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The first schools in England were church schools and not everyone could go. Public schools were schools everyone could go to, provided they could pay. So nowadays free schools are called state schools and paid schools are called public schools.
Edit: schools is a weird word to read multiple times in quick succession
oh my god shut up about nut shot science already you nerds
tell me about some floridian that ate a baby for cri-yi
Can't find one that ate a baby, but you might have heard of the one who threatened the President. The national news makes him sound very terroristy, but the farther back you trace the references, the more wacky details materialize that were dropped from higher tier articles. By the time you get back to the original report:
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (WPEC) -- A man with cream on his face, a towel over his head, and body covered with a shower curtain went on Facebook live where federal authorities say he threatened to kill President Donald Trump.
Federal investigators say Lump used the name of "BlackMan vs America" in the live video post, which had Middle Eastern type music playing in the background. They say he also laughed during some of the threats.
According to authorities, threatening statements made by Lump include:
"He killed my leader, please tell me where is Donald Trump?"
"I need to find the Donald because if I don't find him I am going to have to blow up Broward County."
"Do not play with me, I have AK-47."
"He killed my leader and I have to kill him."
Lump told investigators he produced the video as a joke in response to the killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. He claimed he had a bachelor's degree in Homeland Security from Bethune-Cookman University, but federal agents could only confirm he attended a semester.
Lump works as a security guard. Investigators said he had a Glock 9 mm semi-automatic pistol in his possession, which he's licensed to carry. According to the affidavit, Lump said, "I shouldn't have did it in the first place."
The first schools in England were church schools and not everyone could go. Public schools were schools everyone could go to, provided they could pay. So nowadays free schools are called state schools and paid schools are called public schools.
Edit: schools is a weird word to read multiple times in quick succession
Free Schools however are not the state-run comprehensive schools, but schools run by other groups (corporations, parent groups, charities) that have some leeway in what and how they teach rather than following the national curriculum.
Protecting your shins but not your groin seems a bit shortsighted, I think.
You do wear cups, but from what I recall from Primacy school, getting hit in the cup from a ball thrown by kids still hurts. Can't imagine what it must be like with a ball thrown by a professional.
You wear a cup in hockey too. It still hurts like fucking hell.
You wear one anyway because it's not as bad as it could be. I played for a few years with a guy who didn't wear a cup a few times because he'd forgotten it at home and, well, let's just say his team was down a man.
Yep! You don't wear them to prevent pain, you wear them to prevent catastrophic damage.
Is it that it is not possible or that it would be impractical to wear something more robust?
New variations on the concept still come out from time to time. MMA's popularity highlighted a need for something that didn't restrict flexibility but wouldn't slip during a very wide variety of movements and a popular design added softer material on the edges to cushion the blow before dispersing it but it's still not entirely pain free: https://youtu.be/_OUaQIb9WaM
Great, so we're on the same page! Likely many other forumers aren't, so a brief explanation:
See, a switch statement is basically like if/then/else, but with an arbitrary number of branches called cases, if/else only offers two. So, you'd switch on a variable, and then each case is a condition from that value. So, for example, if X can be 1, 2, or 3 depending on incoming conditions, you could do this (gross simplification):
switch(x){
case(1) do stuff;
case(2) do other stuff;
case(3) do more stuff;
}
He apparently had that up to case 4,099. Which is just mind boggling and makes me immediately think the code has so much spaghetti you need a fork to edit it, like it could have been handled a much better way if everything were planned first. Likely it started much more manageable and exploded on iteration until it reached the point where you just go with it forever because it's become so convoluted that even the coder can't sort it out anymore.
Hence why I'm just going to pretend none of that's the case and a 4099 case is just some special type of switch statement I don't know about.
Note that there aren't 4099 distinct cases in the switch; it skips over a lot of numbers. This is also the thing that handles all the cutscenes and such, which is why it's so big. If you add a terminal that displays a line of text, it does so by switching the state to 1234 or whatever, then case 1234 will activate, print out the line of text, and return to state 0. The game, therefore, needs a new case whenever something like that is added.
Still the wrong way to do that, of course. Many of these cases aren't documented, so there's no good way to know what each case maps to, not to mention the difficulty of debugging code that's only used in one section of the game. It would be better to (e.g.) have a generic "Display text" case and feed it the text in question. (Ideally from an external file to make translations easier. That's the other problem.)
