Zagorath

As far as pseudocode goes, this is pretty damn good. The main thing I’d change is that things in “quotes” generally represent strings, i.e. literal text. Variable names usually don’t have quotes around them. That’s a universal enough trait of real programming languages that it would almost never not transfer to pseudocode. Also, numbers intended to be read as numbers don’t typically have quotes.

If
am_pm_indicator = "pm"
AND
hour =/= 12
ADD 12 to hour

Else
Ignore the am/pm indicator, time is correct in 24 hour format. # Leaving this as-is because it's more like a comment than code anyway

I feel like the text doesn’t go well with the image here. Norman Osborne is the bad guy in that movie. We’re not supposed to think he’s making a good point.

I mean yeah, morally speaking, the half+7 rule works shockingly well. It’s just not entirely reasonable for the law to encode something like that though, so there’s always going to be a line somewhere. 16 seems reasonable to me (but then, I’m also a supporter of lowering the voting age to 16…)

I don’t care about legality

That would still make it illegal in most western countries though

That’s what I was responding to.

Scots is generally regarded as a distinct language, but this looks to me like it’s probably Scottish English. Compare that with the front page of Scots Wikipedia* which is much harder to understand than this is. Half of the weirdness in this message is spelling English words how they’re pronounced with a strong Scottish accent:

Urgh, I’m fair scunnered with that daft idiot down the road, always haverin about his new motor like it’s something pure gallus

Which only leaves a small number of dialect-specific words.

ATI

But thanks for the info! Cool to know.

Oh neat, I didn’t know they did that. Do their GPUs have a specific niche, or are they aimed generally at competing with Nvidia and AMD Radeon?

edit: just to be clear what I mean, as an example, Qualcomm makes processors, but they fill the specific niche of mobile device processors, they don’t compete with Intel & AMD’s desktop lines.

ty!

Is the GPU business a separate business, even? Or just the integrated graphics on their CPUs?

You can write 1984 in octal as 3700

Right, but we’ve read it as “1984” already, so it’s a question of how we interpret those digits. It could be decimal 1984, or if it’s dozenal it would be (3124)₁₀, or hexadecimal would mean it’s (6532)₁₀. And the post itself doesn’t actually mention an age, that’s just us interpreting it

Maybe “age of consent” is something different

It is, very often. Most countries have it at 16 or lower, as do most states in America, I believe. (I’m not American, and that’s just something I vaguely recall hearing an American say. Never bothered verifying it myself.)

I don’t actually know any 16 year-olds. But are they into Roblox? I thought that was more of an 8–14 y/o type thing?

Were there rumours that they would? I didn’t hear them, but this is a weird news story to report on otherwise.

That would still make it illegal in most western countries though.

It sounds like they started dating when she was 16, which means as gross as it is, it’s not illegal in most places. Unless there was some sort of grooming, which is definitely possible given they first met when she was 15, but nothing we’ve been told in the story lets us determine for sure that it’s illegal.

As for octal, you can’t write 9 in octal, so we know 1984 has to be base 10 at a minimum.

Thanks for sharing, but do you have a direct link? I’d love to see if there’s a follow up about said “music” 😆

To me, the biggest thing missed isn’t links. And I think I’m not alone—if I was, lemmit.online would have succeeded instead of being a wasteland. The thing missed is the conversation. Without the comments, you lose 95% of the value of Reddit.

If it didn’t do two-way bridging of comments I wouldn’t really see much point.

And Reddit would ban any accounts used for that pretty quickly.

Does software piracy count?

Ah who am I kidding, of course it doesn’t.

Personally I’m more impressed by a $1k Garmin than a $250k Rolex or whatever.

I was a huge fan of last year’s Dungeon & Dragons movie. Just make sure you’re not seeing the terrible ones from 2000–2012!

Unfortunately after that it gets very hard. I know a lot of people like 1998’s Willow, but I’ve never seen it to compare.

I’m seeing a fair few people recommend Pirates of the Caribbean, mainly the first 3 films. Which I agree are very good, but they’re not mediaeval high fantasy and they’re far more comedic in tone than LotR. Nevertheless, there does seem to be something similar. Maybe it’s the relatively low level of relatively soft magic and the fairly adventurous nature of them. And also Orlando Bloom in a starring role in both.

If you’re willing to add TV then Game of Thrones is much grittier but kinda similar (shame the quality drops off gradually after season 4 and then very quickly in the last 1–2 seasons). The Witcher is also good.

But yeah unfortunately there’s really nothing that quite compares in tone, subject matter, and setting to Lord of the Rings that is anywhere near as good as it, IMO.

It being common does not make it ok. If she were just quietly anti-trans in her personal life that might be something we could overlook. But she is proudly and actively hateful towards trans people. She ignores the fact that trans women are even more likely than cis women to be victims of gender-based violence and pretends that trans women are actually predators. And she engages in bullshit “transvestigating”, drumming up witch hunts against butch cis women. She is actively causing harm against women, including the cis women she claims to want to protect. She’s a terrorist using stochastic methods.