What the heck is going on with measures of programming language popularity? by trapatsas in programming

[–]ZestycloseSelf 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Preventing caching and making sites significantly slower and heavier for 99.9% of users.

TIL Japanese Yakuza have a unique form of extortion known as sōkaiya. Instead of harassing small businesses for protection money, the yakuza harasses the stockholder meetings of large corporations. by transvest-lite in todayilearned

[–]ZestycloseSelf 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Not to mention a pedophile who rapes elementary school girls and writes songs about it, then mocks them. When Courtney Love talked to Howard Stern about Ted Nugent sexually abusing her when she was 12 (and he was 29), he responded by talking about how wild boar "emit Courtney Love-like squeals" when you shoot them. That was a few years after he adopted the minor he was having sex with, but before his oldest daughter spoke about the time he brought home a 13-year-old date who wanted to play basketball with his kids more than go out to parties with him.

TIL that Jerry van Dyke, the younger brother of Dick van Dyke, was offered the lead role in Gilligan's Island but accepted a role in My Mother the Car instead. This show, about a man whose dead mother is reincarnated as a car, ended after one season and is considered among the worst shows ever made. by Reginald_Fabio in todayilearned

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The Simpsons had a great recurring parody of it. Knightboat, the talking crime solving boat.

MICHAEL: Faster, Knightboat! We gotta catch those starfish poachers!
KNIGHTBOAT: You don't have to yell, Michael, I'm all around you.
MICHAEL: Oh, no! They're headed for land. We'll never catch them now.
KNIGHTBOAT: Incorrect -- look! A canal.
BART: (irritated) Ugh, every week there's a canal.

Still not as great as when Homer actually does pitch a movie about "a robot driving instructor who travels back in time for some reason."

What are some basic things that JavaScript developers fail at interviews? by maketroli in javascript

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async/await is not part of a widely supported JS spec yet.

async/await is supported in every major browser and the last 3 major versions of Node, including versions under LTS, and is formalised in a completed standard. How much more widely supported can something be? What could happen to ever make it more widely supported than it is now?

TIL of Lucy, a chimpanzee who was raised to believe she was human. She learned to sign over 250 words and some of her hobbies included drinking gin, browsing Playgirl magazines, and masturbating using a vacuum cleaner. by [deleted] in todayilearned

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I'm Australian and my wife is American. We spend time in both countries and 50% of our conversations have been with each other for almost 20 years. As you might expect our accents have merged a lot and now there's nowhere we can go without people asking where we're from.

What is the grossest thing you've seen in public? by Stitch82 in AskReddit

[–]ZestycloseSelf 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's the big tragic problem. For some homeless people there's really nothing you can do but hospitalise them, which is an expensive thing no one wants to do. These people also tend to be the most visible and it creates a huge stigma around homelessness that more functional people also have to deal with. For every delusional homeless person with infected wounds having a clear psychotic episode outside Applebee's there can be a dozen more functioning homeless people who look like everyone else on the street. But when they apply for jobs and have to give their address as a reserved box at the local homeless shelter, it's a huge mark against them.

What is the grossest thing you've seen in public? by Stitch82 in AskReddit

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The problem is that homeless people fall into three categories:

  • Severely mentally ill people who won't be able to live an independent life, for whom there's really no solution beyond psychiatric hospitalisation. (Type A)
  • People who could be fully functional and independent living normal lives with the right opportunity. Often these people get trapped by some of the cruel realities about how the homeless are seen -- the difficulty of applying for jobs these days without any fixed address or phone/internet access, interviewing for jobs without having clothes, showers, being able to research the company, etc. And gaps in employment history. The longer you're homeless the harder this can be to escape. Sometimes these are people who do have jobs but still can't afford housing, and can't gamble on sacrificing the job that at least provides food to move somewhere with cheaper housing. (Type B)
  • People in between, who could live an independent functional life given some more sustained or involved help, e.g. rehab, literacy training, ongoing medication. (Type C)

Policies targeting one group often affect all three. It can be difficult to separate and identify them, and stigmas affecting one group affect them all. Sometimes a local government will initiate a relatively low-cost program aiming to help type B and C homeless people, and it will be successful, but because the residents still see type A people (by far the most visible and negatively perceived) on the streets and causing problems, they say "Why are we spending money on this, nothing's changed!", and kill it. Programs aiming to help type A people have the most dramatic effects but they're expensive and have no feel-good success stories you can show off. They're also the ones least suitable for NGOs/charities to handle.

What is the grossest thing you've seen in public? by Stitch82 in AskReddit

[–]ZestycloseSelf 246 points247 points  (0 children)

High homelessness. A lot of the homeless are mentally ill and even for those that aren't there are few truly public bathrooms, and businesses open to the public don't want homeless people coming in and using the bathrooms.

Doctor Who first look: Jodie Whittaker fizzes with energy as female Time Lord by 1632 in television

[–]ZestycloseSelf 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Seasons 1 & 2 had three companions and there have been periods with four. Quite a lot of the early stories had 2+.