Note that there aren't 4099 distinct cases in the switch; it skips over a lot of numbers. This is also the thing that handles all the cutscenes and such, which is why it's so big. If you add a terminal that displays a line of text, it does so by switching the state to 1234 or whatever, then case 1234 will activate, print out the line of text, and return to state 0. The game, therefore, needs a new case whenever something like that is added.
Still the wrong way to do that, of course. Many of these cases aren't documented, so there's no good way to know what each case maps to, not to mention the difficulty of debugging code that's only used in one section of the game. It would be better to (e.g.) have a generic "Display text" case and feed it the text in question. (Ideally from an external file to make translations easier. That's the other problem.)
It's basically How Not To Implement A State Machine, which is why we get someone thanking Cavanaugh for curing their imposter syndrome.
Note that there aren't 4099 distinct cases in the switch; it skips over a lot of numbers. This is also the thing that handles all the cutscenes and such, which is why it's so big. If you add a terminal that displays a line of text, it does so by switching the state to 1234 or whatever, then case 1234 will activate, print out the line of text, and return to state 0. The game, therefore, needs a new case whenever something like that is added.
Still the wrong way to do that, of course. Many of these cases aren't documented, so there's no good way to know what each case maps to, not to mention the difficulty of debugging code that's only used in one section of the game. It would be better to (e.g.) have a generic "Display text" case and feed it the text in question. (Ideally from an external file to make translations easier. That's the other problem.)
I'd imagine the fact that it immediately destroys the state rather than logging it led to many of the debugging issues.
edit: Since what I had said had been said by someone else.
I've seen plenty of code that looks like that in big games by Real Teams, etc. None to quite that degree... but I want to say at least in the 1500ish ballpark.
The main difference between that and 8 bit games I've taken apart is that they nested the switches.
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Bad News: Galapogos tortoise populations dropped to unsustainable levels.
Good News: Diego the tortoise showed up to fuck his way out of that problem
A womanizing tortoise whose rampant sex life may have single-handedly saved his entire species from extinction has retired from his playboy lifestyle, returning to the wild with his mission accomplished.
Diego's unstoppable libido was credited as a major reason for the survival of his fellow giant tortoises on Espanola, part of the Galapagos Islands, after being shipped over from the San Diego Zoo as part of a breeding program.
When he started his campaign of promiscuity, there were just two males and 12 females of his species alive on the island.
But the desirable shell-dweller had so much sex he helped boost the population to over 2,000. The Galapagos National Parks service believe the 100-year-old tortoise is the patriarch of around 40% of that population.
"He's contributed a large percentage to the lineage that we are returning to Espanola," Jorge Carrion, the park's director, told AFP. "There's a feeling of happiness to have the possibility of returning that tortoise to his natural state."
That reminds me of when I got someone's "How could you do this to me?" breakup texts.
Followed about a month later with "I'm happy now with someone else and FUCK YOU!" texts.
I don't remember the exact words of the second one (decade ago with an old phone), but I do remember that the general gist of them, as well as the late hours they came up on my phone lead to the impression that they were sent after having some excellent sex with their new partner.
I once got a bunch of texts from someone absolutely convinced I was her cheating partner. I wound up calling her just to clear that up. (She answered with, "You gonna lie again?") She was deeply apologetic; I was mostly bemused.
I'm sure "Nick" is a piece of work, but I'd hate for him to get in trouble for something he didn't do :razz:
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Bad News: Bushfires devastating Australia.
Good News: People are coming up with creative ways to raise money for recovery.
Bad News: Uhhhhhhhhh (NSFW)
A US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) radio tower near the Texas-Mexico border has become home to some 300 vultures, which have coated the structure’s entire surface, both inside and out, as well as the ground below, in “droppings mixed with urine,” according to a request for information the agency issued to vendors this week.
A smoothly-functioning communications network is essential for CBP officers to do their jobs. The agencies under the aegis of the Department of Homeland Security, of which CBP is one, have suffered from radio problems in the past.
That is a rather...hard-core way to take NWA to heart.
A US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) radio tower near the Texas-Mexico border has become home to some 300 vultures, which have coated the structure’s entire surface, both inside and out, as well as the ground below, in “droppings mixed with urine,” according to a request for information the agency issued to vendors this week.
