Xi seems willing to prop up Russia indefinitely

Definitely not.

Remember: China wants it’s former territories back that Russia took over during what China calls “The Century of Humiliation”.

Xi wants Russia’s war with Ukraine to continue for as long as possible, because the longer the war goes on for, the weaker Russia becomes, and the easier it will be for China to take back that territory.

Money is fictional anyways. If they want to, Moscow can print literally arbitrary amounts of Rubels. There’s no way they’re gonna bankrupt.

Germany printed more money during a certain world war…

It didn’t work out great for them

Yes but sanctions take years to take effect because they accumulate over time.

They’ve been slow rolled which has slowed the effects, but Ukraine’s “kinetic” sanctions have accelerated the effects back up.

Flip-flopping in and of itself isn’t bad.

What it is - is a symptom.

A symptom of being an absolute dumbass. Now that is what’s bad.

You’re kind of missing the point.

I’m making fun of them by pointing out how they’re wrong

It’s an easily falsifiable statement.

Yes

It’s an incendiary statement designed to foment division.

Yes

Everyone knows there are more than 2 genders.

Actually no, not everyone knows. You’d be surprised how people are ignorant to these matters (by choice, or repressive environment)

There are only two genders…

Except for: <giant list of genetic, epigenetic, developmental, etc… things that happen with human beings>.

Not to mention all the other things that happen with other living things

We got momentary gusts of 135km/h

Only me and one other person I know on the coast didn’t lose power. Phones came back on Saturday afternoon, and internet came back this morning.

Today was the first day I’ve been out since Thursday, there’s a lot of damage.

Trees have had thick branches pulled and twisted off. A house just up the road had it’s roof peeled off. A building down the road the other way had it’s roof pushed down and in. A building the next block over has a shattered window. There’s a whirlybird on the footpath outside and I’m not sure where from. A tree grazed my bedroom window which bent the window frame out, braking branches along the way (but the window survived).

Can’t get into work today due to floods.

At least now I can cross “experience a cyclone” off my bucket list.

Also I learnt where birds go during bad storms. The answer is inside hedge bushes along the ground.

This is why you’re meant to comment your code.

Your code tells you “what”, your comments tell you “why”.

Here’s a good review of comments in the redis codebase: https://antirez.com/news/124

and those who prevent history from being taught, want to lift themselves up at the expense of others

I would advise against using pixels for margin/padding since it’ll have issues for users who have different zoom/text sizes than you do.

Stick to rem for margin and padding.

If you’re still early days with css, it’s worth pointing out that you should use a “css reset” file. It will solve problems for you that you don’t even know exist yet.

The more windows falls down the enshittification spiral, the more likely the EU will get pissed at Microsoft and fund Linux environments where it’s needed.

Does everyone who’s following the old account automatically refollow you when you do that?

It doesn’t port over any old comments/posts, but I’m pretty sure that when anyone @'s you, it’s forwarded to the new account.

IMO it’d still be useful to be able to use an identity you control, like a domain name.

Mastodon already does this

It’s worth pointing out that while ActivityPub doesn’t currently support account migration (although there are proposals in the works for how to do this), Mastodon does have a weak form of support right now.

You can create a new account on another mastodon instance, then you’re able to point your old account to your new account.

I think the more important question here is why are you using the internet without an adblocker?

But to answer the lesser question, stick this in a pinned tab and download what you need: https://devdocs.io/offline

See I think that’s not what the “anti-woke” people think it means.

That’s exactly what I pointed out. The people who provide them their information are actively trying to poison the word to the point that it means something else. But it doesn’t, because the poisoning only works in the echo chambers that spread that information.

Turning to urban dictionary, they’re using this definition: […]

That would be one of the attempts to poison the word. It’s worth pointing out that anyone can add a definition to urban dictionary and it’s quite often that trolls try to overwhelm existing definitions on there.

[…] (according to that definition).

That comes back to what I said before. People who self report as anti-woke are against anything that uses the label “woke”, until they look at what’s under the label and they realise they aren’t against any of the points the “woke” labelled thing is doing.

They’re not actually anti-woke, they’re anti-incorrect-label.

Because being woke is generally considered to be a bad thing?

No. Being woke is only considered bad in toxic echo chambers where they’ve tried to poison the word.

Most people who self report as “anti-woke” repeat infectious and carefully crafted but fallacious talking points whenever the term “woke” is said.

But if you bring up a situation where a minority is getting the bad end of the stick and they agree with you that it’s bad, they don’t realise that they themselves are being woke. They agree with being woke so long as the label “woke” isn’t used. It’s when you point that out that they start to realise that they’ve been poisoned against the term.

Being woke simply means that some people don’t often get the same affordances as others.

If you accept the general fact that women tend to get paid less for the same amount of work, then you’re woke.

If you accept the general fact that black people might not get hired if a person doing the hiring is racist, then you’re woke.

If you accept the general fact that some people have to hide the fact that they’re not heterosexual in some countries otherwise they’ll suffer the death penalty, then you’re woke.

English doesn’t really have a well defined way to write down the “zjush” from the “su” in pleasure.

The most accepted ways are “zh” or “x” in English, or ʒ in IPA.

Since most people call it twitter, and Elon want to call it x, so people push them together to make xitter, because it sounds like “shitter” (the crude term for toilet) and because the quality of twitter has declined dramatically to the point that it resembles an unclean toilet.

Watching web developers react to this change on mastodon has been… interesting to say the least

This doesn’t seem overly useful.

It’s a list taken out of a bunch of books with no regard for how something can be the best path in one language and a smell in another language.

Look at this page for example: https://luzkan.github.io/smells/imperative-loops

It suggests using functional loop methods (.map(), .reduce(), .filter()) instead of using imperative loops (for, for in, for each) but completely disregards the facts that imperative loops also have access to the break, continue, and return keywords to improve performance.

For example: If I have an unsorted list of 1000 cars which includes a whole bunch of information per car (e.g. color, year manufactured, etc…), and I want to know if there were any cars were manufactured before the year 1980, I can run an imperative loop through the list and early return true if I find one, and only returning false if I haven’t found one by the end of the list.

If the third car was made in 1977, then I have only iterated through 3 cars to find my answer.

But if I were to try this with only functional loops, I would have to iterate through all 1000 cars before I had my answer.

A website with blind rules like this is going to lead to worse code.

QOI is just a format that’s easy for a programmer to get their head around.

It’s not designed for everyday use and hardware optimization like jpeg-xl is.

You’re most likely to see QOI in homebrewed game engines.