Awesome concept, and really cool that it's actually been built!

reads a bit sloppy

I caved in about half way, at that point it was just churning out more words.

Not only that, it makes selling your vote actually feasible, since you have an easy way to prove who you voted for.

apply to every single employee you coerced this way.

I don't think I've ever actually considered the risk that an employer could force people to vote a certain way. I'm far more concerned about people living in abusive relationships.

we made it a serious fucking crime to do that.

People living in abusive relationship are already victims of serious crimes every day. Yet those crimes often go unreported for years, because the fear and control is so strong. I see no reason to believe that someone who is already controlling their partner with physical violence would balk at forcing them to fill out a vote a certain way before mailing it for them.

No way to confirm the ballot you took a picture of is the one that went in the box though.

To be fair, it doesn't have to be mind games, she could have been in a bad place and somehow figured out for herself that the best thing to do was to end the relationship, but realised that she was wrong. There are people who genuinely believe that they can make other peoples lives better by leaving them (a kind of "you would do better without me, I'm only pulling you down" mentality), that could do something like this not to manipulate the other person, but because they actually care about them, but are in a bad place themselves.

I write a lot of Python. I hate it when people use "X is more pythonic" as some kind of argument for what is a better solution to a problem. I also have a hang up with people acting like python has any form of type safety, instead of just embracing duck typing.This lands us at the following:

The article states that "you can check a list for emptiness in two ways: if not mylist or if len(mylist) == 0". Already here, a fundamental mistake has been made: You don't know (and shouldn't care) whether mylist is a list. These two checks are not different ways of doing the same thing, but two different checks altogether. The first checks whether the object is "falsey" and the second checks whether the object has a well defined length that is zero. These are two completely different checks, which often (but far from always) overlap. Embrace the duck type- type safe python is a myth.

Just read I the Norwegian news that two air bases in Murmansk (near the Norwegian border) were hit. If anything, this kind of strike hammers home how our support for Ukraine directly makes us safer as well.

These are planes that likely would have been used against Norway in the event of a war. Support for Ukraine is directly helping destroy equipment that otherwise could be used to attack us. We just need more people to understand this so we can get popular support for increasing our support a hundredfold.

• 9 yo Kid is making vidya
• Doesn't have many viewers
• Want to make kid happy
• Spend 20 $ on ads
• maybe_a_couple_views.png
• Three weeks later
• I'm literally 118 009 $ in debt

MFW

Honestly, if you can't understand how absolutely debilitating this is over a tiny misstep, I hardly know what to say. People commit manslaughter and get off easier that this. It's in no way reasonable to say that "Oh, you shouldn't have used the company card to pay 20$ for your kid - you deserve life-ruining debt".

*Breaks the law

*Is convicted

*Refuses to pay fines

*Stops receiving funds

*shockedpikachu.jpg

At this point I really can't understand what is driving Orban anymore. He obviously must have known this would happen, and is likely doing it on purpose so that he can point at the EU as the "bad guy" back home, but like... what does he gain from this? Isn't it better to just get a shitload of free money from the EU that you can funnel to your friends and family than to not do that? If he legitimately dislikes the EU he can just leave.

Maybe he's just sticking around as long as he can grab cash? It kind of seems like he's going for the "see how far you can push it before you're kicked out" play. Essentially trying to find out how much of an obstructing, law-breaking, corrupt asshole he has to be before the rest of the EU finally has enough and kicks him out, at which point he can peace out to some safe-haven (I've heard there are spare rooms in some of Putins palaces).

There's a reason the press is often referred to as "the fourth branch of government". Journalists that do their job properly are absolutely critical to the proper functioning of a democracy.

"Enshittification will continue until revenue improves"

Wait? These people were having unsupervised exams with access to their phone and now they see that they need to do something? I mean, the numbers speak for themselves when 45% of students say they were aware of an "honor code violation" during their time as students. I was at uni for five years, and I literally don't know about a single case of cheating on exams among my peers.

Seems to me that cheating was already rampant, they just found a new excuse to do something about it.

To be clear by the way: Our exam "supervision" literally consisted of some pensioned seniors that got paid to come in for a day to hand out exam papers, receive and archive your response, and otherwise just hang around in the exam hall so people wouldn't feel safe just blatantly bringing notes or their phone.

Oh, let's also remember that A4 is a member of beautiful variant of an "SI system for paper". Want a paper the size of an A4 folded double? We have A85. Want something that folds perfectly to A4? A3. One more fold? A2.

• Statement: "I want a piece of paper that I can fold twice to get exactly a US letter size."
• Response: "You must be crazy."

Edit: Did a fat-fingering

If I was religious, I probably wouldn't be too far from thinking that a biblical plague hitting the country every time The Führer was elected was some kind of sign...

You could get it to run without a problem, but I don't understand why they would portray macOS as having heavier requirements than windows. Of the two, macOS is an order of magnitude cheaper to run than Windows.

Your first mistake was assuming you would be allowed to see a court.

To be fair I would assume that it's better to trigger something like this during a security review when people are actively "online" and focused on security risks than at some other time.

Sorry, but I honestly don't get it. I I were to point out the crown jewel of open source, it's gcc. gcc is the backbone and survival condition for so much modern industry that it's not even remotely funny.

Take away gcc, and the world will likely burn for a substantial amount of time until people start making in-house or proprietary alternatives.

Societies that run on neighbours, friends, acquaintances, and that guy over there helping each other out in exchange for sharing pizza and beer afterwards are wholesome societies.