It’s hard to spot, but Pembrose is an eyeball on the couch. It’s absurdist humor - of course if someone were just an eyeball but somehow sentient, they’d probably have a lot of anger towards the world.
They don’t understand the difference between belief and faith. I believe many things, but have no faith in them. I will take contrary evidence into account.
Somewhere smaller than a tiger, that would win 100% of the time. I’d guess 30 lbs is where things start to get serious
What sublinks mess? I’m out of the loop on that
Hadn’t read this before, link for anyone else interested: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2010/04/10/trial-of-seven/
Jaimie besting Rand doesn’t really make sense there tbh, even with the conceit of taking away Saidin
For those that haven’t seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
I just had a POS machine recommend 20%, 25%, or 30% for percentages. It seems like it’s increasing
What parent is likely referencing
TBH I wonder if the current Microsoft is capable of executing that here. I don’t believe in a “changed” MS, but Linux is eating the world, and MS doesn’t really care about Windows much anymore. Azure happily runs Linux VMs
There’s at least one example you can look at, the Jenkins CI project had code like that (if (name.startsWith("windows 9")) {
):
https://issues.jenkins.io/secure/attachment/18777/PlatformDetail
Microsoft, for all their faults, do (or at least did) take backwards compatibility very seriously, and the option of “just make devs fix it” would never fly. Here’s a story about how they added special code to Windows 95 to make SimCity’s broken code work on it:
Windows 95? No problem. Nice new 32 bit API, but it still ran old 16 bit software perfectly. Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find with Windows 95. Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here’s the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn’t working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn’t free memory right away. That’s the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95.
You’re not getting past this bouncer
ChatGPT came up with the punny name on its own:
A large, heavy animal, resembling a buffalo, dressed as a bouncer at a cyberpunk-themed nightclub in an all-animal world. The club, named ‘Byte the Dust’, showcases a grungy, cyberpunk aesthetic, with a neon sign that’s bold and futuristic. The buffalo bouncer is wearing high-tech, neon-lit glasses and a distinctive cyberpunk mohawk. The outfit is a rugged, cybernetic ensemble with metallic accents. It stands imposingly at the club entrance, which features rough textures, rusted metal, and dimly lit neon lights. The buffalo’s expression is tough and unwavering, in harmony with the gritty cyberpunk theme. The artwork should be in a realistic style, highlighting the formidable presence of the buffalo and the intense, neon-tinged atmosphere of ‘Byte the Dust’.
Double curly is pretty common IME, but I have more experience in backend which is less likely to be involved in an error like this. Off the top of my head, handlebars, django, and jinja2 all use that style.
The collect
’s in the middle aren’t necessary, neither is splitting by ": "
. Here’s a simpler version
fn main() {
let text = "seeds: 79 14 55 13\nwhatever";
let seeds: Vec<_> = text
.lines()
.next()
.unwrap()
.split_whitespace()
.skip(1)
.map(|x| x.parse::<u32>().unwrap())
.collect();
println!("seeds: {:?}", seeds);
}
It is simpler to bang out a [int(num) for num in text.splitlines()[0].split(' ')[1:]]
in Python, but that just shows the happy path with no error handling, and does a bunch of allocations that the Rust version doesn’t. You can also get slightly fancier in the Rust version by collecting into a Result
for more succinct error handling if you’d like.
EDIT: Here’s also a version using anyhow
for error handling, and the aforementioned Result
collecting:
use anyhow::{anyhow, Result};
fn main() -> Result<()> {
let text = "seeds: 79 14 55 13\nwhatever";
let seeds: Vec<u32> = text
.lines()
.next()
.ok_or(anyhow!("No first line!"))?
.split_whitespace()
.skip(1)
.map(str::parse)
.collect::<Result<_, _>>()?;
println!("seeds: {:?}", seeds);
Ok(())
}
Sure, but do you think if the lower court decided that the case could move forward, the justices would’ve sat out? I doubt it.
Because there were not enough justices for a quorum—the court needs at least six and only Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson remained—the court affirmed the judgment of a lower court to dismiss the lawsuit.
Clever. Appearing to do the right thing at face value coincides nicely with getting the case against you dropped. It’s likely impossible to sue a majority of the Supreme Court if they don’t care to be sued.
That’s ok, they’ll just move to their second cabin, complete with what looks like an outdoor dining set.
I’m no astrophysicist, but those moon orbits do not look stable. High tide vs low tide must be pretty interesting
I find it pretty amazing how someone figured out how to make cassava edible. It’s got enough cyanide to kill you unless it goes through some complex process of mashing and boiling. Who thought to themselves “this killed Greg, but maybe it’ll be delicious if I boil it for a little longer”?
The ideal solution is not a Netflix monopoly, it’s one where content providers must pick a single price, and any streaming service can pay that price and provide access to the content. That way you can pay for only Netflix, but get access to everything. Netflix wouldn’t end up with a monopoly though, because anybody else could offer a better service and people could switch to it and not lose access to anything.
This is unlikely to happen anytime soon due to the intentional clusterfuck of laws like copyright, but it would solve the problem neatly.