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How the RCMP spied on Indigenous organizations — and how we broke the story
Today, we begin publishing a series of exclusive stories that expose a sweeping RCMP program of surveillance, disruption and infiltration of Indigenous organizations between 1968 and 1982. Though long suspected by Indigenous leaders across Canada, the scope and scale of the spy program has remained hidden behind walls of gove...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/editorsblog/cbc-news-indigenous-rcmp-surveillance-9.7133525?cmp=rss

Stephen Blum Mar 19

Python match case can leak names and pollute your scope.

#python #scope #coding

Python Peak Mar 19

How to Catch When except Secretly Deletes Your Variable

Python deletes the exception variable when the except block ends. Reference it after and get NameError.

#python #except #variabledeletion #nameerror #scope #howto #mindbreaking #gotcha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYOmAQQ336g

How to Catch When except Secretly Deletes Your Variable #howto

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WIST Quotations Mar 16

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision.

[La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶265 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶273]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #abstraction #belief #bias #bigotry #closedmindedness #comprehension #dogmatism #illiberality #insularity #intolerance #little #narrowmindedness #obstinacy #parochialism #scope #speculation #stubbornness #vision

La Rochefoucauld, Francois - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶265 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶273] | WIST Quotations

We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision. [La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.] This maxim was in the 1st (1665) edition…

WIST Quotations

CBC New Brunswick Mar 9

Trio of N.B. rulings narrow scope of Charter’s language provisions
Three court decisions in the last two years may represent a turning point in the history of language rights in New Brunswick, according to legal scholars and francophone activists.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/charter-language-nb-cases-9.7117447?cmp=rss

Frontend Dogma Mar 5

Anchored Menus and a Lesson in Scoping, by @chriscoyier (@frontendmasters.com):

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/anchored-menus-and-a-lesson-in-scoping/

#css #anchorpositioning #scope #lessons

Anchored Menus and a Lesson in Scoping – Frontend Masters Blog

Turns out `anchor-scope` is pretty darn useful for button/menu setups that will appear multiple times on the same page.

Frontend Dogma Mar 4

Best Practices for CSS Scope in Angular Applications, by @alex86:

https://www.oidaisdes.org/blog/css-scope-angular-best-practices/

#css #scope #angular #bestpractices

Best Practices for CSS Scope in Angular Applications

Learn how to write efficient donut scopes and easily override 3rd party components.

DBD Cornucopia Mar 2

The Digital Benefits and Disbenefits Cornucopia croupier has dealt the Three of Scope (SC-3). The card's focus is data acquisition. Full details at https://www.digitalbenefits.uk/deck/scope/3

DBD Cornucopia is a practical tool for teams implementing welfare benefit e-government services. It assists system review to identify how digitisation choices affect claimants adversely.

#welfarebenefits #socialsecurity #socialprotection #egovernment #publicservices #uk #scope