Type-safe lipstick :)

To offer a differing opinion, why is null helpful at all?

If you have data that may be empty, it’s better to explicitly represent that possibility with an Optional<T> generic type. This makes the API more clear, and if implicit null isn’t allowed by the language, prevents someone from passing null where a value is expected.

Or if it’s uninitialized, the data can be stored as Partial<T>, where all the fields are Optional<U>. If the type system was nominal, it would ensure that the uninitialized or partially-initialized type can’t be accidentally used where T is expected since Partial<T> != T. When the object is finally ready, have a function to convert it from Partial<T> into T.

Nestle is still evil; more news at 11.

— Netanyahu

To be fair to PDFs, they can contain JavaScript. Blame Adobe for that and their originally-exclusive-to-Acrobat extension for that.

If he had said “LaTeX” or “roff”, that might have been a good example of something that blurs the line between the two. They aren’t specifically intended to be programming languages, but with a powerful enough macro system, a markup or typesetting language can be used in the same way as something like Brainfuck.

My apologies. I misinterpret the “he” as Trump.

Do you have a better socioeconomic ideology to propose?

Anarchy can’t work on a large scale.

Communism was tried and tested, and it resulted in a dictatorship (North Korea), a “democratic” country ruled by a man whose opposition mysteriously keeps falling out of windows (Russia), or a capitalist society with eroded human rights that still calls itself communist (China).

The best option, in my opinion, is to keep what works but tax the fuck out of the rich and corporations and use their money to provide services to the less fortunate. But, thanks to decades of propaganda, half the country refuses to support that idea because socialism = communism = bad.

His replacement is (like the one he replaced) one of the most unpopular presidents in modern history

Biden: Unpopular
Trump: ???
Obama: Unpopular

And you get your facts from FOX News, right?

Let’s consider for a moment that water contains hydrogen, which is a key ingredient in thermonuclear warheads. Clearly, by shooting a little girl in an act of terrorism, they were preventing an act of terrorism.

No? Not buying that? Uhmmm… OK, well. Did you ever stop to think that perhaps the little girl was not a civilian, but an operative bringing back supplies to her Hamas handlers? The IDF didn’t know what a child was capable of, so of course they needed to use lethal force.

Still no? Well, fuck you, you’re antisemitic.

—Israel supporters

Obvious /s, I hope.

That water is super dangerous, don’t you know? It contains hydrogen, which is one of the key components in developing a thermonuclear warhead.

As an Android user, OP’s image was accurate.

• My Lemmy app couldn’t open it.
• Chromium showed the broken image icon.
• Firefox said it was broken.
• Firefox Beta with the about:config flag for enabling JXL still said it was broken.
• Gallery apps couldn’t open it.
• Renaming it to .jxl still didn’t help.

I gave up and grabbed a JPEG XL viewer/converter just to see it.

TCP is also deciding to ramp up the amount of boxes you kick over until the post worker gets crushed by boxes, at which point you decide to lower your box-kicking rate by half and try again.

I really hope your 2016 vote went to an independent, then. I’m having a hard time seeing how Trump would ever do either of those things. Granted, he might thumbs-up an ethnic cleansing if it meant remaining in power.