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  • There are only like 500 losing tictac toe scenarios max.

    Three positions for each square (X, O, or blank), 9 squares: 3^9 = 19,683 possible game states.

    Of those there are only 512 combinations where the board is compete: 2^9 = 512

    Of those 512, only 16 combinations results in a win for either player. Meaning there are only 8 losing scenarios and 496 stalemate scenarios.

  • There are people who are categorically opposed to forcefully compelling people, and many of them use the word 'authoritarian'.

    It can be a useful term, not all systems are equally authoritarian. It's a spectrum.

  • Make the chips in Guadalajara, ship them out of Puerto Vallarta to Vancouver to power server farms in Surrey; cut the US out entirely.

  • Hell, use the waste heat to power hot water heaters or something. It blows my mind that we don't do more cloud computing in cold environments. The servers produce heat, the people need heat, solve one problem with another. Instead we seem to be putting them in the driest and hottest climates available.

  • Idk, I like CSS, but I come from a web development background. Modern JS (ES4+) is fully capable of replacing CSS using the style property.

    JSX is sort of like a singular language to do all three.

    HTML isn't perfect, but I can't think of a better language for writing documents. TEX is unintuitive, PDF is opaque, markdown is just HTML shorthand.

  • Just use React or something, you can use a single syntax for all three. It makes total sense why the syntax is different if you think about when and why they were made. We had HTML for years before CSS, and it was longer still until we got JavaScript. Each language has a different purpose, so naturally a different syntax makes sense. Your hill is poorly defended.

  • GU24 is wack, especially for home lighting. I think they aren't made much anymore.

  • I agree with you, but I don't think that makes it a poor example; those different cables aren't competing standards, they're different types of USB-C cables. They should absolutely label the cables though, big oversight on the standard there.

  • Those aren't different standards, they're just different USB-C cables. It's like saying light bulb sockets aren't a unifying standard because there's different bulbs with different wattages. The fact that all those cables work over the same standard is an example of how ubiquitous the standard is. That said they should be labeled better, like how USB3 was color coded blue; each cable could have a color strip to distinguish it.

  • What do you mean? Do you have any examples?

  • Light bulb sockets are the same all over. RJ-45 Ethernet, USB-C, Bluetooth, WiFi, TCP, HTTP, HTML, CSS.

  • In/out groups are natural, but the establishment of those groups on 'racial' lines is totally constructed. The concept of race itself doesn't hold up to scrutiny, it's a fixation on specific phenotypic traits.

    Notice how racial bias is fixated on skin color while other phenotypic differences are largely ignored; people with different colored eyes or hair, different nose shapes, different hair textures, etc. 400 years ago skin tone was similarly trivial, but that changed with the rise of chattel slavery.

  • Winning the election, obviously. It's not a subtle implication, they basically said it, how are you confused?

  • Are you the same person as the poem_for_your_sprog user on reddit? If so I'm glad to see you switched to Lemmy.

  • Sure, but novels, paintings, and songs are traditional arts, they are art first and foremost.

  • True, but the reasons they're undelivered do matter. It isn't that they are trying to 'keep voters dependant', they literally don't have the votes.

    They have been passing every lasting policy they can with the votes they do have. We got infrastructure funding, renewable energy investments, 73 new chip fabs, and cannabis has been officially rescheduled. Those are policies that will have a major impact for decades.

  • They have also been legalizing marijuana and pressured the DEA to reschedule it, those are lasting solutions.

    Democrats also support tuition free college, but haven't been able to get the bill passed yet. Student loan forgiveness can be passed with executive orders, but tuition free college would require a bill passed by Congress.

  • 20⁰F is -7⁰C

    Edit: it was even colder when Reagan was inaugurated in 85, -32⁰C wind-chill. Two of the worst presidents in history forced to hold the inauguration in private.