kryptonianCodeMonkey

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bank Workers, Rejoice!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Headline: Save 200 dollars a month with a 50 year mortgage over a 30 year!

  Subtext: … and end up paying double the interest to us for the benefit, and die before your loan is paid off so we get to take the house back from your corpse, sell it on the cheap to a corporate real-estate investment firm (that we have stock in) for just enough to cover the remaining mortgage balance. They’ll turn your multi-generational family home into a shitty rental property or leave it empty to keep the rest of their rents high and your children get nothing cuz fuck em!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Confederacy (or whatever)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Skinny arms, skinny torso… neck thicker than his head. By anatomical proportionality, he might be the most redneck to ever exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Never used honey mustard, but classic yellow mustard in a chili cheese dog is always great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… if you want to clean up a bunch of salts you’re creating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I know. And to maintain homeostasis, it has means to make adjustments to changes, like pH. Which means you can change the pH of some fluid in the body, and it will correct this change. We are not saying anything different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok. Then they’re wrong. The human body’s overall pH can vary within to a small degree with little to no effect on your health, let alone kill you. Changing the pH in small amounts, particularly in different areas like the stomach, will not typically harm the body at all. The entire purpose of some medications like antacids is to do that specifically with the stomach, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You replied to me, dude. And I said me than one thing. Idk what the hell you’re claiming will kill you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm TIL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It absolutely will not. If it did, it would kill you.

  Then what does that mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was more of a physics nerd. Can’t say I’ve heard of such a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How would a negligible change in your stomach acidity kill you? What do you think tums do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didnt say it would make a significant or even measurable difference. But it will technically drop your overall pH. If I drop any mass basic material in any volume of acidic material with which it can react, there will be some net change in acidity, even if negligible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the purpose is to reduce the overall acidity of your body, which it will do. Your stomach acid will compensate, but it loses acidic compounds in the process to do so. But mixing in other acids does negate at least some of the effectiveness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but it does reveal a distinct lack of understanding on her her part as to what these pseudoscientific health products even are that are supposedly doing things for her. Like saying “I always drink decaf coffee and pop a shot of 5 hour energy in the morning.” “I drink skim milk with a splash of double cream.” “I love honey on my keto toast.” Like, even if it’s not enough acidity to completely negate the alkalinity, it’s literally antithetical to the supposed goal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not exactly correct. So first, in order to recieve SNAP payments as a seller, you have to be authorized. This provides limits and oversight on government money, making sure it is going to certified retailers, or farmers markets, not just anyone. That means that everyone who is authorized must meet and continue to uphold certain requirements of the law or else lose their authorization. One such requirement is the equal treatment provision which prevents that seller from treating SNAP buyers any differently, whether positively or negatively.

  So, A) there is not an actual law preventing anyone from giving a SNAP recipient a special discount. 1) If I were an authorized seller, I might lose that status and no longer be allowed to take SNAP payments. But I would only have broken a requirement for that privilege, not the law. 2) If I am not a SNAP authorized seller, there are zero reasons I couldn’t give out discounts to SNAP recipients. There would be no consequences at all.

  B) The reason I can’t charge SNAP recipients more should be obvious, becuase it would mean the government is getting charged more for their beneficiaries to receive less. But it might seem counter-intuitive that they can’t then charge less to them. I think there are two (threeish) major reasons for that. 1) part of the reason that the current system works, where SNAP recipients have a preloaded card that they charge, rather than stamps or other currency used to be used, is that it maintains some level of anonymity so that even that cashier doesn’t necessarily know that anything is different between their transaction and the next guy’s in line. 1.5) This anonymity and the lack of special treatment for the entire process means that people who need it are more likely to participate in the program because they can maintain dignity and not be embarrassed for their need, as plenty would be. 2) People are already attacking SNAP recipients for getting a handout. Can you imagine how much anger SNAP targetted discounts would make those people? To protect a much needed program, they want to make sure that there is as little reason as possible to attack it. So treat them as close to equal as humanly possible.

