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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023
  • brisk@aussie.zonetoPolitics@beehaw.org•Wahl-O-Mat Matches Your Position Against Political Parties Positions (EU Elections)
    3·
    5 months ago

    Australia has ABC Vote Compass, but it has some oddities based on issues with our political/media landscape:

    • it only places you relative to the three top parties
    • all the questions are specific election wedge issues (mostly between the top two parties) rather than broader ideological questions, and so it only updates in the run up to each federal (read: national, Australia wide) election
    • it takes politicians statements at face value, and doesn’t factor in actual behaviour in power which is often at odds (if you’re curious, look up the history of high speed rail or nuclear power in Australia. Both have been used for electioneering again and again, neither exist despite the advocating party winning)
  • brisk@aussie.zonetoProgramming@beehaw.org•Powershell: How do I update my code to use a different file type?
    0·
    7 months ago

    It’s markdown, you should be able to indent your lines by 4 spaces or fence with triple backtics to get code blocks. Your client’s editor may have a button to help

    ```
$file = Get-Content -Path .\individuals2.txt

foreach ($line in $file)
{
    Copy-Item -Path .\template.docx -Destination ".\$(2 + $line + '.docs')"
}
```

    Becomes

    $file = Get-Content -Path .\individuals2.txt

foreach ($line in $file)
{
    Copy-Item -Path .\template.docx -Destination ".\$(2 + $line + '.docs')"
}