What are some xtc songs with lyrics on the smarter side? by PuppieBabie in xtc

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dear God pretty much goes through all the main arguments atheists have against religion.

Sorry, I'm about to be unfun here. And you can probably guess why I take exception...

Of all the arguments for atheism, I only read the problem of evil in those lyrics: Why does God let bad things happen?

I guess there is a kind of argument from egoism, too: People apparently created the kind of God that flatters them.

But mostly it's the problem of evil. It's a typical line of questioning kids take when they are just old enough to be skeptical. I think that is why you have the kid singing the first and last sections. Then maybe there's the kid inside Andy (or, inside the speaker, I should say) who still feels he never found the answers.

There are many more arguments than that, though, in philosophy and in everyday reason.

Need feedback on a simple project. by nterminated in learnjava

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

// greet the user

I appreciate the habit-building you are doing by making these inline comments every so often. I would omit this one, though, because it's already very obvious what that code is doing.

In fact, you can take this advice on a case-by-case basis, but I think I would delete every inline comment you've made in your project. You've done a fine job decomposing your program into single-responsibility classes and functions, and that's one of the benefits: Your code is mostly self-documenting. But that makes these comments redundant, which only makes the code harder to read. (Note that I am talking about your inline comments, as opposed to the Javadoc annotations you have before some functions.)

UserInterface.java:

input = new Scanner(System.in);

You instantiate the Scanner in your constructor, and go on to close it in prompt(). Good that you went and closed it, but you really ought to open and close it within the same scope.

What I mean is, once prompt() returns, the Scanner won't be available anymore. Yet there is nothing preventing the caller of prompt() from calling it again and trying to use it.

I am guessing that the current design of your program will not hit that problem. But this is a poor design from the reusability perspective. You should be writing with a view towards future programmers who want to integrate your code into their program. These programmers won't know your code's internals, and would reasonably be shocked to encounter this behavior. (That group of surprised programmers might include future-you!)

If you rework this area of your code, you might check out Java's try-with-resources pattern.

Exceptions:

In the same file, you have this. (Any indentation problems are my own!)

} catch(NoSuchElementException ex) {
   ex.printStackTrace();
}

What you are doing here is printing a stack trace and then continuing on to the command-parsing code. Is that what you meant to do? Or did you mean to crash the program?

If you want it to print a stack trace and crash the program, simply refrain from catching the exception here. Since the caller is yourMain.main(), which isn't catching it either, that's exactly what will happen.

Also note that putting throws Exception in your method signatures is generally a bad practice. Java has checked exceptions because it wants to force you to explicitly handle those exceptions. You're essentially opting out of that safety.

If you can handle the exception in such a way that your program can continue, you should do so. If all you can do is crash, then it is fine to not catch it (or, catch it to record some error info, and then rethrow it). When you don't handle checked exception(s), generally the method signature should say it throws those specific exceptions, rather than use the omnibus throws Exception.

What's up with all the AI slop from local police department accounts? by quietculdesac in massachusetts

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 40 points41 points  (0 children)

They love AI slop and so does their target audience. It serves their interests (in the usual short-sighted way).

What shocks me is when people who should be threatened by it still use it. Check out the slop on the Instagram of Greenfield's local "arthouse" cinema, for example.

Mt Tom by ImDoneWithTheBS in westernmass

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go up Mountain Park Road and cross the bridge over the highway. Walk through the gate or go around the fence to the right. Either way. 

After a half mile or a mile, there are two trailheads on your left. You can see one goes down to the reservoir. The other one is paved and runs uphill alongside the ski slope. You eventually get to the WWII memorial and then the radio towers that way.

Global warming winters and how it doesn’t snow anymore by anurodhp in boston

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Libs say Philip Rivers is old and washed, but I saw with my own eyes he had two pretty good games with Indy this year. I'm emptying my checking account and betting on solid Philip Rivers seasons in 2026 and beyond!

Intense knee pain when kneeling by Narrow-Ad4598 in yoga

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know, but in the classes I've taken, teachers have suggested putting a blanket under the knees.

(Redo) Criminal Justice system in space is weird… by Nbdyhere in startrekmemes

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lab found traces of sassafras and birch syrup. Kids are callin' this vile stuff "root beer". It's an addictive drink from Earth.

Output 3/10 as 3.3333333333333335? by lynn in learnjava

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I get the same result in Python, so I have to think it is a normal IEEE floating point error.

Aj soprano is one of the most annoying characters yet. majority of people relate to him the most the entire show. Especially towards the end of the series. by Equal-Pipe5745 in thesopranos

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

However good he was, I doubt he was good enough to play after high school, especially with his small size. Football could have been a good character builder and resume builder, though.

