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Python programmers appear to actively promote the ‘easier to ask forgiveness, than permission’ style nowadays. This article has a measured take: https://realpython.com/python-lbyl-vs-eafp/

and like a goddamn fiddle!

It’s either this fairy tale, or its flip side, the myth that ‘private vices’ somehow add up to ‘public virtues’.

Funny thing is that when the creators of the language told H.C.'s widow about it, she said he never really was fond of his name.

What’s “Mordor Intelligence” – is that a real thing, or a parody of the surveillance/‘defense’ industry companies that are coming up with names nicked from LotR? (‘Anduril’, ‘Palantir’)

There’s a linux port for the SGI file browser featured in the movie: https://fsv.sourceforge.net/ ---- haven’t run it in ages, though; I don’t know if it’s still functional.

Yes, just as GNOME stands for GNOME has NO MErcy.

Yeah, I mean all vertebrates are A digit creatures in their front set of limbs.

Where’s the ‘PtrSc’ key? On Peter’s keyboard presumably.

OK, but are they taking into account the energy expenditure of the programmer’s brain while writing the program? The amount of calories his/her brain has to burn in order to produce & debug the code?

NAND and XOR aren’t equivalent, though

| X | Y | X NAND Y |
| 0 | 0 | 1        |
| 1 | 0 | 1        |
| 0 | 1 | 1        |
| 1 | 1 | 0        |

| X | Y | X XOR Y |
| 0 | 0 | 0       |
| 1 | 0 | 1       |
| 0 | 1 | 1       |
| 1 | 1 | 0       |

& XOR can be reduced to NAND; not sure if NAND can be reduced to XOR

You mean NAND gates?

(Trick NAND Trick) NAND (Treat NAND Treat) <-> Trick or Treat

I mean, this is cringe AF.

Kotlin ‘built by communism’? Because the founders of JB are Russian? Is that it?

Swift is ‘greed’ how? It’s open source since 2015 or so; & available on Linux. Apple’s graphical toolkits are ‘closed down’; & obviously restrict users’ freedoms; though not sure how that implies ‘monopoly’. ‘Monopoly’ would be trying to dominate all toolkits, not have one’s own.

Vague word associations are cool, I guess.

007 is a pretty ideal permission scheme for a spy, though: Deny access to owner & group; let some 3rd party do whatever he likes.

Federation? Glad to hear they finally cracked FTL space travel.

Really hard to tell if this is a question in good faith – but the answer probably has to do with the fact that purple has been the chosen color of the women’s movement since more than a century.

Finland is in an extended sense ‘Scandinavian’; though I’m not sure that they consider themselves descended from ‘the Vikings’.

Someone sells a custom plush toy for it: https://www.deviantart.com/annushkatoys/art/Mascot-plush-rat-Keith-C-809849905

butterflies. I use butterflies.