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Before and after programming
  • Implement a basic socket connection in C (20 lines of manipulating struct sockaddrs and such), then do the same in Python (2 lines).

    And then go back and make the C version support IPV6, because your initial implementation didn't.

  • Black Mother Bleeds To Death From Miscarriage Due To Texas Abortion Ban
  • IIRC black women suffer higher rates of medical complications to begin with for various reasons (both institutional racism related and otherwise, I think), and this criminalization of abortion exacerbates that.

    In other words, it's bad for all women, but it's disproportionately worse for black ones and thus in effect yet another instance of institutional racism on top of all the other problems with it.

  • Conservative parent is sad his daughters aren't coming for thanksgiving after voting for Trump
  • I wish they were a Lemmy backend thing and not a frontend/per-app thing. I use more than one device (my desktop and my phone) to browse Lemmy, so functions that are local to only one frontend or app instance are useless to me.

  • How can I add a simple requirement "do not train Al on the source code of the program" to AGPLv3 or GPLv3 and thereby create a new license?
  • That's not up to OP to "specify;" either it already is the case (for everybody) or it isn't, according to the legal definition of "derivative work."

    (I take the position that it is, BTW -- AI code generation is massive copyright infringement in general, and a way of laundering copyleft code for proprietary uses in particular.)

  • Trump’s promise to loosen crypto regulations may be boon for extremist groups
  • No, fuck this. You are not entitled to make insinuations about people's mental state just because they don't agree with your gaslighting bullshit. You need to be banned.

    Edit: brand new account; probably evading some other ban. Get this trash out of here.

  • Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles
  • Frankly, the cybertruck rust is 100% inexcusable. Elon Musk is absolutely incompetent compared to John Delorean, who managed to pick the right stainless steel alloy even while being distracted by both the Troubles and cocaine smuggling.

  • Snake Bridge over a canal passageway, the UK
  • Back in Ye Olden Days, waterways were the preferred method of transporting cargo because land movement took much more effort (and also frequently involved hills and such).

    And nowadays they're parking lots of floating tiny-houses for people who can't otherwise afford to live anywhere near London, apparently.

  • Snake Bridge over a canal passageway, the UK
  • I think it was because the balance between materials and labor costs was different back then. If everything was being handmade by artisans anyway, why not let them make it look nice while they're at it? Besides, without machine precision, ornamentation is probably quicker and easier than straight lines in a lot of cases.

    (See also: traditional architectural styles vs. modernism.)

  • As a novice at soldering, I now have an opinion about single-sided vs. double-sided breadboards

    Me a few days ago, shopping on Amazon: "All the component and jumper wire leads are going to be on the bottom anyway; why shouldn't I get a pack of single-sided breadboards for $6.25 instead of double-sided ones for $10?"

    Me today, after having lifted three pads off the damn board in 10 minutes: "Oh, that's why."

    Get the double-sided breadboards; they're worth it.

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    Political Memes @lemmy.world grue @lemmy.world

    "Nothing will fundamentally change"

    Do not misconstrue this as implying the working class opposes social leftism, because it doesn't. It only seems that way because the only party offering economic hope -- false hope, but hope nevertheless -- is doing it by scapegoating (brown) immigrants.

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    Atlanta @yall.theatl.social grue @lemmy.world
    newsone.com National Model For Policing Alternatives And Diversion At Risk Of Defunding

    Atlanta’s Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative, a national model for public safety, will be forced to end its services in January.

    National Model For Policing Alternatives And Diversion At Risk Of Defunding

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22223735

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    newsone.com National Model For Policing Alternatives And Diversion At Risk Of Defunding

    Atlanta’s Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative, a national model for public safety, will be forced to end its services in January.

    National Model For Policing Alternatives And Diversion At Risk Of Defunding

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22223735

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    Atlanta @yall.theatl.social grue @lemmy.world
    www.justice.gov The United States Attorney’s Office Finds Conditions at Fulton County Jail in Georgia Violate the Constitution and Federal Law

    The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced its findings concluding that Fulton County and the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office routinely violate the constitutional and statutory rights of persons incarcerated...

