u/POGtastic

One extremely weird implication about this observation: if we were to address the housing crisis, build a lot more houses, and drop the price of real estate, the natural result would be to shrink our household sizes and to continue to spend the same percentage of our income on housing!

I wonder why birth rates have plummeted

Paradoxically - greater economic opportunity for women, which is why poorer families have more kids. If you're a woman who makes $35,000 working the till at Quik-Stop, the opportunity cost of having a kid is a lot lower than that of a skilled professional.

I don't agree with the other commenter that this makes us "entitled" or "selfish." It just means that a lot more women now get to choose between having another kid or making another million bucks over the course of their careers, and they're choosing the million bucks. I can't blame 'em; my wife and I did the same thing.

Dawg you do all of this writing about women while clearly hating them. I see you doing this in every dating-related thread. Why are you doing this to yourself? Why are you doing this to us?

Edit: HAHAHAHA he blocked me

It's not the drinking / hangover that's the problem. A lot of perfectly normal older people will let loose for a wedding, and I see nothing wrong with nursing a hangover on Sunday after a great party (not that it's a good thing).

The issue is doing some kind of crazy party on Sunday knowing that you have obligations tomorrow and then having to drive in and work a shift while looking and feeling like dogwater.

Partying a little too hard and having to go to work hungover.

It's not a good choice at 20, but it's something that many normal people do and learn from.

If you're doing it at 30, you're an alcoholic.

Practice problems from the textbook.

In college I tended to grab a couple other classmates, get a room in the library, and have everybody take turns doing problems from the textbook and talk through their thought process.

Some courses let you write a "cheat sheet" for exams. In courses that didn't allow you to do that, I still made the cheat sheet with pertinent notes from the above study sessions. I never used the actual sheet on exams anyway; writing the sheet was the important thing.

Doing this in advance (as opposed to frantically cramming the night before the exam) also lets you go to office hours with a List Of Questions to bug the professor about. Professors spend most of office hours dealing with knuckleheads who have not submitted a single homework assignment asking "what can we do to raise my grade." Having three smart and prepared people show up with a small list of tough questions makes them, at least for five minutes, stop pondering their miserable life choice to go into academia.

The Python interpreter does not care what you name your variables. You can name variables anything.

There are a tiny handful of keywords that are part of the Python language itself. Python cares about those. Every other word-looking thing in your program is a variable.

The lack of self-esteem is already there, and the manosphere uses that as the hook to propose conspiracy theories and whackadoodle ideas about women.

I'd also like to note that it is common for guys to have had some bad experiences with women and to be kinda standoffish and shy without being seething incels.

My general response to this kind of thing is "she's a cooker, not a looker."

I have some pans that look very nice because I don't use them very often. My daily driver looks like crap because I cook with it multiple times a day. The pan is fine and it would just take some work to make it look pristine again. I don't care enough to do that.

I would like to nominate John C. Calhoun for this dubious honor.

Support for chattel slavery in the United States was relatively ambivalent at the founding of the nation. A lot of slaveowners didn't really try to justify the contradictions between "all men are created equal" and owning men as property. They tended to fall back on the traditional ways to defend the indefensible: changing the subject and tone policing. The Constitution, as written, punts on the entire issue because the Framers could not square the circle.

Over time, as technology turned slavery from a medieval backwater practice into an agribusiness machine, a different philosophy emerged: ardent white supremacy, which explicitly stated that Black people were not actually people at all, and thus simply weren't covered by the liberal ideals of the Declaration of Independence. Now slaveowners could write all they wanted about the inherent dignity of men without feeling like hypocrites! They could feel righteous about their station in life.

Calhoun did not write all of this philosophy himself, but he was by far the most outspoken proponent of it in Congress, and the antebellum era consisted of him pushing harder and harder to cement slave power in American politics while everybody else tried to compromise. It took a few decades for abolitionists to point out that Calhoun et al would never be satisfied and for resistance to harden.

Pick an issue from the antebellum era that yet again threatened to destabilize the Republic for the cause of explicitly racialized white supremacy and Black bondage, and John C. Calhoun was at the forefront of saying that this was necessary and righteous.

Most trophies are participation trophies or are for pretty inconsequential competitions, and keeping them around makes me think of 1 Corinthians 13:11.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

There are exactly two trophies that I would value from my childhood and are probably still around somewhere in my parents' house:

• I hit a home run in Little League and got to keep the ball.
• I tied for 3rd place in a tough chess tournament, won the tiebreak Armageddon match, and got a crappy little bronze medal.

