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  1. The length of a string in python is determined with the "len" function. If you don't know this, you don't know python, end of story. If they are looking for a python programmer, you're out.

    If you only work with one or two languages, maybe. If you're trying to remember which syntax between Python, Java, PHP, VBScript or Javascript, then Googling is faster than recalling that slow-buried memory.

  2. Re:D/FW has been growing twice as fast (fastest in on Scraping By On Six Figures? Tech Workers Feel Poor in Silicon Valley's Wealth Bubble (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    DFW is in Texas.

  3. Peeling potatoes? It's better and more nutritious with the skin on. Cleaning dishes? Dishwasher. So that leaves just a few pots and pans at most.

    What it really takes is planning - if you don't have the food at home at the right time, that's where it becomes a real time sink.

  4. I don't know where it was (haven't made it in a few years), but there's a really good ciabatta-style bread that I made where you literally dump the ingredients in a bowl, mix them for a bit, let them sit for a while, and then dump it on a pan to bake.

    It was good enough for anything you'd use bread for.

  5. Re:It would be illegal on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    If you are not under the Bill of Rights, you are not under US law. There is no grounds for suspending them on US soil.

  6. Re:It would be illegal on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 2

    Either you have Constitutional rights and won't have to hand over your phone, or you're not under US law at the US border and there's no law to charge you with. There's no legitimate way to charge with a crime at the border like that.

  7. Re:18 USC 1503 on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    I thought US law was suspended at the border. Otherwise the protections of the Constitution would apply.

  8. Re: This won't fly. on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    The iphone is 4 taps to get to the wipe screen if use TouchID to unlock, which is probably comparable effort to a duress wipe pin.

    Effort isn't the issue here - apparent compliance to instructions while being watched is.

  9. Re:Byuu should have known better. on $10K Package Of Super Nintendo Games Finally Found By Post Office (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    Byuu should have been smarter

    The recipient had very little control in that matter.

  10. Lots and lots of people have had their library and internet usage used against them in court, and often very successfully.

    Which is why Amazon is stepping in... It is an abuse of first amendment rights, success in court or not. And unless someone has deep enough pockets and decent lawyers to defend it all the way to the Supreme Court, our liberties are going to be eroded away even further.

  11. No. The headline on Slashdot is screwing up everyone's comprehension. They're saying that your ability to access information is a first amendment right (free speech delivered to you). The idea that accessing information would automatically implicate you in a related crime is a first amendment violation. Example - I am curious about methamphetamine so I look up the formula for how to make it. Later, I'm a suspect as a producer of methamphetamine. The fact that I looked up information is not proof that I am a criminal.

  12. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    If accessing the wrong information at the wrong time makes you culpable for a crime, that violates your first amendment rights. If you check out a book on "how to murder" from the library and suddenly find yourself in a murder trial, that cannot (should not) be used against you.

  13. Re:Third-party exception on Amazon Argues That Alexa Is Protected By the First Amendment in a Murder Trial (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    novel First Amendment argument

    Same as Google Search history
    Library checkouts

    Free information access and sharing is part of the first amendment. Reading the "wrong" thing at the wrong time because it looks suspicious and having that count against you legally is absolutely a first amendment issue.

  14. Re:First amendment ? WTH ? on Amazon Argues That Alexa Is Protected By the First Amendment in a Murder Trial (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If that's true, I think it would be great if they challenged search results being used against you all the way to the supreme court. Though by now, I'd think some precedent must already exist with library book checkout history.

    I read all sorts of things that would be "incriminating" by curiosity. I'd hate to read the wrong thing on the wrong day and suddenly be a suspect in a crime.

  15. Re:Interesting, but... on Scientists Discover a Way To Get Every Last Drop of Ketchup Out of the Bottle (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    These are "remains clean-looking after use" and would be covered in oily stuff on the inside. Who knows if recycling centers will even accept it without you finding a way to wash that out.

  16. Re:You are missing the point. on Scientists Discover a Way To Get Every Last Drop of Ketchup Out of the Bottle (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Except the coating was semi-liquid and becomes part of the product as it is used up. It only works in the bottle because you're not running gallons of product through it. You would have to re-coat the pipes regularly - after cleaning, because you'll probably still be required to wash it off regularly for food safety.

  17. Re:Interesting, but... on Scientists Discover a Way To Get Every Last Drop of Ketchup Out of the Bottle (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't buy ketchup for the bottle. If I did, I would have switched brands by now. I buy it for the formulation and flavor. There is at least one brand that is less sweet and has a better overall flavor profile. Won't name it and go further off topic.

  18. sickle cell anemia

    Also from Africa - protects against malaria

  19. Re:New LED backlight does not go dark enough. on Computer Glasses Claim To Protect Eyesight Are Selling Like Hotcakes, But They Probably Aren't Useful (businessinsider.in) · · Score: 1

    Set color to sRGB color mode. It may look too red at first, but your eyes will adjust and it will be much less harsh.

  20. Worse, that's not blue light that's the problem. It's UV. Take a look at a modern freezer aisle someone. Products exposed to constant LED light are sun faded and look decades old.

  21. I actually bought a red LED flashlight for nighttime reading and retrofitted a red theater gel into another book light.

    I don't know why reading helps me sleep. I just need to find a way to put a red gel on my Kindle Paperwhite without affecting the touch.

  22. Re:Marketing slowly sneaking up on common sense? on The Death of the Click (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    Ditto. It's a huge waste of money for the advertiser. And when it comes to a router, if you buy one 3 years later it's going to be a different model.

  23. Re:What's the problem? on NASA Is Studying A Manned Trip Around The Moon On A $23 Billion Rocket (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    The Cold War is back. The space program was in large part a showoff of our ability to build rockets and send them to a precise location (a.k.a. ICBMs). It was the same in Russia.

  24. Re:Serious Computer Glitches Can Be Caused By IDIO on Serious Computer Glitches Can Be Caused By Cosmic Rays (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Why didn't that voting machine have ECC memory? Why didn't the software have bounds checking?

    Because if one bit-flip changes the totals by more than 1, then the software was designed wrong.

    Each vote should be a separate record - the totals should only be a summation. You can keep a running tally separately as a backup record, but that should not be your only count. If one bit flips, one vote changes - not one bit on the total.

  25. Re:Why not blame the manufacturer? on Serious Computer Glitches Can Be Caused By Cosmic Rays (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You can RAID memory? ..... checksum, detect and repair single-bit errors in blocks of bytes

    ECC Memory?