When I was a kid I absolutely loved the Narnia series, to the extent that I was depressed when I finished the last one. As a young adult I tried to reread the books and was stunned at how heavy handed the Christian propaganda was.

“apt install <program>” is just so much nicer than running some weird installer.

Republicans: “We have to drop DEI and start hiring based on merit.”

Also Republicans: fill departments with people hired based on no merit whatever.

As a massive Wikipedia fan and a longtime editor, the comments in this post make me very happy. You’re my people, Lemmy!

If he felt that his life was in danger from a car, shooting at it wouldn’t reduce the danger. The only thing a pedestrian armed with a pistol can do to avoid getting run over by a car within short range is to get out of its way.

Sure, but there is double jeopardy, and with the FBI freezing local law enforcement out of the investigation, they could easily toss him a softball.

There’s no such thing as a “defensive shot” at a moving vehicle. Your bullet isn’t going to stop a car. All it does is to change a guided vehicle into an unguided vehicle.

That’s why US law enforcement agencies have policies that one should only shoot at someone in a moving vehicle if they would be an imminent danger to others if allowed to flee.

Not all of us are racist. Consider Breyten Breytenbach and Bram Fischer and Max du Preez and Ingrid Jonker. But yeah, some Afrikaners are virulently racist.

Remember that Fortran has an arithmetic if statement. You can write

IF (expression) s1, s2, s3

where s1, s2 and s3 are labels. If the expression is negative, it jumps to s1. If it’s 0, to s2 and if it’s positive, to s3.

It also has goto variable. You can do

INTEGER a
ASSIGN 20 TO a
ASSIGN 17 TO a
GO TO a
20 PRINT *, "foo"
17 PRINT *, "bar"

and it’ll print “bar”. In this snippet of code, everything seems quite logical, but imagine debugging spaghetti code written using these patterns.

Oh, it also has

GO TO (s1, s2, ... , sn), N

First, N is converted to an integer. If N is 1, it goes to label s1. If N is 2, it goes to s2. If N is less than 1 or greater than n, it does nothing.

Ha, I thought a 1Hz display was a typo until I read the article - that’s the minimum display update, not the maximum: for situations when nothing’s changing on the screen to save battery life.

Billionaires spending craptons of money convincing poor people that even poorer people are their enemy is never good for the world.

#nofilter

A Møøse once bit my sister…

German: there are painters in the cellar.

Interesting. I use Firefox for everything and haven’t had any issues. Maybe I’m just not that picky?

That’s actually Jake Paul, not Post Malone, after a boxing match went … badly for him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Paul_vs._Anthony_Joshua