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    www.justice.gov The United States Attorney’s Office Finds Conditions at Fulton County Jail in Georgia Violate the Constitution and Federal Law

    The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced its findings concluding that Fulton County and the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office routinely violate the constitutional and statutory rights of persons incarcerated...

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    Kakistocracy

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    Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software

    cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/58093

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    What terminal car-brain does to a society

    reason.com Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town

    It was dinnertime on October 30, 2024, when police handcuffed Brittany Patterson in front of three of her four children and drove her to the station in

    Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21954268

    > Mom Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk Alone to Town > > ## "I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident," says Brittany Patterson.

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    reason.com Courts are coming for digital libraries

    A federal court recently said the Internet Archive is not protected by fair use doctrine.

    Courts are coming for digital libraries

    cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27904255

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    Political Memes @lemmy.world grue @lemmy.world

    Liberalism vs. Leftism

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    Tom Cardy - Transcendental Cha Cha Cha

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    Since the US seems to be trying to emulate Russia these days, I figured now might be a good time for a reminder about how Russians deal with douchebag drivers

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    Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill

    www.oregonlive.com Ambulance hits Oregon cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill, lawsuit says

    The cyclist, who suffered a broken nose, was initially treated at the scene by the ambulance driver.

    Ambulance hits Oregon cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill, lawsuit says

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/93717

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    www.thenation.com Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

    Racism, fascism, and working-class Americans.

    Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

    An excerpt from the article:

    > If the petit-bourgeois American suburbs embody a sexist hierarchy, they exist in order to enforce a racist one. In the mid-20th century, white northern and western urbanites faced a choice: Stay in the cities where Jim Crow was driving a “Great Migration” of millions of black people, or flee to the new suburban residential developments, complete with racist exclusionary charters. The Federal Housing Administration made the choice easy: Its policy redlined neighborhoods where black people were settling as having low “residential security,” thus making financial services inaccessible. In white-only suburban communities, however, the FHA was pleased to guarantee home mortgages. “There goes the neighborhood,” said millions, and fled.

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: pretty much every problem we have in the US is, at its heart, a consequence of bad zoning policy.

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    Everett seeing a horse car for the first time in 12 years (1906-12-27)

    cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/truecomics@midwest.social/t/1406856

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    How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?!

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    Razor-tight races could leave House control in limbo for weeks

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    Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why

    For years now, I've been watching most of the trick-or-treaters go to the house on one side of me, take one look at my house and walk right past it, and then go to the house on the other side.

    I had no clue why. Maybe they were scared of my house or thought I'd give cheap candy (my house is a bit of a fixer-upper)? I completed my "curb appeal" projects; didn't help.

    Maybe they thought nobody was home? I not only have the porch light on, but also have the living room TV on, clearly visible through the (open!) front window, and it makes no difference.

    Maybe they think I'm not participating (despite the clear signal of the porch light and jack-o'-lantern)? I put up a bunch of Halloween decorations this year, and it still didn't help!

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    Well, I finally found out the reason, after hearing one kid scouting ahead yelling to tell his friends to skip my house: "there's no bowl on the porch!"

    ...You've got to be fucking kidding me.

    Yep, unlike my neighbors, who had apparently just left unattended bowls of candy on their porches, I was actually sitting there inside the house, with the bowl of candy, waiting for kids to knock or ring the doorbell before I opened the door and handed it out. You know, like how trick-or-treating is supposed to work.

    This is ridiculous. Kids these days are skipping viable houses with candy because they can't be bothered to actually knock on the damn door and say "trick or treat" to the person who answers? Residents are expected to be too lazy to answer the door, and just put out the candy without even receiving the traditional threat first? With no actual interaction with the neighbors for the kids to show off their costumes, what's even the point‽

    !

    I finally stuck a sign on the door saying "yes, you have to knock or ring for candy!" and that helped, but even then, some kids are still skipping my house because they apparently can't be bothered to read the sign.

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    TIL ballots in Montana vary the order of candidates in order to eliminate first-listed advantage

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