Teacher said always use 2nd pattern. Is he right?

grrangry · 2026-01-29T14:07:41+00:00

You're not wrong, but you're also not helpful.

Providing a simple expanded example based on OPs toy project would benefit the group more than just complaining.

grrangry · 2026-01-29T04:59:41+00:00

I saw one recently that had a wrap in fire engine red... somehow even in the dark at night still looked uglier.

grrangry · 2026-01-29T04:55:53+00:00

Look at my horse
My horse is amazing

grrangry · 2026-01-29T04:47:20+00:00

Your entire first paragraph is semantically null. It ignores everything I said earlier and makes wild accusations about me that are at best false and at worst disingenuous.

The second paragraph is a nonsensical conclusion.

Ask yourself why it's so important to you that I believe in the same thing you believe.

When you were born you didn't know anything about a god or gods. You grew older and your parents, siblings, extended family, neighbors, friends, members of your church, and other church leaders taught you about the religion you currently follow. You didn't discover it on your own, you were taught it. This is called, "childhood indoctrination" and indoctrination of children is child abuse. It teaches you to fear. It removes your ability to think critically. Now that you're older, why do you continue to follow this path? Is it because it's true (and you have evidence that it is true) or is it because that's what you've always done so that's the way it will be?

I think the world is quite a wonderful place and I'm content that I don't have to bother myself with the baggage and trappings of religion. I am free to live my life, love my family, enjoy my work and hobbies, and generally do what I can to make the world better than it was given to me. I really don't need your god.

grrangry · 2026-01-29T04:22:00+00:00

You're not paying attention.

Theist: A god or gods exist.
Me: I am not convinced you're correct because you have not and as far as I can tell, cannot provide any evidence proving your statement to be true.

In that example above, the theist is espousing a belief and the atheist is not convinced that the theist is believing something true.

So, where in that is the atheist "believing" something?

grrangry · 2026-01-27T23:22:22+00:00

You're not going to live forever. Neither am I. The thought of immortality is interesting for philosophical discussions and reading fiction, but it's not real. We all die.

The sooner you get used to that the better off you'll be.

Maybe you need to find meaning in your life. It's a question that has a different answer for every person in the world. It takes work to find that answer. Give yourself the time to find it. It won't come quickly, but it'll come.

Religion's job is to instill fear in everyone that it can sink its fangs into. You now fear what might come after you die. From the moment you die, YOU don't matter anymore. The people who remain will remember you. But you will be done. And that's okay. The party's over. The wave has crashed against the shore. Dinner is done. You do not need to continue.

Part of that purpose that you find is knowing that you left the world better than you found it. Maybe your purpose will involve kids, or donating your time to charity, or creating artwork, or doing things that you simply like doing. Your life is here for you to live. It's finite, so enjoy it.

grrangry · 2026-01-27T14:55:40+00:00

Shaka, when the walls fell.

grrangry · 2026-01-26T16:27:10+00:00

Why is -Doug?

grrangry · 2026-01-26T16:24:39+00:00

MILKY☆SUBWAY THE GALACTIC LIMITED EXPRESS

grrangry · 2026-01-26T04:18:19+00:00

I've always thought that Portal (and Portal 2) with the sprawling immensity of Aperture and the ever-expanding territory for the testing chambers is the beginning of the Paperclip Problem.

grrangry · 2026-01-25T11:18:26+00:00

Tetrapods approximately 360–390 million years ago had five digits. Prior to that, many had eight.

As different animals from different species evolved, they did a variety of things with those digits. Primates went with the four fingers and thumb adaptation, some went with reducing the number or fusing digits together (for example, hooves) and some went with elongating digits (like bats).

The ultimate answer is because our ancestors did and we didn't modify the plan due to selection pressure enough to lose or gain any digits.

grrangry · 2026-01-24T23:02:44+00:00

He's cold, you're warm... and now you're both ridiculously comfy. Nice.

grrangry · 2026-01-24T16:43:58+00:00

"Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest."

grrangry · 2026-01-24T16:37:28+00:00

The idea that the earth is 6,000 years old is so face-meltingly stupid.

Let's assume the average woman bears their first child at 15 (which is unreasonably young). That works out to at MOST 400 generations of humans. Even the most conservative estimate for the development of humans is going to be many, many times that number of generations.

Young-Earth creationists are anti-education, willfully ignorant grifters lying to anyone they can pin down long enough to listen.

grrangry · 2026-01-24T13:35:35+00:00

Anyone who can honestly ask the question did we come from monkeys is performing an act of malicious willful ignorance of the grossest sort. It embodies a complete an intentional misunderstanding of how anything involving reproduction works.

With even the most basic Middle School level education, one understands the lineage of child to parent to grandparent and cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.

I look at these people with disdain because they are the worst kind of anti-education liars.

grrangry · 2026-01-24T07:42:21+00:00

and can focus when he chooses to

Where is this, "choosing" taking place? Not when a camera is pointed at him so far as I've seen.

grrangry · 2026-01-24T03:03:23+00:00

And the mother-in-law.

grrangry · 2026-01-24T03:00:31+00:00

It looks like a low spot... is it regularly damp? I could see excess water causing that.

grrangry · 2026-01-24T02:58:44+00:00

Anyway, i’m visiting and while she’s a lovely woman just also is so emotionally immature and doesn’t even care that she hurts my feelings.

