The main issue is more funding won’t help; all it does is patch things up, and the root causes of the issues never get solved.

With reform, you could remove bureaucracy where it causes issues and add it where there’s breakdowns in communications instead of just adding more funding to improve capacity in one obvious area and expose a bottleneck immediately before or after it, making the majority of the extra funding wasted

Now let’s see by class… Chances are it turns out to be yet another class or even regional divide that’s had the focus shifted to race as that keeps the tensions and fighting amongst the poors

I guess “government getting 340 million more from monarchy this year” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it

Docker fan mindset

Exactly right with regards to China, less so Mexico…

If you’re making fun of the US for being pro-free market but not here, surely it makes sense for them to tariff imports the same amount that their production is subsidised, or to subsidise the same amount as everyone else to at least approximate the free market

Unironically though people asking questions, then further explanation, then posting when they figure it out is pretty optimal compared to above average documentation

In fairness it seems like it was displayed without rings, but if you’re into space then you should be able to see the difference as saturn is far more featureless (at least from the pictures we have), but if the projection on the sphere is lower resolution and the red spot is on the other side I could see them being confused I guess

Equally though you could not make a fool of yourself but pointing out things which should be fairly obvious as the minor popularity gains of “knows common knowledge facts about topics they should be an expert in” are far outweighed by any chance of “looks like a buffoon for not even knowing common knowledge facts about things they should be an expert in”

Who’s suggesting that people are using if statements for arithmetic?

The only time that you can feasibly replace an if statement with arithmetic is if it’s a boolean, but frankly that’s an edge case… Also if you’re not writing in rust or c or whatever then don’t worry as the interpreter will run a huge amount of branches for every line of code (which is what all your nested ifs, switches, gotos, returns etc. will compile down to anyway)

I mean OCaml… But the issue is more the monkeys bashing out the language wanting to A. set a type for their exported function and B. know what type whatever function they’re using is supposed to take so it doesn’t randomly break as they gave it some random type that was formerly compatible

the appeal was declined instantaneously

I hate this so much and it was the reason I left Facebook after receiving a “warning” for the first time and getting the appeal denied despite the comment being completely benign (something like “why does Brazil fucking hate Czechs so much?” under a map of Brazil’s approval of each country in Europe, where their approval of Czechia was remarkably low - I appreciate it probably saw “fucking hate Czechs” and flagged it, but any remotely human reviewer should have seen the context and immediately understood, especially when running a more in depth review as part of the appeal)

All the major tech companies seem to do this and I don’t know why they even bother… If you want to give the illusion you’re considering the appeal, leave it at least an hour or so, but if you’re auto-declining them then just don’t give people the option to appeal in the first place as you’ll just make them mad

I mean that just sounds like Blair not doing it (Blair being pretty much the only good PM in living memory again, colour me shocked)

Brown did effectively the same thing but he was voted out rather than resigning, as did Major although he had both dissolution and resignation, but in practice they can be treated as the same thing

Good (ish) on them not replacing the lords:

The lords being unelected is a good thing, as they can call out braindead policies by the commons without needing to worry about losing the next election as they shot down a “but think about the children!” style law. What’s bad is that the political party in power can appoint lords - it should be impartial (ie political views and affiliations should not be considered) and ideally a full time job to allow the lords to build up knowledge on the laws they vote on, however it’s not really possible to tell a random person “this is your job now”… The closest you can get is either the current system or a jury duty style public obligation to be a lord for a day when called at random, but the only certainty is replacing it with an elected chamber is a terrible move

OCaml has an equally good type system without being pretentious about it

Most jobs that work with FOSS are at the most privacy violating companies unless you go to (eg.) ARM to be a compiler engineer.

Other than that, your best bet is meta, google etc. as they have the resources to pay to write code for other people.

There’s a difference between being a team player and a subservient pawn though - if the maintainer wanted to play as a team they would’ve suggested changes to the patch and accepted OP’s PR. As it happens they didn’t as they clearly have some sort of a power/superiority complex or something, or at best are dismissive of others to the detriment of the project they work on