling the info.

“I am struggling to imagine the circumstances where ..... can break ....”

If only I had a penny for everyone I heard this argument and we ended up breaking regression tests or something really obscure in the qa or customer setup

I always catch myself when I'm saying it and try to make sense of the cognitive dissonance of saying nothing will break and being somewhat convinced that something, somewhere will.

Fear the unknown unknowns!

everytime* not everyone

And yes, I have done it so many times myself too

> Glitches like this are very infrequent if you run well chosen hardware.

1 point sample here but I never manage to get reliable WiFi on a NUC6i7KYK. Hardware that should be included in the “well known” category.

Sometimes even this fails, what can I say.

Ubuntu runs a certification program. I wish there was an independent party certifying hardware for Linux. And they looked into all the details, such as battery discharge triggering ACPI events, 802.11 functions supported by wireless card and things like that.

> Sometimes even this fails, what can I say.

Not blaming you :D

That's weird because I have the same HW, (Skylake Skull Canyon NUC) & get WiFi good enough for a home media server, (Arch).

There is no neophobia. This is someone overselling his side toy-project and people calling him out.

I think you are being a bit more than generous here.

What this revealed to be is a bit more than a university Computer Languages assignment.

A toy project if you want.

That looks interesting. Thank for the links

And maybe a fake Name on Card (available with something like Privacy.com, not saying that particularly was used but virtual card services like that were used) was used to simply verify the transaction and get through Amazon's fraud detection.

Hmm. But what do they win? What’s the end game?

The end game is to get lots of 5 star reviews to attract more customers and get more sales. AliExpress is 10x worse than Amazon when it comes to fake reviews so fake reviews isn't just widespread on the platform, it's the absolute norm.

And yet all the marketing emails somehow make it to your inbox no matter how many times you flag them as "spam"

Basically Erlang.

And Smalltalk, obviously.

Did Simula fit that description fully? I've never seen a Simula program in my life.

Simula was retroactively given the label "object-oriented", but the more appropriate term (according to Smalltalkers) for it would be "class-oriented" like its descendants C++/Java.

I had a Pyrex pan shatter. Didn’t bother reporting of course.

I also had a Pyrex bowl shatter and didn’t report.

I bought a new one and am careful about how I heat it now.