The Stack Overflow Podcast awarded me with what they call a lifeboat!

This happened in Podcast 312 "We're building a web app, got any advice?" (2021/02/12)

The "episode notes" end with the following statement:

Our lifeboat of the week goes to Mike Nakis, who answered the question: What is the difference between memberwise copy, bitwise copy, shallow copy and deep copy?

Just one of those Greek things. Nothing here, move on.

Old comments

• Koyan 2024-07-26 16:50:34 UTC

  Τίνους είσαι εσύ?

  • michael.gr 2024-07-26 19:24:03 UTC

    Ναι, αυτό. Δεν ξέρω αν συνηθίζεται παντού στην Ελλάδα, ή αν είναι Νησιώτικο έθιμο. Δεν το χλευάζω, το αναγνωρίζω και το σέβομαι σαν έθιμο.

• Koyan 2024-07-27 20:35:48 UTC

  Στα μέρη μας (Μεσσηνία) πάντως συνηθίζεται (ή συνηθιζόταν)

• Koyan 2024-07-27 20:39:28 UTC

  Χμμμ. Διευκρινηση: δεν ρωταγα "εννοείς αυτό?". Δεν είχα καμία καμία αμφιβολία. Αλλα δεν μπορούσε να υπάρχει μόνη της η απαντηση χωρίς την ερώτηση, ήταν λίγο λάθος το σύμπαν.

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How to make the Ju52 cocktail:

In a tall glass with no ice, mix the following:

• 2 parts coffee liqueur (e.g. Kahlúa)
• 2 parts cream liqueur (e.g. Baileys Irish Cream)
• 1 part orange liqueur (e g. Grand Marnier)
• 4 parts cold milk.

The special guy that I am, I had to go invent my own cocktail. As its name betrays, it is similar to the B52 cocktail. In fact, the Ju52 is just B52 with cold milk instead of ice.

The benefits

The replacement of ice with cold milk imparts the following benefits to the drink:

It is becoming customary in western societies to ask people in various settings to state their preferred pronouns. It started among younger people of the particularly woke persuasion, and it is spreading everywhere. When I find myself in such a setting, I do of course go along, because doing otherwise would be awkward, but I hope that it is only a fad which will eventually go away. While waiting to see how it pans out, let me describe a few issues I have with it.

Visual Studio is a capricious product, and its "Solution" subsystem is especially capricious. When you look at what options are available you might think you have a great degree of freedom to structure things the way you want, but as you will inevitably (and painfully) find out later, many things have to be done in precisely one, entirely undocumented way, or else there will be pain of the worst kind: Visual Studio will malfunction either without any error message, or with error messages that are completely unhelpful for locating and fixing the problem.

Here is a list of things I have (painfully) found out over the years.

The Mike Nakis formula for calculating the impact of an incident:

I = S × G × T

Where:

• I is the impact of the incident.
• S is the severity of the incident.
• G is the geographic pervasiveness of the incident.
• T is the temporal pervasiveness of the incident.

Thus: