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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-02-02 at 18:01

Even with ridiculous vehicles like the F-150 or Silverado, one still had plausible deniability that it was a pickup truck for picking things up.

But the Cybertruck dispenses with that entirely. It's a masks-off vehicle owned by people who can afford a 100k car.

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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-02-01 at 19:39

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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-02-01 at 03:08

When the news says Trump blames "diversity" it's because they're too cowardly to say Trump blames minorities.

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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-01-31 at 20:52

Ah, I've reached the point in coding where I realize my whole approach is wrong and I have to throw away the code I've written and start over.

I love this part.

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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-01-31 at 19:32

"The FEMA Camp conspiracy was a fantasy about white Americans getting sent to camps under the Obama administration.

Trump’s opening mass detention camps at military bases and has enemies lists."

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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-01-31 at 18:14

So many deficiencies in variable/function/class names become apparent when you need to translate them to foreign languages.

Stuff I wouldn't have glanced twice at because they seem fine to me as a developer.

(I'm working on creating non-English friendly names for turtle.py.)

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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-01-31 at 05:05

French programmers:

Would the snake_case of "taille de l'écran" be "taille_de_lécran" or "taille_de_l_écran"?

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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-01-31 at 04:49

Aircraft disasters are going to become frequent and normalized just like mass shootings.

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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-01-30 at 19:03

He committed the worst sin of all: Making the Church look bad.

"Priest Defrocked After Copying Elon Musk’s Salute at Pro-Life Summit"

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/calvin-robinson-defrocked-copying-elon-musk-salute-1235250963/

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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-01-30 at 16:31

OpenAI accusing DeepSeek of stealing its intellectual property, LOL.

OH: "In Spanish, we have a saying: "Quien roba a un ladrón, tiene cien años de perdón" (which rhymes and means "Who steals from a thief gets a hundred years of forgiveness")."

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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-01-29 at 14:58

There's a good point being made when people say DeepSeek is NOT open source.

We're not being given the source code (training data and code to generate the model).

We're being given the freemium version.

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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-01-27 at 22:47

I want to write a clickbait blog post titled, "I used ChatGPT to do my taxes and now I'm in jail."

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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-01-27 at 19:10

"Mastodon is confusing to use" is something I didn't quite get. I just got a mastodon.social account for lack of any alternative. When I'm on a different server, it presents me with the "enter your home server" if I want to interact. People can understand the difference between @gmail.com and @yahoo.com email addresses.

Is there a list of specific difficulties or speed bumps somewhere? All the articles I can find are just vague "it's too complicated" or list choosing a server as the main prob.

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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-01-27 at 15:57

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Written by Al Sweigart on 2025-01-27 at 13:58

Michael Foord has passed away. Guido van Rossum has started a memorial thread.

https://discuss.python.org/t/in-memoriam-michael-foord-1974-2025/78317/1

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