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ArbitraryValue

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  • Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?

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  • C++ style text streams are bad and a dead-end design and '\n'.

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  • I was thinking more of the Orz. They're inspired by the original cosmic horror, but they like campers as long as campers want to party with them.

    That is funny. You think you see Orz but Orz are not light reflections. Maybe you think Orz are many bubbles too. It is such a joke. Orz are not many bubbles like campers. Orz are just Orz. I am Orz. I am one with many fingers. My fingers reach through into heavy space and you see Orz bubbles but it is really fingers. Maybe you do not even smell? That is sad. Smelling pretty colors is the best game.

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  • Far from the scariest squid.

    That one's simply named the big fin squid. Probably the human mind cannot comprehend its true name.

  • And I'll do it again!

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  • My dog's favorite game was to have me grab his tail. He would immediately spin around and grab my wrist, and then he would bite harder and harder until I let go. As soon as I let go of his tail, he would let go of my wrist. I don't bruise easily so I was fine, but other people who tried it got bruises.

    I have no idea what he got out of that game. People thought I was being mean to him, but if I held my hand out then he would walk backwards to put his tail in my hand.

  • And I'll do it again!

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  • Dog owners' tolerance for being attacked by dogs: LOW

    Cat owners' tolerance for being attacked by cats: HIGH

    "Aww isn't that cute, he suddenly hurt me!"

  • The Economist Trashes Trump’s ‘Flat-Out Nonsense’ Tariffs in Scathing Editorial: Most ‘Unnecessary Economic Error in the Modern Era’

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  • The actual Economist editorial is here (paywalled but archived).

  • Now Musk is boosting claims Wisconsin Supreme Court election was ‘stolen’

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  • Perhaps some leading election deniers are motivated by a psychological defense mechanism, but I think that many realize the strategic benefit. The members of the public who are convinced that Democrats steal elections will vote Republican. They'll also be more willing to accept a Republican refusing to leave office after losing an election, if things come to that.

  • Idioms and synthesis

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  • I don't have a dog in this horse.

  • A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice

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  • He also admits that federal grants make up less than 7% of his budget (and, if I understand correctly, that most of that 7% is not in the form that has been threatened).

    I don't see a good argument "against cowardice" in the article. How can a university like Columbia which would be effectively destroyed by Trump's attack respond defiantly when Trump would be happy to destroy it? He wins either way, but one way leads to a great deal of hardship for thousands of people. Why should a university pick that way? Ideological purity I suppose, and perhaps to be an inspiration (but also a warning) to others? He doesn't really say.

  • The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

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  • Get thee behind me, anything beyond extended ASCII.

  • Leaked Emails Expose Trump’s Devastating Revenge Plot on Dem. Governor

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  • It's unfortunate, but Leland Dudek is doing his job. Some people appear naive about what his job is.

    Edit: Perhaps I should explicitly say that I'm not happy with the administration's agenda, and what I mean is that this guy won't be punished because he's doing what he was hired to do. I don't mean that this is what his job ought to be in some moral sense.

  • Judge dismisses criminal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams

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  • Of course as a resident of NYC I am angry about this. Not only is he a criminal but he's also selling out the city to Trump. I would enjoy knowing how much he was squirming if the case was dismissed without prejudice like Trump wanted it to be, but I suppose it's better that Trump has less control over him.

    I do see a bit of humor in all this, because he accepted such small bribes.

    From Wikipedia:

    Adams took over $100,000 in bribes from Turkey in exchange for using his powers to help open the Turkevi Center. These bribes mostly took the form of free and discounted luxury travel benefits. These benefits included free hotel rooms, free meals at high-end restaurants, free entertainment while in Turkey, free and heavily discounted flights, and similarly free and discounted flight class upgrades.

    I would understand why he might be tempted to give up his integrity and accept the possibility of being caught if large sums of money (millions at least) were involved, but $100,000 is less than his yearly salary would be in the NYPD and he didn't even get it in cash! I don't earn as much as an NYPD captain like him (but enough to be comfortable) and I would experience zero temptation to take such a risk even if I had no moral objection to bribery. If I was the mayor then I would even be offended by the offer - who do they think I am if they expect me to sell myself for so little?

    He's just a petty crook higher up in the world than he knows how to be. Pathetic.

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  • I think that the variety of leftists here, ranging all the way from people who don't hate voting for Democrats to literal Stalinists, is one of the peculiarities of Lemmy that I find interesting. With that said, actually engaging with any of the ones more like the latter than the former is, as you've experienced, unrewarding.

  • Trump admin accidentally sent man to Salvadorian prison and can’t get him back

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  • Ah, then I don't think we disagree. Still, the CBG might be overkill when a simple phone call would have sufficed. After all, they don't want him. We're paying them to keep him.

    Then again, since we're already threatening Canada and Greenland, maybe we should threaten El Salvador too? We can accuse them of imprisoning residents of other countries who were sent to them extralegally without a trial or any other sort of official procedure. It's unethical! They would be so confused.

  • Trump makes history by pardoning a corporation

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  • Such public benefits now fall prey to the whims of the president with his pardon of a cryptocurrency company that smacks of political corruption.

    So a man who promised to pardon his friends and allies, once elected, pardons his friends and allies. Is that corruption or is it just government policy by this point?

  • The difference between programmers and testers

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  • Trump admin accidentally sent man to Salvadorian prison and can’t get him back

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  • I don't think that's a claim that the Trump administration is actually making, even though it's in the title of the article. Here's what the article quotes them saying:

    “The individual in question is a member of the brutal MS-13 gang — we have intelligence reports that he is involved in human trafficking,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to The Independent. “Whether he is in El Salvador or a detention facility in the U.S., he should be locked up. Remarkable that The Atlantic and other MSM continue to do the bidding of these vicious gangs and ignore their victims.”

  • The difference between programmers and testers

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  • The programmer's answer?

    We don't support that use case.

  • Elon Musk says he has no clue why people hate his guts

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  • I wonder if that's actually true, because I think that he is to some extent literally psychotic. What happens when someone who actually has enormous wealth and power still goes through manic phases or experiences something like grandiose delusions? He might really believe that he's saving the nation and the world, and that this should be obvious to all.

    It's like those movies (I can't remember which ones but I'm sure I've seen some) where the king thinks of himself as good and is genuinely surprised and confused when he learns that the common people feel oppressed by him. Except in this case the king does not (and probably can not) learn a heartwarming moral lesson.