Depending on your desired level of mastery, practice and consistency alone aren't enough. Self-taught is the slowest, most difficult way to learn and i only recommend it to those who are interested in coding at a hobby level.

If you want to make a career of it, if you want to be a professional, you also need timely (ideally immediate) feedback from a trained expert who can spot errors in your technique and teach you how to effectively conceptualize and approach the problems you're solving.

You need a coach, a mentor, a teacher. Harvard university's CS50 course is free and an excellent way to get access to such experts and other students with similar goals to collaborate with.

Because guns don't cause gun violence; poverty, unemployment, drug addiction, and mental health issues cause gun violence.

Switzerland's society and government place value on treating the underlying causes of gun violence. The US's government has been captured by corporations who derive profit from the incarceration of people who commit gun violence.

"Look, I'm not saying you should drive around at night time with your high beams on looking for deer to run over. That would be wrong.

BUT

If you're just out, driving along, minding your own business, and you accidentally hit a deer or maybe you find one that's already been run over, well.... I mean, no sense in letting perfectly good deer poon go to waste, right? Like, if it's still warm and everything, it'd almost be rude NOT to fuck it, know what I mean?"

Dang, you got me there. Good thing you replied before my nightly pcp cruise, I could have done a sin

Over 60% of gun deaths in the US are suicides. Of the shooting deaths remaining, the overwhelming majority are committed by police. The overwhelming majority of "mass shootings" that are counted in statistics are committed by police.

But I can tell you're not here to participate in good faith discussion; you just want to hear strangers on the internet say what you think.

Optical media will eventually suffer bit rot and be useless. Save them to an old HDD, SD card, or USB drive, they'll last longer.

Pretty good way to explain psychedelics imo

"Doesn't make a profit" doesn’t mean "is run inefficiently". It doesn't even mean "doesn't generate excess value". It just means excess value is reinvested into the system, like the US Post Office. It never makes money, never has made any money, has always either saved or reinvested the money left over on the balance sheet at the end of the year.

That's good advice for people who have $200

You're an "expert in image processing" but don't understand the fundamental difference between the .jpg and .png image formats or the encoding and compression algorithms underpinning them? I find that doubtful.

.png only compresses efficiently when used as intended, which is for screenshots or other images with large areas of solid colors, where each pixel is most likely the same color value as its neighbors. In this use case, it's much more efficient than .jpg. However, .jpg is much more efficient than .png when it's used as it's intended; encoding images of the real world, like images taken with a digital camera, where each pixel has a slightly different color value than the ones next to it.

You can test this yourself by taking a picture with your phone's camera, then copying the image, converting the copy to the other file format, then comparing the file sizes. Next, repeat the process with a screenshot of a web page or a simple Paint drawing. You'll see that the camera image is smaller as a .jpg but the screenshot is smaller as a .png.

"I'm not paying for that. I didn't put any wipes or grease down the drain. The last tenant must have done that. If you thing you can prove it was me, you can take me to court."

They can't charge you money unless you agree to it. Drains are always the responsibility of the owner. Ask the city of you don't believe me.

It's called the social contract. If you won't abide by the agreed upon terms, I can't be expected to either.

Skip one aisle and come back.

Start at the end and go the opposite direction you normally would.

Park off to the side and check your phone for a minute.

It's really not hard to not be an asshole. Some of y'all just weren't raised right.

it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy

Lmao. Ever heard of AIPAC?

it also enables the core behaviour of sexualising children to be socially acceptable because “oh it’s just a drawing”.

By your logic, people shouldn't play Call of Duty either because it enables the core behavior of shooting people with guns to be socially acceptable because "oh it's just a video game".

By your logic, any movie or book depicting any illegal act shouldn't exist because it would "enable the core behavior to be socially acceptable".

Sorry, that one doesn't hold water for me.

Good.

Not an unpopular opinion, just gatekeeping.

At best, I imagine it would be like being addicted to cigarettes but only having a fruity vape. Yeah, it'll get the monkey of your back, but it isn't truly satisfying, and the second you can have what you really want, you're going for it.

The difference is, a smoker can quit, but a pedophile will always be a pedophile.

Extremist members of every religion have gone on holy wars to exterminate non-believers at some point. Christians get the most attention because they were the most successful, but they're by no means the only ones. Even if Christians didn't exist, extremists of the next biggest group would step up to do the exact same thing.

Every major world religion is built on holy texts that advise people to love one another. Inevitably, extremists will (sometimes willfully) misinterpret these texts to lend justification to atrocities. This tendency belongs to humans, not religion. Religion is the means to the end, but it isn't inherently harmful. Just as knives don't stab people, religions don't go on crusades; people do.

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