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Should have gone for something like "Dennis Richie Advanced Computing University Lab Annex."

Parses weird, but look at that acronym.

"Just a heads up that we'll be shipping your machine to the client, since it's the only machine on Earth known to support the software. You're getting the spare machine out of the basement. Super fast Cyrix processor. Looks like it boots to Windows 11 release 3, but they've written it 3.11 for some reason."

[...] two more Chinese swimmers had tested positive [...] but were cleared by Chinese officials

Ah, the old "we've investigated ourselves and found no wrong-doing"

At least try "we hired an outside agency, totally didn't bribe them, and they found no wrong-doing", or better yet "we totally didn't bribe the independent third party hired by someone else, and they found no wrong-doing".

But I suppose I should be glad it wasn't "we totally didn't aim veiled threats at someone's family and livelihood, etc."

Mint definitely keeps a couple of previous kernels around, so that might be a Debian and Ubuntu thing too.

That said, there's always going to be a critical point of failure that a power loss could cause things to break, no matter your OS or distro.

Writing the bootloader or updating a partition table for example.

O((2⁽ⁿ2))!) or bust.

A wild Elon appeared!

Twitter has evolved into X!

X attacks Twitter!

X has hurt itself in its confusion!

X has hurt itself in its confusion!

X has hurt itself in its confusion!

Not all con states want to secede from the union, but then again they're not islands, so that one's hard to gauge.

Also, most con politicians here were very invested in remaining in Europe right up until we weren't. The promise of a referendum was a hail Mary to try to win the votes of a particular contingent of voters. They got the votes, but never expected the referendum to go the way it did. Leopard, meet face.

Now they're having to pretend it was the intention all along. Make the best of it, etc.

There's also an argument to be made that her stance on climate change was entirely because of the desire to hurt the workers of the fossil fuel industry, especially one in particular, which outweighed all other priorities.

The Israel thing I don't know too much about, but I can be virtually certain it wasn't about protecting the people of Lebanon from a bully.

Dude needs to look into who Margaret Thatcher was and her politics. See how much that gums up his brain gears, because, even outside the fact she was a woman, she was a conservative's ultimate fantasy.

Haven't seen this in the other comments: Coolness factor. If you're a successfully popular teacher, i.e. "cool", then your students will likely want to participate in whatever it is you suggest.

However, if they don't see you as cool, you might have difficulty, and might even put them off the platform. This is not something that can be fixed easily, and trying to be cool is about as uncool as you can get.

(Making it mandatory will work, of course, but how you go about that could determine whether they choose to stay on the platform once you're done. This was kind of covered by OP talking about Matrix in another comment here.)

I'm not sure there's a way to answer that without being unnecessarily mean.

It only needs to happen once. One bad day. One day when the brain isn't operating at full capacity, but absolutely has to. One day out of a couple of thousand at a deeply critical time. And something gives.

Are you the sort of person who falls asleep in front of the TV? There are millions of people like that. There might even be a billion. Sure, some will think "I'll just close my eyes a sec", but there are others who don't make a conscious choice about anything and find themselves waking up, unaware of when they fell asleep.

Forgetting something - even a baby - is a lapse like that. That's all it is. Just one tiny little lapse. We are not 100% in control of what goes on in our own heads.

"It won't happen to me" / "It couldn't possibly have happened to me." is the height of hubris.

As for making decisions like "Some people should not be allowed to be parents.", who's doing the allowing there? Because that's a horribly slippery slope. And frankly if Darwinism hasn't got it out of the gene pool at this point, it might well be all of us with the same fatal flaw... which I think is the point I was making earlier.

Save your effort. What's already there is there forever. They can just roll back your comments, or even, if they're in the mood for it, make it appear under an entirely different username.

The only way to win is not give them any more. And that fight is already under way. They've already started recommending old comments after new ones because the quality isn't as high any more.

Think about it: The only people who contribute to Reddit now are the clueless and the sort of people who have willingly stayed.

I like to imagine Spez stomping around saying "Hmph! Hmph! It's not fair! Why did they all leave?! They're stealing my revenue by not giving me anything for free!". I mean, he's probably not doing that, but I do like to imagine it.

Coming in out of nowhere here, but if it was anything like my school, probably turning on a bench-mounted gas tap without a Bunsen burner attached, pulling out a lighter and creating a horizontal roaring blade of flame that was difficult to turn off.

This sort of thing fills the child in me with glee, but it's incredibly stupid and dangerous and definitely worthy of a "corrective" exclamation.

YFW you realise Grandpa isn't wearing a tie.

There's a joke involving peril sensitive sunglasses here somewhere.

Not for the undecided voters it isn't.

Now you could argue about the sanity, intellect or ignorance (not to mention, greed, fear, ego, etc.) of anyone who still can't choose between the two parties, but the whole thing could hinge on those people.

Don's hoping for the perfect cross-section of topics and debating techniques to come up where he's sure he will make Kamala look the bigger fool.

To stick with the analogy, this is like putting a small CPU inside the bottle, so the main CPU<->RAM bottleneck isn't used as often. That said, any CPU, within RAM silicon or not, is still going to have to shift data around, so there will still be choke points, they'll just be quicker. Theoretically.

Thinking about it, this is kind of the counterpart to CPUs having an on-chip cache of memory.

Edit: counterpoint to counterpart

Israel have been a strong westernised influence in the Middle East, and so protect western interests in the region. Therefore, despite their poor behaviour towards Palestine even before this escalation, most western countries have chosen to look the other way because "it wasn't that bad".

You even could argue that the (re)creation of Israel in Palestine wasn't ever really about giving those of the Jewish faith back the homeland they lost a couple thousand years ago. It was always about those interests, but with a sweet little cover story. Who's going to argue with that after all the Jews went through?

Now the actions that were being ignored for convenience have reached a point that they are starting to attract the attention of average people who don't really have any opinion other than "genocide bad" and, to be fair, as simple opinions go, it's a pretty f--king valid one.

Tch. As if Hungary and Poland needed a bigger disagreement than the pronunciations of 's' and 'sz'.

If Python has anything like Perl's source code filters, then anything's up for grabs, but Perl is kind of weird in a way that Python was specifically designed not to be. Or at least Python 1 was. Things may have changed in the intervening couple of decades.

If it's just plain overloading, then whitespace is probably off the table. Spaces, even required spaces, aren't so much syntax as they are structure. You could argue that the curly braces of some other languages are more syntactic than Python's whitespace, because it's actually Python's magic colon and the first unindented line (lack of whitespace!) that serve that specific syntactic purpose.

Examples of Perl's source code filters range from turning a program into binary representation of the syntax tree and still having it be executable, to new syntax, to writing programs entirely in Latin or something that looks almost but not entirely unlike it, anyway.