dodgy_bagel

joined 1 year ago

Honestly, sorting algos are serious nerd shit. They're for suckers and losers. If it's not worth doing, insertion sort every day of the week. Compute is cheap. If it's actually important, then it's TimSort (it's never important).

[โ€“] dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Out of the hundreds of judges, over 97% were born on Earth.

All 97%, and all of the remaining 3%, have lived on or in the orbit of Earth for the past three consecutive years. Their financial records indicate that their income is primarily from terrestrial sources.

something something atmospheric pressure something something

As a workaround with the default directory fuckery, I always just made new ones.

I'm not confident my tax documents aren't saved to my dektop.

I usually air gap onto an external disk, but I've been busy recently.

I can see windows internet related services being tested with edge.

[โ€“] dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry about you not seeing the lightning bug.

Insects are dying out a bit.

Tasty... cheese.

Suggesting perhaps that all other varients are not tasty?

[โ€“] dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Cheddar cheese is woke?

[โ€“] dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

How much have you read about the history of religion?

If they're not doing it to others, they're doing it to themselves. The last time there wasn't a Christian church leader ranting about an evil person was around year 0.

[โ€“] dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Plato has basically nothing to do with modern politics.

You're going to laugh, but I'm absolutely serious here: if your objective is to understand modern politics, I would start with The Prince and the Communist Manifesto.

Both of these are short, written by extremely influential figures, written for non-academic audiences, and have some amount of relevancy to current political operations. They absolutely do not explain modern politics, but they are important foundational texts. Spend 20 hours on the manifesto; 2 hours to read and 18 hours of commentary and related topics. Avoid going deeper into the communist rabbit holes. stop there. Spend 30 hours on the prince; look for college level lectures. You can spend more than 30 if you like, but don't go for the self help guru dipshits, obviously.

Just keep in mind the target audences and the potential bias the two authors bring to the table.

After those two, I want you to read On Liberty and read up on John Locke's social contract theory. Those four works will get you a lot of milage.

[โ€“] dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

A book about current events or a book about the study of politics? OP indicated they were political theory focused, so a lot of the theory was written by old dead guys; not exactly news about current events.

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