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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Headline: US warns Israel to boost humanitarian aid into Gaza or risk losing weapons funding

First line of the article: The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk

The headline is intentionally making it seem like the US wants Israel itself to provide aid to Gaza, no they're just pretending to ask Israel to please stop preventing other people from trying to provide aid to Gaza.

Thanks Associated press, very cool.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Honestly it wouldn't even be that hard to release full translated versions of existing programming languages. Like Python in Punjabi or Kotlin in Chinese or something (both of which already support unicode variable/class/function names). Just have a lookup table to redefine each keyword and standard library name to one in that language, it can literally just be an additional translation layer above the compiler/interpreter that converts the code to the original English version.

It's honestly really surprising that non-English speakers have developed entirely new programming languages in their own language (unfortunately none of which are getting very widespread use even among speakers of that language), but the practice of simply translating a widely used and industry standard English programming language doesn't seem to be much of a thing.

If I ever make my own programming language, I'm probably going to bake multi-language support into the compiler. Just supply it with a lookup table of translated terms and the code in that language.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

Because it supports Unicode as variable/class/function names and Unicode includes all the characters humans have ever used, even dead languages (I assume for historians to digitize ancient texts?)

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 days ago

More expensive than the building itself below a certain size

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago

Also isn't English the only European language not to call Pineapples some variation of "ananas"?

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

We call them "dirt beans" in Mandarin which is an improvement I guess?

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

"It's not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!"

If you live in a city with parking minimums, yes they fucking are.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 days ago

Can't wait to have Google's telemetry injected into my Linux apps

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 days ago

The inquiry found that Israel was committing ‘war crimes and crimes against humanity’ in its attacks on hospitals.

Can't wait for this to be ignored like every other finding that they are committing war crimes.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 days ago
[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'd argue that the internet has made this problem worse, not better.

In fact, I'd argue that the internet has taken away tons of people's ability to admit they're wrong because there's always an echo chamber that will support you on even the dumbest of beliefs and anyone fact checking anyone is seen as the enemy. You see this on places like Facebook and YouTube comments where someone will make a claim, other people will think it makes sense on a cursory glance and express their agreement, then someone who actually knows what they're talking about will politely correct them and everyone will gang up on them because they've disrupted the vibe, and simply because of that the unanimous decision is made that the correct answer is in fact wrong and is a government conspiracy.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

There's a reason the French beheaded the clergy alongside the nobility.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

You're walking home late at night from the bar because you've had 11 shots of tequila but you still made the conscious decision not to drive for the safety of others.

You're crossing a stroad.

Someone "in a hurry" decide to run the red light and hits you at 70 km/h (because of course they were speeding, why wouldn't they?), doesn't see you because you're hunched over while you're walking and it's really dark and the person is driving a giant SUV with shit visibility.

Cars are one of the largest source of fatal pedestrian accidents in a major city. How much more likely are you to get into an accident if you're drunk and is less able to pay attention to cars breaking the rules and putting you in danger? Walking safely in most cities is a task you need to be sober for because you have to walk super defensively.

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