JasonFruit

> It's not stupid. It's bold and almost risk-free.

It's stupid and risky for either the US or China to escalate a war that threatens to become a global conflict between nuclear powers. I wish saner heads urging restraint would prevail.

The dead-on imitation of hard-boiled detective prose gets me every time. "I always leave when the talk gets philosophical," indeed!

The developer experience is great, though its approach is much different from TKinter. The documentation is excellent, there aren't maddening incomplete corners like GTK, the results look good (if you think Qt looks good), and it's simple and straightforward. The main downside is that sometimes your code looks more like Qt and less like Python.

I appreciate the nuance of 'may' in the title. We could do with more of that.

Exactly! I want a printer, because my Brother b/w laser printer is a solid piece of equipment that prints many, many pages on a reasonably affordable ink cartridge, and it will last for years. What I didn't want was another crappy inkjet that was made as cheaply as possible to sell overpriced ink cartridges, and will have to be replaced in December.

> if "the enemy" is giving your ammo to shoot them with why on earth you wouldn't use it?

Hopefully because you have self restraint and are able to see that every group of a certain size has at least one irrational member? There's nothing in holding even most extreme political views that precludes trading others with human decency.

I enjoyed it too, don't get me wrong, but as much as I like playing with the cruft in the (English) language spec, constructions like this are write-only.

Guarantee nobody's going to say that.

Given the state of Linux application naming, we're lucky it's not called GKCellP, so we'd have to find it via 'apt search kdeconnect' every time because we can't remember the name. (I'm looking at you, GKrellM. You too, Liferea. )

I'm interested in such things; what was the name of the book?

> communist on the inside

The difference between "Communist on the outside" and "communist on the inside" is that the former is backed by a compulsive government with a monopoly on the use of force, and the latter is a voluntary choice by all parties.

Staple foods tend to rise in price by leaps rather than gradually. I think that stores accept a low profit margin on them at some times because of their disproportionate effect on the store's reputation for cheapness. We were probably about due for a leap in egg prices anyway, and the recent production difficulties provided an excuse. Now egg prices can come down slightly and be seen as a relief.

I am not saying it's true or false, but clarifying a wording many misunderstood.

Translation: If you gamble that the Fed will raise rates and get it wrong, you lose more than if you wrongly gamble that they will not.

> I should be thankful they don’t make me pay a yearly developer fee for making python apps on my Macbook.

Apple exec scribbles furiously

I'm glad I sniped you before I sniped myself!

I still question the interpretation of:

> cannot have pairs next to each other if the second pair is one number higher

But I think the outcome would be the same either way.

ME Bank is the best:

- Must be all numerals.

- Be 7 to 20 digits.

- Cannot have the same number three times in a row.

- Cannot have four ascending or descending numbers.

- Cannot have the same number appear more than five times.

- Cannot have pairs next to each other if the second pair is one number higher.

- Cannot be the same as 8 previous ones.

It would be fun to work out mathematically how much they're limiting the password space with these rules. I'm also not sure what "Cannot have pairs next to each other if the second pair is one number higher"; is that referring to consecutive pairs of numbers, or pairs of consecutive numbers, e.g. 7788 vs 7889.

It's not clear to me how regional differences in vowel pronunciation differ from accents.

Yes, and that differs from a line break inside a paragraph, which is what the author is discussing.

I'm sure this has a lot of value, and it's cool to see. I immediately am interested! One thing came up in the first search that's frequently overlooked in music, though: unless the prompt is Christmas music, the response should probably not be Christmas music.

This sounds like "Great White Father" stuff to me. Are wealthy countries really so suited to telling poorer ones what they may and may not do to join the wealthy?

I think it's inevitable that sub-societies will form that accept technology only in ways that preserve the humanity of our interactions. We use the term "disruptive" all the time around here, but what's being disrupted is increasingly close to the heart of human life: the ability to engage with the ideas, emotions, and opinions of another human being, and to know them as a person. If a computer can convincingly impersonate anybody, putting any words you choose in their mouth, and at the same time can generate convincing words on any given subject, it can flood electronic communication with noise that's impossible to remove. It can destroy the trust we have in any interactions not had in person, and we've allowed our society to develop in such a way that interacting only in person is no longer practical.

I know that it's expected that a man of a certain age will begin to say these things, but I think it's true now in a way that it was not true about "those young whippersnappers with their motorcars": we've taken a wrong turn, and I don't like where we're headed.

So true. And they left out the macaroni!

> not to be pedantic

(proceeds to be extremely pedantic)

Things I learned after buying one of their machines: I now have a nice usable laptop that has great hardware compatibility with every Linux distro I've tried. They can spend the money however they like, if you ask me.

I don't agree with that framing, but we can agree that they are acting as a projection of the power and privilege of the person they are protecting, and that in acting on that person's behalf, they remove perceived but unlikely potential threats that the average citizen would have to simply tolerate. Even if they're just plain folks in private life, their profession is an expression of power and privilege.

> normal people who are just trying to do their job…

When it's the Secret Service, that's not "normal people", and their job is to figuratively or literally stomp anyone who doesn't sufficiently respect the immensely powerful people they insulate. Portraying them as regular Joe victim here is nonsense.

Scribus is amazing. I published a hymnal using it and other open source tools, and it was the easiest part of the toolchain to make do what I want. It's even scriptable with Python.

Shouldn't it be SFB?

I will happily continue double spacing until my fingers curl in death. Except on my phone: whatever it does, I've determined, is beyond my control.