That’s quite a high bar. Can you give a Windows or Mac laptop to your elderly neighbour and not also provide them support?

I realise that I am only a sample set of one and my mother and father have very different usage patterns but they are both in their late 70s. My mother has an Ubuntu laptop and my father had a Windows one. He requires a lot more support. My mum’s biggest issue is forgetting her password which is hardly the fault of the OS.

Edit: to be clear I’m not necessarily agreeing with the OP. I have no opinion on the needs of “most users”.

I really like it because in order to keep the days of the week aligning that holiday must be a special non day of the week. It would lead to conversations like. “What day of the week is it?” “It isn’t”

Really!? We’re still doing GOTOs in 2023? That should just be a for loop over the collection of tests you want to write.

Well I never, apparently all Helen’s sound alike to me.

Is that Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann (my two favourite podcast hosts ever) on it as well!?

How am I only just now learning that there is a Private Eye podcast!?

Anti-royal pro-colonial is a angle we don’t often see.

Unfortunately, for a lot of non-tech savy people, the options often boil down to this kind of shit or being part of a botnet within a few days.

Yes! I hope this is a trend that continues. I remember this being quite confusing as a new Python developer. I was convinced there was something special about these kinds of camel cased methods.

While I agree it is a bit of an unfortunate name the news site does appear to be a pretty reliable source. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/electronic-intifada/

Quietly byt audibly while sat in the office scowling at my computer.

Not even a mention of PyO3?

I think they used a slightly lossy algorithm on the title.

I don’t understand why the most_recent field is needed. Surely the most recent state can be derived from the order field and the unique constraint on it can prevent concurrency issues if the previous sequence is taken before the state change. The benefit would be that the transition history table could then be append only.

The integrations with other services are implemented in plugins which are separate programs, that are installed separately, and communicate with the core over RPC. I would imagine these plugins can continue to be licensed however their owners choose. I think this license change just applies to core.

What exactly do you mean by an algorithmic system? Your introduction to the form implies you have a pretty broad definition. If that is the case then I think you should also account for a large proportion of your target not being sure that they are actually what you’re looking for. Define your terms. Give examples of what you determine inside the definition and examples of what you determine outside of it.

All that said, I think the research area sounds really interesting. I look forward to hearing how it goes.

That looks like ISO8601 format so you can use fromisoformat to make the parsing a bit simpler. I’m not clear why you need to drop the microsecond part. Surely if one timestamp is a few microseconds past the second it is later.

d1 = datetime.fromisoformat(date1)
d2 = datetime.fromisoformat(date2)

return date1 if d1 > d2 else date2

I’m pretty sure Thailand isn’t in Mexico