In R:

assign("x", value)

It’s being assigned and passed to sum at the same time. One of the many entertaining quirks of R.

sum(your_mom <- rep(69, 420))

Indices vs offsets. A lot of people mistake the two because they took CS 101 and thought it was so cool to say I sTaRt cOuNtInG fRoM zErO.

While Karen’s story is among my least favorite in the SAO universe, I’m glad it’s continuing because it means there’s that much more momentum to get more SAO material an anime adaptation.

I just want to see Klein settle down and be happy…

I wonder why this person has an issue with… too much choice? I find it hard to relate to that mentality, despite being very busy with work and family myself.

Everyone keeps repeating that defederation should be a last resort. Fine, but we should also acknowledge that the list of resorts is very short:

1. Server admins talk to the admins of the server hosting the offending community, in an attempt to get them to clean their house. If they don’t;

2. Defederate.

There really isn’t anything else for server operators to do that isn’t just letting the offending community continue unabated.

Offloading the responsibility to individual users to block users / communities is lazy. Most of us don’t want to spend our limited time playing whack-a-mole.

I suspect we’ll see user accounts shuffling around so that they land on a home server whose defederation policy matches their preferences.