ElectricMoose

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Sadly, longer jail time is purely placebo. Plenty of studies show jail time has no incidence on crime rate. Sure, locking people for longer would delay recidivism, but we could do better than that.

It's not about logic though. Longer jail time proponents do lean on the emotional argument of a few anecdotal cases or recidivism. This tend to make flashy headlines and stick with the population.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Interestingly, we've got the same glitch in the Gregorian calendar, where the year 0 doesn't exist. So the 21st century started in 2001…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

I don't have confidence in any majority government. The elected party doing as they want and ignoring part of the electorate is a failure of democracy. Every motion should be evaluated on its merit, not through agreements of party support. In that sense, the likelihood of a majority Conservative after an election would be a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You also can't make star ships out of an sdcard

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As a bytecode tinkerer, I'd say considering NOP to be global knowledge is a slippery slope.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 7 months ago

just tag yourself as "early-access" and suddenly everyone will forgive your flaws.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

As a developer, I really don't like how Wayland has fractured the ecosystem. Competing immature protocols are still all over the place while the immobility of x11 has spoiled us for years. It's getting better, but in the meantime I can still write an x11 app which will work mostly everywhere (thanks to xwayland), whereas a wayland app may not work everywhere (not on X11, and not on compositors which don't implement the right combinations of protocols).

[–] [email protected] 71 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hacker: That's ok, we don't want you to paste stuff in there, we just want you to send us your cookies. It's not like you're eating them anyway…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Consider IEEE754 arithmetic as monadic, simple!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Someone is confusing indices and cardinality.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The dude trying to push Django in 2003

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The EU is basically slapping Canadians with a reciprocal policy. Canada has the eTA (electronic travel authorization) which they have to file and pay 7$ to visit, even if they don't need a visa. This is the same in reverse.

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