nickwitha_k

@nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

nickwitha_k,

Money doesn’t buy happiness but it can help someone who is struggling to meet their basic needs not get stuck in a depressive state. Plus, it can be used in exchange for goods and services that show efficacy against depression.

nickwitha_k,

Everyone’s brains are different. For some SSRIs might work. For others, SNRIs. While there are claims of cocaine and prostitutes being helpful for some, that’s not really scientifically proven and there the significant health and imprisonment risks. There is, however, strong evidence for certain psychedelics.

TL;DR - Drugs might be helpful for some.

nickwitha_k,

Kinda. nil is a weird value in Go, not quite the same as null or None in JS and Python, respectively. A nil value may or may not be typed and it may or may not be comparable to similar or different types. There is logical consistency to where these scenarios can be hit but it is pretty convoluted and much safer, with fewer footguns to check for nil values before comparison.

I’m other words, in Go (nil == nil) || (nil != nil), depending on the underlaying types. One can always check if a variable has a nil value but may not be able to compare variables if one or more have a nil value. Therefore, it is best to first check for nil values to protect against errors that failure to execute comparisons might cause (anything from incorrect outcome to panic).

ETA: Here’s some examples


<span style="color:#323232;">// this is always possible for a variable that may have a nil value. 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">a != nil || a == nil
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">a = nil
</span><span style="color:#323232;">b = nil
</span><span style="color:#323232;">// This may or may not be valid, depending on the underlying types.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">a != b || a == b
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">// Better practice for safety is to check for nil first
</span><span style="color:#323232;">if a != nil && b != nil {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    if a == b {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        fmt.Println("equal")
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    } else {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        fmt.Println("not equal")
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">} else {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    fmt.Println("a and/or b is nil and may not be comparable")
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>
nickwitha_k,

0*(NaN)… So does that mean the price IS a number?

nickwitha_k,

Happy Blendo noises

nickwitha_k,

No place that experiences temperatures of 100F/37C in the Fall is suitable for human settlement.

nickwitha_k,

Hey, Cairo and Baghdad:

No place that experiences temperatures of 100F/37C in the Fall is suitable for human settlement.

nickwitha_k,

Blendo was a robot made by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman to compete in Robot Wars before MythBusters. Its “weapon” was a horizontal flywheel. After two matches, they were given a newly-created award of co-champion on the condition that they did not participate in any more matches.

The sheer amount of energy stored in and dumped from the flywheel obliterated their competition and posed a very real human safety risk.

nickwitha_k,

I hope not. I want more types of sentient beings to exist. But, I also don’t believe any company is actually working towards AGI.

nickwitha_k,

I would be surprised if someone hasn’t been scraping it for years.

nickwitha_k,

I know you’ve got a ban but, hopefully you can see this.

I find it concerning that I no can no longer tell which group is supposed to be the one telling the other to shut up about the toppings

This is actually a rather good reflection of the reality, though maybe not the way that you intend. Anti-electoralism, accelerationism, and right-wing politcs, by the data on outcomes are equivalent. It is hard to tell, at this time, whether an individual supporting the former two is genuinely a believer, a state actor, or other political operative.

nickwitha_k, (edited )

Fighting the good fight against accelerationism, authoritarianism, and bad faith. I don’t have the emotional energy to do so with any consistency at this time - the 21st century has been very draining. Make sure that you take time for self-care. @pugjesus you too.

nickwitha_k, (edited )

This has become so non-stop that I had to do some research on logical fallacies because I was quite sure that there was a formal name for what we’re seeing from anti-electoralists and accelerationists (the Venn diagram is pretty much a circle). And I was right.

In this thread there’s actually two (at least).

  • False Dilemma (aka false dichotomy): “You can either support genocide by voting for Biden (or Trump) or oppose it by voting third-party (or not voting).” This is just ridiculous levels of oversimplification with an implicit nested False Equivalency fallacy (“both sides are the same”).
  • Denying the Correlative (what I had to look up): “Vote third-party.” In the first-past-the-post, two-party system, there are only two choices that can have an impact. According to the data, voting third-party is nothing but a spoiler for the candidate of the major parties that one prefers. The choice is Biden ⊕ Trump. This fallacy is basically the inverse of the False Dilemma, which makes it all the more impressive to see the two used alongside one another.
nickwitha_k,

It’s cool. The neolibs allowed (and encouraged) heights of commodification of education so egregious that much of a generation has been robbed of levels of literacy that were considered “normal” in previous generations.

nickwitha_k,

I’m a cis-het white guy so, don’t exactly have direct personal experience. However, having studied a bit on the subject in university in the 00s and have tried to better learn (and unlearn things from growing up in a small town).

Here’s based upon what I know:

It is not just the frequency of conservative Christianity in POC communities. It is also being a member of another group with a history being targeted for violent repression. So, it’s not just the societal institutional racism at play. It’s also the societal institutional homophobia, and the conservative christian homophobia, and the homophobia from any other root cause in their POC community, and the other risks that gay men are subjected to just by existing.

nickwitha_k,

A Great Kilt (invented by Scots, as far as am aware) definitely. I should have been more specific. I was referring to the Small Kilt (which is what I most often hear people referring to as a kilt), which comes from the 18th century.

nickwitha_k,

Should have been more precise, I think. I most frequently hear “kilt” referring to the Small Kilt which comes from the 18th century, not the Great Kilt.

nickwitha_k, (edited )

Pretty sure that the kilt was invented by an Englishman so that scots working in his factories would be less likely to get clothing caught in the machinery and maimed. I say this as a kilt-loving descendent of scots.

EDIT: To be clear, I was referring to a Small Kilt, whose intention is attributed to an English mill owner named Rallinson circa 1720. Not the Great Kilt, which to my knowledge is Scottish in origin.

nickwitha_k,

Also, not usually one to kink shame but the fact that one of the most mainstream fetishes is “school girl” is rather problematic to me.

nickwitha_k,

I would argue: Anti-work is everyone having the choice if living like a king and eating Doritos and nobody doing hard work, if they don’t want to.

Some people enjoy and get great satisfaction from hard work. Most people are inclined to do some form of work (including creative) rather than be completely idle. They should be allowed to do so, if they wish.

nickwitha_k,

“Resistance is just, like, an opinion, man.”

nickwitha_k,

Hey now. It’s all about perspective. If you think about it in terms of geological history or the history of the universe, the discovery pretty much just happened.

nickwitha_k,

A large portion also think that it’s a requirement for the apocalypse, which, being a doomsday cult, they are actively trying to achieve.

nickwitha_k,

“Am I a joke to you?” - Screamers

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • anitta
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • tester
  • magazineikmin
  • InstantRegret
  • mdbf
  • Youngstown
  • Durango
  • rosin
  • slotface
  • thenastyranch
  • everett
  • cubers
  • JUstTest
  • khanakhh
  • GTA5RPClips
  • Leos
  • tacticalgear
  • ethstaker
  • ngwrru68w68
  • osvaldo12
  • cisconetworking
  • provamag3
  • megavids
  • normalnudes
  • modclub
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •