The tooth fairy is one of those ones that even if your kid learns the truth, nobody is going to get too upset. You can just keep giving them the money yourself, and tell them not to tell their friends, because if they tell their friends, their friends who have stingy parents will stop getting money.

Also, some kids are scared of the tooth fairy.

My take is that Slashdot's vision was of a single community, which limited its scale.

the gall....

Adolf Hitler died, yes, but what about second Hitler?

No, Hitler really was a painter. He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon. TWO COATS!

Reddit's voting and moderation design is basically flawed, and the parts of that which Lemmy has copied are flawed in exactly the same way.

Any system that requires people to be in a position of power, yet not abuse that power, is broken.

I'm not saying that it's the best solution, but when I used to use Slashdot, it seems like it would randomly ask people to moderate comments (who had opted in), rather than have preset moderators. And then presumably, they would collate the results of multiple moderators and use that to decide who could be trusted with more moderation.

This is one example of a method to avoid power tripping mods.

Nothing looks cute on an ultrasound. Humans are hardwired to see babies as cute, and even they don't look cute on an ultrasound.

It's a little difficult to see the oreo cookie wafer on the dark background. I think it would work better with a white background. Something like milk.

For people who don't click through, here's the first sentence of the article.

Edward Robert Martin Jr. is an American far-right politician, conspiracy theorist, acting U.S. Attorney, and ardent supporter of Donald Trump.

100 mugshots and how many total were deported? Is it also 100?

I don't agree that the things shown on these signs should lead to deportations without due process.

But even if I did think that, then this would only make sense if Trump's administration had deported around 100 people. The latest number I saw was around 140K. About 1400 per mug shot here.

This is like if you had 1400 students in your high school senior class, and they decided not to give anybody a diploma. And the evidence they showed was that one person out of 1400 had failed.

So how much more fascism will Americans tolerate before they actually do something.

What do you want us to do?

You explaining that you would only do a numerical sort when the basename of the filename is entirely a number, as if your logical sense translates into a good user experience, is exactly why companies have to hire UX designers instead of just programmers.

If you have Windows 10, I suggest that you play around with filenames with numbers in file explorer and see how they're sorted. Your intuition does not match the average user's expectations in this circumstance.

Both "11" and "11." are strings, because the context is listing filenames. Filenames are not numbers. They are strings. If you sort filenames by number, you are asking the computer to interpret the string as having a number inside it. At worst, it might interpret "11" as an integer and "11." as a floating point number, because that syntax is often used to specify a floating point number in programming. But even then, it could still sort them correctly.

I don't mean to start an argument, but as a professional programmer, there are just some things that I know.

It's not sorting correctly. Right above the listing it specifically says "(sorting by #)".

If it says it is sorting by number, but then it sorts alphabetically, then it isn't sorting correctly.

My favorite is my tablet computer with its digital pen and the default drawing software, whatever that is.

You see, I got the tablet for other reasons, and it came with a pen. What it all boils down to is that my favorite is whatever I already have. When I don't have a computer nearby, my favorite is a pencil and paper.

I had to adopt this sort of policy because of my personality. I'm not a perfectionist, but like many people, I have hints of perfectionism. And this means that I think to myself things like, "I want to draw, and of course I would, if I only had this specific tool."

But the truth is that I already had all of the tools I needed to draw. Always have. The important thing about drawing is drawing. I figure that if I ever spend a lot of time drawing and get good at it, then at that point, I'll already know what other tools I want.

This would be embarrassing for a 12 year old.

Definitely should have been "live off coral".

One of the most common mistakes that bird owners make is to put them in a cage that is too small. Birds need a lot of space.

All the dots on Jesus and the cross make it look like somebody finished him off with an uzi.

The mom left without her kid.