Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Well. That escalated quicklyEnglish
5·3 days agoIdk it works for me.
I don’t think there is any possible value for the
signvariable which would make that if statement do anything other than raise aTypeError.Also
"8:00:00" > "10:00:00"but
"08:00:00" < "10:00:00". comparing timestamps as strings is weird but actually works, as long as the hour is zero-padded :)the problem with this code is that
&(bitwise AND) has higher operator precedence thanand==do, so it is first trying to bitwise AND"10:00:00"withsign(which i’m assuming would also be a string) and that will always raise aTypeError.to do what the author appears to have intended to do, they would either need use parenthesis around both comparisons to actually bitwise AND their results, or (better) to use the boolean AND operator (
and) instead of&.The boolean
andoperator is the right tool for the job, and since it is lower precedence it also wouldn’t require that any parenthesis be added here.
don’t trust anyone over
300x30
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Well. That escalated quicklyEnglish
231·3 days agoTypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for &: 'str' and 'str'
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•With great power...ignorance is bliss?English
1·4 days agoi think i get Candand (what some Barnes & Noble spam once rendered C++ as?) but, what is borsuk language?
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•A gentle visual critique of Blueman, from a UX design perspectiveEnglish
5·6 days ago💯
hopefully a FOSS organization will hire the person who made this
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•With great power...ignorance is bliss?English
19·6 days agoReputable news source “GLOBAL FACTZ”
😂
Fwiw, before reposting this meme, I actually checked to make sure that the underlying “weird news” story here was not solely reported by random clickbait fake news sites but was also covered by an actual news organization.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Technology@beehaw.org•A History of DHTML and Web Applications - The History of the WebEnglish
2·9 days agoI don’t think anyone called those “web apps” though. I sure didn’t.
As I recall, the phrase didn’t enter common usage until the advent of AJAX, which allowed for dynamically loading data without loading or re-loading a whole page. Early webmail sites simply loaded a new page every time you clicked a link. They didn’t even need JavaScript.
The term “web app” hadn’t been coined yet but, even without AJAX I think in retrospect it’s reasonable to call things like the early versions of Hotmail and RocketMail applications - they were functional replacements for a native application, on the web, even though they did require a new page load for every click (or at least every click that required network interaction).
At some point, though, I’m pretty sure that some clicks didn’t require server connections, and those didn’t require another page load (at least if js was enabled): this is what “DHTML” originally meant: using JavaScript to modify the DOM client-side, in the era before sans-page-reload network connections were technically possible.
The term DHTML definitely predates AJAX and the existence of
XMLHTTP(laterXMLHttpRequest), so it’s also odd that this article writes a lot about the former while not mentioning the latter. (The article actually incorrectly defines DHTML as making possible “websites that could refresh interactive data without the need for a page reload” - that was AJAX, not DHTML.)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Technology@beehaw.org•A History of DHTML and Web Applications - The History of the WebEnglish
7·9 days agoWeird this article doesn’t mention Hotmail and RocketMail, which both had email client web apps in 1996.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
News@lemmy.world•Musk Busted Pleading to Visit Pedo Island in Epstein Files for ‘Wildest Party’English
5·16 days agoThe “girls FTW” mail in that bluesky post is indeed fake, but the daily beast article linked by this post does not include that one.
It is noteworthy how the existence of a fake thing which can be debunked can cause people to assume that similar-but-real things are also fake 😭
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
News@lemmy.world•Musk Busted Pleading to Visit Pedo Island in Epstein Files for ‘Wildest Party’English
3·16 days agothat screenshot is almost[1] definitely fake; unlike the ones in the dailybeast article, phrases from it do not find anything in the search.
i say only almost because there have been some documents removed from previous batches after they were released, but there are no credible reports about the one in your comment ↩︎
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
News@lemmy.world•Musk Busted Pleading to Visit Pedo Island in Epstein Files for ‘Wildest Party’English
28·16 days agoThis one is fake
i don’t think so?
Its not one of the few occurrences of the word there
which word? i checked a couple and they’re there. eg, here is Musk planning a visit in January 2014.
daily beast is posting misinfo
it is irritating that they only provided a source link for one of the many mails they quote and have screenshots of, but i checked a few of the others and they do come up in the search.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Can you use Linux today without the terminal?English
32·22 days agoDoes anything provide a similar experience to Arch’s amazing AUR
I am not aware of any software distribution service with a comparable experience (massive userbase with zero vetting for uploaders) as Arch’s amazing AUR - if you are looking for a way to distribute malware to many unsuspecting people (who’s friends think they’re hackerman), it’s really unparalleled. (😢)
To your primary question, yes, many people do successfully daily drive various Linux distros without ever opening the terminal. 🙄
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid featureEnglish
154·23 days ago
via this comment from @Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml
Luckily it was just a chmod
that can still render a system unbootable 😅
Use Ctrl-Z
followed by
jobs,kill %1, etc
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•That escalated quickly...English
12·1 month ago
that little triangle means you need to click on the the text in the comment to read the rest of it, because it’s wrapped in a spoiler tag. also fyi you can search twitter without a login using xcancel.com; it takes much less than 5 minutes to do so.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•There was no other way!English
62·1 month agoI’m going to need you to drop a source that will take me less than five minutes to understand
that sounds like sealioning 🤡 but i'll bite, once:
are you asking for evidence that lunduke is queerphobic, or that the rust community has a disproportionate number of queer people in it?
or, do you acknowledge both of those things, and are actually suggesting that lunduke’s vehement opposition to rust could maybe conceivably be entirely coincidental and perhaps he dislikes it for purely technical reasons? 😂
in any case, i’m not going to link to lunduke but i just checked and confirmed that (as i assumed) if you simply search his twitter for the word rust you can find many tweets (and i only went back a month) where he is in fact complaining about people being queer.























don’t say that he’s hypocritical, say rather that he’s apolitical