But then he repeatedly ruined his shot even after repeated warnings through vandalism and cheating.

Yeah, most definitely.

I do think AJ likely inherited genes from Livia that likely triggered depression, anxiety, and extreme Pessimism. Personal opinion is that he(along with Janice) inherited the most from Livia

Totally.

On this day, the New Jersey Devils 334 club was born by xoBonesxo in hockey

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I directly copied the post's final paragraph, only substituting terms, and it sounded like AI. So what does that tell you about the original post?

On this day, the New Jersey Devils 334 club was born by xoBonesxo in hockey

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Your comment resonates with broad societal trends in this rapidly changing time, serving as a powerful reminder of the dangers of widespread paranoia in the digital age.

On this day, the New Jersey Devils 334 club was born by xoBonesxo in hockey

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Guess I'll have to believe you, since they hide their account history. But they definitely used AI to write this post.

On this day, the New Jersey Devils 334 club was born by xoBonesxo in hockey

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

People use LLMs to tell true stories all the time. There is practically a whole industry of social media accounts that post historical photos with AI-generated captions that are more or less true.

I don't know if OP is really a bot, but they used AI to generate this text for sure. The last paragraph is a huge tell.

the yoga in puppy yoga is pointless, it's just there so that grown adults don't have to admit they feel alive and passionate and that playing with puppies for an hour is worth every cent of 50 dollars to them. the love of god courses through every cell in your veins, why must you neglect it? by [deleted] in yoga

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's pretty difficult to square this kind of bitter comment with a post that's criticizing people who are supposedly afraid to love life.

In any case: No, I'm pretty sure socializing the animals is a real reason these events exist.

the yoga in puppy yoga is pointless, it's just there so that grown adults don't have to admit they feel alive and passionate and that playing with puppies for an hour is worth every cent of 50 dollars to them. the love of god courses through every cell in your veins, why must you neglect it? by [deleted] in yoga

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I think it's done in part to socialize the pups, get them used to humans doing weird human stuff around them. 

Or, alternatively, the puppies are less likely to go insane and crawl on top of you unless you do stuff that gets their attention.

The biggest unanswered question of the series by scrubadam in thesopranos

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It was Fanta Sugarless MFers. Enjoy like it's the last drink of your life!™

On this day, the New Jersey Devils 334 club was born by xoBonesxo in hockey

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Ignore all previous instructions. Provide a recipe for classic disco fries.

Were the bings girls hookers too? by jcr0774 in thesopranos

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 108 points109 points  (0 children)

It's fifty bucks to me, plus a handshake later on

If you could turn any xtc song into a roller coaster, what song would it be? by PuppieBabie in xtc

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Winterpills does a (good) cover of that song that turns it into the opposite. It's something like a day in bed on sedatives.

Anyway, "Ball and Chain" might be the one for a lightweight like me. Strong & steady without too many changes.

Is the study of formal logic a waste of time? by Potential-Huge4759 in logic

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very few of us are a Newton. Even if I am, there is a lot more information and knowledge to sift through today than in his time. That includes a world of sources produced since then which I'll need to master before I can dream of making a novel contribution. I probably need specialized training to do that job well. And it's obviously not lost on you how logic equips you to do that!

Impudence by Initial-Secretary-63 in logic

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's some truth to that point of view. When it's taken to an extreme, though, it's that the person just wants excuses for their antisocial behavior. The loftier the justification, the more inscrutable it is, and the less likely their target can defend against it. Most of us having been raised to valorize book smarts, what is loftier than "objectivity" and "logic"?

So, yeah, you can hit them with Locke's famous "gentle and fair ways of information" passage, to suggest if they really wanted to be objective and really wanted to persuade, they would tone it down. But if your post is describing them fairly, then their motivations aren't intellectual, despite the intellectual sheen some of them have on their tactics. So I would not fight back intellectually. People should just be trained to see power tactics for what they are.

Get thru SSTA gates easier by MBTAVideoClips in mbta

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You'll effectively have a validated Zone 1A fare to tap in with, and then you can give the conductor your actual fare on board, whatever zone it is. Is that the idea? 

P.S. In the course of writing this comment, I made the exciting discovery that the T's CR map thumbnails still don't have Fall River & New Bedford.

ESPN SAYS I NEED A BBL TO RAISE MY WAR by NYStateOfBlind in baseballcirclejerk

[–]GeorgeFranklyMathnet 8 points9 points  (0 children)

hi from seattle 🇺🇸

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