I did Nazi that coming.

That sounds hilarious but I’m pretty sure it was an older show, likely over 20 years old, and with some kind of sci-fi aspect to it. Seems like they said the game was popular on another planet.

Not giving up, tipping the scales to favor a terrorist organization. His “deal” gave the Taliban greater legitimacy, bolstered their numbers, and probably gave them all a good laugh as we held up our end and they almost immediately violated the agreement.

Criticism >>>> More American soldiers dying in a pointless war

Mike Gravel said it best:

You know what’s worse than a soldier dying in vain? It’s more soldiers dying in vain.

No, we should’ve left shortly after killing Bin Laden.

How does “foo” mean “get”? Half the battle of writing correct code is writing code that’s easy to interpret. Do you always look at the guts of every function you’re about to use?

Don’t know but copyright holders have demonstrated a few cases where they got AI to blatantly rip off copyrighted pictures or music.

“Kill these people, not those people!”

This was his strategy in Afghanistan too!

Arguably that was always going to end with a Taliban takeover, but we could’ve done that without giving them a leg up.

Another ridiculous policy I’ve seen (many years ago) is logging in too fast. I used to get locked out of my banks website all the time and I used autotype with KeePass so I was baffled when it wouldn’t get accepted. Eventually I had a thought to slow down the typing mechanism and suddenly I didn’t get locked out anymore.

I’m highly considering this as a daily driver. Docs need a bit more organization and not sure how big the community is but it checks a lot of boxes for me.

It’s a good read (or listen if you’re into audiobooks) but it’s also easy to find the main points summarized.

Trump is facing calls to disappear up his own ass but that doesn’t mean it’ll ever happen.

branching ≠ if ≠ conditional

They’re all related but can’t just be used interchangeably. “if” is a reserved keyword to indicate a specific syntax is expected. It’s not the semantics the author was trying to change, it’s the syntax, and the overall point is that you aren’t always required to use the specific “if” syntax to write code just like you’re not required to use “while” to achieve looping.

What’s the purpose of foo? Why an ambiguous single character variable? What if the property was there but the value was null? Why not use (assuming JS) optional chaining?

I’d approach it more like this:

function getWhatevrProp(userData) (
  const default = { whatevr: "n/a" };

  return { ...default, ...userData }.whatevr;
}

Sorry, read too fast the first time. It’s more likely Python. I also don’t know Python well enough to give recommendations on that.

Always love seeing the trope:

*writes awful code*

See! This is why this language sucks!

Usually it doesn’t solve my problems but it gives me a few places to start looking. I know some models are capable of this but to get a perfectly accurate and useful response would probably require it to recall a specific piece of input it was given and not just an “average” of the inputs.

Good for her. The standard response from any Democrat should be, “I’ll respond to his points when he makes one. I’m not responding to his baseless, slanderous remarks.”

I also liked the idea of a minority vote (2/5) to sustain a filibuster. If you don’t have 40 supporters, on the floor, then the filibuster ends.

$2 some talking head is gonna say, “It was just a building! They weren’t shooting at Kamala. This isn’t even in the same ballpark!”