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  • Like in a housing shortage you’re hoarding property and profiting off it.

    Housing shortages are caused by bad government policy: namely, low-density zoning. Direct your anger towards the entity that deserves it, and make them fix their fuck-up.

    (Note: I’m not making some kind of Libertarian “all government is bad” argument here. I’m saying that in this specific case, the laws need to be changed.)










  • grue@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlno cap
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    Edit: wait… return ! 0 ; wtf

    I mean, returning non-zero exit status on error is just good practice. It even managed to evaluate to the same numerical value as EXIT_FAILURE when I tested it on my machine (gcc 11.4.0 linux x86-64), although I’m not sure if that’s always the case or if it’s undefined behavior.

    This cursed code is quite well-written.






  • grue@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlGeorgia.
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    I’m just as annoyed by the overuse of the Mercator projection as the next guy, but no, I don’t think we can blame it in this particular instance. Consider the similar case of a day/night map, which pretty clearly reads as 50/50 even when it’s Mercator:

    day/night map using Mercator projection

    (Upon further scrutiny comparing these two maps, I think the missing Antarctica might be a factor too.)

    Also, relevant XKCD.



  • grue@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlGeorgia.
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    Nah, exactly 50% “of the world” is closer to Georgia than Georgia because the dividing line forms two perfect hemispheres. It just doesn’t seem like it because more of the world’s land area is closer to Georgia.

    The fact that the map fails to color in the oceans doesn’t help, of course.