nickwitha_k

@nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally a thinking lump of fat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Store's Unreal Tournament page now has free download links to Unreal, Unreal 2, and Unreal Tournament '99⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that they tried too hard to align with Quake 3’s twitch-gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bae?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But, imagine the lawsuits when people started trying to make “fruit punch” with the flavors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Store's Unreal Tournament page now has free download links to Unreal, Unreal 2, and Unreal Tournament '99⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Giving away the only UT game that matters? Wow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a coworker who had this happen at a former search company in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if statement == false⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry! I sometimes get carried away on correctness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if statement == false⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If reading the code as non-programming logic, that conclusion makes sense, yes. However, if, in most syntaxes, is a type of flow control. What it wraps has no meaning to the if statement itself. Reading it through the lens of an interpreter/compiler makes it clear. The statement is approximately:

  If and only if a is equal to 1, do the thing {
    The thing is: assign the variable b with the value 1
  }
  

  To one not familiar with how programs are executed, it would make sense that the return value could be 1. But understanding how flow control works in programming, makes this interpretation a challenge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if statement == false⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure that funky() would always return 0, as defined. I’ll pseudocide that up:

  funky takes no args, returns int {
    a is assigned the value 0
    b is assigned the value 1
  
    test if a is equal to 1, if it is {
      b is assigned the value 1
    }
  
    return a
  }
  

  The if in your function can never be reached, without some weird manipulation of the value of a that breaks variable scoping in most syntaxes.

  I think that I see your logic but it is syntactically incorrect:

          b=1
      }
  

  In most syntaxes, this is a conditional execution and value assignment. That is, the code in curly braces only gets executed, if the conditional evaluates as true. If the conditional evaluates as true, the code is executed, assigning the value 1 to the variable b.

  It does NOT imply that the assignment of the value 1 to the variable b is a conditional requiring the assignment of the value 1 to the variable b.

  Remember: = in most programming is NOT an equality symbol but a value-assigment symbol. It would be nice if people creating the initial syntaxes used something else that is harder to confuse but they didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When fencing, left-handed people have the significant advantage of being able to dramatically switch their rapier from their right hand to their left hand, mid-combat, and announce that they are not really right-handed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newsom Challenges Trump on Electric Vehicle Tax Credits | Gov. Gavin Newsom said California would fill the void for residents if the Trump administration killed a $7,500 E.V. tax credit.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My take: With the cost of EVs and charging them in California, that’s essentially meaningless. Under Newsom, state efforts to support home solar installs were discontinued and efforts to breakup PG&E were sabotaged. This has made EVs a questionable investment for anyone not outright rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And I’m childless, not by choice, and sadly glad too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I never asked for this"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a robot hand! youtu.be/wvpcsDQ-Jtw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neuroscientists taught rats to drive tiny cars. They took them out on 'joy rides.'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Adorable rats were much needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They never learn though.

  And we’re out of chances for them to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whelp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Livejournal

  That’s a name that I’ve not heard in a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's a little feisty, but he looked cold⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, it could be a catamount.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wild seals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! That’s a great video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's a little feisty, but he looked cold⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. Mountain lion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Next, ban SFH HOAs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨that's a huge sprout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly, that’s kohlrabi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikToxic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those aren’t gloves, they’re callouses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chat, what do you see?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Desperately hoping to find something on the thin-layer chromatography plate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Gorging on Stock Buybacks for Years, Boeing Announces Mass Layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, in English at least, is the letter W called "double U" and not "double V"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Water of Life features in lots of fairy tales. Is that what is being referred to?

  Likely. Alcohol, in many cultures had a spiritual/religious characterization. We literally have an ancient Egyptian beer recipe because it was written into a hymn praising Ninkasi, a Sumerian goddess of beer.

  Is Water of Death another name for an alcohol?

  That’s a good question. It’s Fernet (/s).

  I do not actually know that. I would suspect that it would be another substance. Maybe an acid or toxin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, in English at least, is the letter W called "double U" and not "double V"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “uiskey” That is actually very close to the original Irish words: uisce beatha (ish-kuh ba-ha), meaning “water of life”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolutely nothing happened June 1989⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a fair way to look at it, yeah. I blocked the instance a whole back after being the target of the dunking culture and classification of statements like “peoples historically oppressed by a country can be reasonably expected to turn to terrible geopolitical powers, if faced with existential threat from said historical oppressors without other recourse” labeled as “fascist apologia” (referring to the USSR’s invasion of Finland, a country that was occupied and used as a battleground and colony by Sweden or Russia for centuries, leaving them with few options but the nazis to try to maintain a semblance of independence that they had previously won from the Russian Empire). If one can’t examine the mistakes of the past, they aren’t serious about trying to avoid them in the future and I ain’t got time for that shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolutely nothing happened June 1989⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then that would be .ml users. Semantics yes, but considering that .world never federated with Hexbear, I feel it relevant for accurately describing things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolutely nothing happened June 1989⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hexbear Post on .world

  …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artifical Intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artifical Intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly.