Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

This is not, alas, the Toadlicker's vehicle.

@SecondJon There were a couple of speeches where Obama (and Hillary) complained about actual, dangerous fake news (like the Pizzagate nonsense), but they qualitatively did not use the term the way Trump has.

I don't think that Obama generally went after "media who did what he disliked". It is a fair criticism to say that he went too far in hunting down leaks in his own administration. (Trump, it seems, would like to be even more ruthless about this, but fortunately lacks the competence.)

To be clear, I'm not saying everything Obama did was okay. I'm saying that Trump has been significantly worse in every aspect.

@SecondJon You're referring to this incident?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-reporter-press-conference/

That wasn't a reporter. It was a protester (a left-wing protester at that) who interrupted his speech.

Contrast Trump's reaction to protesters:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-incitement-violence/

I'm sure there were times when Obama didn't like a question from the media, or was critical of Fox News's uniquely dishonest approach, but he was relatively respectful even then. Key & Peele's running gag about Obama's anger translator only worked because of his famously calm demeanor.

Trump, on the other hand, has made extreme statements, calling the media in general the "enemy of the American people" and grossly insulting various reporters to their faces (especially, not surprisingly, female reporters of color). The business with revoking Acosta's press pass was unprecedented (and included the White House sharing a doctored video from InfoWars). He constantly dismisses factual stories critical of him as "fake news".

I reject the implication that each President is just one side or the other of the coin and that the left-leaning mainstream media just started sniping at Trump out of nowhere.

@SecondJon Context? When did Obama praise Iran? When did he attack courts and police?

Previous history notwithstanding, I don't see the "bias" in this article. They reported that he condemned this, he praised that, which he did -- in the same conversation.

It irks me that Trump complains that the press are unfairly attacking him just because they point out his daily falsehoods. Setting the record straight is literally their job.

My #gloomhaven party-mates have informed me that "standing in the doorway right after revealing a room containing a dozen monsters" is not the time and place to take a nap.

It stands to reason that the new "hashtag" gesture will fend off four times as many vampires as the traditional two-sticks approach.

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The goal is to give my computer science students just enough spaghetti that they realize they are in trouble, but not so much that they become hopelessly entangled. Unfortunately, things often don't happen in that order.

Solution: double dispatch. I replaced:

A result = otherObject.foo();
if (result instanceof B) {
B b = (B)result;
d.doSomething(b);
} else {
C c = (C)result;
d.doSomething(c);
}

with :

otherObject.foo().doSomething(d);

where B and C have different definitions of doSomething.

As desired, otherObject still can't call doSomething, even on Bs and Cs it creates, because it doesn't have access to d.

"Whoever did this licked so many frogs." -@ShutUpShow@twitter.com on the box art for Inis

Another #java puzzle:

Interface A is implemented by classes B and C. I call a method that returns an A and want to do different things depending on whether I actually get back a B or a C. Is there a cleaner way than this?

A result = otherObject.foo();
if (result instanceof B) {
B b = (B)result;
doSomething(b);
} else {
C c = (C)result;
doSomething(c);
}

I can't change doSomething(b) into b.doSomething() because (for security reasons) I don't want otherObject to be able to doSomething.

instanceof feels dirty.

Ideas?