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[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

It is most likely this. OP is one of the unfortunate people that just cannot use marijuana safely due to his biology. If you have cannabinoid hyperemesis, best to stay away from weed because the constant nausea/vomiting can lead to unintentional weight loss and a lot of other physical problems that are no fun.

[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I'm addition to convenience Amazon has just killed off a lot of retail options. The only competitor left with brick and mortar is Walmart and somewhat best buy for electronics. Very hard to find those small specialty stores nowadays for little random things unless you live in a big metropolitan area. Even stores like Walmart now will have the same products by a million different brands instead of having an actual variety of products.

[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know you're referring to a VR headset but my mind immediately started imagining standalone over-ear headphones that can play all PC games through a purely audio interface. Imagine the accessibility possibilities lol

[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If they'd continued paying for coffee, he would've only been able to go up to $16.899 million. Think of the horror and injustice!

[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a white color. You can tell they erased it from the legend

[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It was a poor reference to a quote from the TV show Community. The half Palestinian character Abed says that his father's falafel restaurant had been struggling for a while because "9/11 was pretty much the 9/11 of the falafel business"

[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

9/11 was the 9/11 of the Jenga business

[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sure, but the difference was he could've been charged for murder if, let's say, the person he ordered to be killed was a political opponent and not a clear threat to the nation. And Congress or judges would've had some power to make that call before, whereas they don't really seem to have that power anymore.

Also, strictly speaking in terms of what the founders wanted - they did not want the president to have those kinds of powers. Most of these things were really brought in during FDR's tenure during WWII where he took a lot of power for the executive branch. And it's a trend that's been continuing since.

[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Not really. The founders wanted a 3 pronged, balanced government with each branch checking the others' power. Now the legislative essentially can't do anything against the executive, and neither can the judicial unless SCOTUS changes its mind.

They specifically didn't want another king

[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hasn't this always been a possibility? People could always record their screen or take screenshots during meetings or whatever

[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

GPT is just trying to get a good tip.

[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Never too old to learn. I think Python is a great beginner language. It has fairly broad applications, and easy to set up an environment (don't have to download/install a thousand things, you just install python and can run the text files in terminal). I also learned by doing starting in late middle school/early high school. I always found YouTube videos to be the most engaging way to get started. I used to like thenewboston. Once I had a handle on the basic programming language, I would do easy programming challenges where you have to solve some sort of basic problem. The challenges helped me learn basics like taking in input, changing the input based on the various rules and conditions of the challenges, then outputting the proper results formatted in the right way. Also helped me to think about algorithms, etc. After that, I started learning programming through a textbook. This was helpful for understanding some of the more technical aspects, basics of memory management, what different variable types are really for, OOP, abstraction, algorithms etc. I found that leaving these advanced topics till after I had a working understanding of the programming language helped understand the concepts better, and helped me understand why it's important to learn the concepts in the first place. I was using Java for learning most of this, which might also be a good place to start for you, but I feel like python has simpler syntax to start with. In the end once you learn one language, I recommend learning more and not being stuck to any particular language. Every language has it's own strengths and weaknesses, and understanding the commonalities and differences will only make you better in the long run.

Edit - now I use Go, python, JavaScript, R, Java, Julia, rust based on what I'm actually doing. It's fairly easy to switch languages once you get used to basic syntax.

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