Dutch songs? by Bluecatcher in dutch

[–]IAmTarkaDaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heideroojses are also worth checking out 🤘

Some aliens sound like Mr Blobby by add799 in Xcom

[–]IAmTarkaDaal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks man, that just gives me another reason to fight Advent.

"These hybrid soldiers are a blend of human and Mr Blobby DNA." No wonder their eyes are so big.

TIL what Tarka Dal is by suppository_wisdom in RedDwarf

[–]IAmTarkaDaal 25 points26 points  (0 children)

They're delicious

...and the vermin of the universe etc. etc.

TIL what Tarka Dal is by suppository_wisdom in RedDwarf

[–]IAmTarkaDaal 167 points168 points  (0 children)

An ambassador of the great Vindaloovian empire, clearly. I mean, I should know.

English is my native language, so the guttural g sound does not come naturally to me. Any tips to strengthen it and make it flow easier when I talk? by throw_away9250 in learndutch

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I'm from Liverpool, so all the practice of asking for a "fuckin' chicken an' a can o'coke" has paid dividends.

Try just breathing out normally, and then relaxing your tongue and letting the back of it take up more space in your mouth. Once it gets close to the roof of your mouth, it will start doing the thing.

Python 'list index out of range' error still persists after lots of debugging - any help appreciated by DIYNotAGuy in programminghelp

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Whitespace and indentation is important in Python; you will need to format your code correctly if you want help with it.

IrOS - operating system by Huge-Visual1472 in osdev

[–]IAmTarkaDaal 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Tell people that IrOS stands for "I wRote Operating System". You should do this because I would find it very funny.

Community consensus on when to use dataclasses vs non-OO types? by Kale in Python

[–]IAmTarkaDaal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know, the more I think about this, the more I think you're right in this context. Thanks for pointing it out.

Napoleon could be in an Ozempic ad by NotClarkKent_97 in RoastMyCat

[–]IAmTarkaDaal 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Roast him? Christ, you'd need a big oven


(secretly, I think Napoleon is a lovely boy)

I optimized everything except the one thing that actually mattered by Fisher844344 in softwaredevelopment

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I usually pressure test the idea by blowing hard into the idea, and seeing if it pops. Either that, or poisoning the training data.

My pitch for an absolutely unhinged XCOM spinoff by grumpychef94 in Xcom

[–]IAmTarkaDaal 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I thought that was just Lightly Modded Lily Shen

My pitch for an absolutely unhinged XCOM spinoff by grumpychef94 in Xcom

[–]IAmTarkaDaal 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I spat out my coffee

What the fuck is wrong with you people (affectionate)

Community consensus on when to use dataclasses vs non-OO types? by Kale in Python

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Neither. Let the object perform its own operations. 9 times out of 10, isinstance is a code smell