Let's hold this comment until after the mid-terms. The biggest thing Americans can do to stop Trump's war mongering would be at the ballot box. Protesting is one thing, but actively voting in people with power to stop POTUS would be the most direct action they can take.
I always joked about setting a custom keyboard layout to replace the space char with the underscore char specifically for avoiding spaces in file paths.
I don't use WYSIWYG editors anymore, so I have to remind myself to use those when writing raw HTML text. Although, most browsers correct raw ' and " symbols in text now, I still try to use them to have compliant HTML
They are typographically the right thing to have been using all along.
Using ' and " to pretend to be ‘/’ or “/” is on par with the typewriter days where people would use the l key to stand in for 1 also. A justifiable approximation when technology limitations prevented using the real deal, but an approximation all the same.
In fact, if we had been using left and right quotes from the beginning in shells, most “quoting problems” go away, as they’re all inherently rooted in not being able to know what level of nesting a quote character is at.
' can be feet (of measure) or arcminutes from cartography.
These actually all have slightly different symbols, and the symbols for the left/right quotation marks are actually farthest from this approximation, even if they are the most frequent usage.
It’s always been wrong in some respect to use a single available symbol to emulate three or more different typographical tasks, but quotation marks may actually be the one where the emulation is the most wrong.
Unless you're running a shell command from python. That was the first time I saw a command string broken down into "string" arguments for every thing like that.
In that case, you're not running a "shell command" from python, you're passing arguments to exec. A shell command would be a string interpreted by the shell, and you'd use that for shell syntax things like having the shell do variable interpolation or redirections as part of executing the command.
"an NLJD is correspondingly capable of detecting almost any unshielded electronic device containing semiconductors, whether the electronics are actively powered or not."
Is properly shielding something really that difficult or expensive that people are not shielding their gear? Or is more of nobody gives a damn to be bothered?
The scale is the issue, for me. Having several small-time, disjointed ooerations doing ocr doesn't threaten the general population as much as having eyes everywhere taking notes of who is where at any given time.
The power the flock infrastructure has to target people is unprecedented in the US. And the kind of power I would never want anyone to wield.
Why do you think it is now an issue? Flock is a private company where other traffic cameras I'm familiar with were not. Those were problematic and in my state they were deemed not legal and removed. The other type of cameras I'm not a fan of are the ones for the toll roads. They take shots of license plates even if you have a tag. I don't know if they are searchable by law enforcement, but I have no reason to think they are not.
Any camera system that can be used to track people even if that's not the sole purpose is problematic, but when the entire purpose of the camera is tracking people then it is especially egregious. It's not a problem now, but they've turned the knob to an 11.
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