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By ThinkPad Classic, you mean, the ThinkPad 25 Retro Anniversary Edition? I think it was kind of popular, but for $2,000, it just wasn't very competitive even with other ThinkPads. You were essentially paying a premium for a 7-row keyboard.

The reason there are different passport restrictions, mostly, is wealth/income inequality. As countries become richer, their passports typically become stronger. The solution is to attack the root cause of the issue, which is that so much of the world is still so poor.

Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but hear me out: the issue of social and physical comfort in public transit is probably at least as important as the issue of efficiency. In public transit, the expectation of adhering to a social contract is almost non-existent. Women deal with creepy gropers, everyone deals with the smell of urine, and of course there's the ubiquitous annoyance of music played over phone speakers (or worse, bluetooth).

If you want people to prefer to take transit, and you should want that, you need to deal with the lack of a social contract on public transit. That means, in other words, that behavior not tolerated in a private business (such as a bar or restaurant) can't be tolerated on public transit either.

For urban liberals, that means confronting some uncomfortable choices. A public space (and transit is public) is supposed to be open to all, but if we want public spaces to be livable, that probably means smells and behaviors are more tightly regulated in public, either through direct enforcement by transit police (unlikely) or more social pressure (also unlikely).

Postgres -> Django w/Graphene -> Vue.js w/ Apollo

Breakfast of champions right there.

The problem is, you have to "be that guy."

Feel beholden to cell phone carriers? Check out WhatsApp -- it uses the Internet to eliminate absurd and capricious regional fees.

WhatsApp (and thus Facebook) has three ways to monetize the service: (1) Charge everyone a small amount; (2) Charge a few users -- businesses mostly -- a large amount; (3) Sell and monetize your data with ads.

WhatsApp's founders were inclined to go with #1. Mark Zuckerberg appears to prefer #2 and #3.

In Colorado, there's still some veneration of Buffalo Bill, whose claim to fame was killing buffalo with such efficiency that only the pelts were harvested from the rotting corpses blanketing the plains.

So basically it's the old guy asking a "computer person" for help with something completely unrelated to both his job and his personal interests as an unpaid favor.

Honestly? Performance and the possibility of making Pypy the reference implementation.

I've been using Python since 1.5 and I feel like the language itself has been feature-complete for some time. In the 2.0 era, the big pain points were async and unicode; as demonstrated by, well, how painful Twisted's unicode was. ;)

But now if our big paint point is assigning a variable to len(), then in two lines evaluating that variable and printing it out, Python is just trying to find stuff to add.

I miss the size and simplicity of old Python. :/

I can definitely imagine some places where this replaces type-checking, but it still seems like a bit of an unfortunate anti-pattern to me, since it's really a sort of C/C++ style function prototype match.

My immediate thought is that it's going to be hard for PyCharm to reliably point me to a function definition.

No, just no.

First of all, however much you do or don't trust your VPN provider, it's almost certainly a million times more trustworthy than Comcast/CenturyLink/Verizon/whatever. Most consumers have one or perhaps two broadband providers, but there are countless VPN providers and many, especially the ones you pay an honest rate, have a far more honest business model than your ISP.

Second, the security threats of your local wifi network and the backend your VPN connects to are not the same. They both have threats, but very different ones and the trade-offs are not equal.

It's probably worth saying you should only use a VPN from a reputable company that derives income only from its paying users. It's true that they don't provide you total anonymity, but that was never the point.

Most of all, if you want network neutrality, use a VPN. Then all your traffic over your ISP is the same and they can't do any deep packet inspection.

FWIW, when I've been buying ads, Google not only has customer service, the customer service is damn good. I guess that's why it's called customer service.

There have been a great many sunsetted products from Google that could, in theory, generate some data points.

You're screening calls, not potential customers. Presumably, interested parties still get through, while people who just want some tidbit don't.

Based on reading a Los Angeles parking sign array, no, I'm not clear on whether I even have the right to park somewhere.

Relevant article from a source not behind a paywall:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/28/russia-gr...

I'm sure Larry Page is a smart guy, and Page Rank was clever, but I'm not really sure there's any particular reason to believe he knows where any industry is moving. Schmidt could predict technology trends well, while Page seems to just throw acquisitions at a wall, see what sticks, then sunset anything that doesn't.

That wasn't just him, it was the whole valley.

What do you mean? Original quartz watches are still working, are they not? Do we have a good idea of how long they'll last?

Not having any moving parts would generally mean a quartz movement will be more durable.

Well, they're saying it's "meaningful."

I'm saying, it's the only reason at least 3 people I know haven't completely deleted Facebook.

Non-paywall article discussing the same thing: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18523265/facebook-events-...

I'd speculate that Facebook is emphasizing events and groups because, quite frankly, those are the two things people are still on Facebook for. (It isn't your baby pics!)

Yeah. You can always get into what you do/don't like about a framework, but the same can be said of Flask.

FWIW, I don't like DRF's reliance on serializers that do more than serialization.

People pay handsomely for better mechanical movements, but that's still an aesthetic choice. The world's most accurate mechanical movement is just not going to be as accurate as a mid-range quartz movement. Paying a premium for something that's mechanical because it's mechanical is the epitome of an aesthetic choice. It's not at all like the Mac vs PC choice, which might have some aesthetics involved, but is still about support, ease of choice, brand reputation, and of course, technical details.

Maybe watches have always been somewhat aesthetic, and while they were made to be pretty in the 1920s, they really did exist as timepieces first and foremost. Now a mechanical watch's main function is the way it makes you feel.

Probably whoever made it just preferred Flask.

django-rest-framework is nice because it's maintained well and it's consistent with the rest of Django, but plenty of people just prefer the Flask way of doing things, even if it's a scrappier set of tools in some ways.

Drink every time someone says that.

See you at rehab!

Could be it.

Another measure could be looking at commits on github, but that also has its own biases.

Questions of cost and "why" apply broadly to the whole category of watches. Up until the late 70s, watches were tools to keep you from being late.

Since then, you've been able to get a cheap, reliable watch for next to nothing. Quartz movement, combined with mechanization of production, ensured that. The whole industry had to adapt to making watches themselves sort of an aesthetic statement, not a practical tool to keep you from being late.

At this point, any watch costing more than $25 is itself an aesthetic piece. Part of that aesthetic is where and how it's made. There's probably a market for watches made in Antarctica because of whatever sense of taste that "story" appeals to.

I had actually looked at Flask-RESTPlus for a relatively recent project before deciding to use FastAPI.