Anyone in the Portland, OR area want to Test Flight my next-gen "PDX Transit" app for iOS and watchOS?
It's completely re-written from the ground up using 100% SwiftUI and other technologies like Swift Concurrency, Combine, CloudKit-backed Core Data, etc. It is snappy as heck too!
Let me know by sending me your email in a DM for a TF invite.
It’s a shame that we probably won’t play Arkadia again soon enough for me to remember any lessons learned.
The friend teaching us to play warned us not to put off scoring, that we should expect a slow start that would suddenly accelerate to the end. So, of course, I put off scoring and was surprised when the end came upon us all of a sudden. 🤣
It was also hard to remember that while you must place your people, the key to scoring is surrounding buildings.
@jgordon Shocking nobody, it's a Black woman.
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It's the last day of "A" fortnight in the #BoardGamesAToZ challenge! Whatcha got?
@ianhopkinson @TeslaDuBois They're ordered by insertion order since 3.7:
https://medium.com/junior-dev/python-dictionaries-are-ordered-now-but-how-and-why-5d5a40ee327f
Agreed on unit testing FTW!
@ianhopkinson @TeslaDuBois I'm a fan of PyCharm as an IDE.
To answer your question, you'll enjoy the consistent syntax. Want to know the length of a list, set, dictionary, or string? It's done the same way. For those data types where indexing makes sense, it's done the same way. Slices? Consistent.
Depending on how many other languages you've used, you'll love or despise that Python starts counting at 0, not 1.
Moving in either direction, you'll despise that the names are different, because the names in R come from statistics and the names in Python come from computer science.
@cherti Would this work?
for line in (raw.strip() for raw in f):
...
@Pat That certainly doesn't match what the CDC is saying now:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/prevention.html
I think the people at the CDC have been doing their best, but the GQP crowd prevented them from doing any more than they did.
Evil is, as you say, in the minority. If it seems particularly vicious right now, it's because it knows it's outnumbered.
Despair is a tool of those who would have us give up. We're in the world we're in, most of us are pulling in the right direction, and we make the changes we can. The road is very long, but we're making progress every day.
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This is fascinating! The Braille Institute has developed a font - free to download - that's designed to be clearer for readers with lower vision.
An example of one of the aspects of low legibility that they tackled attached.
It's named Atkinson Hyperlegible. Atkinson was the Institute's founder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Atkinson
Here's where you can read about the font and download it: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
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NEW: Amtrak will add a second round-trip to #Vancouver, B.C., on the Cascades line by March 7, and plans to increase the number of daily trips between #Seattle and #Portland from four to six beginning this fall, according to a release by Sen. Maria Cantwell. https://www.cantwell.senate.gov/news/press-releases/amtrak-to-add-second-round-trip-to-vancouver-bc-by-march-7
@htdrake What did it think of the spicy seeds? Does Violet have an opinion?
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