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Bushfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia. They're Only Going to Get Worse:
Australia has deployed military planes and ships to provide aid as hundreds of wildfires rage across Australia, forcing residents to flee and destroying homes.
The Australian Defense Force is sending ships to the Victoria town of Mallacoota on a two-week supply mission and using helicopters to bring in more firefighters since roads were inaccessible, according to the Associated Press (AP).
On Tuesday, thousands of people from the town on Australia's southeastern coast fled towards the water as a fire ripped through the area.
Photos of residents taking shelter on boats circulated on social media.
[...] In New South Wales, where Sydney is located, firefighters are battling more than 100 fires, according to the state's Rural Fire Service.
Sydney's famed New Years Eve fireworks went ahead despite the fires. A petition calling on the government to cancel the display and give the funds to firefighters and farmers instead got more than 280,000 signatures.
[...] New South Wales' Rural Fire Services Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said this wildfire season is the worst on record.
"We've seen extraordinary fire behavior," he said Tuesday, according to the AP. "What we really need is meaningful rain, and we haven't got anything in the forecast at the moment that says we're going to get drought-breaking or fire-quenching rainfall."
More than 900 homes have been destroyed in the state, according to New South Wales Rural Fire Service.
A fire tracker map maintained by researchers in Western Australia shows that they are also threatening areas around every major city in the country.
Additional coverage:
- Australia fires live: two dead in Cobargo as NSW and Victoria face bushfires threat – latest updates - interactive map too
- 9news live feed
- Large parts of the NSW South Coast are expected to lose all telecommunications in coming hours
- Tens of thousands of lightning strikes spark dozens of fires across South Australia
- More than 30,000 tourists in Australia who defied orders to leave area east of Melbourne amid raging bushfires are 'TRAPPED' as roads are cut off, after locals warned staying would be 'suicide' - have the pinch of salt ready
- 4000+ blocked on Mallacoota beach as forest fire approaches
- The Navy joins fleet of military helicopters called in to help evacuate south-eastern Victoria
- A total of 33 fires are still burning across Victoria as of 7pm Tuesday, with the majority of those blazes in East Gippsland.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 02 2020, @05:49PM (13 children)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @07:00PM (6 children)
my style would be quite different:
printf("goodbye world\n");
I'm not gonna nag about your mistyped slash, but a compiler would mind.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 02 2020, @07:59PM (5 children)
For example, you're pulling a string from a database. You don't want embedded escape sequences, so you make sure no escape sequences are stored with the data. Storing escape sequences in your data is just asking for trouble.
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday January 02 2020, @09:47PM (2 children)
I think the mistyped thing is the "/" instead of a "\". Or has C changed since I used it last?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 03 2020, @12:04AM (1 child)
Barbara may code in transc where all operators are reversed.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 03 2020, @09:44AM
Isn't that just wonderful. Fucking systemd even got into the reverse function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @11:30PM (1 child)
Yes it is. Perhaps you need to work on your reading comprehension before blaming other people.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 02 2020, @11:58PM
Still low vision on one eye, legally blind in the other, but hey, it's better than being illiterate because I can't see shit and the screen readers sucked.
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 02 2020, @08:22PM (4 children)
Not meaning, just the one liner program, because I assume they'll be learning more than that.
C/C++ is a lot more daunting/unforgiving than Python.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 02 2020, @09:11PM (3 children)
I've used python, and it's okay, but why can't people just use tabs? If you're worried about excessive indentation, you can change how many spaces a tab looks like onscreen, while preserving the actual hard tab is the file.
Santa's people writing php.
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 02 2020, @10:16PM
Or you can use an IDE like PyCharm that converts the tab into 4 spaces for you. Best of both worlds, single key press using tabs, but also appeases the 4 space crowd.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @11:37PM (1 child)
It brings rigor to your practice? You mean like using the right type of slashes in your escape sequences?
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 02 2020, @11:51PM
' This may change in the near future - I managed to partially rehab my vision using Aisleriot on a large screen under Linux. Took months just to be able to see the cards easily, but now even with macular edema in both eyes, holes in both retinas, a decade of retinal disease, and 4 years of cataracts that we still don't have any timetable to fix, I CAN READ!
You can't believe how big a deal that is. I have the need to code again as of this morning. That's pretty amazing.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @09:54PM
A newline is not indicated by a forward slash! And one should not use a formatter whereunnecessary - simple fputs("goodbye world\n", stdout) is better.