roastpotatothief

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Zelensky dismisses compromise with Putin, pointing to Prigozhin’s death in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Most people haven't. We all have a filter bubble.

Here is a first draft, my attempt to provide the missing context. Please leave comments on anything bad or missing you notice. https://lemmy.ml/post/4848742

Zelensky dismisses compromise with Putin, pointing to Prigozhin’s death in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Background? Link?

Zelensky dismisses compromise with Putin, pointing to Prigozhin’s death in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
American Airlines, Google say they can wipe out most contrails, but more fuel required in c/science@lemmy.ml
A lot of people hate crypto, and I can understand, however... in c/chat@beehaw.org
[–] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

You make a lot of points. To explain all of those things, I would news to make a very long post. i think i will do that when i get time.

American Airlines, Google say they can wipe out most contrails, but more fuel required in c/science@lemmy.ml
[–] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Some of the other comments have decent explanations.

where

The problem with America’s high homeownership rate in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh like a security for further borrowing? Could be.

Is there a way to create Super Communities? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Any update on this?

I couldn't find any comment from the devs. Was there one?

There is an extra problem, not mentioned here. When there are subs with the same name, it is actually impossible to know of choose which sub I am posting to. Like here.

i need to stop argue with liberals in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[–] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The fools talk much more than the wise. I wonder about just blocking most of the people I don't find interesting. Then I could only see writings from sensible and interesting people.

Maybe there is a technical solution, which doesn't require so much effort by the user.

The problem with America’s high homeownership rate in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How do you mean "a powerful tool"? Tool for what?

The problem with America’s high homeownership rate in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The argument is mostly valid. But the real point is that capital gains tax needs to change. That would solve the stated problem, without reducing home ownership.

As a result, a majority of the population is literally invested in seeing the value of homes always go up.

This is actually not true. In general, ome owners do not benefit from global house price increases.

A lot of people hate crypto, and I can understand, however... in c/chat@beehaw.org
[–] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Yes block chains predate bitcoin and are very useful. Git uses them. A currency is a perfect use case for a block chain. You need to robustly store balances and transactions so they can't be tampered with.

I would say it's insane to have a currency which is not block chain based. Too easy to fiddle your finances.

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The Doors - Hyacinth House (yewtu.be)
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PJ Harvey - Sheela Na Gig (yewtu.be)
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ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (www.newyorker.com)
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Methodology Trial (xkcd.com)
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AI is finally good at stuff. Now what? (www.vox.com)
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Mystery Asterisk Destination (xkcd.com)
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What Happened to Maya (www.thecut.com)
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The ‘Ukraine effect’ on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable (www.aljazeera.com)
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The Sentences Computers Can't Understand, But Humans Can (yewtu.be)
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Why do tuples and lists both need to exist? (lemmy.ml)
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The only differences are that tuples are immutable and that lists have extra methods.

Is there ever a strong need for list-type data to be immutable? Evough to justify a whole extra data-type in the language?

Should they release a python 4 with it removed?

The only thing I can think of is as a default function parameter. This function is okay:

def dothings(a=(1,2)):
    print(a)
    a = (a[0], 3)

But this function misbehaves the second time it is called:

def dothings(a=[1,2]):
    print(a)
    a[1] = 3

But IMO the "mutable arguments" thing is another bug to be fixed in a hypothetical python 4. And even in python 3 you just write the function the recommended way, so there is not such a big problem.

def dothings(a=None):
    if a is None:
        a = [1, 2]
    print(a)
    a[1] = 3

The Python devs are clever guys though. There must be some really important reason to maintain both types?

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Duck typing - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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Bullshit Jobs - Wikipedia (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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read it? is it worth a read?

it doesn't seem to mention the two most obvious types

  • agents - people whose only job is intermediating, forwarding emails between a business and a customer, but not letting then talk directly. like employment agents who won't reveal the name of the company, because they know you could just talk to each other directly: the agent knows he is useless.

  • police, military, bouncers - people who spend 99% of their time doing nothing, standing around on street corners. when they do anything, it is only to fight, beat or kill normal working/productive people.

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