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Wait, the standard python library includes sqlite?

“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it." - Dorothy Parker

I googled "In defense of the IDE" and got a whole bunch of shit on the Indian Defence Estate Service. I don't know why I find this funny.

Evelyn and I went to Poland this past May, with her dad, uncle and cousins. Her second cousin was getting married and we were invited to the wedding.

I have to admit, I didn't know what I was going to get out of this trip. Poland was never really on my list of places to visit. The Lonely Planet guide, a book whose job is to make you excited about the place you're visiting, said that Poland "wore its charms lightly". What was that supposed to mean?

I mean...one of the main draws of Kraków is...a decommissioned salt mine? A salt mine?

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Reactive programming feels like wiring a circuit.

We visited Poland for a wedding. A literal Polish wedding.

I have nightmares about the mess in my basement.

Things learned today: 1. Dry pressed cottage cheese is not the same as paneer. 2. Saag "Dry Pressed Cottage Cheese" still tastes pretty good

Wait, it's National Beer Day?

Headline on Slashdot: "People Feel Weird About Touching Robot Butts, Researchers Find"

There's an Irish joke that runs as follows:

A journalist, researching for an article on the complex political situation in Northern Ireland, was in a pub in a war-torn area of Belfast. One of his potential informants leaned over his pint of Guinness and suspiciously cross-examined the journalist: "Are you a Catholic or a Protestant?" the Irishman asked.

"Neither," replied the journalist; "I'm an atheist."

The Irishman, not content with this answer, put a further question: "Ah, but are you a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?

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Gyros pita plate for lunch. Stomach hurts. I REGRET NOTHING!

Easiest way to modernize 1950's science fiction: replace all instances of the word "atomic" with the word "nuclear".

Hey....psssst.... How does Moses make his tea? ... ... Hebrews it. You're welcome.

I just used Google to search for "non-Google search engines". Awkward!

I was a fan of Bowie's music, but I'm actually a bit more sad that there will now never be a proper sequel to Labyrinth.

So I saw Spectre.

So it's funny when the characters in the reboot are recognizable, not from the originals, but rather from their Austin Powers counterparts.

I never really watched most of the original Cold War Bond movies.

If you're in the tech industry, or you're just generally interested in technology, chances are you've heard of the Turing test. It's usually billed as a litmus test for intelligence in machines. The idea, in its most basic form, is simple. A judge converses with two subjects, one of which is human and one of which is a machine, via some sort of mechanism that hides the physical characteristics of the subjects. If the judge cannot tell the human from the machine, we say that the machine is intelligent. Simple as that.

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The first two episodes of "The Man in the High Castle" are, indeed, appropriately grim

Switzerland banned minarets in 2009? I had no idea...

I saw this headline today:

How Islamic is Islamic State?

And I started gibbering just a little. I admit, I haven't read the full article because, frankly, I don't really care about the answer. It's a stupid question.

But, like those who insist on calling the hijab a cultural artifact when confronted with the grim reality of women who are forced to wear it, many people seem to find the question pertinent.

It disturbs me how much energy is spent debating the issue. Ask yourself: if ISIS really were following the Koran to the letter, would that, in itself, make the murder somehow more acceptable? And if ISIS were not following the Koran to the letter, would that, in itself, make them somehow fairer targets? Much more importantly, why on earth should the contents of the Koran matter in this assessment?

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Javascript people: React or Angular?

Every time Justin Trudeau smiles I always think I see the sunlight glinting off his teeth.