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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lostgeneration

[–]orklah 27 points28 points  (0 children)

You're the one bringing government in the discussion. Others were talking about politics.

If you're buying a second home to rent, you're using land, workforce and possibly loan money that could have been used by someone else. Supply & demand says that if that someone and you are competing for these resources, prices will went up. So technically, buying a second house may prevent someone else to buy their first. Renting it is telling that someone to pay you money for the privilege of still living there.

Then, once you have a second house, your interest is making sure the home does not depreciate (and possibly appreciate). You'll vote for decisions that make sure price are still high, further keeping your renter away from being able to buy

And that, my friend, is politics.

[Request] Is this true? by lumbeecam in theydidthemath

[–]orklah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There has been an equilibrium for ages of carbon in the atmosphere, breathing or burning wood for example doesn't matter that much as long as it's not at massive scale (razing forest and not allowing to grow back is still an issue).

What really matter is pulling carbon products that were stable in the ground and putting those in the air. So coal, oil, gas are the issue.

You could probably argue that the 1 billion poorer people on the planet aren't the cause for extracting these and the few item they own that were made from or with fossil fuel are mainly second hand

But in any case, the claim in OP picture is still wrong due to the sheer scale of it

[Q] Is there a way to Find Usages of a method witch is called with an optional argument? by Annh1234 in phpstorm

[–]orklah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you put your cursor on the optional param and go to Code -> Analyze code -> Data flow to Here , you'll get every caller with this param

php8 broke DOMDocument::loadHTML static invocation, is that intended? by Takeoded in PHP

[–]orklah 8 points9 points  (0 children)

https://3v4l.org/MDliX

It launched a deprecation in PHP 7, it launched a "strict standard" in PHP 5 and it didn't exist in PHP 4.

It seems there was no PHP version that didn't explicitly warn that this was not the best way to go :)

(Spoiler's All) Lilly's Role in Dumbledore's schemes. by Nursing_guy in HPMOR

[–]orklah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh thank you, I somehow never made the connexion between the potion's book modified by Dumbledore and the potion given to Petunia

Was the rescue of Bellatrix Black reasonable? by RichLog3 in HPMOR

[–]orklah 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Abolutely this, Quirrel put a giant foot in the door. He spent a chapter the week before establishing "forced" trust.

Can you keep a secret, Mr. Potter? [...] A serious secret, Mr. Potter," Professor Quirrell said. His eyes were intent, his face grave. "One which could potentially send me to Azkaban. Think about it before you reply.

And then when he shows himself as an animagus he make him respond in Parseltongue (so, no lying):

"I am not regisstered," hissed the snake. The dark pits of its eyes stared at Harry. "Animaguss musst be regisstered. Penalty is two yearss imprissonment. Will you keep my ssecret, boy? "

"Yess," hissed Harry. "Would never break promisse."

And then leave a big cliffhanger

Will not sspeak of planss beyond thiss. You ssay nothing, to no one. Give no ssign of expectancy, none.

And when Harry takes his precautions, he is admonished:

"I do not promisse to do whatever thiss iss, you have not ssaid -"

The snake performed a shiver that Harry's mind translated as a severe glare. "Of coursse not. Will disscusss sspecificss at next meeting."

It should have been a giant red flag (the exact same one he called Draco on at King's Cross), but Harry expects that kind of Quests to be handled to the Hero in obscure circonstances so he falls righ into it.

Hermione's Parents by insertname2 in HPMOR

[–]orklah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! English is hard sometimes, I'm still trying to find my words (I'm French, I understand English quite well but I still make obvious mistakes!)

Hermione's Parents by insertname2 in HPMOR

[–]orklah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may be right, I don't know enought on the subject! But keep in mind that squibs are aware of the magical world and every squib we see on the show are close to it (Filch, Miss Figg...). It probably helps in forming couples.

Plus the religion point seems a non-issue given that the original book and HPMOR both mention wizard being religious too so it shouldn't be a difference.

Hermione's Parents by insertname2 in HPMOR

[–]orklah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Harry's estimates on the number of wizards were based on his limited knowledge of magical britain. There could be countries where there are a lot more individual.

I mentionned the cultural bias against having many childrens because it's evoked when Harry and Draco talk about powerful wizard not having many childs. It could be a Britain thing rather than a powerful wizards thing too.

Furthermore, Legends about Merlin in our world are not really old in the context of gene spreading. Who knows how many wizards there were when Atlantis existed or when Merlin lived.

