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[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Naah, the rest of us will just do what we did last time he was in the WH. Ignore for the most part whatever nonsense he spouts, host him occasionally because after all he is the US President and we need to keep good relations with the US, and otherwise just get on with life while America inspects its own arsehole for four years, then breathe a sigh of relief when he leaves.

Ukraine might be fucked though. Depends if Europe can step up to fill in for what no longer comes from across the pond.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have a friend who thinks LOL means "lots of love" and uses it as a generic signoff.

Had to reread it several times when he wrote "Mother in law died yesterday LOL".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, I'm not intentionally lying but I may have been misinformed. TIL, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's bonkers, St Paul repeatedly talks about how circumcision isn't a thing Christians need to do, even rebuking those who said it was: Gal 5:12.

https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=circumcision&version=NIV

especially 1 Cor 7:19 "Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands is what counts."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If capitalisation is used to indicate the start of words then it could make sense for a webserver to serve ExpertsExchange and ExpertSexChange. But yeah having 16 possible versions of "main" would be horrendous.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Perhaps you could update the Wikipedia article with your knowledge

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

"It consisted of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria; this was also known as the Quadruple Alliance"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Must be the updated version of ~~~~####3$3$$%^^~~~! NO CARRIER

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (8 children)

It's not stolen. Brief history lesson:

The lands of Israel and Jordan used to be part of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans sided with the Nazis.

Brief aside: we know the Arabs believe that if you win a war, you win the land, and if you lose a war, you lose the land, because that's what they want to happen with Israel. So this principle applies to them as well.

When the Nazis lost, the Ottomans also lost, and that's where the British and French Mandates began. The land was no longer owned by the Arabs because, according to the principle they live by, they lost the war, therefore they lost the land.

The British Mandate for Palestine comprised an amount of previously Ottoman land, of which they allocated one third to the new country Israel (which includes Gaza and the West Bank), and two thirds to the new country Transjordan, later renamed Jordan. The land of Israel was not stolen by the Jews from the Arabs, it was lost by the Arabs in a war they lost. But they got two thirds of that land back, i.e. Jordan.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm British and I only eat beans and curry, so I can't see any problem here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Also misspelt "even", and ended a sentence with a preposition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lower performance though. At each iteration through the string you need to compare the length with a counter, which if you want strings longer than 255 characters will have to be multibyte. With NTS you don't need the counter or the multibyte comparison, strings can be indefinitely long, and you only need to check if the byte you just looked at is zero, which most CPUs do for free so you just use a branch-if-[not-]zero instruction.

The terminating null also gives you a fairly obvious visual clue where the end of the string is when you're debugging with a memory dump. Can you tell where the end of this string is: "ABCDEFGH"? What about now: "ABCD\0EFGH"?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

His nickname's CleverDick.

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