I am 5'10". I have been rejected for many other reasons, some reasonable and some stupid. I have never felt rejected for my height. That being said, I also dated and got married before Internet dating became ubiquitous.

I'm mostly convinced that these kinds of unrealistic standards are real in a few metro areas but don't apply to the rest of us. There are a bunch of young skilled professionals in New York City and the Bay Area who are completely insane, and their dating lives are pushed onto social media specifically because they are insane and get a lot of engagement. "Pretty, rich-looking 24-year-old looking into the camera and saying something stupid" is an entire genre of Tiktok video.

As a guy in my mid-30s, the standard from single women my age is "I really hope that he has a job and doesn't have a felony record." Maybe it's just the fact that I married a nurse and hang out with nurses. Nurses are Bronze Elo in the Game of Love.

Anybody who has the requirements for a specific older version of Python is going to have some bespoke process for updating Python and will have no problem compiling from source.

Unless you have a specific reason, you should be running the latest stable version that you can easily install on your machine. For most people, that's whatever the version is currently front-and-center on the website. (Here in Linux-land, it's whatever version of Python is available in your distro's package repository).

The unwashed masses. The riffraff. The proletariat class. The rabble.

My workplace started referring to this practice as "coffee badging" and the people who did it as "coffee badgers." I always imagine a bunch of badgers hanging out at a coffee shop.

This is me. My boss is a thousand miles away and I've never met him. I used to be on a 4-person team, but now it's just me. All of my tasks are assigned by email. I am still required by company-wide policy to have my butt in my assigned cubicle 4 days a week.

It's not all bad; I've made some friends amongst the other folks in the cubes, and I made myself useful with some other random tasks. But it is a very silly policy.

There is tolerance for it happening in general, but you really do not want to be the guy who is always holding things up.

"Oh, we're short again? Who's the dumb so-and-so who-- oh, of course it's Kevin"

It depends, but I would prefer to consider changes in terms of failing unit tests (and then think about how the tests need to change) rather than to have the behavior be completely unspecified (which might break things in ways that you don't anticipate).

As long as the behavior across your codebase is consistent, I wouldn't mind too much. ... but you also can't be sure that the behavior across your codebase is consistent unless you test it and start asking "Is the default error behavior actually what I want?"

You should absolutely test those because it is a good idea to figure out how you want to handle those kinds of invalid inputs. It is totally okay to return NaN or throw an error, but you should test it so that those things are rigorously defined.

properly handles

Throwing an error or returning NaN falls under "properly handling" those cases.

The important part is the handgun restriction. It is way, way harder to commit a murder over a stupid dispute with a long gun than it is to reach into your waistband and pull out a pistol.

I haven't studied Finland's gun violence statistics, but I went into a deep dive with Switzerland's and observed that despite large numbers of people having service rifles (!!) in their homes, almost all of their murders were committed with illegal handguns. Those handguns are extremely small in number and they have very few murders. We have more than a hundred million handguns and, gee, we have a lot of murders.

Can confirm, just went to a wedding in Philomath and holy moly it was foggy.

Another common example of a big object hierarchy is UI widgets. A lot of the widgets inherit from abstract base classes to avoid code duplication and provide the ability to arbitrarily nest widgets. It's also very common to inherit from one of the default widgets (and then inherit from your own classes) to provide more app-specific themes or functionality.

Bret Devereaux sums up his thoughts on the subject as "They Don't Have The Goons." Every authoritarian regime has hundreds of thousands, if not millions of goons to suppress dissent like that (and in the US it would take millions because of how decentralized we are). Trump has attempted to turn ICE into this, but they're lacking by several orders of magnitude.

They do not have the goons. Show up and vote. We're gonna win.

I still say "go charge go" whenever the Chargers do something really good or really bad.

It probably doesn't get a face on Mount Rushmore, but the unfathomably tacky gift shops in the nearby resort area still have a few tchotchkes right next to the Kelvin Benjamin display.

Specifically with the iterator stuff, I am a certified shill for the MLs. If dealing with Rust's move semantics is too intimidating but you still want something analogous to Python's itertools and Rust's Iterator trait, you'll love OCaml or F#.