keep punching joe posted:

Boris Johnson: "The Corbynistas demanded a four day week, but with my government we want to go one better, with a three day week!"

serious gaylord posted:

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1439911810380017669

At this point the party looking the other way on this shite is now obviously approval.

Duffield knows shes gone at the next election so shes also maneuvering herself into the post parliament world too.

Not a single question to her bringing that up either.

Antigravitas posted:

You can still do that. All you have to do is to not have 20kB of CSS and 5MB of javascript and 2MB of fonts and 20MB of 300dpi high-res images fit into your header, all to display three paragraphs of text.

keep punching joe posted:

boris johnson no surrender, three day week and... bring back being allowed to call gays benders.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

I was reading an article years ago about how end users subconsciously expect the delay now, and are suspicious of sites that come up too quickly.

I used to hand code HTML, and there was something very satisfying about getting a nice clean result that did exactly what it should. The trouble is most modern sites are designed in layout programs that insert about twenty nested divisions, each with its own script to calculate and insert the width instead of just using EN measurements. Or the amount of sites that tell the browser to pretend to be X version of Internet Explorer to get around a layout issue because the code hasn't been changed since 2004.

The other half of the problem is that most of the code used by browsers is full of shims to support old common workarounds instead of being strict and insisting that designers code their drat sites properly instead of copy / pasting whatever code they find that seems to do something similar to what they need.

An example of this is a C# course I downloaded where one of the first exercises was a terminal program that would guess a number between 1 and 100. Except half the code was dealing with the fact that apparently it can't count properly so you have to get it to -1 except under certain circumstances.

And I was watching this absolutely baffled as to why it's my responsibility to put this fix into my code every single time, until I realised probably every piece of code in the world has had to insert this, and if a bunch of assemblers 'fixed' it then pretty much every piece of code in existence would stop working. It's fundamentally wrong, but every single programmer is used to it working this way.

Most of the bloat in websites and browsers is probably just that - a bunch of scripts and workarounds checking with each other to have an end result that looks right, instead of doing it right in the first place.

Maybe this is just the autism talking, but it's absolutely maddening interacting with 90% of the world because I see these errors built on errors and I just want to take them apart and rebuild them properly from scratch, but then people get pissy because they're used to using it that way, i.e. wrong.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

L. G. B. T. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the transphobic Nation attacked.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

An example of this is a C# course I downloaded where one of the first exercises was a terminal program that would guess a number between 1 and 100. Except half the code was dealing with the fact that apparently it can't count properly so you have to get it to -1 except under certain circumstances.

And I was watching this absolutely baffled as to why it's my responsibility to put this fix into my code every single time, until I realised probably every piece of code in the world has had to insert this, and if a bunch of assemblers 'fixed' it then pretty much every piece of code in existence would stop working. It's fundamentally wrong, but every single programmer is used to it working this way.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

An example of this is a C# course I downloaded where one of the first exercises was a terminal program that would guess a number between 1 and 100. Except half the code was dealing with the fact that apparently it can't count properly so you have to get it to -1 except under certain circumstances.

And I was watching this absolutely baffled as to why it's my responsibility to put this fix into my code every single time, until I realised probably every piece of code in the world has had to insert this, and if a bunch of assemblers 'fixed' it then pretty much every piece of code in existence would stop working. It's fundamentally wrong, but every single programmer is used to it working this way.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

L. G. B. T. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the transphobic Nation attacked.

Mega Comrade posted:

...I can't tell if you're trolling or not

Failed Imagineer posted:

Always thought "bender" was one of the more benign-sounding ones, as non-hetero people literally are bending the concept of heteronormative sexuality, or something. But I'm sure it has some awful etymology anyway, and obviously it's the intent that matters, and also it sounds less repugnant to my ear because I haven't had people screaming it in my face every day of my life.

feedmegin posted:

I suspect given its age its more like 'bent copper'. Someone broken or corrupt. The people using it aren't coming there from lgbt theory kindafing.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Maybe this is just the autism talking, but it's absolutely maddening interacting with 90% of the world because I see these errors built on errors and I just want to take them apart and rebuild them properly from scratch, but then people get pissy because they're used to using it that way, i.e. wrong.

buffeh posted:

Physio stuff

buffeh posted:

Physio question

Brendan Rodgers posted:

Hey there are languages that kinda count from 1, but yeah I know what you mean.

josh04 posted:

I couldn't remember where "no, to the contrary" came from so I dug it up:

https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1039496424206094336

Can only assume we're still not thinking on a long-term enough basis.

buffeh posted:

Comrade Fakename posted:

I recently watched through Avatar (and Korra, which was surprisingly right-wing), and it is unintentionally hilarious every time they say "bender". My favourite was when a girl went to a fortune-teller to find out about her future husband and was told "you will marry a powerful bender". I think I can already see cracks in that relationship.

buffeh posted:

Hi all,

Anyone got any advice / experience dealing with joint / sports injuries on the NHS or privately?

