spauldo

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[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (27 children)

The governments of Texas and Hawaii don't pretend to control the entire United States.

The China/Taiwan thing is downright silly. They can pretend all day long and make all the claims they want, but at the end of the day it's just make-believe. The PRC doesn't control Taiwan, and Taiwan doesn't control the PRC. The rest of the world will smile and nod and say whatever we have to in order to get what we want, in the same way you'd smile and nod until your crazy neighbor stops ranting and goes back in his house.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (29 children)

Sure, and that "policy" keeps China happy while we continue to treat Taiwan as its own country.

The US doesn't care about China's little turf war as long as we get to trade with both.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Until I saw your comment I assumed it was the state.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Seems like a good fit for some of the stuff I do in industrial automation. A lot of people think CAN is just for automotive, but it's used in machine control quite a bit as well (as is RS-485). Most of the PLCs I work with have optional CAN modules.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Maybe their local Microsoft rep is based in Belarus and isn't talking to them at the moment.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

foreach is useful when you don't need to know the index of something. If you do, conventional i, j, k, etc. are useful.

A lot of it depends what you're doing (number crunching, for instance) or if you're in a limited programming language (why won't BASIC die already?) where parallel arrays are still a thing.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

When the practice started, most (if not all) programming languages used capital letters. IIRC the computers that ran early FORTRAN (which is where the I,J,K, etc. convention comes from) didn't even support lower case letters.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Looks rather modern (as in 1950s-1960s style). That's my favorite style. Now I miss my old furniture :)

Very nice work!

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Very nice!

But watch out - that friendly camel character might encourage children to go walking.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I've had fuel pour out once - but not from the pump. We had someone replace the fuel pump and they forgot to put the gasket on.

I agree it sounds like a crazy idea, but it works. The automatic cutoff on those fuel dispensers works really, really well. I've been driving for over 30 years and have never seen it fail.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I dunno, the current system seems to be working. Kickstarter-style funding campaigns do happen for media, but I suspect that form of funding is too unstable for the major content producers to rely on.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

I never claimed pirates were the good guys. The media companies aren't the good guys either, as evidenced by their behavior towards their customers. In this conflict, there are no good guys.

The customers are the ones that benefit, though. That's the point I'm making.

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