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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Just stumbled upon an excellent example of #Python not living up to its "one obvious way to do it" maxima:

- os.listdir
- os.scandir
- os.walk
- Path.glob

So I guess Pythonistas don't have the right to laugh at #Rust for having 4 ways to convert a string slice to a string.

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Next time you go home to visit family, budget time to pull out some old photo albums together. It’s a great way to hear a lot of old stories.

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“By the end of summer, vicious anti-Clinton social-media operations were intensifying, not only by the Trump campaign and its American allies but also by Russian trolls posing as Americans, who spread a raft of conspiracy theories about Clinton’s health and alleged criminality. The operations included the states that Manafort had identified as key, investigators found.”

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘Putin’s American adventure might be best understood as advance payment for a geopolitical grail closer to home: a vassal Ukrainian state. Thrumming beneath the whole election saga was another story — about Ukraine’s efforts to establish a modern democracy and, as a result, its position as a hot zone of the new Cold War between Russia and the West, autocracy and democracy’

well worth re-reading this analytic piece from last November

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/magazine/russiagate-paul-manafort-ukraine-war.html

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘said Mr. Yermolenko, referring to Mr. Zelensky’s success in channeling the country’s resilience and anger at Russia… “Zelensky is the embodiment of this resistance but not the source.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/world/europe/ukraine-zelensky-war.html

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“NPR joins a long line of media companies that have laid off workers in recent months amid falling advertising revenue”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/business/media/npr-layoffs.html

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm probably looking at this in the simplest most literal way possible, but you know that aphorism[1], "I'm a human *being*, not a human doing"? That's never resonated with me as I seem to be happiest when I'm doing things, especially things I want to do.

[1] Widely attributed to Kurt Vonnegut on the internet, but I don't trust that as I haven't tracked down the source.

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Had a good night out in London, went to a drag burlesque, had drinks and chats with friends, made a tuk tuk driver blast Cannibal Corpse as he took us back to the hotel.

Big W this morning: the hotel had a pool, swam for the first time in over a year, first time wearing a swimsuit. There was a sauna too which I’ve missed. Fantastic day.

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anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Made the mistake of trying to use trains to get around Britain. What an error.

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Suffer the little children.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/25/probably-touched-by-an-angel/

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Annie Lennox being absolutely fabulous and sharing the stage with different incarnations of herself in "Little Bird":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjbNLVQ_Iwk

This is a terrific song, but I was on the fence about including it on this list. But the video is just a blast and ultimately the song feels joyous, "... I just got to put these wings to test."

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

That's not how we wear our lab safety goggles, young lady!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/25/a-peek-into-the-fantasies-of-a-creationist/

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bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

in a lot of pane rn

bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

do u guys like my new terminal setup

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