Jerkface (any/all)

In much the same way that McDonald’s is better than a mud pie.

There’s no rational reason typefaces shouldn’t enjoy protection.

Because it’s not an issue. This is the system functioning as intended. Changing this behaviour would cause dramatic performance degradation for the 99.999% of the time when the device you are writing to isn’t removable media that you want to eject right away.

I’m not just willing to never play another ubisoft game, I’m eager to. The games that don’t work are typically exploitative investment vehicles moreso than games.

The Dungeon already sort of gave up on the original design. Philip Price wrote The City and the extension mechanism that things were supposed to plug into, but the new developers who finished The Dungeon didn’t use any of it. So it was a one-way trip… Except you couldn’t actually transfer characters, it was broken. :-/

The cancelled suite of Alternate Reality games.

Lemmy users are not better… but Lemmy is.

Alternatively, why wait twice as long for your python code to execute as you have to?

It’s very convenient not to have to remember a bunch of different means/methods for performing the same conceptual operation. You might call len(x) == 0 on a list, but next time it’s a dict. Time after that it’s a complex number. The next time it’s an instance. not works in all cases.

I use Blender for that, too. Anything I don’t do in Blender I probably do in emacs…

I use Blender for video editing, and as long as I never use another video editing package, I am sure to remain perfectly happy with Blender.

Truthiness is so fundamental, in most languages, all values have a truthiness, whether they are bool or not. Even in C, int x = value(); if (!x) x_is_not_zero(); is valid and idiomatic.

I appreciate the point that calling a method gives more context cues and potentially aids readability, but in this case I feel like not is the python idiom people expect and reads just fine.

The main thing not is for is coercing a truthy value into an actual bool.

Strongly disagree that not x implies to programmers that x is a bool.

Then the new owners were only doing it for the money.

As opposed to what reason for owning a factory??

The pay WOULD be astronomical if it had kept pace with CEOs, that’s the point

Kind of sucks when you outsource all of your manufacturing …

It’s kind of awesome for everyone if you don’t piss off your trading partners. It happens in the first place because it’s better for everyone involved! It’s a consensual arrangement that parties only engage in because it is in their interests.

No media/communication company supports your expression of your rights.

Exactly the two events that got me on and off Reddit. I use LibRedirect to rewrite any reddit links to proxies that only work about 15% of the time, and it really discourages me from even bothering…

Could be a thing among FOSS projects