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I can still see a lot of linguistic harmony in "unalive oneself" since it follows a familiar reflexive form. What I find weird in "commit suicide" is more the awkwardness of the collocative use of "commit", which is a word that otherwise feels strange outside certain contexts like criminal charges in a courtroom.

No comment on the central message, but I actually like "unalive" as a word: it feels vaguely Old English. "Commit suicide" always felt a little stilted as a two word phrase.

Practically speaking, since the jury is composed of multiple individuals, they're set up to express their "findings" via a strictly parameterized form where they check boxes or give numerical inputs.

In its more colloquial sense, I can see why you prefer to call that "answering" questions rather than "finding" facts.

However, it's silly to quibble over the parent thread's author's usage of "found" when it's the dominant phrasing used in the legal system.

Juries are the "finders of fact". That's the phrase often used anyway.

Everything Everywhere All at Once was the last time I sat in a theater where, for the first half at least, I thought I was watching an instant classic.

But that movie just dragged on, and now I look back and see it as a bungled opportunity. It could've been so much tighter in the edit. They could've cut a third of the movie and made the whole thing so much better.

Playing devil's advocate: why assume Iraq would (attempt to) store VX in the same way? It actually has a thin ring of plausibility around it in the same the way you sometimes hear stories that Kim Jong Il would watch American movies and demand "I want us to build that".

"Circumstantial" evidence is often stronger than "direct" evidence. e.g. DNA is almost always "circumstantial", yet more modernly maligned eye witness evidence is "direct".

I just tried it and at least the autocomplete in IPython appears to ignore __all__ when suggesting possible imports. I haven't tried any other tools' autocompletes.

If module A has a small intended public API, you can structure it no matter how you want to achieve that. You can put those internal symbols behind their own object/class/module if you prefer.

Using `__all__` has one functional consequence, which is `from A import *`. Again, I would avoid * imports entirely, but if you want to try to curb possible downstream problems from users who do indeed use * imports, I would also prefer not defining `__all__` because it's extra boilerplate you have to maintain and can very easily be missed on future updates.

__all__ is only relevant for * imports.

And please, just don't use * imports. It really doesn't save you much time at the cost of implicit untraceable behavior. If you don't worry about * imports, you don't need to add the __all__ boilerplate to every module.

This article is more about advertising a package called tach, that I suppose tries to add "true" private classes to Python.

But it doesn't actually enforce anything, because you still need to run their tool that checks anything. You could just easily configure your standard linter to enforce this type of thing rather than use a super specialized tool.

Before I studied math, I always slightly resented imaginary numbers as being "math wankery" and just defined because mathematicians had a compulsion to generalize and define new nonsense because they could, and not because it made any sense to.

On the way to changing my mind, I learned that the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra only works for complex numbers (and not "real" numbers), the beauty and simplicity of rotations in the complex plane, but maybe most convincing to me was a history lesson about quaternions.

Quaternions are an extension of the complex numbers, but they're not typically taught in higher math education these days, which contradicted my resentment that mathematicians were just obsessed with getting more and more abstract and general for the sake of it. Of course, they were in vogue in the 19th century (Maxwell's equations were originally written down using them), but mathematicians soon realized they just weren't as useful or as "nice" philosophically as complex numbers and just about anything you can accomplish with quaternions were better accomplished with vectors of complex numbers.

That story played a big part in persuading me that there really is something special about complex numbers -- that maybe they're the most "natural" or "real" numbers of them all.

There's nothing I want more than a Watermelon Oreo right now...

I don't remember. It was many years ago -- circa 2015. Nevertheless, I'm irritated by the implication that it's the user's responsibility to do this.

At least as recently as last year, I've discovered instances where iPhone users will not have received a message/image (both from me and others in group chat) seemingly randomly.

I really don't like that Apple has managed to sell a prevailing narrative that it's somehow the fault of users who don't buy their expensive hardware that is necessary to use their software that impinges on an open protocol.

They held my number hostage for a while after I switched off iPhone. I think it took months for iPhone users to be able to message my number before it actually started reaching me again.

I think there's a lot of truth to the word "hijacking" here.

I'm getting the impression that the new job I'm starting very soon uses something like this.

Any suggestions on most convenient way to cover up camera when not using it? I've looked at a few "webcam camera slide" products around, but I'm hearing a lot of reports of them cracking the screen of recent Macbook Pros.

AFAIK the only player to have tested positive for COVID in that outbreak is Gleyber Torres (the rest were support staff), who had an actual COVID infection before, which undermines your idea that getting COVID is somehow superior to getting vaccinated.

And as already mentioned, the Yankees received the J&J vaccine, which is not an MRNA vaccine.