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  • I believe the french very much did this. In the Napoleonic wars they mostly used conscripts I believe, so big blocks helped while the British had a more professionally setup army (not that all of its participants were willing either though!) tend to use thinner lines to maximise the shots they could get out.

    That's vulnerable to cavalry charges though, so they had square formations they could get into in order to protect against that.

    Both sides then had skirmishers that had more modern tactics to harras and kill officers etc. Some even had rifles. They had to retreat back to the main body if there were cavalry anywhere near though.

    One big, deadly game of rock paper scissors

  • Wouldn't assuming the Lira will drop more mean people would pay less for it though? So would make it worth less?

  • That would require you to have chosen that path through the game for it to work though?

    What level of different choices would they allow, or just do it as a stand alone?

    The longer the game gets the more the combinations build up and the worse the replayability gets for many players due to the length.

  • How does inflation in Turkish Lira cause the Dollar price equivalent to go up so much? Should the Lira not be devaluing against the Dollar at a rate similar to its inflation?

    If not, doesn't that actually indicate a strong Turkish economy?

  • Oh, ok, that's annoying then. One of those cases where it feels like the person putting the course together has never actually interacted with children?

  • Is the fact that C# produced executables also a problem? With python you can 'protect' non lab computers at the school by just not installing the python runtime on them. Teach them c# and I guarantee they will be making executables to cause trouble.

    Generally agree with you that teachers should be able to choose at least one of the languages to teach. basic web dev stuff is probably pretty useful to them though if it includes JavaScript?

  • I leant from scratch as my first programming language in year 12.

    They tried to teach OOP in year 13, but I didn't really get it until university.

    This was years ago at this point, I think they introduced the programming GCSE the year after I did my A-Levels.

    A scripting language like python is the ideal language to start with because you can JUST learn the programming bit without worrying about OOP, project structures, compiling etc.

  • Lots of us have the experience of being the kid in that situation though. I learnt python in secondary school.

  • I learnt to program in python (in year 12). It was pretty good:

    • less intimidating than the languages full of braces/brackets.
    • as it's also a scripting language, you can ignore OOP and just write code.
    • has lots of kid friendly drawing libraries (tortoise.py anyone?) so they can make things they can see on screen etc
  • PHP is native in Linux then?

    How is that different to something like powershell?

  • Did max actually start turning before locking up?

  • Google spies on me, but actually provides useful services (other than search) for free (ish) in return.

    Microsoft want money for everything.

    The rest of big tech wants all your data for basically no gain.

    I don't trust Google, but for now the trade seems worth it.

  • Not knowing about permanent effects still seems better than definite permanent effects 🤷‍♂️ would help learn about them too

  • My understanding is that puberty blockers just delay things, letting them work that out without making permanent changes in either direction?

  • The British then forgot why they gave everyone citrus, screwed it up and started getting scurvy again.

  • Is this what sainz is waiting for? I know their dad's have bad blood, but what other good options are there? (Unless they give Alonso a multi year contract...)