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Yeah, seriously. The style of testing is public, so some engineers at OpenAI could easily have spent a few months generating millions of permutations of grid-based questions and including those in the original data for training the AI. Handshakes all around, publicity for everyone.

"our users are idiots and we need to keep them away from sharp edges" is exactly what keeps driving me away from Python and pip. It's why I wrote https://pip.wtf -- Python package management would be so simple if they'd just stop adding more and more seatbelts and cushions to Python.

I made https://pip.wtf, which is a "god damn it, I'm doing this myself" alternative for single-file scripts that just need some basic deps. You paste some code into your script and then it installs dependencies to a local directory.

Maybe a link or two to help other gamers make informed decisions would be a helpful addition to this comment...?

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The index, which is linked in the article, reveals that the banned books are not How to Code books but a series of chapter novels that feature girls who are interested in coding but know nothing about it. Furthermore, they are only banned as classroom curriculum books, not banned from the library, which makes sense because the first book appears to contain no classroom merit whatsoever -- just like most chapter books aimed at kids.

I skimmed through the first book. It's cute. A bunch of girls who are excited to learn to make apps join the coding club and get tricked by their female teacher into solving a bunch of coding trivia outside the classroom in order to develop friendships. They finally learn some actual coding from the protagonist's older brother. There really is no merit to this as a classroom assigned reading book, and it would probably be a drag for boys to read. The writing style and thoughts and feelings of the main character are obviously directed heavily at girls, except for the older brother who's a cool prankster and who actually knows how to make basic utilities.

The Girls Who Code textbook by the same author, Learn to Code and Change the World, is not banned.

> the original submission is free and polished

No, it's not free. Every time you load up the page to view your own files with files.gallery, a big honkin' pop-up shows up instructing you to buy a $40 license for additional features:

Purchase a license [$39] to unlock features and support dev! - Remove this popup - Upload - Download folder - Code and text editor - Create new file - Create new folder - Rename - Delete - Duplicate file - Dedicated support - Multi-user, panorama and much more coming soon! [payment button]

The files.gallery website only hints at this restriction at the very bottom of the page in the "License" section, which devs would expect to mean an OSS license: "Files is free to use with basic features. To remove the license-popup and unlock additional features, you may purchase a license [$39] from within the app."

Now if you look at the rest of the landing page you can see it very carefully does not mention the ability to use basic file browsing features so that it's not technically a lie to present a tool that can "browse files and folders without complicated installations" that doesn't allow you to do anything more than download your own files without opening your wallet.

The dev is just another hustler.

You can tie floss into a loop. It's way better than strangling your fingers and faster too. Look at the last picture in the first post of this thread: https://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=2013.15

You grab and twist a doubled-up line, then pull the small end through the new hole. This takes just a few seconds and now I don't mind flossing daily.