Unfortunately I think I have knackered my shoulder doing weightlifting about a month ago. I went too low on a weighted dip and something went twang. For a few days after that I had a nasty burning sensation in the front of my shoulder, painful enough to take my breath away at times, which came and went depending on what I was doing (just moving my arm walking or washing up was enough to make it burn)

I rested it for 10 days and the burning pain had basically gone in under a week, once it was feeling better I tried a few sets of bench press and that caused it to flare up again, although nowhere near as painfully as after the initial injury. Unfortunately I think I may have done some real damage, as since the injury the joint pops and clicks and grinds when I move around, in ways it never used to. It also feels somewhat weakened. I do seem to have full motion in the joint though, and it doesn't really hurt if I don't do things that irritate it.

I've read about rotator cuff tears and labrum tears and am now quite worried. I have been doing recommended shoulder rehab exercises such as band pull aparts, dislocates, rotations and dead hangs but I have no form of medical diagnosis so am flying completely blind!

US centric advice on the internet seems to be "Go to a doctor ASAP, the shoulder is complicated so you will need an imaging scan such as Ultrasound or MRI to see what's wrong, followed by an appropriate treatment plan such as sports physio or as a last resort surgery. Treatment such as physio should be started sooner rather than later or scar tissue build up can be a problem"

That's great but I don't think I'm going to get that on the NHS ASAP or possibly I won't get it on the NHS at all! If I go to my GP and tell them "it hurts when I do this" they might just tell me "don't do that", if I insist that I want it examined as not being able to lift weights is affecting my mental health (true, I've found it very good for my mental health), then I suspect they will give me an orthopaedic referral but surely it's going to be a wait of many, many months which is no good if early treatment can avoid problems later on. I've also read that NHS physiotherapists aren't really the best choice for sports injuries - sports physio would be better

I could maybe go private but I'd probably have to take out a loan / crack into a credit card to afford it, also I have no idea how to go about it or even if that's the best choice, having never pursued private healthcare before. Would I just contact a Nuffield orthopaedic consultant or something and pay to see them? Then I'd also have to pay for imaging, follow up appointments, etc etc. Or could I just pay for a private MRI or something then take the MRI results to a sports physio, thus skipping a bunch of the costs for consultant appointments and follow ups?

Or maybe I should just try the NHS and they'll be better than I think! Or maybe it'll just get better on its own! I really don't know the best way to proceed, so I'd really appreciate any advice or personal experiences with this sort of thing, thank you everyone

quote:

Lib Dems call for radical new approach to Israel/Palestine conflict

The Lib Dems have called for more trade with Palestine and Israel, more resources for peace and upholding of international law by ceasing trade with illegal settlements.

Liberal Democrat members have today passed a motion at party conference calling for a new approach to the Israel/Palestine conflict.

The motion, the first on Israel/Palestine at Lib Dem conference since 2017, reaffirms the party’s call for immediate recognition of the state of Palestine alongside calling on the UK Government to commit further resources to peace.

The Liberal Democrats have become the first UK political party to formally support the creation of a peace fund for the region to build trust between Israeli and Palestinian communities, modelled on similar schemes previously used in Northern Ireland.

The motion sees party members call for increased trade links and cooperation with both Palestine and Israel. It also proposes legislation to ensure that goods and services from illegal settlements in Palestinian territory do not enter the United Kingdom until a negotiated peace settlement is agreed.

Layla Moran MP, Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and the first MP of Palestinian descent, commented:

“After the events of the last few years, the two-state solution, promised to the likes of my family, seems more elusive than ever. That’s why the UK Government urgently needs to adopt a radical new approach to the conflict - as set out in this motion.

“This is a distinctly Liberal approach which upholds human rights and the rule of law, while using trade and cooperation as the tools for peace which we know they are. That’s why we want to see more trade with Palestine, more trade with Israel, and the introduction of legislation that will see the UK take steps to uphold international law by ceasing trade with the illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory, unless and until a negotiated settlement is reached.

