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Jones is not worth $1B. He's barely worth a million with the lawsuits and legal costs; thus the bankruptcy. He offered them about $100M over 20 years or something like that but the SH families lawyers refused.

I've watched the trial, the SH lawyers are not loyal to the victims and families.

Well they asked for money, not "fixing the issue", which is not enforceable anyway without violating the 1st so that's not even a power the court has. Alex Jones will still be able to speak and profit from it, just not under the Infowars brand.

I doubt that the SH families will receive the kind of money they could have had if they accepted Jones' original offer. Their lawyers made it clear they were in it not for their clients' interest but for their own political agenda.

The point is that the text is not authentic. How do we know that the "reduced references", which basically means that the editor removed what he disliked for his own arbitrary and personal reasons, did not affect the meaning of the text?

Everyone who starts working out notice this. Very fast gains in strength and resistance the first weeks due to neuronal signals improvement. And then a slow down where muscle gains take over.

> Mitochondrial DNA mutates 100-1,000 times faster than the human genome

This statement is very interesting for two reasons:

1) We not consider mitochondrial DNA as part of the human genome when it's clearly is and can be used to establish the maternal genetic lineage.

2) Traditionally, we always think of telomere reduction and genetic mutations as the root cause of aging but not mitochondrial genetic damages.

Jars can be refilled. I think things would actually get cheaper.

You mean like perfume and cosmetics? Sturdy glass with carpets near the bathroom sink and the shower will do the trick. I'll take a few cuts through my life over cancer and chronic diseases.

Is it "good", certainly, but I don't think most of the stuff is worth it in the technological world. Let kids follow their interests, keep the general stuff to a minimum and you will have a lot more of happy kids with who excel more.

There is a more important concept at play here: structured data access as first class citizen. We have pointers and reference but we don't have anything for making more than one jump. I'd argue that about 30% of functional programming is just about accessing stuff.

I was trying to extend Python's dataclasses.replace() function to be able to replace deeply nested elements. In vanilla Python this function is used as obj = replace(obj, element1=newval, element2=newval2). Meaning that to replace nested readonly dataclasses this must be called recursively.

Implementing a sequence of objects (var1.var2.var3) was mostly easy, but playing around the [] operator for sequence or mappings or slices was filled with edge cases. And implementing edge cases is a hornet nest just in itself.

Functions as first class citizens is one of the most useful concept of make dynamic code that remains readable. The next step would be structured accessors as first class citizens.

Yes

That's not how this works.

Food is the main cause of obesity. Obesity is the main cause of heart disease and cancer.

If that was the case then the Amish would not be healthier on average than the rest of the population

Politicians have been protecting big ag for decades. Now independent farmers are getting criminally prosecuted for selling their raw foods directly to consumers.

I don't see the Obamas defending the farmers getting criminally prosecuted for selling their raw food directly to consumers. RFK Jr is.

I'm glad for RFK Jr. for this reason.

Nobody talked about this in the mainstream conversations in the past.

If that was the case then I wouldn't see messages that X or Y commands behavior are going to change in the future. The master branch moral panic thing comes to mind for example.

This is why it is important to stratify your API promises.

Git is a good example of this, with "plumbing" commands meant for scripts and software and "porcelain" commands meant for a more comfortable user experience. Code is rigid while humans are flexible.

Only freeze APIs that have been proven in the field to be stable and necessary in the field by thousands of people.

Not too shabby, and quite fast:

> Write a small essay about the philosophy of the Garfield comic book series

Title: The Philosophy of the Garfield Comic Book Series

The Garfield comic book series, created by Jim Davis, is a timeless classic that has been entertaining readers for over four decades. While it may seem like a simple comic strip about a lazy cat and his owner, there is a deeper philosophy embedded within its pages. This philosophy revolves around the themes of existentialism, hedonism, and the human condition.

Existentialism is a philosophical movement that emphasizes individual freedom, choice, and existence. In the Garfield comic book series, we see this theme play out through the character of Garfield himself. Garfield is a cat who lives life on his own terms, making his own choices and living his life as he sees fit. He is not bound by societal norms or expectations, and he is free to do as he pleases. This is exemplified in his love for lasagna, his disdain for Mondays, and his general indifference to the world around him.

Hedonism, on the other hand, is a philosophy that advocates for the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. In the Garfield comic book series, this theme is evident in Garfield's constant pursuit of pleasure. Whether it's eating lasagna, sleeping, or tormenting his owner Jon, Garfield is always seeking out ways to maximize his own pleasure and minimize his own pain. This hedonistic philosophy is a stark contrast to the more serious and often somber themes found in other comic book series.

> Incredible amount of negativity here.

Negativity isn't spared on bad actors.

I just want an issue tracker with a customizable sate machine to transition status.

If I considered adopting a Lirust (yes I just invented that name, feel free to seal :D ) as an engineer, I would want everything user facing not to break. If that promise is held then I think a hypothetical Lirust would be highly successful.

> I don't see how it changes the situation.

That's precisely my point. Mentionning someone else's "privilege" is a meaningless ad hominem.

I think this will happen sooner than we think. Lots of not-old people with a lot of talents out there and who doesn't like "get off my lawn" culture of the Kernel.

They key aspect will be importing was has gone wrong in the Rust and kernel community cultures.

> People are having sex at every convention.

That's besides the point. People are not at a Python convention for sex. Having a convention in a different culture doesn't mean accepting all the moral tenets of that culture.

You're effectively cancelling the entire African and Asian Continents. I'm failing to see in putting barriers to what is the best gateway for economical progress for a lot of people in our time.

> while you remain in a privileged and ignorant position

I think Python devs such as you and I are much more privileged than the average African.

> Africa doesn't get a pycon. If you do fund it, you're funding something that excludes queer people.

Defund all pycons from 80% of the world then. Because that's the vast majority of Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and a lot of the rest of the world.

This will just result in forks and fragmentation in the long term, as opposed to having to work with and being more accepting of "queers".

Read the answers and comments from the SO threads. It won't always work for other people in other context.

I'd add, in each my Bash scripts I add this line to get the script's current directory:

SCRIPT_DIR=$( cd -- "$( dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd )

This is based on this SA's answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59895/how-do-i-get-the-d...

I never got why Bash doesn't have a reliable "this file's path" feature and why people always take the current working directory for granted!

That's a great idea. Authorizing any kind of physical change should be a default security measures.