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toyota posted...

for those who started from scratch with no knowledge of programming at all. when did it start to come together?

i just finished throught chapter 4: lists lol

everything seems to be working off
print()

but i dont exactly understand how this leads to 'programming' stuff or games or little apps etc. im probably still a long ways to go but im having funning following along with the book that was recommended here

If you're doing Python, you could do some Pygame tutorials at the same time and see.

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I used to do that a lot, just to sort of go through the motions and practice thinking about design.
If you're looking to do anything with games, a good place to start would be to make your own math library, with vectors, points, addition, matrices, etc. It's not very complicated so the design and implementation won't be super tricky. But having one of those is very convenient.

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Thank you very much

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I like Weavile but its name feels too derivative of Sceptile. I like Sneasel better.

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ssjevot posted...

I consider leftist to mean anti-capitalist. So there are very few users here that would qualify.

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sauceje posted...

Well fuck. I was looking forward to Diablo 4 and even Diablo Immortal but I'm not supporting a company that does this shit or lets it happen internally

Just to be clear, there's a very low chance that other big companies in the industry are much better

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Omnislasher posted...

but by NO MEANS question the underlying socioeconomic paradigm and consumption habits that created and continue to maintain this unholy fuckstorm in the first place

we can still paper over this, everyone!

Yeah this. Go ahead everyone and say shit about how Brazil needs to be invaded and that this is all Bolsonaro's fault. Never mind that there's a huge international market that incentivizes burning the rain forest that will remain in place long after he dies from hiccups, or contracts covid for the 53rd time or whatever.

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If you want to be received with nuance maybe you should make better arguments

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TetsuoS2 posted...

All boxes checked here

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I'd cuddle the crap out of that lion

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DocDelicious posted...

Sad people that can't find their place in life are sad because they can't find their place in life, shocking research lol.

"Can't find their place in life" is a weird way of saying "are denied basic human rights at every turn"

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The cape kiiind of makes you invincible though, since you won't lose it if you take a hit while para flying

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To be clear, I'm not saying the protests are illegitimate. Just as we shouldn't trust US propaganda, we shouldn't trust regime propaganda either.

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Shezarr posted...

Eh they're just a really shitty tankie rag. Lots of dumbass takes:
https://twitter.com/jacobin/status/1347905974686908417

And then there's these two:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjcPz4SX0AAzkbu?format=jpg&name=medium
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjcQ4HEWAAAwHoS?format=png&name=small
(second is the editor)

The tweets are a lil bit yikes, second especially. First tweet I've seen tankie takes and also just nuanced anti capitalist takes about east bloc policies. Heck, even George Lucas praised the creative freedom afforded to Soviet filmmakers compared to Hollywood, and I doubt you'd call him a tankie.
The piece about Jan 6th I really don't get why is tankie at all honestly. But this is all off topic. If you want we could move it to DMs, but I'm not really keen on defending a leftist publication that I don't read.

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Shezarr posted...

I mean he writes for Jacobin (lmao) and seems to do a lot of excusing of Russia and China but whatev, irrelevant to this post I suppose.

Don't really know enough about Jacobin to understand your lmao, but I started following Cashman during the Bolivian coup as he was writing and retweeting a whole bunch of detailed descriptions of the technical parts of the election rules to put the "suspicions" of cheating into context.

Also side note, this account name trips me up, for since reason I always think you're Shablagoo even though I tagged you properly and you have your old name in your sig.

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Shezarr posted...

It was more than $100k, and it was far more than just Facebook ads. Yes the US continues to suck with Latin America, but downplaying Russian meddling isn't it chief.

I don't.. really think that's important. But whatever. He's obviously emphasizing a double standard, not trying to whitewash the Kremlin.

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https://twitter.com/kevinmcashman/status/1414593184940929033

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As much as they don't seem to understand what OA is about, you're making it very clear that you don't have the faintest idea of what "academic value" is, joe

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Bio1590 posted...

I'll wait for DR to confirm but I'm guessing the implication is that someone or something paid to get the article out there (because there's an OA fee or something, which can be fairly expensive) which also brings into question how rigorously it was reviewed?

Are you saying that the peer review (something that is not paid for and it's generally done on a voluntary basis) would have been worse because there's a publication fee?

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Webmaster4531 posted...

Biden isn't wrong about this.

Only lolbertarians are pro-trust.

There is no capitalism without exploitation though

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Webmaster4531 posted...