“The Prime Minister was shamefully absent from the world stage during the awful violence in Israel and Palestine in May. If he truly cares about ‘Global Britain’, he should finally show some awareness of the historic obligations which Britain owes to the region. That starts by recognising the state of Palestine - and adopting the radical new approach as set out in this motion.”

Comrade Fakename posted:

"you will marry a powerful bender"

Private Speech posted:

I umm, what? Is that about zero-indexing or something? I've written some amount of C# and can't think of what you're referring to.

Antigravitas posted:

No, that's just computer toucher brain. It's also a trap. Most code is indeed handling all the pesky edge cases that appear when code touches the real world, and that's fine.

My beef is specifically with web devs. The vast majority of the web consists of some text with images and maybe a few video files. The vast majority of data transferred and cpu cycles spent does not improve the experience of the user and is usually not even visible (except in ads).

120 separate requests to a dozen disparate domains and 10 seconds load time on a high-latency link to display a few headlines with images and a two-sentence lead? Get the gently caress out.

Dabir posted:

B for effort but that does kind of imply the other nations are also kinds of bigotry and since when have they not lived in harmony?

Bobby Deluxe posted:

It was a course about c# for unity on udemy.

https://www.udemy.com/share/101Wjs3@Tq87F8TodlDQWLNs5_IA4wabyr7MzOYr9XxMBs27KFxuNSO9PlIgpjhRZiqnj2Cu/

Video by someone else about the code in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGUJlfE5jrw

It's a simple terminal program that 'guesses' a number between 1 and 1000, and you press up or down to confirm if the number you're thinking of is higher or lower. It amends the maximum and minumum values based on if the player pressed up or down to gradually narrow the field and keeps picking a number between the two until it's right.

I don't 100% remember how it fits in without watching the whole thing, but there was a bit in the udemy video I watched (they've since restructured and reshot most of the course) where they explain that you need to add "max = max + 1" to the startup so that it goes all the way up to 1000 properly in case someone chooses an edge case.

Again, without going through that entire section of the course I can't find where they explain why: I scanned a few videos but they just keep saying max+1 without explaining why, or how that doesn't make the new max 1001, or increase the guesses by +1; and my dog is going to eat my leg if I don't head out soon.

But in the version I watched they explained that it's because unity counts wrong or counts from zero or something. IIRC they then have to remove the +1 again at a later stage to stop the upward guesses from creeping past the correct number.

If you set the max to 1000 it should treat 1000 as the max right? You shouldn't have to wedge the +1 in there.

It's probably a bad course, they basically didn't teach anything about structure, functions, variables etc when I did it; just how to copy chunks of code from the unity manual / forum.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

It was a course about c# for unity on udemy.

https://www.udemy.com/share/101Wjs3@Tq87F8TodlDQWLNs5_IA4wabyr7MzOYr9XxMBs27KFxuNSO9PlIgpjhRZiqnj2Cu/

Video by someone else about the code in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGUJlfE5jrw

It's a simple terminal program that 'guesses' a number between 1 and 1000, and you press up or down to confirm if the number you're thinking of is higher or lower. It amends the maximum and minumum values based on if the player pressed up or down to gradually narrow the field and keeps picking a number between the two until it's right.

I don't 100% remember how it fits in without watching the whole thing, but there was a bit in the udemy video I watched (they've since restructured and reshot most of the course) where they explain that you need to add "max = max + 1" to the startup so that it goes all the way up to 1000 properly in case someone chooses an edge case.

Again, without going through that entire section of the course I can't find where they explain why: I scanned a few videos but they just keep saying max+1 without explaining why, or how that doesn't make the new max 1001, or increase the guesses by +1; and my dog is going to eat my leg if I don't head out soon.

But in the version I watched they explained that it's because unity counts wrong or counts from zero or something. IIRC they then have to remove the +1 again at a later stage to stop the upward guesses from creeping past the correct number.

If you set the max to 1000 it should treat 1000 as the max right? You shouldn't have to wedge the +1 in there.

It's probably a bad course, they basically didn't teach anything about structure, functions, variables etc when I did it; just how to copy chunks of code from the unity manual / forum.

Private Speech posted:

This will be because the function to generate a random number returns a number between 0 and the number you gave it - so random(6) will give you 0-5. If you want to make it 1-6 you have to add one. The reason it's this way is that it's often more useful to start with 0 than 1 for various maths reasons.