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Why are sentences for violent disorder lower than those for peaceful protest?

The criminal justice system should not treat rioters less harshly than demonstrators

By me, at Prospect

prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/l

@brucelawson think languages might not be your thing. Now look what you have to force yourself to eat lol

Sometimes I wish I had normal computer problems instead of "what's the latest version of python I can run on NT4"

There are a lot of great #debugging tools for Python but even with just standard library with no external dependencies, you have powerful tools with the Python debugger.

hamatti.org/posts/debug-with-p

#Python #Blaugust #Blaugust2024 #BatteriesIncluded

Say I am making a command line Rust program with complex terminal behaviors, and I am basing it on ratatui. Do any Rust programmers wanna burst out of the woodwork here going "no don't use ratatui, use ___"? This is your chance. I am inviting feedback on the color of my bike shed

At the beginning of the year, Gandi were charging £3.50/month for small web hosting.

Then they jacked it up to £5.

Now they want £10/month from September. Nearly triple what it was a few months back.

Oof.

>.<

I’m writing a keyboard review, and in my defense, I was left unsupervised

@brucelawson it'd be embarrassing to send it all back. You'll have to eat it all, unfortunately

I really cannot understand how Microsoft Outlook became the juggernaut that it is. It sucks. It has always sucked. The New Outlook now sucks even harder, but sucks with a more cheerful looking UI.

I'm still getting punched in the face, but at least the person punching me is wearing a t-shirt with a smiley face on it.

#Microsoft #MicrosoftOutlook #microsoft365

Journalists: X (formerly Twitter) descends further and further into a land of fash atseholes

People: we agree. So why are you still there? Some journalists believe in what they write, and have left. You remaining ones, what’s your excuse?

Journalists: but Twitter is where news is made

People: no, the world is where news is made. Twitter was where it was talked about. Not any more.

Journalists: but Twitter is where news is made

I do really like the idea of a chip that boots up, checks to see what CPU architecture its flash code is in, then reboots to support that architecture instead

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