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Lemmy and the Fediverse as a whole is a microcosm that doesn’t make much of a difference one way or the other. We can stab at the tankies all we like, but it wasn’t their influence in the Fediverse that caused the result, even if they did manage to hoodwink a few into voting for fake tan man.

Clee-ent? Unsure if AI, a non-native English speaker leaking their native pronunciation, or, as allegedly happens later, someone having a minor mental malfunction.

Fears grow? Really? That’s what it’s been about for decades at this point.

Find yourself a language that allows negative indices to count back from the end of an array.

In those languages, index 0 is usually the first element, but if you’re particularly perverse and negate your indexing, you can start at 1, or rather -1, at the other end and work backwards.

0-indexing originally comes from needing to add to the array’s base memory address to locate elements. If you have an array at memory address 1234, you might expect to find the first element at that address, which would be 1234+0, and the next at 1234+1, etc.

1-indexing started as either a deliberate abstraction from that idea, and/or else there’s something else stored at 1234 that the array data type needs and the real elements start at 1234+1.

All that said, there’s at least one language that insists the indices of an array be of a subtype of some Integer type that must have a limited range. Then you can start and end wherever you like, and the whole 1 vs 0 business is meaningless (except to whoever writes the compilers for that language anyway).

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How to make it through school in China: Write the name Xi Jinping as the answer to every question. You cannot be marked down for doing this as Xi Jinping is never wrong.

Yep. If it wasn’t for the racist vote, Brexit would not have happened. That particular wedge of the pie was just enough to get it over the 50% mark.

Sure, you could argue for other wedges also being responsible if you order them differently, but, you know, racism is a pretty nasty one and given the context, it seems like the right one to point to as a culprit.

Hyponatraemia. As Chubby Emu might put it (and indeed might have), “hypo” meaning low or below, “natrio” meaning sodium and “(h)aemia” meaning blood. Low sodium in the blood. You know those electrolytes they always talk about being good for you? Sodium is one of those.

Basically diluted herself to death.

There, the spectacular drug is a BAC of 1%.

The terrain in Panama didn’t support it either.

Either way, my comment is accurate up to the word Gaza, “and then” or not.

That’s only part of the plan. The full plan is remove every last Palestinian from Gaza and then shove a canal through it. The other end will be at Elat, thus providing a western-controlled alternative to Egypt’s Suez.

There would be far more humanitarian ways of going about this, but murder is quicker and silences dissent.

You’ll notice that Jordan hasn’t been touched during any of this. Got to keep them onside because their port city of Aqaba is uncomfortably close.

You still have the bowl, Milhouse.

The ol’ postfix ‘not’. Wayne’s World is a thing of the past! … NOT

I know Tutu was Anglican. It’s just that he fairly frequently appeared in the news here (Britain) and given where Tutu was, his rank, and what he stood for, I imagine that might have been enough to unnerve the person I was talking about.

There’s also that Tutu was often used humour and was joyful, and the idea of that being scary to people who might think poorly of him is kind of funny to me.

A religious man I once knew reckoned the world would end if we ever had a black pope. Consequently, I kind of want to see that happen before they quit. (He wasn’t talking about the position sometimes known as “black pope” either. He definitely meant a man of recent African descent.)

I like to think the idea of Desmond Tutu gave him the creeps.

I’ve heard it said that Austria’s greatest trick was allowing the world to believe that that guy was German and that Mozart was Austrian.

Edit: I’ve been informed that I may have misremembered. See reply.

I was right about the dangerous fellow though.

Paid healthcare does exist here. We call it “private healthcare”, and there’s usually a regular subscription fee if not also insurance. I’m sure for those of us who have that, there are plans where you get vaccines thrown in as a “freebie”, but those people are probably paying more than £100 every six months for the privilege.

Why does God need men to do His killing?

Was this man killed in a way pleasing to God or only to the men who performed the killing?

Do the killers presume to know the mind of God?

That sounds awfully blasphemous to me.

The reason people aren’t bothering is that we’ve gone all USA healthcare with regard to the vaccines. If you want one, find a pharmacy that will provide one and be prepared to cough up at least £40. And be sure to shop around and/or be prepared to travel because some places charge £100.

A whole lot of people don’t have even the low end of that kind of money, even if “the right thing to do” would be to make sacrifices - like, say, go cold or hungry for a couple of weeks, how hard could that be? - in order to make sure they get it. And then do the same again every six months from now until something else kills them.

And even if someone has £100 to spare, that’s a lot of money that could be spent on something other than feeling like crap for three days.

There are exemptions (i.e. free vaccines) for those over 64, the infirm, and health workers, but the rest of us can suck it, apparently.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55045639

If you’re not in any hurry, The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth.

Although technically that’s several books, not a book.