I watched a documentary on this awhile back. The municipality asked the public if it would be enough for them to dump treated water into a lake and then draw from that lake? And then someone with expertise in the matter commented that this would necessitate another treatment phase, since any wild animal could take a dump in the lake. So he seemed to think closing the loop made the most sense from a practical standpoint.
I think people here tend to question and fact-check posts and comments a lot, which is a healthy thing. Now some say reality skews left, in which case could it be that the right have left because the left is right?
Most recently? My wife was wfh and out of the kindness of my heart I brought her a coke. She was on a zoom call with her entire team. I was pantsless.
literally good for you
I actually asked my family doctor at one point about the health effects of masturbation. She said that as a guy, if you are not otherwise sexually active, it’s good for the prostate to keep the plumbing working down there.
I guess the MAC address guy is up next. 48 bits may not go so far if every light bulb is going to want its own.
Imagine if you were the guy who made the call on IPv4 addresses…
Falsehoods About Time
Having a background in astronomy, I knew going into programming that time would be an absolute bitch.
Most recently, I thought I could code a script that could project when Easter would land every year to mark it on office timesheets. After spending an embarrassing amount of…er…time on it, I gave up and downloaded a table of pre-calculated dates. I suppose at some point, assuming the code survives that long, it will have a Y2K-style moment, but I didn’t trust my own algorithm over the table. I do think it is healthy, if not essential, to not trust your own code.
Falsehoods About Text
I’d like to add “Splitting at code-point boundary is safe” to your list. Man, was I ever naive!
Many renewables are stuck in the “interconnection queue,” a long line of projects waiting to get connected to the grid. According to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, more than 1,500 gigawatts of power, mostly renewables, are waiting for approval to connect. (That’s more than one-third of all the power produced in the United States.)
That is really unfortunate. I’m in Canada, but it wouldn’t surprise me if we are in the same boat. Where I live, there is a lot of wind and solar going in, but my understanding is that this is in part because it’s one of the rare areas with an under-capacity grid that is not too far from several major urban centres.
And you can see how important the grid layout is in that solar farms are popping up mostly along large transmission corridors, presumably to allow for easier connection. This is less evident with wind, since geography plays a bigger role in where you want to put a wind farm for optimal results.
It makes me speculate that renewables like wind and hydroelectric (including pumped hydro storage) which are less negotiable in terms of location compared to solar are more likely to be waiting a long time on this interconnection queue? I don’t know if that is actually the case though.
Fair, though I guess my interpretation was that void* is kind of like a black hole in that anything can fall into it in an unsettling way that loses information about what it was?
If I were chronically sad in the evenings, I would actually bring it up with the doctor. I wouldn’t make a special appointment for it necessarily unless its progressing towards suicidal thoughts or something, but during a regular visit I would bring it up. I’m no stranger to mood disorders, and frankly, I wish I had approached a professional sooner about it. Would have saved a lot of grief not just for me but for family members who also suffered through my episodes.
For something that seems too minor for a doctor visit, I would suggest speaking to a pharmacist. They are readily available without appointment or long waits, and have an encyclopedic knowledge of all sorts of over-the-counter remedies that are backed up by an advanced degree in medicine. Definitely an underutilized resource. Of course they may well suggest you talk to a doctor, but in my experience at least, they give thoughtful consideration to what you have to say and make such a recommendation not out of some lazy buck-passing but rather a genuine concern for your condition. So you would do well to heed their advice, whatever it might be.
We need to watermark insert something into our watermark posts that watermark can be traced back to its origin watermark if the AI starts training watermark on it.
I’m with you on this one. There are lyrics on almost every single track for crying out loud. Throw us instrumental lovers a bone won’t you? Songs that are lyrically driven but are otherwise super-repetitive instrumentally tend to put me to sleep.
What I love about concerts is when the band goes off script and just starts jamming. Even a 5-minute drum solo will have me grinning ear to ear, and that’s what I’ll be remembering on the way home.
Ah so it’s not only Tkinter then. Interesting. Maybe this is one of the reasons why Python-specific GUIs like Kivy came about? When I first started learning Python though, I came under the impression that Tkinter was the “official” Python GUI with privileged status in the standard library, so I started there and was surprised at how it actually doesn’t play all that nice with the language.
Oh well. I’m glad OP brought it up because I’m sure everyone who’s tried to write a GUI in Python for the first time hits this before long and has that same wtf moment. :)
This sounds highly plausible. Somehow, Tkinter objects are not always first class Python objects, and the object management (such as it is) is happening outside the scope of Python.
Splendid! Glad I was able to help. I know I’ve hit this same problem in some other context? Maybe it was font-handling or something? And it was the same thing. You change the font and it disappears. So I got into the habit of subclassing some higher level object like Frame or whatever and making all these things into methods that store self.current_font etc. to make sure I don’t let that last reference go bye-bye!
I’ve used Tkinter in a number of projects, though not the PIL specifically. At least not recently?
What I have found with Tkinter in general is that it can be rather quirky in terms of dealing with object ownership. I don’t know why this is? You shouldn’t have to worry about tracking object lifetimes in a garbage-collected language like Python, but Tkinter is just…weird about it.
My wager would be that for whatever reason, once your change_image() function returns, the garbage collector is coming around and releasing new_tk_image (or maybe even new_image?), even though test_image_label should hold a reference to it by that point? And the breakpoint() stops the function from returning, so you are “safe” (at least temporarily).
What I would try then, as a workaround, would be to store your own references to some of these and see if it works? You can begin by just making them globals to see if this is indeed the problem, though it’s probably more elegant to group them together in a class with anything else to do with the window.
Aw man that’s a good list!
In terms of consoles, I got the most enjoyment out of Super Nintendo. I think that’s in part because my kids were still young at the time and we played a lot of coop mode games on it before they got older and their tastes started diverging from mine.
It was the golden age of platformers I guess, and the focus was still solidly on game mechanics over production. I especially liked Bomberman. The gameplay was just perfect the way the challenge scaled naturally even as you got upgrades or added a 2nd player. Literally a blast!
Several years ago, I went under the knife and the whole day from the point they put me under is a total blank. It’s unsettling because I am told I carried on conversations with the doctor, family members, etc. after initially coming to from anaesthesia, but it’s only starting the following morning when I woke up in a regular hospital bed that I could start remembering again.
16 states affected, yet no Canadian provinces, apparently. Good thing smoke can’t cross 5000 miles of open border…