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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • “After our District officials shared public statements, we learned that the agents who visited the school were from the U.S. Secret Service,” the spokesperson said. “Two individuals showed up at the school door and presented identification that includes the name Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency that oversees ICE. School officials proceeded to respond to the agents with the understanding that they were from ICE, amid rumors and reports that the agency was in the community.”

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    It appears that the school officials assumed they were ICE. Everything else is awful about this but I’d ask that we be mad about the correct things. This does not appear to be a situation where the Secret Service attempted to mislead anybody. They didn’t identify which department of HS they were with, just that they were with HS.

    The fact that the Secret Service showed up to a school to go after a teenager for paying a video is terrible, though.


  • I’m not going to tell you you shouldn’t do that, I think everybody else has done enough telling others what to do. I’ll try to focus more on what you’d need to accomplish and why what you’re asking hasn’t been done.

    Building an OS involves a lot of complex work using very low level calls. The easiest way to think about it, IMO, is that whatever language you use needs to be able to communicate directly with the hardware without any abstraction between the code and the hardware after it’s compiled.

    Basic Python, out of the box, requires multiple levels of abstraction to run.

    (I’m simplifying here) You write code which is run through an interpreter. The interpreter is a compiled application that translates Python into code the operating system can understand. Then the operating system translates that to calls the hardware can understand.

    In that process, the python code is translated to byte code, assembly, and machine code. The Python virtual machine handles memory management for you. It also handles some processing concepts for you.

    You’d need to start by finding (or inventing) a solution that compiles Python to assembly without the need of an interpreter or OS in between you and the hardware. It’s worth noting here that Python itself isn’t even fully written in Python and is instead written largely in C because Python isn’t a compiled language. You’d then need to extend Python with the ability to completely manage memory and processor threads without the VM. You’d need to do that because that’s really the main purpose of an operating system.

    Something we learn in programming is choosing the right tool for the job. Python isn’t a great option for this type of project because the requirements just to get to where you can start are so high that it’s not really considered worth while. Is it possible, yes, in theory. But without the python interpreter and VM, you’d have to ask if you’re really developing Python or something else that just uses pythons syntax.



  • Not sure if you’re suggesting that it’s a problem of knowing the language or sarcastically saying that Node.js allows for developers to not know what’s happening.

    On the case that you’re thinking it’s a knowledge of the language issue, that’s not what I’m getting at. Typically, what I see with full stack developers is an over reliance on frameworks to do the heavy lifting to the detriment is their skill sets. Often not knowing how to optimize DB queries or trouble shoot performance problems. This works fine in purely CRUD use cases, but falls apart when scaling using more complex patterns starts to occur. I’ve spoken with Sr and staff full stack developers that truly believe the only thing you need to do in order to scale a web app is add nodes.




  • I didn’t actually know about Dave the Driver being a big publisher until just now. I felt that game was kinda under-developed for how hyper it was and now I’m even more disappointed.

    It only has like 6 major areas and the levels didn’t have that much variety. Plus the side content is fairly under polished. I enjoyed it for the first 60ish percent but was kinda forcing myself to finish it by the end.









  • Long time fans of the 2d games really enjoy Wonder as the movement mechanics moved back to a faster feel from pre-New Super Mario Bros. My favorite will probably always be Super Mario World because the movement is the most responsive in that game and I also like to play ROM hacks for it and that community is wild.

    New Super Mario Bros ended up with a sluggish movement by comparison and dominated 2d Mario for decades.

    The big draw for many people in Mario is movement mechanics and that’s why Odyssey is so popular as well. The 3d platforming with Cappy just feels right. Like a missing extension that we never new we didn’t have.