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Where is everybody?
Hello.....
Isolation?
Unless Russia is right - and we did create it.
RPG II, RPG/400, RPG IV, COBOL, C, C++, SQL, PHP, Python, Java, Javascript, Dataflex,... oh Synon/2 (that was a nice little earner)
I wish I was as good at human languages
I have not included any assembly languages, but some of my code was running in embedded systems on North Sea oil rigs at one point. That is why I think they are unsafe
The financial system, supply chains, law and order, the health system - all breaking down at the same time.
Perhaps we will pull through. Or perhaps it is the end of everything. It is probably somewhere in between. But it is not just the medical consequences we should be worried about.
Government is doing the bidding of the boffins.
https://edition.cnn.com/election/2020/state/florida
Let's end this now and get on an attack Trump.
To MMs point, communication is as critical as the underlying science, which is where the politicians have their role to play. On that point it has been really variable.
I am not overly fond of Python. It feels like the language designer did half the job.
It is like God has said what part of global warming, air pollution & chronic illnesses didn’t you get? And just served up the equivalent of a plague of locusts as it’s the only language we understand
You know a lot of idiots were not long ago saying things like "Trump hasn't started any wars like Bush" to justify defending Trump, apparently these idiots do not realise that circumstances matter. i.e. Trump after 9/11 would have done just as badly if not worse than Bush did.
So far this year Trump has come close to starting a war with Iran, perhaps only avoided by the DOD downplaying injuries in the days after the Iranian retaliation, and Trump is now completely screwing up dealing with a pandemic.
We are unfortunately now able to observe just how unfit for office Trump is during the current disastrous circumstances. God help us if there's any further crisis as fallout from the pandemic, such as revolutions, coups, or wars.
What is he thinking as he stands there and listens to this horseshit?
Sacked by the summer?
Edison Research, which conducts exit polls for many of the major TV networks, decided not to send people to polling sites because of the coronavirus."
https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/primary-election-arizona-florida-illinois/
But I don't so irrelevant.
She would have been at the last debate as she has 2 deligats, but DNC changed the rules so she was not allowed.
Front of star, snow. And they right, weekend looks cold
Let's hope so.
If he drops below 15% then he gets 0 of the state-wide deligets. which would I think be the end of his campaign.
Guido van Rossum deserves a medal.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8121021/JANET-STREET-PORTER-coronavirus-dont-lock-Boris-Johnson.html
FFS..its not about you.....I have heard from my father this evening that one of his friends is refusing to alter his daily life, which includes trips to the supermarket, the local cafe, etc because he isn't scared to die. Again, its not just about you !!!!
This bell-ends are going to crash the system and kill young people.
See also the lowest quality John Major or New Labour Minister vs. much of both current front benches.
And so goes FL, so goes his entire campaign.
He should concede.
Python is beautiful. Sublime. It is without a doubt a prince among programming languages.
This will be painful. But the government is going to shower everyone with cash. (Which means it'll all wash through as inflation in a couple of years... Buy inflation linked bonds...)
Ultimately, economies bounce back from things because these shocks - while nasty - have remarkably little impact on the means of production. If a restaurant goes out of business, that sucks for the owner, who's lost their life savings. But someone will go to the bank and offer 50 cents in the dollar for the equipment, and will be up and running soon enough. The means of production are still there.
This contest is over, unless Biden keels over.
Both mate and tereré are made with yerba mate, which means ‘mate leaf ’, but people usually just say yerba for short. The cup for the leaves is called a guampa, and there are different types for tereré and for mate. For tereré, a cow’s horn is generally used, with the point cut and filled in with a wooden stopper, so that it will stand up. For mate, people usually use a wooden guampa, because it has to be something with insulation against the heat of the water. In both cases a metal straw is used, called a bombilla, which has a flattened end with a strainer on it, so that the yerba leaves do not pass up the straw. Only one guampa and one bombilla is used, and it is passed around the group for each to drink in turn. This can be found distasteful by many foreigners, who are afraid of getting infections, but in fact that is very unlikely, although not totally unknown.
Just as there are two kinds of guampa, there are two kinds of vacuum flask. The one that holds hot water for mate is similar to the kind of Thermos you can buy in other countries. But the kind for holding iced water has to have a much broader mouth, because the ice is made in thick bars of about 4cm diameter. This fat kind of vacuum flask uses polystyrene as the insulation material, and is very light to carry. Beautiful souvenir vacuum flasks are made with a decorated leather casing, and guampas can have details of silverwork on them. You will see a lot of these in Luque.
The Spectrum demos are great, to someone who remembers the original software it's freakish to see how they can get past the issue of attribute clash (aka colour bleeding: the way each 8x8 tile of pixels could only have two colours). There's a nice selection here, you can zoom forwards in time to see how even in the 2000s the quality was improving as new techniques became available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vtUCTX4qrA
Oh, and then someone thought they it sounded a great idea to port Doom to it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v7cFGneuaw
Edit - Not suggesting she lead the latter, but Prince Philip May wish to.
Bonkers.
The suppliers have warehouses full of the stuff.
It is good for prototyping - I will give it a big plus for that. It definitely has inherited BASIC's ease of use.
I prefer it to Javascript. That is the true pineapple-on-pizza programming language
And I do find the need to specify self a bit odd. (Especially as - IIRC - you can't even rename it
But indenting. I loathed it at first. Now I love it. Yes, I know you can make sure VIM highlights a missing parentheses... but (simply) indenting works. Indenting is right. Indenting, ladies and gentlemen, is what made this country great.
I agree with you re Javascript.
They are having a shitty year. God has clearly still not forgiven them for cheating at cricket.
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1OdKrqbNaWQxX?t=1
After all, we are going through all this economic shit to save you guys.
70% in.
People who say to me, "oh I love music". Well, if I discover they don't regularly listen to Radiohead, well that's an example of revealed preference. In this case a revealed preference for shit over music.
The same is true of people who say "I love programming". If it turns out that they hate Python, then they don't really love programming.