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[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago

I learned Python after I already knew C, and I will forever be grateful for that.

I took an Operating Systems class in undergrad whose first assignment was to implement a simple web server in C, and it was fine. Later, I took the same prof's grad-level class and had to do basically the same assignment again, and all I could think was "wow, this is incredibly tedious: this whole thing would be literally two lines of Python." Python absolutely ruined my patience for writing C (or at least, for writing C socket code that has to manually juggle IPv4 and v6 struct addrinfos and whatnot).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago

Ha, you haven't lived [in Hell] until you've tried to maintain a Jython build, with Python package dependencies (not just Java ones), in a production environment, in the 2020s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 34 minutes ago* (last edited 32 minutes ago)

Realtors are a specific group of real estate agents. But real estate agents and real estate attorneys are entirely different things: the latter are lawyers while the former are not. Real estate agents are salespeople who search sales listings and give home tours and negotiate deals and whatnot. They have a duty to act in your interest, but they are not qualified or licensed to practice law.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Ah, yes, the Web as it was intended to be, with semantic markup and separate presentation/styling that the user was not only able, but encouraged by design, to override as he saw fit.

I've spent pretty much my entire adulthood being low-key pissed off about how that got thoroughly and comprehensively fucked as soon as the marketing fuckwads got their hands on the Web.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

What's unexpected is that they didn't plan the collaboration years in advance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

In America, the way it's supposed to work is that your parents aren't supposed to need your financial support.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

We can surmise that the company is doing this to soothe Beijing’s ruffled feathers, which claims Taiwan is part of China and has previously slapped import restrictions on products mentioning Taiwan as the place of manufacture.

If Taiwan is part of China, wouldn't that mean the things were already manufactured in-country and didn't need to be "imported" to begin with? 🤔 Is China really so dumb it's accidentally imposing restrictions on itself?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Whine some more.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 14 hours ago (7 children)

What's the matter? They can dish it out but can't take it? LOL, how pathetic!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

LOL, the MAGAs are just trying to get another martyrdom vote bump.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

They do if you go to an Asian market.

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13254852

Theres none so blind as those who don't want to see.

 

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/21922

Investigation underway after man attempts to drive through protest

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19212604

Paywall removed: https://archive.is/DIorS

 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21029090

Another picture

 
 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12581052

Shoutout to the folks who plant sunflowers on boulevards, yards, or community gardens.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18749281

The Wisconsin English teacher, Jordan Cernek, argues in the suit that the district violated his freedom of religion and free speech in mandating the use of the students' preferred names and pronouns.

A high school English teacher is suing a Wisconsin school district, alleging it did not renew his contract last year because he refused to use the preferred names of two transgender students.

Jordan Cernek's federal lawsuit alleges the Argyle School District violated his constitutional and civil rights to be free of religious discrimination and to be able to express himself according to his religious beliefs when it did not renew his contract because he refused to abide by a requirement that teachers use the names or pronouns requested by students.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16276908

Plans for a new city centre car park in Exeter have been criticised.

Proposals to turn the former bus station site into a car park are part of a public consultation which also involves increasing car park prices across the city.

The Green Party said the plans for a new car park were "ridiculous" and did not "make any financial sense".

The Labour leader of the council said he wants to increase the options available for the use of the site.

The council is considering creating a new Paris Street car park, external on part of the old bus station site which was demolished earlier this year.

Previous plans for offices and a multi-purpose performance venue on the site were scrapped in 2023.

Diana Moore, Exeter Green Party leader, said: "A new car park, right next to St Sidwell’s Point, a place which is meant to be a showcase for sustainability and health, and close to a dangerous roundabout and the new bus station, beggars belief."

Ms Moore said the plan showed a "breathtaking lack of imagination".

She said: "This decision also puts cutting carbon emissions, reducing congestion and improving air quality firmly into reverse gear.

"As existing city centre car parks are underutilised, this decision doesn't make any financial sense either."

The council is also looking at raising prices at car parks across the city centre.

The council's executive met on Tuesday to approve the plan for a six-week public consultation which should begin later in August.

Liberal Democrat group leader Michael Mitchell also raised concerns at the meeting about how the plans fitted alongside Exeter City Council's plans to become net zero on carbon emmissions by 2030.

Phil Bialyk, leader of the council, said he understood the concerns raised by opposition parties but said the council was trying to prepare for different scenarios.

He said: "All this will do is give us the ability to charge for whatever part of the old bus station site we might choose to use as a car park site.

"Having a parking order will increase our options on how we can use this space for the benefit of the people in Exeter."

Mr Bialyk said the council was working on new plans for the area which were expected to be made public in the autumn.

 

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3474840

From WABE Politics News:

Georgia’s secretary of state on Thursday came out against election rule changes pending before the State Election Board, specifically rejecting a proposal to count ballots by hand at polling places […]

 
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Well Said (sh.itjust.works)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/25030964


Wanna know how the numbers change for "Other Humans" when deaths due to car collisions are included? It gets 1.35 million added to it, and those were 2016 numbers.

Automobile drivers are by far the most deadly animal, blowing mosquitoes completely out of the water!

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