The Spanish notation makes the parentheses around n-k obsolete, clearly saving one symbol in some formulas is worth introducing a new one in others.

The image is a cropped xkcd with the text replaced but the same joke.

Wasn’t that near the Israel-Lebanon border? Those are blue helmet soldiers coming from many nations to observe that the border is not crossed.
UNRWA is a civil organization largely staffed by Palestinians to provide necessities like food and schools to the Palestinians.

Let’s not mix up the crimes Israel commits.

No, that can’t be right, because half the comments here say it’s due to racism.

Both those things are true, racists prevent it from becoming a state to prevent it from voting dem.

So if a Puerto Rican moves to a US state, they still can’t vote, right?

They can’t do this directly anymore, so they are just disenfranchised on Puerto Rico.

Yours is one louder

Like mathematicians and physicists.

I was a bit apprehensive because rust has like a gazillion different function types but here it seems to work like just any other language with a HM type system.

The fn(T)->R syntax works for functions without associated data, it discards details of the implementation and works like function pointers in C. This allows them to be copy and 'static.

The other function types can have data with them and have more type information at compile time which allows them to be inlined.
These functions each have their own unwritable type that implements the function traits (Fn(T)->R, FnMut(T)->R and FnOnce(T)->R) depending on their enclosed data.

I hope I remembered everything right from this video by Jon Gjengset.

found one

A commendable effort by Russia to discourage the promotion of human extinction.

The nation starting wars and extracting fossil fuels is soooo concerned with the extinction of humanity.

Jetbrains products also have a fallback license after a year, so you retain perpetual acces to an old version* and I don’t think there is much change in the space of git UIs.

* iirc the version that you had one year before your payment lapsed, it applies to discounted versions as well

We should just set fire to cars parked illegally instead.

Prolog is not suitable for any problem domain, although this is more readily apparent for some domains than others.

For real, for real.

The sinking of your habitat can do that to you, otherwise it has a good evolutionary niche.
Also, the flying ancestors are still around, so if anything happens they can come back in another 20 000 years.

edit: spelling

How?

Good question. I said should, not could… it would take a constitutional change, […]

I mean: if you had the power, how would you ban parties? At what point do political organizations become parties? How about individual representatives working together?

Bring back the old literacy tests while you’re at it

Pfft. The two are not the same. You could be perfectly illiterate and still find out what the supposed values of the politicians were by simply listening to them, or just talking to others about policy and politicians ties to them, like we used to.

Yes literacy is not the deciding factor, but it was always a pretense to keep certain people from voting.

Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for.

How much time should a person spend following politics to get enough of an understanding? What about poor people working long hours with little free time?
Guess I should have gone with the landowning requirement instead.

The Hatch Act applies to all career federal civil servants and prevents anyone under that designation from running from office in any partisan race. Meaning if your local government doesn’t allow political affiliations to be listed, then you

Sound like a problem with the Hatch Act, not with political parties. Over here civil servant can run in political races as long they separate their work and political live, they are not allowed to wear uniforms at political events for example.

Short answer:
It gave us compiler explorer, now that it has served its purpose we should stop doing it.

Long answer:

Why does hft even exist?

Hft can exist because most stock markets react to requests as fast as possible and have no noticable fees for certain use cases. This means algorithms that do simple trades like if goggle goes up, buy other tech companies or buy any stock that goes up in europe on the NY market can make small profits if they are faster than everyone else.

Does it have any value?

There is one exchange that imposes a delay on every request, effectively inhibiting hft, and its opening actually improved market conditions on all exchanges. This implies it has negative value.
They also spend millions on hardware, tools and developers to skim small sums of many transaction on the stock market. They are effectively a (very inefficient) tax on the stock market that goes to improving C++ compilers and funding hardware startups.

Political parties should be abolished.

How?

Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for.

Bring back the old literacy tests while you’re at it.

Plus then it would allow people like your local mail carrier to run for things like school committee.

They aren’t? If yes how would that change?

It reduces interviewer bias if you do it before they get a word in.

I agree with the sentiment but …

then nothing can be bricked because on paper you can desolder the rom chip and put another one in place.

Companies already put serial numbers in components and configure them so only specific ones work together, requiring OEM tools to pair them.
It’s imaginable that someone makes something similar with e-fuzes instead.

A yes, the two genders of binary file formats: renamed sqlite file and renamed zip folder.

The other atomic clocks that are averaged to give us our ground truth for time.

… or one second back, that’s the problem.