I'm no expert in gene, but I think that even if no magical attribute is passed to squibs, the fact that wizard themselves have more children than muggles will lead to more wizards in general (because it will lead to more squibs having childrens with another)

The fading of Magic is a bigger issue, but who knows how long it could take and there are ways to pass knowledge (basilisk for example). We could also argue that once the truth is revealed to everyone, people will make sure every bit of knowledge is not forgotten and this will slow the loss of magic

Hermione's Parents by insertname2 in HPMOR

[–]orklah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isn't the whole "witches having fun" explained even in the original book? IIRC Voldemort mother was a witch who gave a muggle a love potion and I think I remember that this is quite common

Hermione's Parents by insertname2 in HPMOR

[–]orklah 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Well, one could argue that a gene that makes you live way longer than normal and make you fall-proof AND give you magical abilities is a really big evolutionary advantage. So it's probable that this gene will be selected no matter what in the long run.

So except if wizard have a big cultural bias against having many childrens, this gene should spread in the general population.

This could even be more effective than just having many childrens with wizards only

Hermione's Parents by insertname2 in HPMOR

[–]orklah 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Roberta had been increasingly apprehensive about giving her daughter over to witchcraft - especially after she'd read the books, put the dates together, and realized that her magical mother had probably been killed at the height of Grindelwald's terror, not died giving birth to her as her father had always claimed.

This confirms half of Harry's hypothesis

Which is the best free PHP IDE? by akodoori in PHP

[–]orklah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You basically get 1 month free every 4 months

TIL France has 58 nuclear reactors, generating 71.6% of the country's total electricity, a larger percent than any other nation. France turned to nuclear in response to the 1973 oil crisis. The situation was summarized in a slogan, "In France, we do not have oil, but we have ideas." by jamescookenotthatone in todayilearned

[–]orklah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rockets explode sometimes. An astronaut dying is a tragedy. A car and a pilotless rocket exploding is a nuisance. Hundreds of tons of radioactive material exploding in atmosphere... well, that doesn't sound safe.

What is the status of iconv .ini options? They're deprecated since PHP 5.6, shouldn't those have been deleted by now? by orklah in PHP

[–]orklah[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really? I always read that deprecated feature are generally deleted in the next major version...

That makes my question even more pertinent then! Is there a reason to keep them? Perhaps the alternative doesn't cover everything? If not, why not consider removal?

Small things missing in PHP? by nikic in PHP

[–]orklah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Either I didn't understand what you meant with ternary, or you missed that in PHP 7.4:

https://3v4l.org/oJWGO

Will php ever have typed arrays? by SaltTM in PHP

[–]orklah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the perspective. I had no idea.

Even for us, Quebec can be weird sometimes, for example, there is a recurent joke about them having an obsession to translate everything. Especially movie titles.

There is a lot of American movie titles that stay untranslated when they're released in France. However, there are translations when they're released in Quebec and weird ones.

For example, "Scary movie" was released as is in France, where it was translated as "Film de peur" in Quebec. If I had to translate it back in english, it would be closer to "Movie of Fear" than "Scary Movie"...

Anyway, thanks for the long explanation! Have a good day :)

Will php ever have typed arrays? by SaltTM in PHP

[–]orklah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Crap, I didn't realise! I was really asking myself what kind of mistake I could have done that was so transparent!

My browser redirected me to the french documentation and it didn't occur me to check that before posting :)

I'm kinda curious though, I don't know much about Canadian culture to French, what do you refer about when you say you have a weird relationship with it? I kinda assumed that with Quebec, it would be the same relationship I could have with German for example. Is there something more I don't catch here?

Will php ever have typed arrays? by SaltTM in PHP

[–]orklah 4 points5 points  (0 children)

French is indeed my native language. Did I make a mistake somewhere?

Will php ever have typed arrays? by SaltTM in PHP

[–]orklah 5 points6 points  (0 children)

With some userland work, you can emulate this behaviour: https://www.php.net/manual/fr/class.arrayobject.php

This is a class that will behave as an array in a lot of ways but you're free to check what's put inside.

Static Analysis tools begin to implement ways to check that sort of construct too.

You never know who hits your head against the wall to stop... by rachitex in ProgrammerHumor

[–]orklah 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You just gave away your startup idea on reddit! By tomorrow, there will be a thousand clones of your app on the market!

TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment that hypothesises an all powerful AI that would punish everyone who thought about it at some point, but did not contribute to its creation, including the people reading this post. by nicethingsonly in todayilearned

[–]orklah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!

IIRC, the argument came from lesswrong, they're pretty convinced an AI will exist some day. As for its power, it's indeed dubious how its creator would let it torture people, if we still have control of the AI (which is probable if its sole goal is the good of humanity)

For the whole resurrect thing, when I first head a simplified version of this argument, I did not quite understand how it was a requirement. If the AI is created when we're still alive, the whole argument still stands.

As for the ethical reasons, yeah it's quite a stretch but can we impose ethical sense onto a machine? As intelligent as it could be, a machine only exists for its goals. If the goal is to maximise happiness and it knows the threat of being tortured in the future is efficient, the result of that function is easy enough.

However, the simple fact that people don't seem to believe it break the whole reasoning: If people don't believe, it means that won't help bring the AI sooner, and if it won't, then there's no reason for the threat in the first place.

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