paholg @ paholg @lemm.ee

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Aluminum is the fifth most common element on Earth, and is naturally present in pretty large quantities in soil.

Are you sure you aren't confusing it with lead?

If physics taught you that 1 = pi, you may want to retake some classes.

If you were as confused by this as I was:

Shortly after the vote, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said it would sue the FTC to block the rule

The US Chamber of Commerce is a right-wing lobbying group for businesses, unrelated to the US Department of Commerce which is an actual government agency.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Chamber_of_Commerce

Hardware cloth is a metal mesh.

Then, you could take those comments, and have the compiler use them to ensure you're using the right variable in the right place. Oh wait, we just invented a type system.

One of my favorite lines in the game is (paraphrasing):

The problem with the bugs is that they're relentless expansionists. We've found them on almost every planet in their territory that we've colonized.

It's also pretty clear that we've been farming the bugs for space oil.

Works even better in Ruby, as the code as given is valid, you just need to monkey patch length:

    
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

module DayLength
  def length
    if ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"].include? self
      "24 hours"
    else
      super
    end
  end
end

class String
  prepend DayLength
end

day = "Monday"

x = day.length

print(x)

  

It could be Ruby; puts is more common, but there is a print. With some silly context, the answer could even be correct:

    
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

module DayLength
  def length
    if ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"].include? self
      "24 hours"
    else
      super
    end
  end
end

class String
  prepend DayLength
end

day = "Monday"

x = day.length

print(x)

  

Ah yes, I'll just replace all my power sockets, get rid of all my electronics, and only buy imported European electronics from now on.

It's so obvious, why didn't I think of it before.

Oh yeah, and rewire my whole house to 240 V. Easy peasy.

The Overton window has shifted so far right that basic decency or acknowledging facts is leftist.

And yet you refer to yourself by pronouns multiple times in that very comment.

I'm just going off of Wikipedia, idk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mince_pie

I'm sorry to hear that. I think at one point in my past, about half my job was tracking down nil dereference errors in Ruby. And probably a quarter was writing tests for things a good type system would catch at compile time.

A mincemeat pie is another name for a mince pie. So yeah.

I'm waiting for Outlook (Taylor's Version).

Unfortunately, the answer to that doesn't lie in science but in politics.

The only selling point of blockchain is that it's trustless. This becomes a less-useful property when it comes to things in the real world, as you tend to need to trust at least one party.

For example, anything they achieved there with blockchain, they could have achieved with a simple government-run web service and a traditional database.

That is not a use for blockchain.

Say I want to say that I created an image. I could post that image's hash to a block chain, and point to it as something anyone can check.

But you already have to trust me for that to be valuable. So I can just host that hash in any of a myriad of conventional methods that are simpler, more performant, and less wasteful.

I assume you meant trillion and not million for those gdp figures? Even then, they're low.

Sigterm is telling someone to kill themselves. Sigkill is murder.

But, like, for programs.