HandwovenConsensus

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HandwovenConsensus ,

Sure, both sides are not the same. But the "good" side is still part of the system that allows the "bad" side to exist.

So by all means, vote for the party that will do less damage in the short term. But oppose FPTP voting at the same time.

I know that naming variables is one of the biggest unsolved problems of Computer Science but how would you name a boolean flag to be self explanatory?

What I mean is: some boolean flags are perfect for the real world phenomenon they are representing e.g. is_light_on makes you understand perfectly that when it is true the light is on and when it is false the light is off....

HandwovenConsensus ,

Couldn't you just add a comment that says that if the variable is false, then the person is sitting?

Or if the programming language supports it, you could add a getter called is_person_sitting that returns !is_person_standing.

HandwovenConsensus ,

So one dog is named Rǝx and the other is just "thǝ dog."

HandwovenConsensus ,

Aw, dang it, I thought that might be a character, but I didn't find it.

What are your experiences with the Mandela Effect?

See title. For those who don’t know, the Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where a large group of people remember something differently than how it occurred. It’s named after Nelson Mandela because a significant number of people remembered him dying in prison in the 1980s, even though he actually passed away in 2013....

HandwovenConsensus ,

I thought that until just now.

HandwovenConsensus ,

The mode of a set of numbers is the number that occurs the most times in the set.

For example, in [1,4,4,4,5,6,6,7], the mode is 4, because there are more 4s than there are any other number.

HandwovenConsensus ,

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai and Disco Elysium. Yeah, I could see that.

Anyone know what the game in the original meme is?

HandwovenConsensus ,

Thanks!

HandwovenConsensus ,

But it's redundant in that sentence because it began with "at."

HandwovenConsensus ,

There's one aspect of it that I didn't expect, and that's its exclusivity. Seems like this is a small, but vibrant, community of geeks, just like the whole internet was in the 90s and 2000s.

I'm not 100% sure it'll be able to replace reddit in the area of getting advice on niche topics, but I do believe I'll enjoy being here.

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