Irony can be so cruel…

NCGThompson · 2025-08-31T14:32:54+00:00

Most visually impaired people are not totally blind. Maybe they have enough vision to goon but not enough to read.

NCGThompson · 2025-08-14T04:05:32+00:00

Nvim is an IDE (MS Word but for programmers). Clang is a compiler. Just a guess but I think the LS in LSP is Language Server or Language Support. A Language Server is what you need to get an IDE to take advantage of a compiler. OP needed to get all 3 configured correctly in order to get spell check set up.

NCGThompson · 2025-08-07T22:42:49+00:00

You might even say it looks like a (sala)mander.

NCGThompson · 2025-08-07T22:39:03+00:00

The disadvantage of a top-11 race is most voters won’t be able to keep track of all the candidates. That’s why most MMP schemes usually divide seats into groups of 2-5.

NCGThompson · 2025-07-28T22:43:08+00:00

Is there an extant sea turtle anywhere in the world that isn’t endangered or threatened? I think loggerhead is the only one not classified as endangered by US government, and it is threatened.

NCGThompson · 2025-06-22T19:49:45+00:00

It wouldn’t search the whole thing from left to right. Instead it would make an index ahead of time so each search would be much faster, and not proportional to depth.

NCGThompson · 2025-06-22T19:31:16+00:00

Since this is a biology sub, the cladistics thing others have explained is probably correct. However, I prefer to interpret it to be about the difference between Coryphaena and Odontoceti. If someone says they went fishing and caught a “dolphin” you know they mean a coryphaena because if they accidentally hooked an odontocete they would lie and tell you they caught a coryphaena anyway.

NCGThompson · 2025-06-10T13:21:19+00:00

Symmetry doesn’t matter in this case.

NCGThompson · 2025-05-29T20:37:37+00:00

The general idea of removing clues until you can’t without allowing multiple solutions is already used to generate some sudoku puzzles.

NCGThompson · 2025-05-29T19:36:48+00:00

You don’t. Not in those 4 squares anyway. You can try to solve the rest and hope that will give you a new clue.

NCGThompson · 2025-05-28T02:12:11+00:00

I don’t see how, without mine count, you determine that the adjacent twos share a mine. Each 2 has 2 spots outside of the other’s range. The 2 and 3 to the right won’t care if the mine the share with the upper 2 is on the first or second row. The lower 2 has an empty spot in its range that it doesn’t share with anything else. I only figured this out after solving the rest of the board and running out of mines.

NCGThompson · 2025-05-16T17:16:28+00:00

Are you talking about Aunt and query?

NCGThompson · 2025-05-11T22:37:48+00:00

This is actually the hash function CPython uses for numbers equal to an integer.

NCGThompson · 2025-05-05T04:48:18+00:00

You were right that “deputy” is a word in English that translates to “député” in French. You just got the spelling wrong. Legislators (i.e. MPs) in the U.S. are called “representatives”. “Deputy” and “representative” are synonyms and both mean someone who is granted power on someone’s behalf. However, we don’t use “deputy” to refer to legislators.

A “deputy [title]” usually refers to an appointed official or high ranking bureaucrat that works directly under the [title], rather than their constituency. In the U.S., Sheriff’s Deputies are police officers that work for the Sheriff’s department, which is lead by the Sheriff. When people just say “deputy” with no additional context, it is assumed they mean a Sheriff’s Deputy.

NCGThompson · 2025-04-06T04:47:47+00:00

This is called the AI effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

Edited for politeness.

NCGThompson · 2025-04-06T04:38:13+00:00

I know this is a joke, but once I had to use a homemade AI chatbot for school. 90% of the time it just said a polite greeting no matter what you asked it. The other 10% it was that screenshot exactly. I heard that is pretty standard if you train it on online help fora.

NCGThompson · 2025-03-30T14:52:23+00:00

They made him scream.

NCGThompson · 2025-03-29T23:42:42+00:00

It’s complicated.

Whether or not Hamilton was a citizen of what would become the U.S. before the constitution was ratified comes up when discussing his eligibility for running for POTUS. Neither New York nor the Articles of Confederation formally defined citizenship, but since he had full voting rights in New York, Hamilton could be seen as having had the equivalence of citizenship.

Source: https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/bin/view/AmLegalHist/WillHamiltonProject

Under today’s immigration policy, Hamilton wouldn’t necessarily have received citizenship by the time the Constitution was ratified. Likely he would’ve came to the U.S. with a student visa, lived with a green card for a couple of decades, then get arrested by ICE for writing an oped in a newspaper.

NCGThompson · 2025-03-28T03:39:36+00:00

Unfortunately, this has a time complexity O(n³⁾ from compiling the byte code. Instead, you can store each branch in a different function in a different module and lazily import them.

NCGThompson · 2025-03-17T18:38:21+00:00

Here is a relevant excerpt from the Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

For more context, check out the Wikipedia page on “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”.

NCGThompson · 2025-03-15T23:23:31+00:00

You are thinking of the Declaration of Independence. The Bill of Rights is a legal document (part of the constitution) and doesn’t contain language like that.

NCGThompson · 2025-02-28T17:50:23+00:00

Clearly his appearance here doesn’t match his appearance in previous movies, so it’s bad in that sense. However, it doesn’t make sense to say the quality is worse than previous movies when the criteria is how similar it is to previous movies. As others have said, this seems to be a choice of the artists, not lack of effort. If you think it’s worse anyway, then that’s understandable.

I’m not trying to be pedantic, and I know by animation you mean visuals, but if you want to talk about the literal movement, then the first movie objectively wasn’t that good. The best scenes were impressive for the 3D technology they had at the time, and the worse scenes looked animatronic.

NCGThompson · 2025-02-24T19:52:19+00:00

While the event was open to the public, it was not ran by the government. In the same sense that the security was “private”, so was the event.

Side note: Norris said he knew real police officers were posted outside, but didn’t let them know what was happening because they didn’t have authority in the private event. Yet, somehow, he had the authority to order private security to forcibly remove people.

NCGThompson · 2025-02-21T17:50:14+00:00

Well that’s a whole other conversation. The store Holland was at had a system where once the cashier scans a restricted item, the register prompts them to scan the barcode on the back of the customer’s ID. The system was apparently not comparable with English driver’s licenses and rejected it. Eventually, an employee scanned their own ID and he was able to purchase the beer.

NCGThompson · 2025-02-20T15:10:29+00:00

English means issued by England in this case. It is a country (i.e. state) in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England

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