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twelvefloatinghands
twelvefloatinghands @ twelvefloatinghands @lemmy.world
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What operating system and tools should a beginner use to learn programming?

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  • Start with an interpreter just running on a website. Low barrier to entry is key at the start

    • The Trick to Going Faster in Software Development is to Take Smaller Steps

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  • It's small steps, not medium steps dammit!

    • Missouri Bill Would Ban Many Companies From "Refusing To Deal With" Anti-Trans Businesses

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  • The social contract of tolerance

    • Supreme Court says Crown may use evidence from illegal searches in some circumstances

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  • Not much of a right then, is it?

    • Ottawa says it will build nearly 30K homes on public lands over next 6 years

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  • What percentage were construction workers?

    • How should I go about making an online identity that can't be tracked by advertisers?

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  • ??? Both options are the same thing tho?

    • I Can't Drink Now Like I Used to a Few Years Ago (26M), is that Normal?

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  • Welcome to old.

    • Is there any free to use AI that accepts images and can talk about them?

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  • Bing chat will do it

    • Monster

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  • I nominate nix

    • NDP to back Conservative motion calling for carbon price off all heat sources

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  • Are the libs not going for pharmacare?

    • Venn rule

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  • I'm more scared of cassowaries.

    • Nice

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  • "tits"

    • Disposing of a mattress is ridiculously hard. So is the wider struggle for waste sustainability

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  • We just need to dig a deep enough hole in a subduction zone so it eventually turns into lava

    • What are some of the best optimizations you applied to your code?

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  • Human code review is very error prone

    • Rule

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  • True

    • Rule

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  • "the british"

    • Not like the other(s) rule

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  • Shrek

    • ed... ward

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  • Too soon

    • The I hate Calculus rule

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  • What the hell has rayman been up to? Didn't the rabbids come from his franchise too?

    • McCarthy Says ‘We’re In a Very Bad Place Right Now’ Thanks to ‘Crazy Members Led By Gaetz’

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  • Not sure I follow the "FPTP with layers" argument. After each layer, the votes go to the next choice rather than being wasted. Vote splitting gone. That's the bad part of FPTP taken care of. There's still one winner, but proportional voting is orthogonal to ballot type

    And you only get final results when all counting is complete, but ballot counts could definitely be published as they come in (N ballots with order ABCD, M ballots with order DBA, etc)