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Not quite.
FPTP always devolves into local two candidate elections.
There's no guarantee, though, that those two parties are the same everywhere. Regional third parties can do quite well under FPTP. That particularly works for e.g. the Scottish National Party or the Bloc Quebecois.
One problem, I think, is that git names are kinda bad. A git branch is just a pointer to a commit, it really doesn't correspond to what we'd naturally think of as a branch in the context of a physical tree or even in a graph.
That's a bit problematic for explaining git to programming newbies, because grokking pointers is famously one of the stumbling blocks people have, along with recursion. Front-end web developers who never learned C might not really grok pointers due to never really having to deal with them much.
Some other version control systems like mercurial have both a branch in a more intuitive sense (commits have a branch as a bit of metadata), as well as pointers to commits (mercurial, for example, calls them bookmarks).
As an aside, there's a few version control systems like darcs where instead of the first-class concept being snapshots, it's diffs. There's no separate cherrypick command in darcs, it's just one way you can use the regular commands.
They are on the same level. You don't want to admit that because you're trying to defend it.
I'm not saying Israel is good, here.
I'm saying that the depravity of the Nazis was next level. That they were completely inhumane monsters. What have you seen that even comes close to something like the sheer depravity of Josef Mengele? The industrialized death of Treblinka? The Nazis literally wiped out the entire Jewish population of Kyiv overnight; over 30k people were massacred in a single event, buried in a particular ravine and only 29 people managed to escape.
What israeli massacres have you seen that even come close to that? I'm being serious, here. Bombing a refugee camp or sniping kids at a protest is pretty fucking bad, but it's not nazi bad.
SCIP is great and completely worth reading, but it's not really a data structures book, and while it has various algorithms in it, it's not really that similar to an algorithms book either.
It was intended more as a CS 101 book than as either an algorithms course or a data structure course.
Really?
They're rounding up Palestinians, making them dig a trench, and using it as their mass grave after mowing them all down?
They're putting Palestinians into showers and gassing them all?
Don't get me wrong: what Israel is doing is absolutely atrocious. But the Nazis engaged in a deliberate effort to depopulate Europe's Jews. In 1933, there were about 9.5 million Jews in Europe. The Nazis murdered 6 million Jews, and only stopped because they lost the war. In 1900 there were ~590k German Jews. Only about 28k survived the holocaust.
If Israel were trying to replicate the holocaust on the Palestinians, they'd be doing a shit job of it. The Palestinian population has grown literally every year, despite all the disproportionate retributions. The situation in Gaza is terrible and Palestinians have faced a lot of repression, but it's not really very similar to the Holocaust.
There are really very few OO languages that really lean FP.
The essence of FP is working with pure functions that simply map their input to their outputs without mutating anything.
To do that, you need immutability by default, or at least easy immutability. Very few OO languages do that in their standard libraries. Scala comes to mind as one of the few exceptions. There's also a bunch of FP languages that bolted an object system into them, like Ocaml and F#.
There's a lot of OO languages that take some features like closures from FP languages, but it's typically a royal pain to actually do anything functionally in those languages. Java and python come to mind here. Javascript used to be a huge pain, but with spread syntax it's gone down to only moderately painful.
And while you can definitely do FP + OO, to be honest there's a bunch of similar but distinct language features in FP languages that I kinda prefer instead.
And where does your state go? How would a list of products be represented in FP?
The essence of FP is functions working on immutable data.
In FP, you have an immutable list of immutable products. This is basically the same as how when processing strings, you typically have an immutable array of immutable characters. If you concatenate two strings, you get a new immutable string. If you edit a string, you just get a new string. You don't just edit the array itself directly.
Because everything is immutable, though, you can be smarter about updates. All copies can be shallow. Adding something to the front of a linked list is just a matter of making a new node that points to the old list. Arrays are harder, but you can use some clever tree-based structures like a Hash Array Mapped Trie to get fast updates.
So your state goes into the arguments of your functions.
Portal fantasies aren't exactly new.
The Chronicles of Narnia, Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz are classics that aren't generally considered lazy.
Isekai tend towards the lazy, self-insert escapist portion of portal fantasy, sure. Most don't have great writing. But keep Sturgeons law in mind - every genre has a few gems in a sea of turds.
Not every church is the Westboro Baptist church. Most big denominations are pretty socially conservative, but some very left wing churches exist.
Israel is adjacent to an incredibly strategic shipping location - the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal links the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean without having to go around Africa or around Siberia.
Israel isn't strategically important because it has big oil reserves. It's strategically important because it's near a lot of important things. Oil and shipping play a bigger role than you'd think.
No, but would they when they had to give Comcast their share?
Disney used to own 66% of Hulu. All they did was buy the remaining 33% of it.
All this really changes is a bit of accounting and divying up the profits. Disney rolled Disney Streaming and Hulu into one combined engineering team several years back. They own ESPN, too.
Not entirely.
Only about a quarter of them were born in another country. Then you've got e.g. people with severe cognitive delays or some kind of physical impairment such as blindness. And there's also people whose education system failed them.
It's honestly a mix of things.
Disney already owned 66% of Hulu, and has run Hulu for years.
They merged the engineering teams a few years ago. Honestly, separating Hulu from Disney right now would be way harder than turning them into one streaming service.
This basically comes down to how you define literacy.
Nationally, 21% of Americans have level 1 or below literacy on the PIAAC literacy scale. That's probably where the 85 people came from.
12% are at level 1, meaning they can only read at a basic level. 4% are functionally illiterate, and 4% had some kind of cognitive or physical handicap or language barrier that kept them from being surveyed.
About 34% of illiterate Americans were born outside the US, so they're possibly literature in another language.
The meme isn't saying that new Trek is a masterwork.
It's saying that anyone who somehow missed the fact that star trek has literally always been very woke has the media literacy of a hamster.
I've never actually used PHP.
Does it still have random Hebrew in error messages like 'unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM'?
cock (n.1) "male of the domestic fowl," from Old English cocc "male bird," Old French coc (12c., Modern French coq), Old Norse kokkr, all of echoic origin. Compare Albanian kokosh "cock," Greek kikkos, Sanskrit kukkuta, Malay kukuk.
cock (n.3)
"penis," 1610s, but certainly older and suggested in word-play from at least 15c.; also compare pillicock "penis," attested from early 14c.
They're called peacocks because they're peafowl who are cocks. It's a way older term than the slang usage.
That's why we have grade-separated rails, and stations with barriers and doors to the train. Trains also have a fraction of the deaths per passenger mile vs cars.
Public transit has a variety of benefits. For one thing, the natural enemy of the driver is literally other drivers. Cars are very space intensive, so car-centric cities tend to sprawl.
Public transit supports walkable/bikeable density, because it does better with a good walkshed around stations and also has really good passenger throughput. That's good for people's health - people living in walkable areas are on average less sedentary, and have lower rates of obesity and diabetes. It also tends to be good for the creation of third spaces, and seems to be good for social engagement on average.
The reason to oppose self-driving cars is really the same reason to oppose car-centric infrastructure broadly: the alternatives are way better.
That's one of the big problem with unwalkable cities, yeah. In Amsterdam, if you're poor you don't have to buy a car. Bikes are way cheaper than a beater car.
In the US, we've decided to design nearly all cities and towns to make life impractical if you don't have a car. Just another way we fuck over poor people.