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  • I hate when people gatekeep what is"literature" and what is "genre". One of the more egregious examples is someone was rest to die on the hill that The Time Traveler's Wife is "literary fiction" instead of "genre fiction" like sci-fi, particularly since time travel is central to the plot.

    TL;DR: anyone who calls one type of fiction literature and excludes the rest from that definition is deeply unserious and so are their statements.

  • So, not only is this a Dark Souls bridge, it spans over an honest-to-god bottomless pit?

  • You can set up a global exception handler in some frameworks. By having multiple (not a crazy amount) of exceptions, you can set up logic for how to handle that kind of error. Then you can just throw the exception instead of writing individual catch blocks.

    This is especially helpful in things like a REST API where user input can cause all kinds of fun, let alone network issues, problems with your data source, etc.

  • This is like Dalinar and the fighting master from Stormlight Archive.

  • That's why you set the alternate/exit cases as individual if statements before whatever was going to be inside the original if block.

    To me too long to learn that.

  • If it's not available as an Azure service it won't be used (except for uptime kuma).

    What Clive Barker movie do you live in?

  • Pure evil

    Jump
  • Who didn't?

  • John Lithgow looking weird.

  • Nonviolence is an inherently privileged position in the modern context. Besides the fact that the typical pacifist is quite clearly white and middle class, pacifism as an ideology comes from a privileged context. It ignores that violence is already here; that violence is an unavoidable, structurally integral part of the current social hierarchy; and that it is people of color who are most affected by that violence. Pacifism assumes that white people who grew up in the suburbs with all their basic needs met can counsel oppressed people, many of whom are people of color, to suffer patiently under an inconceivably greater violence, until such time as the Great White Father is swayed by the movement’s demands or the pacifists achieve that legendary “critical mass. -- How Nonviolence Serves the State

  • Critical support for the collection of Dims, Ghosts, and Gimmees just trying to make a better life for themselves.

  • They were part of the ship's frame of reference. This applies to standard physics but is explicitly true if there's a warp bubble around the ship.

  • Now who can argue with that? I think we're all indebted to TheFerrango for clearly stating what needed to be said. I'm particulary glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic Star Trek technobabble, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.

  • Yeah. Commits going right to prod makes my skin crawl.

  • Took me a while to track it down, but I think this is the book to which you were referring.

    https://angryflower.com/348.html

    I make no cleans about the stances of this artist; I just saw this strip years ago.

  • Alan Tudyk would have been a good Stamets, but Anthony Rapp has been perfection.

  • And in strange memory caches, even death may die.

  • Let's not put Descartes before the horse.

  • Ohhh, that touched a deep well of hatred. My first engineering job was full stack and we had a highly modified Bootstrap front end. I'd build the thing they wanted, and the designers would get looped in for QA and insist that various pieces had to look like their little wireframe down to the pixel. I mean look, it's easy right?

    I asked why they are insisting on constantly going against the standards that had been adopted company-wide. Did it stop? Why no! Did I get a suit down with my boss? Why yes!

    He is/was a cool guy and saw my perspective but also gave me precious advice on how to survive.

  • Pfft 😂

    Roko's basilisk is The Game for futurists.

    Here you go, enjoy. You win!