I have been known to put high quality renders of my PDFs in word documents (image per page) to beat the file type validations.

Excellent plan if you ever need to apply to 2007.

The program that lifted millions of seniors out of poverty. That money.

Honestly, I think her position is absolutely sane and defensible. She’s going to hold her nose and take out the trash, but she’s not going to be happy about it, and she is not going to campaign for a candidate she has no enthousiasm for - even if she’s planning to vote for her.

That’s not the position of the “both sides bad” people we have here on Lemmy.

Library built this way because it supposed to be flexible and provide ground for complex usecases.

It’s definitely that, and not the fact that it was written in the first half of the nineties when everyone and their mother was all in on OOP/OOD to the detriment of usability.

Rust is more like Esperanto isn’t it? It’s Latin, but regularized and with the rough edges sanded off.

Python is more like Spanish. A billion speakers in the world, and really easy to pick up a few phrases, but a small European minority still think they run it.

It means whatever you want it to mean.

“Liberal” arbitrarily changes meaning depending on who they want to dunk on today.

They are trolls. Ignore them.

This is just basic “undergrad pads word count” strategy.

Everything is a “liberal scare story” until it actually happens, and then “nobody could have seen it coming”.

See also Brexit.

It’s not really “established” becaue there isnt any formal body declaring what names different voting systems have.

That is the most pompous way to say “I have never heard of political science”.

Are you unclear about what recognition other demcracies give to parties, how there is no prize for 2nd place in America, or why that lack of such a prize gives rise to a two-party system?

This is the most pompous way to say “I am unaware that lots of countries on this planet have district based systems”.

1. it’s established terminology. I’m sure you have feelings about the term, but I’m not really invested in them either way.

2. I’m not sure what you are referring to

It didn’t, but this one did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQij4aQq1k

Thanks for the surprise J-Law early in the morning! I’m a big fan.

Of course! I’d also like all my programs to run fine without bugs the first time. But that’s just not the nature of things. What we’re seeing here is, ummm, hardware debugging. It’s the process of getting to a reliable delivery system unfolding in real time.

That said, this quest for a Super Weapon that will force the West to finally recognize Russia as a Real Power Once and For All is super fucking creepy. It’s equal parts Bond villain and the final years of another famous European dictator. Neither are exciting prospects for world security.

Many countries have first-past-the-post elections, and there usually we don’t see the mortal lock of the two major party like we see in the U.S.

In the UK for example there are regional parties (SNP, DUP, etc) and lib Dems/greens that win seats and send people to Westminster.

The main problem as far as I can see is that campaigning in the US is very expensive, and third parties have problems raising the cash needed to make a dent in elections for Congress, let alone statewide office.

To frame it in economic terms, it’s a market with a high barrier to entry that has evolved a duopoly. In that aspect it’s not too dissimilar to cable companies etc.

TLDR: Fuck citizens united

I’m as much a fan of schadenfreude as the next guy, but every test brings this weapon closer to the battle field.

Look at that!

A few nights in French jail worked wonders.

You fucking wish.

That’s not how copyright works anywhere. Read the Berne convention.

I got up to judo brown belt as a teen and it has saved my ass countless times. Not in fights, but in silly ass falls. Having good instincts when falling is a lifesaver.