Does anybody have recommendations for books on Python that aren't, like, strictly instructional? I am reasonably comfortable writing it, but I'd like to dig deeper into how it works and why certain design decisions were made, and I had a good time reading Eloquent Javascript recently
BREAKING: a federal judge has ruled that suspicionless searches of travelers’ cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices when we cross the U.S. border are unconstitutional.
Yesterday I thanked the guest house owner for the lovely breakfast and said I couldn’t eat all that food..... and today I woke to this- for just me!!! This could feed my family of 5 and then some!! #bulgaria#breakfast
"the climate apocalypse will render entire cities full of people homeless at once"
yawn
"this might affect mortgage rates"
HOLY SHIT WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING
The meta-point i want to make about articles like this one is that our ruling ideology can't care about, can't even SEE, problems except through the certain lenses. It cares about investments, not people, so it can only understand problems translated into the language of investments.
Fun fact: each book scanned for the Internet Archive has a unique identifier, usually the title of the item, or its first 16 characters; the volume number, or 00 if there isn't one; and the first 4 characters of the author. So:
Today we got a new printer in the office and I, a Linux user, was the first person to successfully connect to it. I'm calling it now, 2020 will be the Year of Linux on the Desktop
If you can vote in the Canadian federal election - remember to vote today! Voter cards are a convenience but not necessary. You can register at the polling station. Elections Canada has info - enter your postal code to find out where to vote. https://www.elections.ca
In case you're curious what I think of as good sources of information, here are some examples:
Open Parliament lets people sign up for email updates every time their MP says something in the House of Commons or votes on legislation. You can set up searches for keywords too. https://openparliament.ca
The worst people know this, and deliberately attempt to make politics seems distasteful and get people to tune out. Unfortunately a lot of young people fall for it.
I really wish young people would vote. I wish the media would stop covering politics as if the horserace was the only thing that mattered.
There are sources of information that are better than that, but too few.
Caring about the rules under which we live our lives, keeping track of what elected representatives are saying and doing in our name, and getting involved by, for example, writing letters to MPs or city councillors and voting, are worthwhile activities.
I think our society would improve if more people in their twenties did those things.
Staying out of politics is a path to letting the worst people be in charge.
Following the horserace style reporting of politics is a largely waste of time, no matter what age people are. Way too much political reporting or commentary spends time on that.
Likewise, tribalism is a ridiculous time-suck that can make people stupider.
I'm not sure what you mean by "really into politics" but in general, I disagree.
I think probably the thing I disagree with most in points a, b, c and d is the assumption that politics and "interacting with actual life" are separate.
There's not much, maybe nothing at all, in one's personal life that is unaffected by politics, imho.