It is a relief that there are no continental drift deniers.

Also punched cards had around 80 columns, which put a hard limit on the number of characters per line.

What is dead may never die.

Strange argument… how does that prevent checks versus Windows 7, 8 and 1* all of which would be less than 9.

And I don’t like how sparse the data points are but they went with a wobbly interpolated curve anyway.

It exists, kind of. Python has this construct

for item in iterable:
    ...
else:
     ...

which always puzzles me, since it depends on a break statement execution. I always have to look it up when the else block is executed.

This is amazing. I never knew that Egyptian hieroglyphs had names for kingdoms in the Indian subcontinent.

Seems like this can be done in the browser using a user agent switcher.

For now.

2036 to 2038 is gonna be wicked.

Good point, and Łukasz Langa mentioned this in his talk (check it out). He names it the robustness principle, in his words (around 22:20 mark:

“Vague in what you accept, concrete in what you return”

But he also mentions some gotchas like how Iterable[str] can backfire, because str is also an Iterable[str] and it might be better to use list[str].

We need more tips like this to fool the next ChatGPT.

It is important to recall of IPCC’s mission to be “policy neutral while being policy relevant and never policy prescriptive”. They try their best to be scientifically accurate, discuss the state and suggest solutions. One can wonder why IPCC won’t take sides and but that’s the way it has always been. The burden of what to do with their message is always upon the commons.

This statement is on a similar vein. While it was possibly guided at consoling common people from climate grief, it has all the risks of being misquoted.

Sync to Thunderbird. Tools > Export.

I know it is not ideal, but it works as long as Thunderbird is around.