I didn’t see the domain at first, haha. Substitute in Italy or Poland if you want. You should think about Sweden or Greece a lot less, by that measure.

By money or something like that Iraq is way smaller than Canada, and by geopolitics way bigger. By land it’s between Sweden and Japan. We’re all kind of in an information bubble in the first world. It’s okay, the first step is knowing you have a problem.

Ordinal vs. cardinal. It’s “first” not “onest”, right? Even the ancient proto-Germanic speakers could tell there’s a difference. (In fact, it’s basically a contraction of “foremost”, and has nothing to do with numbers; their weak numeracy was an advantage on this topic)

If we weren’t implicitly choosing 1-indexing it would be 1nd for “second” (and still not “onend” or something). That breaks down once you get to third and fourth, though.

Why the fuck would you spell it “1st” if it’s not 1?

Edit: Which is not pronounced “onest”. I think people might be missing the point here; I’m actually a fan of zero indexing.

Why? It seems exactly as valid to me, and more valid if you like positional numberings of your physical stuff.

You just count the number of times you departed from an item in order, rather than the times you arrived.

Just going by population, you should about as much as you think about Canada.

Hmm. Unofficial Kurdish state in the north, typical Middle Eastern country in the south. Lots of Iranian influence. It had a wild ride thanks to warmongering Americans and Saddam, but as far as I can tell it’s settled down since the end of ISIS as a territory-holding entity.

Aside from the politics, it’s home to a lot of the oldest cities and ruins in existence. Like the rest of the region it used to be greener, but millennia of agriculture takes a toll.

EZ, no password on password manager.

[Points at head]

No. Any rigged hardware dragnet that catches me will catch tons of “friendly” people, and I’m not important enough to personally target.

Probably comparable to rage comics.

All 4 of them, as of posting, compared to the 25 upvotes.

That gives all gif/jif stuff right now.

Oh, Lemmy.

I guess in real life that’s polarising…

On here it’s just preaching to the choir, thus the upvotes.

On the one hand, it’s a victimless crime, at least roughly. On the other, people have been shown incapable of making the obvious correct decision on their own.

Yep. Sadly, I’m not sure there’s another way for most people. On Lemmy we’re mostly nerds, but would most people have learned even basic math if they didn’t have to?

In some ways, the most motivated or talented students are just as ill-fitted to the production line system of education as the disabled ones.

Is there some individual news story this relates to?

A meme that comes quickly, goes quickly.

It’s not an actual organised group, if you didn’t know. Anyone can hack something and then say “Done by Anonymous”.

Yes, computers in their various forms are now so user friendly (and often locked down, because fuck you) that you don’t learn much using them. The golden age for learning tech on the fly seems to have been 1990-2010 or so, because computers were both accessible and still had exposed inner logic.

Yes. That being said, it matters which language you choose. COBOL is always a bad choice, unless writing in COBOL is the whole point. There isn’t really a universal best choice, either. Python is often a good one, but if you’re doing something big it will become this meme.

I don’t think that’s quite right. It’s more like if you have to choose a language before you know what you’re doing, Python is the best choice. For anything large enough it’s multiple places down the list, but you really don’t want to have to learn Rust and possibly reinvent wheels for your quick boilerplate hack.