The bill, well-intentioned as it might have been, would disrupt centuries of church dogma

Because the sunk cost of centuries of wrong thinking is more important than protecting children.

In other news, the Catholic Church was unavailable for comment.

So reading the commentary in the first link, if you flash your printer with new GPL firmware that bypasses these restrictions, you're now in violation.

And what if I move (back) to WA with my printer purchased out of state that I've already modded?

I see what they're trying to do, make ghost gun production illegal, but turning makers into criminals for flashing their printers with new firmware seems the wrong way.

I use AntennaPod on my phone - highly recommended.

If you want to use gimp as an ALTERNATIVE and go in without the bias, you’ll likely learn your way around a LOT faster.

I think this is the key phrase -- do you want an alternative (where you might have to learn new ways of doing things), or do you want a clone? GIMP is not a clone, but an alternative.

I also think this gets to something I was told loooooooooong ago, when I was a young lad asking what was the best computer to buy. Someone told me, "Find all the software you want/need to run, and get the computer that will run it all."

In other words, if you need to use Photoshop, then maybe you don't use Linux -- maybe stick with Mac or (shudder) Windows.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Meh.

I'll agree, docstrings are better for documenting a function than just a comment.

However, the author seems to jump through hoops in the next example to break one function into four, just to avoid some single line comments. Unless those code blocks make sense as functions (they're used/duplicated elsewhere), you're just making work for yourself. Why not turn it into 12 functions? One for each line of code?

I'm reminded of the admonition that there are only two hard problems^*^ in computer science -- cache invalidation, and naming things. The more functions you have, the more things you have to name.

The rest of it -- name your magic numbers, use tuple unpacking, comment "why" instead of "what" -- is good practice. I'm just not a fan of making functions just to avoid writing a comment.

^*^ And off by one errors.

Going to war over religion is basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. --Richard Jeni

I had this same experience when I moved from Seattle to rural Iliinois a few years ago. Two of my neighbors invited me to their church, and another neighbor is a church. Luckily, my MIL who lived here (and is the reason we moved here) was a member of a different church, so I could beg off by mentioning that and avoid the whole atheism discussion completely.

To this day, I've never mentioned it to any of my neighbors.

You forgot "defines a code of conduct and social responsibility so I don't have to resign from the FSF again."

Not sure if it counts, but obsidian for notes and my daily journal, and latte-dock to replace the stock KDE app bar.

Oh, and emacs with doom for general text editing and most coding tasks.

Look forward to seeing the HiDPI scaling work on my laptop - tired of my login screen looking like crap...

I appreciate the info, but I wasn't looking for a solution - I just wanted to vent a little...

My first reaction would be to acknowledge them as a fellow geek, but that's because most of the people who live near me would hurt themselves trying to open Notepad. Anyone who knows enough to start hacking my config files would be a welcome guest in my house.

Then I'd kill them with a hammer. :-)

Like a eucharist lunchable

Don't give the Catholic church another idea how to get kids in the door.

If you're amenable to using other methods, Sevin dust will kill them as well. If you want to go organic, try BT or neem oil -- FWIW, neem oil is also useful against other things, like fungal infections.

W. T. F.

I will repeat my earlier statement: I hate printers.

+1 for btop - so much easier to find and kill runaway processes.

A white guy with a beauty pageant sash that reads "Jebus ❤️ You".

In the winter, I wear an atheist pin on my coat, and I have a science-y t-shirt I wear occasionally. I've gotten some looks, but no obvious confrontations. Compared to the ubiquitous religious-wear I see everywhere, I'm actually surprised by that - I would have expected by now to have been accused of persecuting the Xtians with my brazen display of heresy.

"Living" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.