It's hard to spot, but Pembrose is an eyeball on the couch. It's absurdist humor - of course if someone were just an eyeball but somehow sentient, they'd probably have a lot of anger towards the world.

Somewhere smaller than a tiger, that would win 100% of the time. I'd guess 30 lbs is where things start to get serious

Capuchin monkeys have it figured out:

[...] we have been documenting the spread of a new tradition in Pelon group – eyeball-poking. In this ritual, one participant inserts its finger in the other’s eyeball, slipping the finger deep between the eyelid and the bottom of the eyeball up to the first knuckle. As in handsniffing, the pair remains in this posture for up to several minutes, and often the one being poked in the eye inserts fingers in the partner’s nostrils or mouth during the eyeball-poking.

https://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/sperry/ctp.html

What sublinks mess? I'm out of the loop on that

Hadn't read this before, link for anyone else interested: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2010/04/10/trial-of-seven/

Jaimie besting Rand doesn't really make sense there tbh, even with the conceit of taking away Saidin

For those that haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

That was quick, thanks! Clearly, Jon realized he'd never play the piano and stored it away in the attic, where it dropped through the ceiling in the 1985 strip.

Huh. Has the piano ever made another appearance? Jon doesn't seem the type to own one

I just had a POS machine recommend 20%, 25%, or 30% for percentages. It seems like it's increasing

Using it in pipes looks cool. IMO the usage in writing git commit messages is actually not useful. Almost always you should be writing the why, not the what. Same thing for comments. Unless the code has a good reason to be written inscrutably e.g. for performance, write simple code and comment why you're doing something as necessary. Which is not to say "the code comments itself", but the "what" comments should be higher level at a function or file level

What parent is likely referencing

TBH I wonder if the current Microsoft is capable of executing that here. I don't believe in a "changed" MS, but Linux is eating the world, and MS doesn't really care about Windows much anymore. Azure happily runs Linux VMs

There's at least one example you can look at, the Jenkins CI project had code like that (if (name.startsWith("windows 9")) {):

https://issues.jenkins.io/secure/attachment/18777/PlatformDetail

Microsoft, for all their faults, do (or at least did) take backwards compatibility very seriously, and the option of "just make devs fix it" would never fly. Here's a story about how they added special code to Windows 95 to make SimCity's broken code work on it:

Windows 95? No problem. Nice new 32 bit API, but it still ran old 16 bit software perfectly. Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find with Windows 95. Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here’s the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn’t working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn’t free memory right away. That’s the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95.

You're not getting past this bouncer

Double curly is pretty common IME, but I have more experience in backend which is less likely to be involved in an error like this. Off the top of my head, handlebars, django, and jinja2 all use that style.

That looks like a pileup waiting to happen if one of the bikes in front crashed

In case anyone hasn't seen it yet:

https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/

It's pretty fun. Similar to OP, I was able to get all the way to crafting specific Mario Kart DS courses.

If you're writing code that generic, why wouldn't you want str to be passed in? For example, Counter('hello') is perfectly valid and useful. OTOH, average_length('hello') would always be 1 and not be useful. OTOOH, maybe there's a valid reason for someone to do that. If I've got a list of items of various types and want to find the highest average length, I'd want to do max(map(average_length, items)) and not have that blow up just because there's a string in there that I know will have an average length of 1.

So this all depends on the specifics of the function you're writing at the time. If you're really sure that someone shouldn't be passing in a str, I'd probably raise a ValueError or a warning, but only if you're really sure. For the most part, I'd just use appropriate type hints and embrace the phrase "we're all consenting adults here".

The collect's in the middle aren't necessary, neither is splitting by ": ". Here's a simpler version

fn main() {
    let text = "seeds: 79 14 55 13\nwhatever";
    let seeds: Vec<_> = text
        .lines()
        .next()
        .unwrap()
        .split_whitespace()
        .skip(1)
        .map(|x| x.parse::().unwrap())
        .collect();
    println!("seeds: {:?}", seeds);
}

It is simpler to bang out a [int(num) for num in text.splitlines()[0].split(' ')[1:]] in Python, but that just shows the happy path with no error handling, and does a bunch of allocations that the Rust version doesn't. You can also get slightly fancier in the Rust version by collecting into a Result for more succinct error handling if you'd like.

EDIT: Here's also a version using anyhow for error handling, and the aforementioned Result collecting:

use anyhow::{anyhow, Result};

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let text = "seeds: 79 14 55 13\nwhatever";
    let seeds: Vec = text
        .lines()
        .next()
        .ok_or(anyhow!("No first line!"))?
        .split_whitespace()
        .skip(1)
        .map(str::parse)
        .collect::>()?;
    println!("seeds: {:?}", seeds);
    Ok(())
}

Every Single Scandinavian Crime Drama

Sure, but do you think if the lower court decided that the case could move forward, the justices would've sat out? I doubt it.