"In a statement to The Hill, Williams said the Colorado Republican Party makes “no apologies for saying God hates pride or pride flags as it’s an agenda that harms children and undermines parental authority.”"
Back in the early 2000s at UT Austin, I was with the Campus Greens table that was next to some Christian anti-choice organization, where a woman was giving an emotional speech about how much we she regretted her abortion. The CG folks and I respectfully listened to her.
We should have been shouting her down. We shouldn't have been silent.
I'm looking into the design of hidden object games, and I noticed that there are YouTube shorts videos that are essentially 60 second non-interactive hidden object games. Huh. Clever use of the YT Shorts/Tiktok format.
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Silly project idea: Build a robot to move chess pieces around a board and take photos of common configurations, then open it to let people play chess that shows a photographed board instead of computer graphics. I'd build up a cache of openings, and have the robot take more photos as needed.
@allwelikeworms I'd have to build my own under-the-board system with magnets in the pieces. A robot arm would definitely be too slow and would break down.
How big of a problem is it for Python that when a non-technical Ubuntu user searches App Center for "python" they don't find the Python.org interpreter at all? (But do find other random packages.)
The python.org downloads page for Linux users just links to the source code downloads, which is less than ideal for non-technical users who just want to write some scripts.
The open source ecosystem is blessed with huge amounts of hardworking and generous technical talent.
But not enough people who know about, or care about, user experience and user centered design and testing.
But we can't demand it because the basis of this ecosystem is voluntary contributions. We can only do our small part to raise awareness and promote it.
@phildini@AlSweigart AIUI, Step 1 would be a Snap packaging backend. We've got one for Flatpak; if someone is motivated to work on a Snap one, we'd love to have the PR.
What are the recommended ways to install Python on Windows, macOS, and Linux? Is it downloading from python.org for all of them? Or is it Microsoft Store, Homebrew, and apt-get?
@tartley Well my use of Anaconda is kind of historical, as it fixed a bunch of pain points (installation, esp. formerly tricky packages like numpy/PIL, virtual environments, and versioning) all in a neat wrapper. Things I think have improved a lot a-la-carte, and may even be better now (e.g. pipenv, poetry)
@rrmutt interesting to hear your perspective, thanks for laying it out for me. TBH I tried pipenv for a few personal projects, but ended up abandoning it. It seemed like a project that had grown out of control and wasn't maintained very reliably. Frequent new releases but things broke. Meanwhile I'm using poetry at work, and while that is nicer, I am not yet convinced it's better (for me) than just using pip (maybe with pip-tools, but maybe without).
I just did my post-#PyConUS covid test and it came up negative. Sharing a sold-out conference with 2,500 people and not coming home with some bug is no small feat, and I'm glad that PyCon has a sensible mask policy (mask indoors, but not at meals or when speaking or taking photos).
@AlSweigart I came home with either a mild cold (no significant symptoms), or allergies. 1st convince test yesterday was negative. Another to follow tomorrow. Masking is effective in both directions.
@krayola@AlSweigart I took a test tonight because seeing all these tests made me notice every possible symptom I might be feeling. It was a reassuring negative.
It also takes me 3-4 days to get back on this timezone, so I always feel a bit off after an east coast conference.