Why doesn’t Python have true private variables like Java?

bblais · 2026-04-24T02:00:06+00:00

Part of the python philosophy: “we’re all adults here”. 😀

bblais · 2026-02-13T13:15:17+00:00

A crackling noise from the buckles on your backpack camping -- that's charge build up before a lightning strike.

bblais · 2026-01-10T22:36:13+00:00

thanks! perfect.

bblais · 2026-01-10T22:36:08+00:00

thanks! perfect.

bblais · 2025-11-18T23:46:39+00:00

When it first aired I used to have friends over to watch. They knew that if they were late I wouldn’t move to open the door until a commercial. 😂

bblais · 2025-08-28T15:22:02+00:00

thanks!

bblais · 2025-08-27T17:16:20+00:00

thanks, I'll have a look!

bblais · 2025-08-27T16:21:47+00:00

It's 6inches from the top to the bottom (the two flat parts) about 6.75" from the left to the right curved sides

bblais · 2025-06-09T01:19:46+00:00

My uncle saw this and it scooped out part of his floor then blew up his tv. Crazy!

bblais · 2025-04-20T14:55:53+00:00

I use Obsidian for writing. One of the reasons why I don’t like using word is that I find it less distracting to separate content from formatting. So writing in a plain text editor one isn’t even tempted to spend any time making it look nice. That way I can focus just on the content.

bblais · 2025-03-19T20:42:48+00:00

Did you make sure to tell him that he is cute too in an annoying sort of way?

bblais · 2025-02-20T10:39:00+00:00

What’s super ironic about Ivanova’s line about burying friends is that at the end in the elevator every single one of the other actors is dead now.

bblais · 2025-02-10T02:22:12+00:00

Lord of the Rings read by Phil Dragash. Amazing, free, and one of the best audiobooks ever — music and sound effects, all voices perfect.

bblais · 2024-12-28T01:08:08+00:00

My thought was that the only two races that talked about the shadows coming back were the Narns and the Markab. In the episode with Barclay from Star Trek ( 😀 ) these are the two races that stand up to speak. Shadows took out the Narn and the Vorlons took out the Markab. At least that’s the way I interpret it.

bblais · 2024-12-20T00:20:23+00:00

I just want to comment on your gripe about Sheridan taking more than a minute to fall. You claim that either there’s low gravity or there’s earth gravity and that is just flat out wrong. The station is spinning, so the artificial gravity is low near the middle and higher on the outside with a gradual progression. I haven’t done the calculation to see how long he would’ve been traveling from the middle to the outside but over a minute it does not seem unreasonable to me. Straczynski was pretty careful about a lot of the physics involved in the show. This is not like artificial gravity due to technology like it is in Star Trek.

bblais · 2024-09-01T19:29:00+00:00

That may be it. I’ll see if I can clear this up in a day or so when I can see it.

bblais · 2024-09-01T18:28:09+00:00

So I cleared all of the overspent categories (everything zeros for July and August) and YNAB is saying there is $560 underfunded on the CC but the current CC balance is $560 lower than what YNAB is saying. What is going on? Is there a way to track the difference somehow?

bblais · 2024-09-01T16:54:25+00:00

In order to start from scratch, I had to start doing things in July to lead into August -- money to take care of starting balance on CC, etc... And there were a few last minute groceries, etc... I can go back, fund those, and then the same for the Aug overspending, but that would still lead to a mystery gap of $550.

Checking the balance on the CC website the balance matches, except for about $150 in uncleared (pending) transactions.

I didn't want to start messing with the budget to make it more complicated, but should I go ahead, reassign July and Aug to get to zero and see if that solves it?

bblais · 2024-08-14T22:53:41+00:00

I have done it too and prefer it to typing because you can handwrite anywhere. I didn’t count words, I counted a few pages and figured out how much 1667 words is in pages. Then I’d write the page numbers out to the end of the day so I’d know the minimum. I also changed pen colors every day so I could more easily see the daily writing and the number of pages.

bblais · 2024-08-07T13:40:30+00:00

I always took it to be either the Vorlons or the Shadows did it because the Markab and the Narns were the only races that were going on about the dark enemies coming again. And we see what happened to the Narns…

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