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If it doesn't have any effect, why bother protesting?

They are like PDFs in that they do not render the same with different software or on different devices.

Yes, that's exactly what I want. Everything shifts with dst - business processes, people's working hours, ach windows, ...

It has been years, when will it not be too early?

Yes, it gets a trailing comma if it's on it's own line. That way when you add/remove arguments in a multi-line call it's only a one-line diff. This doesn't apply when the diff is only one line anyway.

Who's to say you don't add a new argument to the function in the future, like

    my_print(
        "This string has two parameters, `a` which is equal to {a} and `b` which is equal to {b}",
        a=1,
        b=2,
        color_negative_red=True,
    )

The infrastructure has to be maintained year round, not just the summer months when lake houses are full. I don't think it's reasonable to expect affordable month-to-month pricing.

A tall wall is nothing, there used to be a stadium with a hill in play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikin_Park#Tal's_Hill

Shebang lines are semantic comments too

the hollywood propaganda machine - and it owes about 90% of it's success to that

Who's being glib now? Most people learn English because it's means making more money - in technology, finance, tourism, ...

If for some reason your mail server is flagged by Gmail's systems, then it only won't reach Gmail users.

This is a deal breaker for most people and organizations. Not being able to send email to the largest email provider is orders of magnitude more important than upholding some values about decentralization and independence.

I'm very confused how that has to do with anything?

Presumably people in the country are more easily able to grow vegetables. If they aren't doing it, then it implies that growing vegetables isn't worth the time.

I think there are other confounding factors like income and education.

All sorts of works of fiction have been sources of knowledge for much longer than film has been around. Aesop's fables and parables in the Bible are intentful examples. I don't find this horrifying.

to get back home to Canada

Many now return to the area near Necedah Wildlife Refuge in Juneau County, WI - adjacent to Leopold's Sand (Sauk) County.

If you have to start with apologies then you know, just stop and don't post.

As if the main benefit of being certified malaria free is the certification instead of actually being malaria free?

Dunno where you are, but it requires a prescription in the US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/health/otc-birth-control-...

Paw Patrol was created by a toy company to sell products. They design the new products with each new season which includes new vehicles/accessories/etc.

I don't like the results of the loudness war either but it isn't objectively worse. Lots of people are listening to music on cheap speakers over the sound of road noise while driving or with generic earbuds on a train or any number of situations not conducive to high dynamic ranges. To these people in these situations, the highly compressed music sounds better.

What's the alternative? Manually curated directories lost to search. Anything completely manual isn't going to be "web-scale". Anything algorithmic is ranked and optimizable.

Or Elon was the addition, the other 3 are in alpha order.

This seems like an arms race doomed to failure. The spammers can just add Hello World to pass the check. Then the check could be upgraded to look for some non-trivial behavior. Then the spammers will work around that. ... all at increasing costs to the package hosts. And now they have to be arbiters on what counts as trivial functionality.

I think this is a different dichotomy - declarative vs imperative. Generally, the declarative languages have all the magic implemented in an imperative engine.

In Python, I've done this by installing the package in editable mode from a side project. Something like:

  /package-project/
  /main-project/

  pip install -e ../package-project

I think the general image of him is that he was a good person, perhaps the "best" to ever hold the office, but was not effective as President. That he was idealistic, naive and impractical. I don't necessarily agree with the above and he was before my time.

This strikes me as market absolutism - if you are participating in a market then you have to believe that the market will solve all of your problems or else they aren't valid. People can believe a company is behaving "wrongly" even if it profitable and successful.

But there are almost always other social dynamics at play, true free markets are rare. You can generally "like how capitalism works" and not believe that markets will optimally solve every problem all the time.

Also, "the market" is an abstraction. What actually kills companies? People stop using their product. Criticism/boycotting is a market force. Capitalism requires informed consumers and this is consumers sharing information.

Markets also take time. Even if you believe the market will solve a problem, it will take time for the "bad" company to die and other firms to take it's place.

Deadweight loss happens when a person who is willing to pay more is charged less than the amount they're willing to pay.

Tom is willing to pay $6 for coffee and the shop only charges him $4, the deadweight loss is $2.

That is a consumer surplus, not deadweight loss.

More like self fulfilling prophecy. The clique preferentially favors doing business with each other causing their businesses to perform better.

I have used https://takehome.io/. The timer starts when they check out the repo containing the project and instructions.

Housework seems to expand infinitely when working remote

Yeah we go from spending 4-8 waking hours per day to 14-16 at home - generating so much more trash and spending that much more time being aggravated by the mess.

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