Various short observations

[jsburbidge]

 1) On checking my spam folder, I see that I have received two invitations to join the Illuminati, one in Italian.

 

If the AISB is going to contact anyone it will not be by cleartext e-mails. They will use proper tradecraft.

 

2) It is remarkable just how awful protesters' historical education is. The position of the Prime Minister has always, since the time of Walpole, been determined by the House of Commons. The Crown has no power to dismiss the PM and only very limited powers to prorogue Parliament (essentially, when the PM has lost the confidence of the house, or at the request of the PM). This was firmly established in 1649 and 1688, with tweaks in the 18th Century as the office of the Prime Minister developed.

 

3) I am getting tired of public health officials who are reported in the media as talking about masks and vaccines as though they were purely about individual risk rather than looking at the impact in populations of general adoption/dropping of particular activities. A 30 year old with two doses of vaccine who goes out without a mask is at a low risk of contracting symptomatic Covid and at very low risk of serious disease. But if 30-year olds in general do that, there will be a calculable increase in the spread of COVID to other parts of the population. Wearing a mask or being vaccinated is not principally about personal risk, in many cases; it is about being a responsible member of the body politic and of society.

 

4) Seen in real code, names slightly adjusted: 

 

class XKey

{

    public:

    XKey(const int inIdA, const int inIdB, const std::string& inName):

        m_idA(inIdA), m_idB(inIdB), m_name(inName)

    { }

 

    bool operator<(const XKey& inOther) const

    {

         return (m_idA < other.m_IdA) && 

             (m_idB < other.m_idB) &&

             (m_name < other.m_name);

     }

     private:

     const int m_idA;

     const int m_idB;

     const std::string m_name;

 };
 

Surprising things will happen when you try to use a map with that as a key.

 

Don't do this.

Comments

[dewline]

About points 2 and 3: I fear that the misunderstandings about parliamentary procedure and practice, as well as about public health measures, will be continued until such time as we as a society are successfully deceived into regressing into fascism once and for all.

There was a specific point to reducing attention to social studies and sabotaging public health education in grade school and high school, after all, and we are being steered towards an attempt at an endgame right now.