I was roughly this old when I found out about `nonlocal` in python, especially when dealing with optionally-argumented decorators that you want to dynamically assign the 'default' value and how Python assigns the memory slot even though you havn't yet got to the line that breaks.

And this is why Python is not an interpreted language.

Long Wire Cage Antenna 2:

the worse one is the original. Aiming for 20m (14MHz).

Over £1 for every £7 spent online is in "Buy Now Pay Later" - these schemes just encourage people to live beyond their means and get into debt. I don't believe that most of these things are for essentials either; but instead are making money of the most vulnerable in society. The slogans should be, Can't afford it? Why not pay more for it and have it now!

And yes, *credit* is important in our society, sometimes you have to pay on credit but not like this.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/06/fears-of-spiralling-debt-as-buy-now-pay-later-credit-quadruples-in-uk

Remembrance day is a very difficult day in the year for me religiously.

It's important we pass this knowledge, and remember the sacrifices of those that give us the basic freedoms we enjoy, and yet, as a Quaker, we should not to glorify those sacrifices, bur respect them.

I wear the red poppy, when Meeting would prefer I wore a white. And I do that because of a man I never met - who wasn't even alive in my lifetime, but has a fundamental impact on my every day life.

Sunak: "More broadly, my view is that these marches are disrespectful" is not a reason to cancel a march - the very basis of freedom & peace has to rest in the freedom speech.

There is a problem where people think a pro-Palestine stance automatically means pro-hamas, and there are some that are both, and try to further that idea, but it isn't always true

People fought and died and still do, for our freedom to have opinions. Thats the whole point of remembrance day.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/08/sunak-vows-to-hold-met-chief-accountable-over-armistice-day-march

“We both pray for an hour, and see if God can tell the difference.”

#Ai test in “The Long War”, by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

I wonder how many times in my life I've looked at the specific error message "failed to build xmlsec" - especially when I'm trying to do something like install a library which is only tangentially related to using XML somewhere, and now two hours later, I've completely forgot what feature I'm actually working on.

XML. The gift that keeps on giving.