LeFrog

Love Voyager’s text regarding a deleted user:

Mysterious…

You sure that there are penguins in Scandinavia?

This is basically one of the core ideas of Ruby: that you can read it like a story. Once you are used to reading it as “do X unless Y”, you will miss it in other languages. Note that I wrote Y, not Y is true. Because often Y is a statement that has meaning in itself.

Example:

# imagine that given_name is some text from user input

# this is of course valid:
user.name = given_name if !user.is_locked

# but this reads more fluently:
user.name = given_name unless user.is_locked

Ruby also allows using ? as last character in method names, which is a convention for methods that return either true or false.

Same goes for ! (the bang operator), that is commonly used to tell developers that there exists a non-bang version of the same method as well. The bang method is often the more strict version (e.g. raises an error instead of returning nil; or having side effects compared to the non-bang version).

So the above example may be more commonly written like this:

user.name = given_name unless user.locked?

and the question mark makes you automatically adding is or has while reading: Set the user’s name to the given_name unless the user is locked

Of course this is all by convention and you may also do it different. But that’s how most Ruby code is written.

To stay consistent, lots of projects use RuboCop, which warns you on inconsistency based on your project’s settings.

Ruby has it as well:

a ||= b

# which means
a = a || b
# wich is the same as
a = b if !a
# which rubyists like to write as
a = b unless a
# or as ternary
a = a ? a : b

I mean a bow kind of sits in top of your shirt. So it should be

 
<°√}
  \ \
   \ \
    \ \
    { = }
   /\   /\

TL;DR do not use ==

It also kind of forces you to consume music in a more focused way. Instead of cycling through hundreds of songs in a few minutes you are forced to preselect what you really want to hear. Which has both its pros and cons, but I enjoy the “slow pace” when discovering new songs.

FYI bandcamp was acquired by Epic and subsequently sold to Songtrader 2023

Not sure about the situation in Norway, but Switzerland has a quite right-conservative government and is also expanding their surveillance , e.g. Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears

German already had this: as soon as the judicial branch is corrupted, the downfall begins

This noob even forgot zero

Not really an answer to your question, but worth a read to widen your horizon: It’s a huge problem that most health apps are created by men — here’s how to fix that

There is also a list on wikipedia

I get where you come from and my first thought was similar. But keep in mind: hurting or even killing someone else is not like simply stealing the Amazon packages from your MAGA neighbour’s front door to annoy them.

Acting violent against someone else will have consequences for your own life. It does not matter if you where morally right to do so, even when you where simply fighting for your life. You will feel shame and regrets because you are an empathic human being. You will think about this act every time your mind wanders off.

I don’t care about about the attackers well-being, do not get me wrong. I care about your well-being.

We must stop these thugs before they can go after marginalised groups. Anything else is just pyrrhic victory.

Up a Tree
You are about 10 feet above the ground nestled among some large branches. The nearest branch above you is above your reach.

On the ground below you can see:
BIRD’S NEST
JEWEL-ENCRUSTED EGG

chraebsli is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

Forest Path
This is a path winding through a dimly lit forest. The path heads north-south here. One particularly large tree with some low branches stands at the edge of the path.

North of House
You are facing the north side of a white house. There is no door here, and all the windows are boarded up. To the north a narrow path winds through the trees.

It is like pooping: everyone does it, and everyone will sometimes experience diarrhoea and constipation. There may be days where you have to go twice because your stomach does not like you some time.

But if I have to go to shit like 3 times a day every day, fighting against your rumbling cramping stomach because every time it is just watery deadly sewer pipe corroding stuff coming out of you, you should see a doctor.

It is about frequency and amplitude of your symptoms. But there are also a lot of other syndroms and illnesses that may cause your issues. And never forget:

A man can have as many diseases as he damn well pleases.

Hickam’s dictum

So keep in mind that having ADS does not mean there are no other conditions. There is actually a higher possibility to have something else as well (Comorbidity)

I didn’t knew that (1) Fortran has such logo and (2) I am old. Shit