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TSA precheck was originally for avoiding removing shoes, belts, and laptops. I had it at some point and gave up because random lines kept making me remove stuff anyway, but only te…

Was Reza Shah any better? He was overthrown by WW2 Allies, mainly UK and USSR. Anyway I wouldn't put it past the US to have messed up Iran during the coup against the PM, but in th…

Yes them

I was about to guess that Pinyin was yet another Python package manager, that you have to install with pipx

Both of these started as scripting languages

Yeah, I've thought about this since I do prefer JS as a language... Always thought the main advantage of Python was interaction with C libs. Which is also why CPython was the only …

These articles keep coming up, and the author never actually tries agentic coding in Rust vs Python. You will probably find that the LLM does better with Python for kinda similar r…

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I'm fine with Pax Americana, even if you call it American imperialism, but this whole involvement with Israel and its problems is not in our interest. It's abundantly clear that we…

The cheapo ones probably won't have it. Any brand name will have its own app that will have a rename feature like half the time. Not particularly expensive brands either.

I mean something like taking control of the plane or else they blow it up

That's basically how it is in the US, except that sometimes there aren't enough machines so the lines are long, and it's the spinning scan thing rather than a metal detector. Usual…

Ah so the wording suggests that it's a thought/speech crime, not that the particular event is outlawed. Yeah that's still nuts.

Isn't the whole point of this thing the hardware? Cause it runs free software, but you can't find many pocket PCs. But yeah the specs don't matter so much.

Not sure. Those lockfiles don't seem really human-readable. I wouldn't approve a change that randomly changes the lockfile without explanation, but I would also want the project fi…

Nowadays I don't need to remove shoes in the US. I vaguely remember times it was randomly required or not, not sure when, and back when it was always required. I'm not TSA precheck…

I mean for a flight that doesn't go to/from the US.

Honestly I didn't think about that. Maybe they didn't either. Good example of why seeing something vaguely threatening and out of the ordinary is a reason to turn around, even if y…

I agree. Sure you can still get weapons through screening, in fact I've accidentally done it twice with like 4" pocket knives, but not sure what the odds are. A lot of the "securit…

Does that actually get you arrested, or do you have to go to a Palestinian Action protest? Not that there's that big of a difference.

Passenger trying to warn the crew would leave the device on

I wouldn't want to see slogans like this on an airplane of all places. I agree with the slogan. There are plenty of other times/places to say it. Unfortunately freedom is already o…

Honestly they would probably know decent English

Was wondering the same thing. Maybe there's some regulation about this, but the flight crew wanted to bend the rule to keep the plane going, figuring it was just a poorly named dev…