Not when your actions don’t align with your professed virtues.

It is public information. The private company whose database is being deleted processed the public information into an easier to search and consume dataset

The data is publicly available. The data being deleted is the private company’s own copy of it.

Data being "available" and it being accessible/searchable are two completely different things.

Should we always send the source of truth to a private company to have it repackaged and presented in a more inoffensive manner?

Who knows? Maybe they are. I’m not from Chad myself (and sounds like you aren’t either), so we’re really not in a position to speculate on that. I do know that it’s quite common for one culture to have values or think in ways that are unintuitive to another culture.

Yeah, I grew up poor in the 3rd world (not quite Chad level though) and even the upper class culture of my own country was almost alien for us and vice versa... Imagine the 1st world.

I guess you could say the Kolakoski sequence is special in being the “simplest” version of such a sequence (ignoring the finite trivial case {1} xD)

> We install them without a second thought. They're in the official marketplace. They have thousands of reviews. They work. So we grant them access to our workspaces, our files, our keystrokes - and assume they're only using that access to help us code.

Who is this “we”? I don’t, and don’t know anybody else who does this.

Also, was this article itself written by an AI assistant? If the author is that carefree regarding these extensions, I guess probably.

Your child being vaccinated against measles is 1. yes, protecting them, but 2. also protecting all the other children at school they interact with, and vice-versa. It isn’t just an individual choice. You should definitely fault people for going the other direction because they are willingly increasing the chance of your child or your child’s friends getting measles.

The US sees in the ballpark of a hundred million tourists, business travelers, and migrants per year. And these people are vectors for basically everything and are numerically very large. And you're inevitably going to bump into and interact with these people. So I think the idea of domestic herd immunity is increasingly nonsensical because 'domestic' is no longer even remotely close to a closed system. And global herd immunity is nonsensical simply because it's wholly unrealistic, and at that sort of scale any small issue can explode into a huge one: see - source of most modern cases of polio.

> The US sees in the ballpark of a hundred million tourists, business travelers, and migrants per year

American exceptionalism at its finest!

You do realise the vast majority of those "tourists, business travelers, and migrants" are all fully vaccinated?

One reason the idea of eliminating COVID was nonsensical is that it's carried by many animals, like all coronaviruses, and can be transmitted from humans to animals and vice versa. Measles, by contrast, is thought to be human only. So anytime there is an outbreak it's not from an unknowable cause. It's going to be either from a foreigner or somebody who visited a foreign country and returned with the virus.

Various social decisions have led to countries you might think of as measles free, no longer being measles free. For instance Canada, the UK, Spain, and obviously Mexico are all now considered to have endemic measles, with Canada and Mexico already compromising the majority of visitors and "visitors" to the US. And the vaccines are not complete immunization. Double dose measles is around 97% effective, meaning you can expect at least 3% breakthrough infections, possibly more depending on factors such as age, immuno compromisation, degree of exposure, and so on.

The vast majority of the times I use ^/$, I actually want the behavior of matching start/end of lines. If I had some multi-line text, and only wanted to update or do something with the actual beginning or end of the entire text, I’d typically just do it manually.

A lot of time I want to check for valid identifier:

    if not re.match('^[a-z0-9_]+$', user):
        raise SomeException("invalid username")

as written, the code above is incorrect - it will happily accept "john\n", which can cause all sort of havoc down the line

Shouldn't you use the match returned from the string? Or use .fullmatch() (added 3.4) to match the whole string.

In general no, you should not use match from the string. If you are getting input from user, you want a more complex processing (like stripping all whitespace), and if you are getting input from API calls, you want to either use specified name as-is, or fail.

Yes, fullmatch() will help, and so will \Z. It's just that it is so easy to forget...

For real! I just unlocked my memory of the Star Wars asciimation. Totally forgot it existed until now.