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Nice! I didn't know about the optparse module -- I'd been using getopt. After the last tool I wrote, I thought "man, it would be pretty easy to auto-generate the usage info from th…

> There is something wrong with killing civilians and unnecessarily invading foreign countries; but there is nothing wrong with using better weapons to do the same job. You're assu…

I'm looking for a high signal-to-noise robotics list to lurk on. Sometimes these things are not widely publicized, to keep the quality high. I'm thinking of something of a similar …

It's still a shock to me to see otherwise egalitarian and meritocracy-minded hackers engage in such blatant and naive sexism. That's in response to your first paragraph. I can agre…

Think Centaur.

I want my Chevaline, dangit!

Nonsense. People don't sit down and talk when they have less to lose. They negotiate when they have more to lose. So what will actually happen is that these ultra-tech tools will j…

This is an overly simplistic and dangerous view of warfare. Increasingly, warfare is not about soldiers being sent to fight each other in some empty battlefield. The pattern of U.S…