That really only works if you have a job that lets you get away during postal office hours.
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That really only works if you have a job that lets you get away during postal office hours.
I think one of the old Dr Who episodes had a race of intelligent reptiles running the planet before humans. I'm not sure but they might have been the original Daleks.
It's likely a violation of the emoluments clause. But we've been down that road before.
mash up showing Sarah from Sarah & Duck and Pomni from Amazing Digital Circus
Did you ever watch the British children's show Sarah & Duck? I can't get it out of my head that Pomni might actually be Sarah as a young (more jaded) adult after having left town with the Ribbon Sisters' family circus!
Some might say the novels and movies of Dune are about precisely this topic!
Am I remembering wrong that it was down to just a couple of countries some time in the last 20 years? I remember the Rotary regularly sent people around the world to help with vaccinations.
I see now it's a relatively new addition to the language (compared to when I started learning it). I'll have to check it out! It looks pretty good - only seems to be missing greater/less than (compared to other languages). Glad to see it's finally in Python!
This reminds me how much I wish Python had case statements. Even QuickBasic had case statements!
Was hoping someone would post this. I have so many friends who want permanent DST... seems the US has chosen "learn the hard way" mode for a while.
That's so frustrating.
Ahh... I've never used it but that seems odd. I wonder if it's a feature of "AI"-generated code rather than a deliberate choice by actual programmers.
Is it a case of being explicit? Stating up-front that there is no "on exit" code that's going to be executed? I could see some value in that, particularly if on.exits are used regularly elsewhere in the code-base.
This remind's me of Terry Pratchett's retro-phrenology where a hammer would be used to change the shape of someones head to give them new personality traits. Obviously it was a gag in a book an not meant to be taken literally.
I loved those stories as a kid! They ran as a serial in the scouting magazine, but I was so thrilled to find the actual books in the library! When I took French in high school, we all had to pick a French name for class and I picked "Jean Paul" because of those books!
The only reason I ever interrupt someone like this is if I think I'll fall asleep during the flight to let them know they should feel free to wake me if they want to get up. I try to get that said before they get settled with their headphones on but I should probably write it on a post-it.
They're both fantastic and I really love his percussive guitar playing!
My partner recently got me a t-shirt, "Sorry, I can't. I've got to dissertate"... and now I'm wondering how I'll get out of social events when I finish the thing?!
If I remember correctly the Zen mp3 players were considered one of the best portable music systems, particularly since you weren't tied to iTunes.
Videos like this one highlight the vision of America that I grew up with: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZQl...
It makes me so sad to witness what we're becoming.
His comment is sad and pathetic. I grew up in the 70s and videos like School House Rock's The Great Melting pot were quite popular. When I later joined the Army, defending that melting pot, a land of opportunity and freedom, was one of my reasons (naively maybe). www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZQl...
I suspect once a CFO or two ends up in serious trouble with the SEC for fraudulent/hallucinated quarterly/annual filings that corporate people will start paying attention.
I was there, Gandalf, on Slashdot, 30 years ago.
I remember working tech-support for a rural school district in the early 2000's. They had a lab full of Apple 2e computers with trays of floppy disks with all the ed software. They told me that while they're old, they're also reliable, work the same every time, and kids liked the programs.
I don't know what Heinlein was like in person but quite a few of his women characters were pretty blase about rape, for example, "Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it's at least partly her own fault." (one of the women in Stranger in a Strange Land)... and then there's Friday...
Quick! Waste no time getting your comet-pills! www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-scienc...
This sounds fascinating and I'm curious to see how your work might connect to inoculation theory. Do you have a link to the paper?
Thanks! I'll check it out now!
Which video? The last one I see is one on renewables.
I've always used (linux) command line tools like pdftk and pdfjam but it's nice to see native options in R!