That the president is wrong

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There's no competition in capitalism without exploitation

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Oh no, poor multi millionaire Matt Damon, he's probably beating himself up about it a lot

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Here's from a day when it was really hot everywhere a couple years ago:


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Yeah I like to think that she led a pretty good life. In the end she was pretty much running things at home :)

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Oh man I wish I'd known about this topic earlier. I'd love to get added to the list. O don't have a cat right now, but here's a pic of the one I grew up with. I had her from birth and she passed when she was nineteen. The last couple years she stayed with my parents since they're home more and she got a bit lonely.


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I think it's not a bad rule of thumb to make sure you finish last as a guy. Obviously there can be exceptions but it's a decent baseline. Especially since the post-nut clarity of some guys make them acutely uninterested in continuing the sex

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pinky0926 posted...

This is the funniest fucking topic I've read on CE in a long time

well brace yourself because it will literally never end

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If you can afford to live without working, you're wealthy. In the US, if you can afford a medical emergency without ending up in crippling debt, one could argue that you're rich.

Of course if you compare to someone working a gig job like Uber and barely scraping by, affording luxuries like concert tickets seems rich.

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I'd say it depends on context

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DeadBankerDream posted...

Is this about that numberphile video? >_>

Don't know which video you're referring to, just, in my Swedish brain, when a Danish guy starts talking about half-tens it quickly devolves into your crazy numbering system is all. No more shade than that

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DeadBankerDream posted...

It's a third of a century rounded up to nearest half 10s.

Most Danish post I've seen you make, I think

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Christian RULES posted...

when players do it, it's legit.
with the CPU, the strategic attacks are like over scripted shit.

Did you consider that you get hit at the exact same place over and over because you're keeping the same pace and it's a function of the relative placement of question mark boxes compared to your position? Or can you be more specific about what this script does

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Christian RULES posted...

But yeah, CPU in this game is totally fair *rolls eyes*

Are you saying that actual players won't do all of the above things?

Also, if you lose first place because you got shot with a blue shell, drive faster. Or keep a horn on hand

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The game still "cheats" in the sense that cars behind you drive faster and cars ahead drive slower. In fact I'm pretty sure that's the most cheating it does. Getting good items far back applies to players as well as AI agents

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Absolutely!

She's trending now with a clip (not sure if it's new or not) where she says "if you own a house, it's you that they're after" which is a terribly funny thing to say considering she's doing her best to get her hands on the house of a tried man who doesn't want to sell anymore.

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Hang on, wasn't a big criticism of the meta analysis that it had cherry picked a bunch of really crappy studies

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Medussa posted...

is this the story that basically destroyed the entire party?

They've been super small for a long time. The current party leader managed a bit of a revival by being young and pretty and moving closer to the nationalists but yeah this one is a bit of a killer. Maybe

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Doe posted...

*drops shield on your polearm*

So you're holding a shield ready to drop it to the ground in a split second, and also holding a weapon I presume. Sounds like you're a bit too busy to try and catch the spear in one hand honestly

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Herbette posted...

Do you have concrete examples and evidences of such cases?
Because in western countries it is the opposite. Meat is consuming more water than vegetal proteins.

https://waterfootprint.org/en/water-footprint/product-water-footprint/water-footprint-crop-and-animal-products/

Particularly in dry places where it takes a lot of water to grow good, but cattle can graze vegetation that humans can't digest. I'd expect various regions around the equator to have such conditions.

I came across a thread by an American agricultural researcher on Twitter where she was talking about this - how there's a portion of vegans who don't understand that part of their privilege is living in relatively wet parts of the world. The thread was years back so I won't try and look it up, but she posts a lot of interesting things, her name is Sarah Taber.

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Good point

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UnfairRepresent posted...

Nothing except her word

So then if I say yes I have no way of knowing if that was my choice or not

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What's to stop her from just making me

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There's also the argument (that doesn't apply to you) that in certain parts of the world, meat is a lot more sustainable since they have to optimize against water usage rather than greenhouse gas emissions. Of course it becomes a delicate issue when food is so ingrained into people's cultural identity, and then certain groups of people are already subjected to various forms of oppression.

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God damn typo

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Master Kazuya posted...

Would you rather fight a tiger with a spear or a sword?

For the tiger I pick a *ball of yarn and a lot of cuddles

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Anyone who has ever been in a fight with swords (or heck, just a fight in general) will understand how absolutely massive a range advantage is.

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There are objections to prostitution that aren't rooted in Christian morality

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