A smoothly-functioning communications network is essential for CBP officers to do their jobs. The agencies under the aegis of the Department of Homeland Security, of which CBP is one, have suffered from radio problems in the past.
That is a rather...hard-core way to take NWA to heart.
A US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) radio tower near the Texas-Mexico border has become home to some 300 vultures, which have coated the structure’s entire surface, both inside and out, as well as the ground below, in “droppings mixed with urine,” according to a request for information the agency issued to vendors this week.
A smoothly-functioning communications network is essential for CBP officers to do their jobs. The agencies under the aegis of the Department of Homeland Security, of which CBP is one, have suffered from radio problems in the past.
That is a rather...hard-core way to take NWA to heart.
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Edit: schools is a weird word to read multiple times in quick succession
tell me about some floridian that ate a baby for cri-yi
Nut shot science is something different for a change, at least?
I'll do you one better - arsonist Nazi meets karma, karma wins:
Can't find one that ate a baby, but you might have heard of the one who threatened the President. The national news makes him sound very terroristy, but the farther back you trace the references, the more wacky details materialize that were dropped from higher tier articles. By the time you get back to the original report:
https://cbs12.com/news/local/florida-man-threatens-to-kill-president-trump
Free Schools however are not the state-run comprehensive schools, but schools run by other groups (corporations, parent groups, charities) that have some leeway in what and how they teach rather than following the national curriculum.
New variations on the concept still come out from time to time. MMA's popularity highlighted a need for something that didn't restrict flexibility but wouldn't slip during a very wide variety of movements and a popular design added softer material on the edges to cushion the blow before dispersing it but it's still not entirely pain free:
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I too totally know what that means...
>.>
- equal to 1: Do something
- equal to 2: Do something else
...
- equal to 4099: Do the 4099th action
It is.... not normal to enumerate 4099 distinct possibilities in a single piece of code like that.
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Great, so we're on the same page! Likely many other forumers aren't, so a brief explanation:
See, a switch statement is basically like if/then/else, but with an arbitrary number of branches called cases, if/else only offers two. So, you'd switch on a variable, and then each case is a condition from that value. So, for example, if X can be 1, 2, or 3 depending on incoming conditions, you could do this (gross simplification):
switch(x){
case(1) do stuff;
case(2) do other stuff;
case(3) do more stuff;
}
He apparently had that up to case 4,099. Which is just mind boggling and makes me immediately think the code has so much spaghetti you need a fork to edit it, like it could have been handled a much better way if everything were planned first. Likely it started much more manageable and exploded on iteration until it reached the point where you just go with it forever because it's become so convoluted that even the coder can't sort it out anymore.
Hence why I'm just going to pretend none of that's the case and a 4099 case is just some special type of switch statement I don't know about.
Still the wrong way to do that, of course. Many of these cases aren't documented, so there's no good way to know what each case maps to, not to mention the difficulty of debugging code that's only used in one section of the game. It would be better to (e.g.) have a generic "Display text" case and feed it the text in question. (Ideally from an external file to make translations easier. That's the other problem.)
It's basically How Not To Implement A State Machine, which is why we get someone thanking Cavanaugh for curing their imposter syndrome.
I'd imagine the fact that it immediately destroys the state rather than logging it led to many of the debugging issues.
edit: Since what I had said had been said by someone else.
The main difference between that and 8 bit games I've taken apart is that they nested the switches.
Good News: Diego the tortoise showed up to fuck his way out of that problem
You probably shouldn't have assumed that a tortoise shell is equivalent to "wearing protection".
Gone right: He is better now.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
Followed about a month later with "I'm happy now with someone else and FUCK YOU!" texts.
I don't remember the exact words of the second one (decade ago with an old phone), but I do remember that the general gist of them, as well as the late hours they came up on my phone lead to the impression that they were sent after having some excellent sex with their new partner.
I'm sure "Nick" is a piece of work, but I'd hate for him to get in trouble for something he didn't do :razz:
Good News: People are coming up with creative ways to raise money for recovery.
Bad News: Uhhhhhhhhh (NSFW)
That is a rather...hard-core way to take NWA to heart.
Missed the best part. It costs 69$
Nice
This is praxis.
You know, I'm sure you could go that route, but the question is "why would you want to?".
Use with caution to avoid starting another bush fire.
That's what lube is for.