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@piggo Meh, coffee, you can roast some acorns or chicory and get pretty much the same dirty brown water. Now, running out of tea would have been a tragedy.

Interesting point of view: our civilization has crumbled already, it was during the world wars that it happened, and it gave us about 20 years of respite. What we are now experiencing, that feels like collapse of the civilization, is, in fact, the rebuilding of it.

@kaia apply for a reverse phrenology session today

@piggo I wouldn't look for them in Mexico. Generally what you know as "[country name] food" is not what they actually eat in [country name]. Czechia is the only exception I know.

@piggo But you can order them at every restaurant.

@piggo You won't find hard-shell tacos anywhere in Mexico. It's a national dish in Sweden, though.

@foone they need it to estimate how many more you can bear

@whitequark oh, that's fine then

@whitequark what about the opportunity cost?

Any technical solution that is supposed to block teenagers from anything is not going to work very well, because you are facing an opponent that:

* is smarter than you,
* is very dedicated,
* has a lot of free time,
* has an extensive network of friends,
* faces no serious consequences if caught,
* outnumbers you,
* considers you an immoral crook.

You really, *really* want to have them on your side. That means education rather than control.

@sun or a cured patient is a poor customer

Remember when medicine was about curing diseases and not managing symptoms?

@ekaitz_zarraga Of course you can use address 0 in C on many platforms that have a C compiler. This is why you get a Segmentation Fault when you try to access a null pointer, not a more reasonable error like Null Pointer Exception or something. Because it is a valid address. And if your program is running on one of those platforms where you can freely access that address, it will not crash on null pointers, just continue on, with possibly disastrous effects.

@ekaitz_zarraga so when was the last time you visited the north pole?

@ekaitz_zarraga It's where the whole idea of null comes from (or at least what it was popularized by) -- I'm not saying it's a great idea, but it's workable. You have to remember that both C and Unix are the Worse Is Better kinds of software.

@ekaitz_zarraga Just like memory address 0 is a real location in the memory. But it's easy enough to reserve it so that there is no ambiguity. I think it's called the sentinel pattern.

@whitequark Not even when it causes the tech nazis millions of dollars of loss (allegedly)?

@whitequark @ewenmcneill it's very difficult to argue with "lalala I can't hear you you are lying" but whatever, I shouldn't have even started this

@whitequark @ewenmcneill You can turn this around, you know. If being a python maintainers is not for life, and even BDFL can retire, then why should being a maintainer of a python library or tool be such?

The answer is that it was supposed to be a community, all working together on a common project, gradually making it better as the work accumulates.

But instead there are bits being chopped off yearly, instead of being built on.

@whitequark @ewenmcneill I want it to change. I want security fixes and low risk bugfixes. Unfortunately they shut down the forks that offered that by threatening legal action on the trademarks early on.