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Zagorath

@ Zagorath @aussie.zone

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Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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  • Letters from Whitechapel?

    Either that or you buried the lede by failing to mention something rather significant about the hidden character, and you were playing Fury of Dracula. Or my boardgamegeek-fu isn't as strong as I hoped.

  • Fuck geometry

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  • Radians are the objectivly better way to do angles

    Yes, and tau is objectively better than pi. Just remember tau = 360°. Which is a full circle, which easier to work with than half a circle.

  • Microsoft Please Fix

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  • The repository in Git isn't on the server, it's on your local machine.

  • Microsoft Please Fix

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  • I understand the impulse to be empathetic and kind. But it's very hard to respond in good faith to someone who just made a post where more than half the words are "fuck you".

  • Next month is gonna be rough

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  • No, that brings painful war flashbacks.

  • Yes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2

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  • Basically, "X is one-third more than Y" means either X = (4/3) × Y or X = Y + 1/3. I'm fine with either interpretation.

    The problem is that with the values of X and Y in this example, neither interpretation produces a valid equation.

  • Yes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2

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  • "a half is one-third more than a third" should mean either

    1/3 + 1/3 = 1/2

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    1/3 + (1/3 × 1/3) = 1/2

    Neither of which is true.

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  • Reading it again I can see the sarcasm oozing from it, but in the context of the comment before which seems a more sincere love of the guy (not least because it demonstrates someone actually watched his post–Top Gear content) I thought it was worth pointing out what a horrible human being Jeremy Clarkson is.

    I honestly don't know how I feel about his Top Gear castmates. On the one hand they seem much more genuinely good people from their own actions and content outside of Top Gear & its spiritual successor. On the other they did seem more than willing to get back on board with him even after he committed assault (on top of all the other shit).

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  • Wow. Unnecessary and rude. That's a great contribution to the conversation.

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  • Gonna be honest, I only vaguely recognise the name Patrick Swayze without knowing exactly what he's famous for. An actor, I think? And I have zero idea who Paul Walker is. Anomalocarus I gather from context is an extinct animal of some sort, which is cool, but I lack the knowledge to know precisely why this specific species is highly valuable.

    So Robin Williams gets my vote almost by default, even if I didn't have more reason to choose him beyond that.

  • Self-documenting Code

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  • Yup absolutely. I mentioned web APIs because that's what I've got the most experience with, but .h files, class library public interfaces, and any other time users who are not the implementor of the functionality might want to call it, the code they'll be interacting with should be tailored to be good to interact with.

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  • If the doco we're talking about is specifically an API reference, then the documentation should be written first. Generate code stubs (can be as little as an interface, or include some basic actual code such as validating required properties are included, if you can get that code working purely with a generated template). Then write your actual functional implementation implementing those stubs.

    That way you can regenerate when you change the doco without overriding your implementation, but you are still forced to think about the user (as in the programmer implementing your API) experience first and foremost, rather than the often more haphazard result you can get if you write code first.

    For example, if writing a web API, write documentation in something like OpenAPI and generate stubs using Swagger.

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  • Did he work with copper nanotubes, perhaps?

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  • This is all true but it's missing a key detail. The Australian badger is actually completely unrelated to the European and American badgers (which are mustelids). The Australian badger is a marsupial most closely related to the Tasmanian devil.

  • Not Just Bikes — I Spent Over 12 Hours on an Amtrak Train

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  • I've never been to America...or his home country of Canada, but comparing to my home of Australia, and based on the clips from North America he's shown in his videos, it does certainly seem like the city planning in the Netherlands really is that much better. My impression is that Australia's city planning is quite a bit better than America's, but the difference between what we have and what he shows of the Netherlands is enormous.

  • Why do two lines of text ignore spacing unless more than one line is between them and how to not make it happen?

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  • Lemmy uses for its markup a language called "markdown". It’s the same one used on Reddit, Stack Exchange, as well as in a modified form on Discord.

    Markdown requires two line breaks to define a new paragraph to allow you to break your paragraphs across multiple lines, a useful ability to have with writing that’s going to be tracked by Git, or displayed on some old-school text editors. It also gives you the ability to separate between two paragraphsand one paragraph with a line break in it.Which is a useful thing to be able to do in some circumstances, like when writing poetry, or sharing your results in !dailygames@lemmy.zip. To enter a "line break", end a line with two spaces and then press enter only once.

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  • We could have used the tilde, which has been used in formal logic & maths for negation in very many contexts for a long time.

    It's used instead in C and many C-like languages for the far less useful bitwise negation. Of course, we could have had it work in the same way as bitwise vs logical and & or, by dialling up the symbol. Which would have massively improved its visibility compared to the bang.

    But for some reason, no. They chose the bang instead.

  • The Nando Cut — Uhoh The Penguin is AMAZING

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  • He’s called Oswald Cobb, or Oz for short

    Yeah, I know. I noticed them call him Cobb in the show, but I figured it was a nickname the same way Oz is a nickname for Oswald. This review made me realise that they've actually officially renamed him, and after hearing that I looked it up and saw they did it apparently because they think Cobblepot is too silly of a name. Which seems absurd to me, because it's not like "Oz Cobb" sounds any more believable than Oswald Cobblepot or even Oz Cobblepot.

    But yeah, because of that I doubt we'll be getting that line.

  • Who Owns Nebula?

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  • Yeah that's a good question. I'm honestly not sure. I bought a lifetime subscription about a year ago so that woulda given Jason Slaughter a fucktonne, compared to paying month-by-month, if it's only the first payment.

    That would explain why they provide such a strong incentive to pay yearly (since it's much cheaper than monthly). It's also interesting that you get a much cheaper price if you go through a creator's code rather than heading straight to nebula.tv.