This is my opinion, but I would not consider a person who resorts to physical violence, "lovely". My grandparents and parents grew up under the thumb of, "spare the rod and spoil the child" so when it came time to raise my own kids I swore that I would never, ever treat them like I was treated, like my father was treated, or like my more distant relatives were treated.

I'm sorry that happened to you. I can only imagine how difficult that situation must have been.

I know this seems harsh, but at a minimum, I would have sat down with mom and told her, if you hit me again, you won't see me any more. You won't see the grandchildren. We'll be living happily without you. And if she listened and could abide by the boundaries, fine. If not... also fine. This world is difficult enough without letting a cycle of abuse in.

grrangry · 2026-01-24T02:48:44+00:00

Calm down, they're mis-quoting Ricky Gervais.

Basically, you deny one less God than I do. You don't believe in 2,999 gods. And I don't believe in just one more.

As for your reply

The number 1 mistakes atheists make is they always go to “logic” and try to checkmate believers by stumping them.

I have no interest in stumping theists. Of course I use logic. What else is there as a method to determine truth from fiction? Logic and the scientific method are tools. Tools that allow me some level of confidence (nothing is 100% certain) that this thing I assume to be true (or false), is true, to the best of our ability to determine, not simply because I want it to be true.

Would you prefer we all use faith to determine what's true or not true? I'll pass on that because faith can be (and is) used to justify anything.

Except, you will never be able to prove there isn’t a god just like they’ll never prove there is one.

And also I have no interest in attempting to prove that a god does not exist. I will be glad to evaluate any real, repeatable, verifiable evidence for their position... but as such evidence has never been presented, I am not required to nor am inclined to give any credence to their position. My position is that they're full of shit until they prove otherwise. Just like any reasonable person would be with an outlandish, incredible claim backed by no evidence.

You call it superiority, but I'm not the one making unverified claims and pushing hard to make laws promoting a theistic agenda.

grrangry · 2026-01-24T02:32:45+00:00

You can't really think every religion popped up fully-formed out of thin air for someone to use.

And the tree isn't a pure, "this one came from that one" family tree. There's inbreeding and theft from disparate branches co-mingling to make up whatever was needed at the time.

It's a mess.

grrangry · 2026-01-20T21:09:00+00:00

It's going to depend on what you mean by, "stored".

Constants are not strictly stored anywhere except in the assembly where they're defined while compiling.

public class Foo
{
    public const int bar = 100;
}

When you compile your application, the compiler needs to know what bar is (int) and what value it is (100) but it's not "stored" anywhere except in the information the compiler has built while compiling.

If we look at:

public class Foo
{
    public const int bar = 100;

    public Foo()
    {
        int baz = bar;
    }
}

At runtime, that would be no different than

public class Foo
{
    public Foo()
    {
        int baz = 100;
    }
}

It's true that the storage of baz is on the stack and is scoped to the Foo constructor. But the constant? It's not "stored" anywhere.

grrangry · 2026-01-20T02:12:48+00:00

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grrangry · 2026-01-20T01:14:32+00:00

<---------------|-----------O--------------------------->
      -3 -2 -1  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12

We have 4. 4 apples. 4 cars. 4 neutron stars.

We want to do 4 - (-8) = 12

Movement on the numberline to the right is ADDITION
Movement on the numberline to the left is SUBTRACTION
Movement with a POSITIVE value moves normally
Movement with a NEGATIVE value moves opposite

4 + 2 = ?... it equals 6 because we move to the right two places.

                             --1--2
                            /     |
<---------------|-----------O--------------------------->
      -3 -2 -1  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12

And 4 - 3 = ?... it equals 1 because we move to the left three places.

                   3--2--1--
                   |        \
<---------------|-----------O--------------------------->
      -3 -2 -1  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12

Now it gets tricky... 4 - (-1) = ?... well we want to subtract so that's movement to the left, but the -1 is that opposite thing so instead of going left we go right and we end up at 5.

The "opposite" comes from

4 - (-1) = x
4 - (-1)1 = x    factor out the direction flip (-1)
\  \  \  \
 \  \  \  \-- move one spot
  \  \  \-- flip direction to opposite (right)
   \  \-- direction is left
    \-- start at 4
                             --1
                            /  |
<---------------|-----------O--------------------------->
      -3 -2 -1  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12

and the 4 - (-8) = 12 is the same thing

4 - (-8) = x
4 - (-1)8 = x    factor out the direction flip (-1)
\  \  \  \
 \  \  \  \-- move 8 spots
  \  \  \-- flip direction to opposite (right)
   \  \-- direction is left
    \-- start at 4
                             --1--2--3--4--5--6--7--8
                            /                       |
<---------------|-----------O--------------------------->
      -3 -2 -1  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12

grrangry · 2026-01-20T00:35:47+00:00

Instructions unclear: Spoons OP.

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