test please delete

[DS23]

My wife says that I am a walking disaster that should be contained and possibly eradicated as an unviable offshoot of the human race

 

[TheFaQQer]

<shakes head in dismay.

oh dear oh dear oh dear.

So that's where you are!

I wondered...

 

[DS23]

I once took two girls back to their flat for a threesome. decided we should all have a bath together first.
Picked one naked lovely up and lowered her into the bath, back went, severe pain, had to hobble home without nooky and in severe pain
Now that is suffering

 

[TheFaQQer]

DS23 has another 500 posts to read before he gets here.

 

[TheFaQQer]

At least I'm getting the executive summary from his quoting Diver, though

 

[DS23]

At £220,000 a year and a free ride in Bransons baloon

cool! can i come too? please? please?

 

[cailin maith]

At least I'm getting the executive summary from his quoting Diver, though

Much better than having to read through it all again....

 

[DS23]

DS23 has another 500 posts to read before he gets here.

oh no - i'm here already.

 

[cailin maith]

Hello

 

[NickFitz]

"Here's the science..."

32767 is the exact value of 32k.

From a sad, techie perspective that makes it an interesting number.

32768 is 32k + 1 which on some systems would cause a buffer overflow error.

32767 is the maximum length of a character string in an Oracle database, so one more than that would cause it to error.

That was what happened to the PM's "public forum" on the Number 10 website a few years ago. They'd got some numpty in to write a DLL in Visual Basic which handled the data storage, and (s)he used a signed int (which is 16 bits twos-complement in VB) for the post count.

When post 32768 came along, it rolled over to -32768, because it was signed. Even better, the system then said "Oh, look, all these posts have numbers greater than the current post count; they must be garbage data", and deleted the lot

Cue one empty "public forum"