What reasons? They gave reasons? They just said that windows fixes the flaws Debian has which is quite the “compliment”.

ChatGPT - give me an example of what an insufferable Linux elitist would say about wsl.

“This article is not for Linux experts. If you are one and have a Windows machine (main reason is gaming), I hope you are using Debian for WSL and not Ubuntu.”

I know - I thought they did, but admitted that I was wrong.

🤦‍♂️

You criticize my statement about what Trump is for being too absolute and then make your own.

He had 4 years in office and didn’t deploy troops anywhere. The evidence supports my hypothesis so far.

Trump is very isolationist. I’d be quite surprised if he committed to any conflict directly. Funding Israel to fight for him however…

If you’re voting on lunch and the choices are between an anchovy pizza and a shit sandwich, and your coworkers choose the shit sandwich, do you blame the people who told you to vote for the anchovy?

They won’t.

They won’t what?

We’ve been through this before too! Does nobody remember??? His entire shtick is that he thinks he can walk into the room and just use his “dad voice” to get everyone to do what he wants. And if it doesn’t work it’s because of “woke”.

That’s it. That’s the entirety of his “plan”.

But at least Democrats were taught a lesson right libs? Right??

… Right?

He doesn’t have a plan. 🤣

Jesus people, it’s just campaign pillow talk. He has no fucking clue what to do.

This one is for the mums and dads… They, like me, are worried sick about the safety of our kids

Evergreen. Becoming a parent makes people paranoid. Catering to that paranoia is not helpful.

The only way to enforce these types of laws is to verify age, which means providing ID, which is ridiculous.

Ah - you are correct - they don’t use those lines for freight (I thought they may). Still - Japan has some of the best train networks in the world.

I expect this idea to die. People act like because a thing was suggested or being looked into that it will automatically be done. “Solar Frickin’ Roadways” never went anywhere an this sounds unlikely to as well.

With all the hype surrounding Python it’s easy to forget that it’s a really old language. And, in my opinion, the leadership is a bit of a mess so there hasn’t been any concerted effort on standardizing tooling.

Some unsolicited advice from somebody who is used more refined build environments but is doing a lot of Python these days:

The whole venv thing isn’t too bad once you get the hang of it. But be prepared for people to tell you that you’re using the wrong venv for reasons you’ll never quit understand or likely need to care about. Just use the bundled “python -m venv venv” and you’ll be fine despite other “better” alternatives. It’s bundled so it’s always available to you. And feel free to just drop/recreate your venv whenever you like or need. They’re ephemeral and pretty large once you’ve installed a lot of things.

Use “pipx” to install python applications you want to use as programs rather than libraries. It creates and manages venvs for them so you don’t get library conflicts. Something like “pip-tools” for example (pipx install pip-tools).

Use “pyenv” to manage installed python versions - it’s a bit like “sdkman” for the JVM ecosystem and makes it easy to deal with the “specific versions of python” stuff.

For dependencies for an app - I just create a requirements.txt and “pip install -r requirements.txt” for the most part… Though I should use one of the 80 better ways to do it because they can help with updating versions automatically. Those tools mostly also just spit out a requirements.txt in the end so it’s pretty easy to migrate to them. pip-tools is what my team is moving towards and it seems a reasonable option. YMMV.

First friggin’ paragraph…

Six decades after the bullet train first whisked passengers between Tokyo and Osaka, authorities in Japan are planning to do the same for cargo, with the construction of a “conveyor belt road”.

Fair response - thanks for your insight.

As for how likely it is that you actually get hit - do you think it’s easier to avoid a 2’ x 6’ object moving at 15 mph or a 8’ x 16’ object moving at 45 mph?

The cars are where I expect them to be - and they are much more likely to slow if they see me on the crosswalk. Dude on a bike just swerves around me at speed.

Cyclists like to think they’re still pedestrians when it suits their purpose.

What are those cyclists having accidents with? Magical monoliths that appear out of nowhere or… cars?

Yeah… Whenever I’m on foot in the city I’m twice as nervous about being hit by a cyclist as I am a car.

They ride on sidewalks, don’t stop at lights, weave through pedestrians at crosswalks, etc.

They seem to be so full of themselves for not being in a car that they forget that they can also injure people.

Every conversation on the Internet will eventually devolve into an argument over who said what.

I was paraphrasing “Simple, prevent wars. Kick leaders in the balls. Lessen human suffering and violence.” Specifically the first part. If you meant something else I invite you to clarify. But so far you didn’t seem to have developed your thoughts past “prevent wars” and “the UN is useless”.

You’re absolutely right. In retrospect I should have known better than to engage with somebody saying “why doesn’t the UN just stop wars?”