I suppose it’s conceivable that there’s a bug in converting between different representations of Unicode, but I’m not buying and of this “detected which language is being spoken” nonsense or the use of character sets. It would just use Unicode.

The modulo idea makes absolutely no sense, as LLMs use tokens, not characters, and there’s soooooo many tokens. It would make no sense to make those tokens ambiguous.

As a daily reader of SMBC, I can confidently tell you this rule is a suggestion at best.

Does this logic apply in China?

I’m Israeli and I totally agree, what the actual fuck?

Like most things in life, context matters. In the OP it seems like the check function is used specifically so it could raise a PaymentException if the payment hasn’t been received… That’s not a “forgiveness/permission” context, this is a yes or no question, hence should have been an if.

Is this feature common in scripting/interpreted languages? Feels like those two things don’t work together.

git: 'extra' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

gestures at butterfly this code

Is this self-documenting code?

No reason to name an person just to make fun of what they wrote. Why would you go out of your way to find the original issue?

I try to understand reality, not fiction. What about you?

Edit: actually I do try to understand fiction quite often, but it usually doesn’t pretend to be reality

My point is that Israel is not a colony and has a right to exist.

I am not excusing what is being done to Palestinians. I strive for peace, and Israel is showing no signs of it anymore, though it absolutely did just a few decades ago. But no one is saying all of Russia doesn’t have a right to exist because it attacked Ukraine. No one is saying USA or Canada don’t have a right to exist because of how they historically treated and are still treating native Americans. And no one should be saying that Israel doesn’t have a right to exist.

Coexistence is the only solution. It seems impossible today, but it’s the only possible solution that could possibly work. Anything else is even more detached from reality.

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No country is fully independent. Not even USA.

That doesn’t really address the point though… Israel is independent, and was so from the start. It’s not bound to any other western country’s rule, which is the first requirement for being a colony.

The giant gaping hole in calling Israel a “western colony” is that it has no homeland. It’s not a British colony, or a French colony, or a colony of any other country. If Israel as a country stops existing, the vast majority of its citizens don’t have citizenship in any other country and have literally nowhere else to go. Therefore it’s not a colony and it’s not colonialism, it’s an independent country.