All these people talking about voluntarily giving their kid Linux.
When I was 12 or so my Dad installed Linux on my laptop as punishment because I kept installing viruses on Windows.
I suppose it definitely helped with my knowledge of Linux as I had to do a lot of tinkering to get anything I wanted to work, even then 90% of the games I wanted to play didn't work (Waaay before Proton was a thing, Wine alone wouldn't work for most games)
Also had the added benefit of me just generally not wanting to use the computer, Linux sucks for desktop use. Constant source of issues that I just dont care for, I use a computer to play games or do work - I don't care about the operating system side of stuff. You dont daily drive a project car.
"I'm sorry you feel that way" was literally the first thing I ever got taught when doing front of house/customer service training. Its definitely a super common phrase, at least in English speaking countries
Not sure if this is what you intended but you're just proving his point. Customer service is full of corporate-speak, scripted deflection, and hollow niceties. Of course the first thing you were taught was an empty apology.
It does and doesn't. You can have any arbitrary index, but that changes the table from being an array to being both an array and a dictionary, some real weird Frankenstein stuff
> but that changes the table from being an array to being both an array and a dictionary
You're confusing the definition of the language with the implementation. In implementation you're right, most runtimes will treat arrays starting at 1 as a special case and optimize that access. The language itself doesn't make that distinction though. Here an array is simply any table indexed by integers. The documentation states it's thusly:
You can start an array at index 0, 1, or any other value
Best part about gov id, there is no link between accounts. I have my personal gov ID account, I have my director of a business gov ID account and I also have a gov ID account for the business.
Why are these all separate, why am I 2 people according to gov ID. Why can't I access my director of a business gov ID from my personal gov ID???
The kicker is these are all linked, it knows they all belong to the one person, but if you log into the wrong one it tells you to use the other one.
I gotta admit I never formally learned Lua in any rigorous way, I just picked up enough to script with it in existing codebases. I'll often write Python scripts that manipulate Lua programs, for example.
We had something like this in our school called Accelerated Reader. Read books answer a quiz on it get points, best class/student got rewarded.
Was really easy to game though. Our school library had a selection of books for what I can only assume were for special needs kids, really really simple books very few words with even fewer pages. These books rewarded an appropriate amount of points however so you got less, but you could easily bang out 20 of those books in one class and get a lot more points than you'd be rewarded for reading a real book.
A few of us would just go over grab a bunch of those books and read through them in like 2 minutes and complete the quiz.
They ended up not letting those books get used for AR
We had Accelerated Reader in my public school in Texas in the early 2000s.
It was a pretty cool system.
The lottery system described upstream is terrible.
But with Accelerated Reader you would accumulate points that you could spend on things like the Scholastic Book Fair (buy books), slices of pizza for lunch, and various toy gadgets. Sometimes a teacher would sell some gimmick like a get out of homework ticket.
Of course, you'd have to read a good number of books to receive any of these prizes. But you were always working towards something unlike a lottery system which isn't motivating at all.
My friend group got busted for gaming AR and we were banned from it. The interface allowed us to sort the books by points, so we took the top 10 books, split them up among us, summarized them, took the tests, and gave each other the answers. The jig was up when they printed a leaderboard and we were all way ahead with an absurd number of points. They took them all away and we weren’t allowed to participate anymore.
I gamed AR in the early '90s when it was much simpler. I was in elementary school, and they counted a book as a certain number of pages read (as certified by a parent), the multiple of which increased as you grade number increased. So in third grade every 30 pages counted as a book. So I read my family's complete collection of Dr. Seuss books, as well as my own, like the Boxcar Children. By the end of the program I'd read "93" books.
When I was 12 or so my Dad installed Linux on my laptop as punishment because I kept installing viruses on Windows.
I suppose it definitely helped with my knowledge of Linux as I had to do a lot of tinkering to get anything I wanted to work, even then 90% of the games I wanted to play didn't work (Waaay before Proton was a thing, Wine alone wouldn't work for most games)
Also had the added benefit of me just generally not wanting to use the computer, Linux sucks for desktop use. Constant source of issues that I just dont care for, I use a computer to play games or do work - I don't care about the operating system side of stuff. You dont daily drive a project car.