Patented, not copyrighted, but I think you double posted.

You mean patent. You don’t choose to copyright things or not, all media is inherently copyrighted. This comment is technically copyrighted once I hit send. It sounds like your referring to Shadow of Mordor’s/War’s Nemesis system being patented.

You’ve only seen one case of mods not being able to gaslight people? I’m been a little cheeky because it’s so much more than getting mods to step down or apologize or shit like that. If they’re the problem people can make a new community. If the instance is the problem you can jump ship to a new one. Hell, you can even self host if it comes down to it.

It can be used to pressure admins to remove problematic moderators. It can be used to pressure admins of your instance to defederate from other instances with problematic admins. It means mods can’t gaslight people about their actions. Obviously it doesn’t magically stop bad actions but it gives us a lot of ways to resist it and counter it.

Been here since the Reddit API shutdown in July of 2023.

Public mod logs help a lot.

That problem isn’t unique to Lemmy, though. Reddit had many similar duplicate subs.

Sameeee it’s just 5e 5e 5e

They won’t shut up about me getting them a ring, ugh, and it’s the first date. Way too interested in commitment. Pass.

I remember seeing a joke once about what if Reddit added left votes and right votes with no explanation in addition to up votes and down votes.

I can’t unsee the wrong bubble now lmao. Just one dude talking to himself.

Guess neither were poisonous. Ba dum tiss

That’s a really odd way to parse it.

a +   b
    -----
    c + b

If those billionaires wanted to increase the GDP they should pay more so more money circulates.

Because it’s cool. When I first made my Lemmy account, I was looking through my computer’s saved images. I had this saved from earlier because it looked so cool. It felt right because federated social media feels like a return to the old web in some ways, prior to the abundance of walled gardens. So a retro logo felt like a cool choice. But it was really just because I saved it when I saw it somewhere so it just happened to be here when I made my account!

Now that’s a good troll math thing because it gets really deep into the weeds of mathematical notation. There isn’t one true order of operations that is objectively correct, and on top of that, that’s hardly the way most people would write that. As in, if you wrote that by hand, you wouldn’t use the / symbol. You’d either use ÷ or a proper fraction.

It’s a good candidate for nerd sniping.

Personally, I’d call that 36 as written given the context you’re saying it in, instead of calling it 1. But I’d say it’s ambiguous and you should notate in a way to avoid ambiguities. Especially if you’re in the camp of multiplication like a(b) being different from ab and/or a × b.

The more insane, unlikely, and catastrophic the error, the more appropriate an insane, terse, apocalyptic error message is.

git pull
# you see bullshit
git reset --hard HEAD@{1}
git push --force

Solved! Tell your coworker to make their own branch!

Honestly, yeah. I mean, not the best but I definitely am more in favor of comments being a commentary than explaining what’s happening. Explaining why is better than what, but in general, comments where anything absolutely bonkers is happening are useful. Bare minimum, I think some sort of acknowledgement that the person writing the code also recognized their code was weird (necessarily or not) is nice.

Okay but those glasses actually go so hard.