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Migrants hope Trump mass deportations only 'for criminals'
  • They will grab anyone they can get their hands on. Criminals will have the advantage that they know how to hide, and there are way more non-criminals, so Jose Average will be picked first, being the easiest target to fulfill the quota.

  • Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?
  • Fast food is called "fast food" because it's fast, not because it's food.

    Apart from that, there is probably no production chain that has profited better from making things the cheaper way than anything related to food.

    So this does not just concern fast food, but the HFCS loaded soda you drink, your bread swimming in dough raising and stabilizing chemicals, or your tinned soup made from water, starch, food coloring, flavors, and preservatives.

    Just because of the masses produced and sold, any cent saved on a single Burger quickly adds up to a million dollar in extra profits. Don't expect them to waste that money on better ingredients or flavor, as long as you keep buying that stuff, they keep on making it worse to save yet another cent.

  • People outside the US, how do you feel US expats or exiles would do in your country or region?
  • There is no need to be perfect. But it at least shows effort. I have met people who lived here for 40 years and never bothered to learn even simple words or phrases. And that lack of effort, this absolute disinterest in ones host society is, in my opinion, highly impolite and antisocial.

  • People outside the US, how do you feel US expats or exiles would do in your country or region?
  • No, they are not. Seamless integrating yourself means to be able to communicate with your environment and to accept local laws and customs. I expect someone to immigrate from e.g. a Muslim country to accept that sharia is not our law, and that he has to accept that women are allowed to speak and gay people are not to beheaded.

    On the other hand, I would not ask them to lose their cultural identity. There is no reason they cannot remain Muslim and observe their own religious customs or celebrate their holidays.

  • Americans: Never, EVER question again how Hitler came to power in 1933 Germany

    Because you now did it to yourself.

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    Extracting Data from Stud.io 2.0

    My problem: I want to create an inventory of my parts. For that I need data I could look up on BL. Sadly, my storage has no internet whatsoever, so I need an offline solution.

    I have found the LDRAW library inside the Studio installation, which gives me the parts and their design. They contain the name of the part, too, but only as a comment, and I have yet to verify if this is consistent. I think I could rig a software that renders me the picture as I need it for my application, so that's that.

    But there are other files inside the Studio installation, and I wonder if there is a way to find the following information from this:

    • BL Category (Like "Brick" or "Plate Modified")
    • LEGO part numbers and colors that exists for a certain design
    • Parts Weight

    I don't need any rapidly changing data like price or availability.

    Has anyone here done this, or knows a software that does this?

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    Wrote my first longer Python program

    Sounds easy? Well, it should have been. I'm not talking about a "Hello, World!" (although it is more or less on the same level for me). The goal was to write a set of three MQTT clients that properly talk with each other and interact nicely.

    So I had to learn Python and MQTT on the same day. Should not be an issue after 40 years of programming. But it quickly turned out that the Python library/package for MQTT on Ubuntu was heavily outdated (1.6), and did not supply all the functions the documentation and examples (2.0) asked for. Using pip3 didn't work, as it complained that the package structure was maintained by the OS. In the end, I had to virtualize the python3 system and pip3 the 2.0 package there and run it.

    After about three hours, I had the clients working as they should. Yes, I think MQTT is a good base for the next project.

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    Is there a community for the engine behind wikipedia (mediawiki)?

    I was just wondering. There was or is a mediawiki group on Reddit, but so far I could not find one here.

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    Anyone else thinking that the new Eldorado Fortress is too expensive?

    The new Eldorado Fortress is listed at €214.99. Is it just me, or is this set much to expensive for what it is? When I saw it, I thought "Maybe €150, €170 tops", and was shocked when I heard the real price.

    I know (who doesn't?) that LEGO is not cheap, but this is not a Starwars set, it is 100% their own IP.

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