  Also, there are allowances for exceptions to this rule already, such as discounts on fresh produce and whole foods to promote healthier purchases with SNAP dollars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if they generally advertise a specific price or discount, then bait and switch on you, it isn’t. But they can always give different discounts to people on whatever conditions they want. Like stores giving employee discounts, senior discounts, military discounts, student discounts, repeat customer discounts, partnership discounts, new customer discounts, etc. You can even get a discount on an individual basis by haggling. The slimy part here isn’t the different pricing as a promo to entice a new customer, or even that two people in the same household would be treated differently (military husband, civilian wife; senior parent, non-senior caregiving child, etc.), but in the lack of transparency as to why they are priced different or even that they are unless both go to look specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean the god that prioritizes fealty and “love” for him alone over virtue, righteousness and good works? One who will give entrance to heaven to a life long sadistic, violent, and self-centered man who repents in his death bed, but will eternally condemn a man who has fed and clothed millions, who saved lives, who reformed bigots and criminals but questioned the existence of God or worshipped another. Compared to Satan, an angel that wished to overthrow this selfish god. Who values knowledge and choice in humanity. Who rewards ambition and creative joy. Who is stuck in hell with the rest of those condemned by the Almighty. I mean, is really no wonder many Christians are how they are.

  If you haven’t, read Horns by Joe Hill (skip the movie, it’s not the same). It plays a lot with this dynamic. The protagonist isn’t a hero, isn’t “the good guy”, but has a righteous cause and when God fails him, the Devil steps up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Okay, yea, my nose is always bleeding, my heart is on the verge of exploding, and I am at constant risk of having a seizure at any time. But my dick is rock hard and I can cum like 10 times before I start bleeding from the chafing. Wanna fuck?”

  Who recommends coke to help your sex life? What is this? 1988? My guy, no one needs that much sex. If you do, and you use coke to help you, you might have two addictions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  9!? You think I can cum 9 times a day!? And apparently hit the egg every fucking time too? I don’t mean to question the conclusion because I think birth control should be both parties’ responsibility, but I think your premise reveals a distinct lack of grasp on biological reality. Why stop at 9? Why not 900? Really drive your point home! My dick is going to be useless after number 2 or 3 anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monumentale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Concise readability is usually my goal. Like if I have 12 lines of code with a loop and some nested conditionals that takes a bit of thought to parse, it probably is better to move that to a function with a descriptive name like, “size, depth = get_directory_size_and_depth(filepath)”, that way the function name itself functions as it’s own comment/documentation, and, if you don’t really care about how the size and depth is aggregated, it abstracts that process onto one line of code that the reader can instantly understand without parsing anything. That goes doubly so when the function is generic like get_directory_size_and_depth(filepath) would be, and can be put in its own shared utilities file.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monumentale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I said function, not file. You can have 40 functions in one file.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monumentale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  def is_even(num:int) -> bool:
      if x < 0:
          x = x * (-1)
      if x == 0:
          return True
      elif x == 1:
          return False
      elif x == 2:
          return True
      elif x == 3:
          return False
      elif x == 4:
          return True
      elif x == 5:
          return False
      elif x == 6:
          return True
      elif x == 7:
          return False
  # ...
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monumentale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was in my 101 comp sci classes, one of my professors would say, “A function is meant to do one thing. So if your function doesn’t fit on the monitor in it’s entirety, that is a good indication your function is probably too complicated and/or doing too many things. Either simplify it or break it down further.” And that’s a rule I usually try to live by with my professional work too. So, anyway… I want to see the 4000k monitor this guy is using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean that is true of basically all structures and materials. It’s just the coastline problem. How long is the coastline? Depends on the level of precision you apply and the exact time you measure. Theoretically it is infinite if you keep getting more and more granular with it. That’s not helpful or meaningful for general purposes though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You misread what I was describing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carrot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That there carrot’s named Cletus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not entirely true. We don’t have just one hole going through us. Our holes branch. We have 3 intakes (2 nostrils, 1 mouth) and 2 outputs (1 anus, 1 urethra)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is “topologist” a job? Like someone who specializes in telling you how many holes and knots exist in a given object, How to “untie” seemingly knotted things that actually topographically have no knots? Do you clock in for that, or is it a 1099 freelancer thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s a giant like the rest of his family. 6’2". And has his nose same as his other kids. Couldn’t deny her if he tried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell him to wait a month before bragging about it. My father in law apparently told everyone who would listen for a couple weeks that he was shooting blanks, so no more kids (the man has no filter). He then had to ago around and let everyone know that his last live round had actually hit the mark. That would be my sister in law.