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Nate Cox
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Nate Cox@programming.devto Not The Onion•Idaho bans ‘Everyone Is Welcome Here’ classroom signs, calling them ideologicalEnglish7·3 days agoThe mind-boggling thing about Idaho to me is that they have convinced a bunch of people from Oregon that Idaho is so great that a bunch of counties should secede and join Idaho.
I’m not making this up. It’s called the Greater Idaho Movement. They want to take over about 2/3 of Oregon.
I learned about this after moving to Oregon and was relieved to hear that at least my county had already voted against it.
Nate Cox@programming.devto Games@sh.itjust.works•PirateSoftware Leaves OffBrand Games as Stop Killing Games Reaches GoalEnglish4·3 days agoAlso, “dot” with a hard T is like super common in programming naming. It’s a pretty reasonable mistake to make.
I also use them. They’re a tool for emphasis, like ! and 😡.
Nate Cox@programming.devtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Trump slams 'ridiculous' decision by Musk to start new U.S. political partyEnglish2·4 days agoThe UK has, for some reason, 5 different voting systems, only one of which is FPTP.
Nate Cox@programming.devtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Trump slams 'ridiculous' decision by Musk to start new U.S. political partyEnglish9·4 days agoWe can’t have more than two political parties, this is one of the major failings of our first-past-the-post voting system. CGP grey has made a couple of really good videos breaking down the why of this, but the tl;dr is that FPTP voting effectively necessitates strategic voting (voting against who you don’t want rather than for who you do want).
Until we move to something better, such as ranked choice voting, we’re always going to effectively have two parties.
Nate Cox@programming.devto Showerthoughts•Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people.English1291·4 days ago… as a TV show, right? Right?
Nate Cox@programming.devto Technology•Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focusEnglish3·4 days agoI don’t think there is a good answer here. I didn’t really want my kids to have phones either but all you’re doing by denying them the primary social tool of their generation is ostracizing them from their peers.
Being a parent sometimes feels like a series of un-winnable choices.
Nate Cox@programming.devto Technology•Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focusEnglish11·4 days agoWat? It’s called a colloquialism. It’s a way to describe something I know you know without needing to spell it out.
You’re basically asserting that anything described using an analogy must inherit all the traits of anything else that analogy is used for, which is just silly. It’s a classic composition/division fallacy.
Nate Cox@programming.devto Technology•Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focusEnglish51·4 days agoYeah, my state just enacted a “bell-to-bell” ban on cell phones in schools for my kids. I absolutely support a ban on phones in class (so long as the school is providing necessary tech to educate with) but banning between class just ignores that phones are an important part of how kids socialize and ripping it away cold-turkey can’t be healthy.
Edit: also, I gave my kids phones primarily so they could contact me in an emergency, and I am very much not ok with the state telling me they can’t have the phone in their backpack.
Nate Cox@programming.devto Fuck AI•Finally witnessed somebody use ChatGPT instead of socialisingEnglish2·5 days agoAlso the whole incredible adaptable camouflage thing.
Edit: I’d probably be an Orca (the asshole of the sea) or a peregrine falcon. One gets to glide through the ocean, the other soar through the air. Both sound rad.
Nate Cox@programming.devto News•Republicans and Democrats in Secret Talks to Create a Third PartyEnglish31·7 days agoI agree that it’s not much of an argument.
Nate Cox@programming.devto Technology•ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam itEnglish80·7 days agoI loathe and despise using percentages like this.
500% sounds super scary, but is meaningless without providing the baseline. If there was only one instance before and now there’s 5 it isn’t a significant increase but 500% sure sounds scary.
Nate Cox@programming.devto News•Republicans and Democrats in Secret Talks to Create a Third PartyEnglish62·7 days agoThis is a very republican method of argument.
Edit: now tell them to go “do your own research”
First time seeing it for me. Maybe we don’t need to be the post police.
Nate Cox@programming.devto Earthling Liberation notes•‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisisEnglish61·11 days agoThe condition, known as alpha-gal syndrome
Knee-jerk reaction: oh come on, a condition where you can’t eat red meat is called alpha gal syndrome. Fucking toxic masculinity at its finest.
After two minutes of research, from a different site:
Alpha-gal is a molecule (galactose-α-1,3-galactose) that is naturally produced in the bodies of most mammals but not in people. It is also found in the saliva (spit) of some ticks.
Oh. Well. I retract my previous indignation, but maintain that it is a very funny coincidence.
Oh, wait! I know this one!!
No, it isn’t.
Rust introduces novel features and makes notable changes from its ancestors.
Arch was just blue Gentoo.