“Get your car out of the bike lane” gets 'em real mad every time.

IMO Jupyter notebooks are a good example to look into first, if you want something more contemporary and somewhat widely-used than “tangle and weave.”

It would require 3D printers sold in New York to include technology that blocks the unlicensed production of firearms and gun parts. It would also make it a crime to possess, sell or distribute digital blueprints for printing illegal guns.

This is an attack on my property rights as a 3D printer owner, never mind the Second Amendment (or First Amendment, for that matter). In practice, this would essentially require all 3D printers to have closed-source, DRM’d firmware and almost certainly spy on you. It is way, way more authoritarian than people only thinking in terms of “gun violence” likely give it credit for.

Also never mind that “is this 3D model a gun?” is an absurd thing to have a computer try to figure out, even with the recent advances in machine learning. That goes double if you care about things like distinguishing a gun that would actually shoot bullets from a water gun, nerf gun, or other vaguely gun-shaped nonfunctional object (which any frothing-at-the-mouth jackbooted thug who would stoop to supporting this clearly wouldn’t). And even then, guns are fundamentally simple devices made from multiple parts – is it going to SWAT you for printing a cylinder because it might be a gun barrel?!

This proposal is dangerously insane in every conceivable way, and probably several other ways I haven’t even thought of yet.

I like the way you presented the ctrl-c blog post as sort of introductory to the tonsky.me one. The second one is much more useful in terms of exploring the details and making specific recommendations, but the first one does a good job of motivating why I should care.

Also, it’s funny how both authors are kinda beating around the edges of literate programming e.g. in their discussion of code comments being one of the things worth highlighting, without ever quite getting there.

Once they left the facility, they were again hit with chemical agents officers were using on protesters in the area.

“We were not charged with a crime,” said Sigüenza. “We were released and then tear-gassed on our way out.”

Just in case there was any shred of doubt left about how sadistic these complete monsters are.

Death sentence seems quite called for in a country that uses it regularly.

Or even one that doesn’t. If any crime deserves to be a capital offense, it’s shit like this.

Better than nothing, but their vow should’ve ended two words earlier.

Michigan and Texas?

(The issue here is not that I don’t know what state Memphis is in, but that I didn’t pay attention to the city name at all.)

Walz should order the state troopers to defend the protestors, not oppose them, and fire every single one that doesn’t comply.

Russia can’t beat Ukraine’s military so it attacks its people.

It’s such a shame that you can’t customize the version of zsh running on your Linux-based embedded device because it’s DRM’d to prevent the modified version from being installed.

…oh wait, that’s not sarcasm because it’s actually plausible.

Welp, I guess that outs me as a not-gay; I didn’t even think about those.

It’s permissively-licensed (as opposed to bash, which is GPLv3). Pushing zsh over bash is part of a larger effort by corporations to marginalize copyleft so they can more easily exploit Free Software at the users’ expense. Don’t fall for it!

Bash is copyleft (GPLv3). Zsh is permissively-licensed.

Apple, for instance, switched from bash to zsh when the GPL version upgraded because they wanted to withhold those rights from their users.

Zsh should be considered harmful as a tool of corporate encroachment and subjugation of Free Software.

Are there any historically-accurate depictions of Mary Magdelene? That’d give us the answer.

Alternatively, if we go by the theory that he was gay for John the Apostle, that gives us an answer too. (I assume John didn’t have boobs.)

The South is also the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement and the part of the country with the highest percentage of black population.

It’s easy for folks in places like Minnesota to pretend they aren’t racist when they barely ever interact with people of other races to begin with.

Make no mistake: it’s rural people in all states who are bigots, not southerners. The only reason states in the south are still “red” is that they tend to have slightly higher percentages of rural populations than blue states do.

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The oil execs are saying it’s “uninvestable” precisely because they know how incompetent Trump is.

Note that the world’s top 1% is 83 million people, which includes way more than 1% of the population of places like the US and western Europe.

If you’re a “middle class” homeowner in a high cost-of-living area, you’re part of this statistic.