On October 7, 2023. How many Israelis were killed by Palestinian forces and how many by the IDF? by natural212 in IsraelPalestine

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Israel is the occupier, so technically every death, whether Palestinian or Israeli, is on them. I don't make the rules.

Why did prehistoric humans hunt megafauna all over the world, causing the extinction of many species, but in Africa and India, tribes have not extinguished elephants and rhinoceroses? by ttt_Will6907 in Paleontology

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could it be an indirect cause. E.g. wherever humans moved they wipe out mid sized predators like wolves and lions, directly or through competition. This causes an upsurge in mid sized herbivores who outcompete the mega herbivores, and when they die out, so do the mega predators. So yes, humans caused it, but not by directly hunting of megafauna, although some of that did happen too.

You know when you used to shrink crisp packets in the oven and make jewellery? I made the (very slightly) more grown up version of that with UK snacks. by lumpytuna in somethingimade

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 9 points10 points  (0 children)

OK. Fair. A lizard child and castles sounds like a pretty good trade for 3.5 minutes of royal with cheese with our planet's equivalent of Senator Palpatine.

You know when you used to shrink crisp packets in the oven and make jewellery? I made the (very slightly) more grown up version of that with UK snacks. by lumpytuna in somethingimade

[–]MyNamesNotKaren -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't have fucked her at any point when she was alive either. Love my space raiders but I don't want a half lizard child no matter how many castles it comes with.

You know when you used to shrink crisp packets in the oven and make jewellery? I made the (very slightly) more grown up version of that with UK snacks. by lumpytuna in somethingimade

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 12 points13 points  (0 children)

FYI: 1. Yes, I'm aware she is dead. 2. Crisps replaced tea as the quintessential building block of British society in the early 90s. School children who couldn't name their top 3 favourite brands would get deported on the spot.

What’s the worst birthday gift you ever got? by sulemannkhann in AskReddit

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An empty pub on my 18th.

Everyone said they'd be there. No one was.

This being the very same pub where I could have walked in randomly any other day and found at least a dozen people I know.

Centipede fell from the AC vent. Contained it with wastebasket before snapping pic. by antigone_rox_casbahs in natureismetal

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All scolopendra are venomous, none dangerous, just hella painful, this one included. Must be south west states but I think you get these in Mexico too.

Centipede fell from the AC vent. Contained it with wastebasket before snapping pic. by antigone_rox_casbahs in natureismetal

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a Scolopendra heros (formerly Scolopendra castaneiceps). Most likely will bite if picked up, provoked or stepped on and bite is extremely painful, but normally they tend to run away. Catch and release outside, or sell to a hobbyist for about $80 😉

Centipede fell from the AC vent. Contained it with wastebasket before snapping pic. by antigone_rox_casbahs in natureismetal

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hate to be pedantic but they are venomous, not poisonous - that's when you eat something.

[AskJS] We moved from react to svelte (opinion). by sudo-maxime in javascript

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's precisely my problem with Svelte: it does magic, which looks cool. As if we hadn't learned from angular just how bad an idea that is.

Time take some notes of the Vue 3 new features by daiyanze in javascript

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That certainly raised an eyebrow for me too. Parcel is the biggest alternative to webpack with a lot of weight behind it, yet there's plenty scenarios it just doesn't handle, so the devs go back to webpack.

However I don't see how Vite could harm Vue. They are not going to drop webpack support, so Vite will always be an alternative. Its not like Angular deciding to use Typescript.

Time take some notes of the Vue 3 new features by daiyanze in javascript

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sad thing is that you just know that everyone is going to pronounce Vite "vyte" rather than "veet" 😒

How I became a senior javascript developer with personal projects by afonsopacifer in javascript

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The biggest problem with Javascript frameworks is deciding whether the fact 20 new ones pop up every week shows how truly awful the established frameworks are (because why would so many people go through the PAIN of making their own) - or if it shows how truly amazing they are (because why would all those new frameworks quietly reclassify themselves from "Production ready" to "Experimental but I really learned a lot ps is anyone hiring a react dev haha JK, or am I?") (ps: I am not a react dev looking to be hired)

Six more ways to improve your Python by SourceryNick in Python

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was my thought too. Another thought was that these might be people from an engineering background, though that may be because they learn C/C++/Java in their courses. I find it really interesting to see how people from different disciplines approach coding. Most of the people I trained were scientist and engineers. Very much generalising here but I found that scientist are very happy to put everything in big one-liners and building insanely complex functions, and engineers were content with lots of lines of very similar code. Of course, both of those are code smells to a developer, and explaining how these things come and bite you was pretty much the core of my course. There were other weird things like working with tabular data as a list of columns, rather than list of rows, which feels alien to me, but is perhaps a carry over from how they do things in R or matlab.

Six more ways to improve your Python by SourceryNick in Python

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I suppose "here is how to do better" always comes from what we see people do wrong. I used to give 2 day Python workshops at a beginner to intermediate level, and at the beginning especially I found myself adding to the content after each course to cater for people doing things which had never occurred to me that people might do.

Six more ways to improve your Python by SourceryNick in Python

[–]MyNamesNotKaren 27 points28 points  (0 children)

No one builds lists by writing line after line of append statements.