The foundational principle of Israel is the expulsion of Palestinians from Palestine since they are the chosen people and the land belongs to them.

Or those Dairy lobby ones that talk about how much work they are doing to save the environment. What a crock

In one of my old jobs we had a couple thousand line shell script called something like prod_corrections_adhoc.ksh. It was used to jam through emergency fixes between code releases.

It still has ‘adhoc corrections’ from 2006

Is there any material difference between Edge and Chrome? I’m forced to use either of them for work and as far as I can tell they perform the same

Why are we starting new coal mines anywhere?

I definitely do not value having lifetime access to 99.999% of the media I consume enough to have to deal with hoarding physical copies.

They were enemy combatants because they were within bombing radius of an enemy combatant. That was the American logic in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to print more humane-looking civilian casualty numbers

Imagining calling someone an NPC unironically.

Because Wagner is already there

Oh, of course. He’s fine with child abuse as long as it is consensual.

Too bad I just had my second round of COVID at the end of August. If this booster had been available a couple of months earlier maybe I would have been able to prevent it! Thankfully because of the vaccines both times I’ve had it were mild

Two words: pube loofah. The mons pubis is a great place to lather up. Then I just scoop up soap with my bare hands and bring it where it needs to be.

Mathematical notation was designed to be written by hand. It is at least as clear and descriptive as any syntax from a programming language. You’re pretending that the abstraction behind a for loop is somehow less than that behind a sum or product notation.

This post confuses me. Why would code be simpler than the math notation? Both involve symbolic abstraction of basically the same complexity