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posted by martyb on Thursday January 02 2020, @01:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the fire dept.

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 02 2020, @08:22PM (4 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday January 02 2020, @08:22PM (#938790) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 02 2020, @09:11PM (3 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Thursday January 02 2020, @09:11PM (#938813) Journal
    I prefer them specifically because they aren't so "forgiving." Means I need to be more accurate in writing what I want to happen. Brings a certain rigour to the practice, while keeping it an art.

    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

      by Freeman (732) on Thursday January 02 2020, @10:16PM (#938847) Journal

      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.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @11:37PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @11:37PM (#938868)

      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

        by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Thursday January 02 2020, @11:51PM (#938875) Journal
        Hey, it's been a decade since I wrote code ... and it's been a decade since my eyes screwed up. But good catch - I'm not even going to check what I actually wrote.

        ' 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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