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The symptoms normally disappear after several days and there are no adverse health effects.

The cause of pine mouth has not been determined, but several researchers have indicated that a particular species and source of pine nut, Pinus armandii exported from the Shaanxi and Shanxi regions of China, may be responsible for causing the symptoms. This species of pine nut was previously only consumed locally and not widely exported for consumption as whole nuts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (12 children)

There's a nice list of this feature by language on the Wikipedia page for anyone interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_coalescing_operator#Examples_by_languages

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, you're quite correct, it's not exactly equivalent, I just went on auto-pilot because it's used so much for that purpose ๐Ÿค–

It's much closer to being a true null-coalescing operator than 'OR' operators in other languages though, because there's only two values that are falsy in Ruby: nil and false. Some other languages treat 0 and "" (and no doubt other things), as falsy. So this is probably the reason Ruby has never added a true null-coalescing operator, there's just much fewer cases where there's a difference.

It's going to drive me mad now I've seen it, though ๐Ÿ˜† That's usually the case with language features, though, you don't know what you're missing until you see it in some other language!

[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (14 children)

Ruby:

a || b

(no return as last line is returned implicitly, no semicolon)

EDIT: As pointed out in the comments, this is not strictly equivalent, as it will return b if a is false as well as if it's nil (these are the only two falsy values in Ruby).

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Pretty decent, although the inclusion of the last paragraph without the following paragraphpointing out that this incident shows that's not true is a little misleading if you're not paying attention.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

That is so much better ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They ingested it, but only as a joke.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Go as the Blue Screen of Death: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_screen_of_death

Now that's spooky! ๐ŸŸฆ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

Wear all blue clothes, and get a copy of the screen printed (not on your home printer) to wear on your chest.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Whether someone will somehow find a way to extract profit from this system is remain to be seen.

I think it's inevitable that someone will find a way to profit, even if it's just scraping the data for training LLMs, or for something like those shitty sites that just duplicate GitHub issues.

The question of enshittification isn't whether someone can find a way to profit, it's whether someone can find a way to change the platform to increase their profit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that the FOSS Fediverse platforms are significantly resistant to enshittification.

That same article explores what enables enshittification and what precludes it:

The Netheads wanted to build diverse networks with lots of offers, lots of competition, and easy, low-cost switching between competitors (thanks to interoperability).

Fediverse platforms:

  • are highly interoperable - e.g. you can use Lemmy or Kbin and still see the same posts
  • mostly FOSS, so anyone can fork them whenever they want if they don't like some particular change
  • most instances currently aren't operated for profit - certainly if your instance started displaying ads you could switch to another instance (or set one up) and still access all the same content as you did previously
[โ€“] [email protected] 126 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, holding each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

From https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The minotaur/labyrinth design is cool, but it feels stylistically disconnected from the background

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Only very recently, and people are rightly suspicious of their motives: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/24/apple_california_right_repair/

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