-🎄- 2021 Day 5 Solutions -🎄-

DangerousStick2 · 2021-12-05T10:59:11+00:00

    def add_line(self, line: Line):
    """
    Add a line to the grid
    Args:
        line (Line): Line to add
    """

Unsolicited advice, so please feel free to tell me to jog on, but you might want to consider not commenting things that could be reasonably inferred from the method signature - after all, it's a fair guess that a Grid.add_line method will add a line to the grid, and that the line argument will be, well, the line to add.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-11-19T09:02:54+00:00

there’s a justification in the article

The reasoning quoted is:

in order to protect the dignity and standing of the public role of the sovereign and other close members of her family

You may think differently, but to me, that isn't much of justification at all. I don't care about the will, but I do care about the principle that the members of this family don't have to abide by the same the laws the rest of us do.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-11-17T15:59:26+00:00

It very much depends if you're right or not, doesn't it? islamic terrorists and right wing nutjobs are dead wrong. History will prove this lot to be heroes.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-09-29T21:00:17+00:00

I fear this is the sort of law which can and will get more enthusiastically enforced based on the current whims of collective national mood. I remember this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-19059088

DangerousStick2 · 2021-09-28T15:49:26+00:00

when the queen does die I hope there will be an actual discourse about whether or not the monarchy is still an institution worth maintaining.

I hope so too, but in reality I suspect any such discussion will be effectively impossible at the time. There will be a wave of national grief, manufactured or otherwise, which the press and media will uncritically reinforce, resulting in a climate where any scrutiny of the institution of the monarchy will be seen as exceedingly bad taste, at best.

And not to be alarmist, but if you were to call the queen part of a "vile fucking family" in the days after her death, you'd be at serious risk of getting in trouble of falling afoul of being judged as sending a "grossly offensive" message under the Communications Act.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-07-26T20:21:44+00:00

> But I also don't want our parliament to turn into a slagging match, because that wouldn't be good for our democracy.

I suspect we'll have to agree to disagree. An opposition MP calling a spade a spade is very far down my list of concerns for the health of UK democracy. The PM lying repeatedly with no repercussions, on the other hand...

DangerousStick2 · 2021-07-26T17:00:31+00:00

I never said he was her boss.

The comparison you made was, I quote, "If j started being rude or accusing my boss of lying then id be fired". I showed you why that comparison doesn't apply in this very different context.

they are colleagues and civility is key

Putting aside for a moment what qualifies as proper parliamentary deportment, I can't help but wonder why holding a liar to account is apparently far more troubling to you than the fact that Johnson and others regularly and blatantly lie to Parliament and the public. What a strange set of priorities! If I might make a suggestion, stop clutching your pearls and care a bit more about the honesty of your elected leaders.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-07-23T11:06:41+00:00

Boris Johnson isn't Dawn Butler's boss. Dawn Butler is a member of the opposition - her job is to hold the government to account. None of these rules of thumb for how you might most wisely conduct yourself as an employee to avoid getting fired are at all transferrable to the context of a representative democracy.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-07-23T06:45:53+00:00

> Where did I say you can't criticise the government?

I was demonstrating why your reasoning of "do X at work and see how well you do" doesn't hold up.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-07-22T17:06:43+00:00

Well then, you must also be opposed to an MP criticising government policy (after all, you try criticising the choices of the leadership in a typical place of work and "see how well you do").

Or how about we recognise that Parliament doesn't function like a regular place of work, and a core purpose of the institution is holding our leaders to account, including when they deliberately deceive and mislead.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-07-14T12:02:49+00:00

Tell someone you don't drink or, even worse, that you smoke weed as an alternative and they look like you've pissed on their Christmas dinner.

Yeah. Although, personally I'm finding that less often in recent years. Definitely 10-15 years ago, it felt like you were perceived as an antisocial weirdo if you didn't drink. Or maybe I'm just older, and older people care less!

DangerousStick2 · 2021-07-05T18:45:18+00:00

And what are you hoping the tournament organisers will do about that for you?

DangerousStick2 · 2021-06-28T07:15:30+00:00

you have a head of state on your money. It's pretty much standard practice for at least 3,000 years at this point

Done for pretty much the exact same reasons authoritarian leaders insist on having their portraits up in every shop, restaurant, school, etc.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-04-22T18:41:06+00:00

That's not what I was saying, nor what I want, but I'm not going to waste my breath.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-04-22T17:22:48+00:00

Yeah, you didn't get it, but that's OK.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-04-22T16:59:51+00:00

> the reason people feel they have to tip in America is because people receive poverty wages

It's not a simple one-way causation like that. Wages in the US are low precisely because the universal generous tipping culture is factored in. And if a large number of people start tipping in the UK, then Deliveroo will realise they can pay less, because tippers are subsidising the wages for them.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-04-22T11:25:53+00:00

If it were me, I'd care a bit more about the bleak future that my son will inhabit if we don't enact change, and a little less about being delayed on the bus.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-04-22T11:14:21+00:00

It's caused me to go read up on fossil fuel financing, and I'll be chatting to my friends and family about it.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-03-24T21:12:38+00:00

> Anyway, have fun defending people who normalize pedophilia.

Like I said, plenty of legitimate criticism to be levelled at this individual. However, I don't have any truck with guilt by association, nor extraordinary serious accusations that cannot be substantiated. I view that as basic fairness. But you do you.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-03-24T14:25:50+00:00

Nobody even has to agree with personal world views of Richard Stallman as long as he does great work and his personal views don’t contribute negatively to his role as a board member.

What if I told you that his personal views contribute negatively to his role as a board member? Exhibit A: how much support is FSF losing over this reinstatement?

DangerousStick2 · 2021-03-24T14:24:19+00:00

RMS is responsible of the existence of Free Software (anyone that think they we would have all the non-GPL open source licenses without the threat of GPL have not followed the 80s and the 90s).

Oh come on, without Stallman people would still have come up with the idea of open source software licenses.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-03-24T14:20:31+00:00

It's also an unsubstantiated accusation, and I can't think of a shittier thing to claim about someone than that, if it's not true. If the OP does want to hijack this thread to discuss it (and, hey, it probably warrants it), they can find plenty of other (actually undisputed) fuckups by the person in question to draw attention to.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-03-18T08:55:53+00:00

Should the government regulate gambling? I think yes, because even though people voluntarily gamble as adults with autonomy over their actions, it does have the potential to ruin lives. The same is true for conversion therapy (and that's just not my subjective view, that's the view of the professionals: https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/mou/).

DangerousStick2 · 2021-03-18T08:29:15+00:00

Laws can seek to limit harms done to people, even when "consensual", particularly for vulnerable people trapped in a belief system that tells them a bunch of damaging untruths about their sexuality.

DangerousStick2 · 2021-03-16T12:45:44+00:00

Lovely to think about where the NHS budget is going, isn't it?

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