The answer in the article was actually “maybe.”

Crowd sizes are hard to estimate and all, but if it’s the upper end of the estimates then it was the biggest.

A friendly reminder, being reductive only makes you sound clever to the ignorant.

Bernie is Jewish and the small “radical left” bubble you’re in has become antisemitic.

This is what it looks like when you’re in a hate group. Lots of rationalizations about why you shouldn’t like the people you used to like and it’s “just a coincidence” that those people happen to be of the ethnicity and/or religion of a particular group that the people you listen to hate.

Yeah it takes some time to build up that kind of propaganda. You can’t just accuse Israel of genocide in the first week, otherwise people will catch on that you’re pushing an anti-Israel agenda and just making shit up. Maybe next week it’ll be time to start saying this is a genocide regardless of what’s actually happening.

I mean, some of the taxanomic divisions do have common names as well - jawed fish and ray-finned fish

Searching for “jawed fish” takes me here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnathostomata

But that’s jawed vertebrates. So I’m not sure which taxonomic group you’re referring to when you’re saying “jawed fish”. The wiki page indicates salamaders are in the Gnathostomata group. Are salamanders considered to be jawed fish?

I think this just goes to further prove that using english words for taxonomy just causes a lot of confusion. My search results for “jawed fish” also returns a lot of results from national park sites and yeah, that kind of terminology for a national park conversing with a layperson is fine. Close enough for a layperson, but for a biologist they probably should use Gnathostomata when that’s what they’re talking about.

Was that the weird chapter that was just a biology lesson, but was also completely wrong?

Probably, but it’s been awhile since I read it. But it would be insane to read Moby Dick expecting it to be a good biology text book. You have to read it as people’s understanding of biology and terminology in the past, which is why I referenced it in the context of the evolution of linguistics about ocean animals.

It’s why taxonomy uses latin for this… the definition of english words are based on common usage which isn’t going to line up to any kind of scientific categorization. English is always changing and scientific categorization is also always changing when there’s more empirical data. These changes are independent of each other so it was wisely decided long ago to not even try to make english words consistent with scientific taxonomy.

So in common usage, yeah it’s based around the general shape but it isn’t a whale (big mammal) a dolphin (a relatively smaller mammal). A shark might be called a fish but more likely someone will just call it a shark instead of just using just “fish”. This is fine for communication among laypeople, if marine biologists are having a conversation about those same animals, they break out the latin and there’s no confusion.

Also my understanding is that in medieval times, the word whale actually refereed to a specific species of whale… what we know call the Right Whale, which is nearly extinct. So a word for a species became a word for a group of species and then it was awkward how to refer to that original species. What kind of whale is that? “It’s a whale whale… you know the original whale… the proper whale… the right whale.” There’s actually a paragraph in Moby Dick about this.

English is weird and changes in weird ways. Just use latin if you want to be scientifically precise.

It doesn’t cost $8 per copy to manufacture. I can get a writable 64GB SD card delivered to my door for less than that. And a plastic case is pennies to manufacture.

It’s more about preventing people from trading or selling games with other people after they’ve finished playing them.

One time a VP decided to jump in and be a developer and he just pointed a bunch of cards when the dev that was really going to do the work was off for the day. Obviously the points were way too low, so I just padded out the rest of the cards knowing the 7 points on the cards the VP pointed was going to be the entire two week sprint for the other dev and I’d need to to whatever else was put into the sprint.

And that’s how I found out the Product Manager was putting the points into a spreadsheet to track how many points each individual dev was doing. He was actually upset at me for doing 20 points in the sprint. Sure, I padded them out, but why wasn’t he bothered by the cards that had too few points on them? Just upset his spreadsheet was screwed up, but couldn’t be angry at the VP that under-pointed a bunch of cards.

If the goal is to not have apps be too large, you probably don’t want to send the full variable and function names and all of the comments over the wire every time someone loads a webpage. That would be a very inefficient use of bandwidth, wouldn’t it?

Avoiding 403 seems like a security through obscurity approach to me.

I suppose there might be some special admin only endpoints you’d want to 404 on if the user is not an admin. But for most cases it’s really hell integrating an API that 404s on everything… is my token invalid, did I set a parameter wrong, or did I get the path wrong? I guess I gotta spend all day doing trial and error to figure it out. Fun!

Also makes integration tests on your security unreliable. Someone renames an endpoint and suddenly your integration tests aren’t actually testing security anymore. Checking for 403 and getting a 404 because someone renamed something will indicate the test needs to be updated to use the new path. Checking for 404 (because the user isn’t supposed to have access) and getting 404 (because the path was changed) means your test is useless but you won’t know it was rendered useless.

I’m not sure what the point of an animated version would be… it would be like watching someone else play the game.

Don’t think any move would be a good idea, Link doesn’t really have a defined character because in the game you’re Link. In any movie they’ll need to define his character and it’ll probably not match most people’s expectations because everyone imagines Link’s character to be different.

To fact check the fact check: There doesn’t seem to be a list of “dictatorships” on the Freedom house website. Interesting that they’re missing a link to that source isn’t it? Their point hinges on a listing from some website I’ve never heard of and they don’t link to it? A little sus.

Freedom house does have a listing of countries that are “free”, “not free”, and “partly free” here: https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores

Note that Israel is considered a free country, and Gaza and the West Bank are listed as “not free”. So the methodology of used by the fact checker would consider providing aid to countries like Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey would count against the US while giving aid to Israel would be a positive. Providing aid to Palestine would be a double negative as the West Bank and Gaza are counted separately.

Also note that Ukraine is listed as “Partly Free” so I’m not sure whether the fact-checker is labeling Ukraine as a “dicatorship”. Trump called Zelenskyy a dictator, so who knows?

Seems to me the fact checker was just cooking the books to promote a narrative that what Trump is doing is the status quo. Trump is surrendering to a dictatorship that’s a threat to a great many democracies. It’s not at all comparable to providing aid to a country that has shitty leaders, but shitty leaders that will fight against ISIS and/or al Qadea. If those groups were successful it would not increase freedom in they countries they exist in.

And who knows who the fact-checker is? Elon Musk controls everything on that site.

Waterfall is more like: You want to go to Mars. You start to build the rocket. Managers that don’t know anything about building a rocket starts having meetings to tell the engineers who do know how to build a rocket what they should be doing. Management decides to launch the rocket based on a timeline that’s not based in reality. Management tries to launch the rocket based on the timeline instead of when it’s actually finished. Rocket explodes. Management blames the engineers.

The various methodologies don’t actually change what the engineers need to do. But some of them can be effective at requiring more effort from management to interfere in the project. Bad managers are lazy so they’re not going to write a card, so they can be somewhat effective in neutralizing micromanagement. I say somewhat, because bad management will eventually find a way to screw things up.

It would be legal if you win. But until you win, you’d be criminals.

Imagine thinking the term Space Cowboy originated in a cartoon made in 1998.

Here’s a cool song that was apparently inspired by Cowboy Bebop LOL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h66V1hYAjG0

They could certainly be replaced by the LLMs they’ve dumped billions into. A large chunk of middle management too.

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It ain’t the left that’s in power, it’s the right. You’re not on the side of freedom fighters, you’re on the side of oppressors.

Do you also blame black Americans for conflicts in Africa? Or do you only do only blame an entire ethnicity for conflicts on the other side of the world when it’s Jews?

Chickens can actually be vicious. I think they’re the closest living relation to the T-Rex.