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  As a...
  – user
  I want to...
  – ensure the developers behind the product have robustly debated the benefits of tabs vs spaces
  So that...
  – I get more value from the product

There's a list of current LOAs here: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/av...

And here's an example of an LOA: https://flypfc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/PFC-CAT-II-III...

This is such a gross element of our culture—what's wrong with just living?—and I feel like it's not even really a matter of working vs. retired. I know folks who have worked the same job for decades, and they get the same harsh judgment from others as the author. But this used to be the norm! When did we switch into this thinking that we have to be constantly racking up gold stars in order for life to mean anything? Where did that idea come from?

Let's call that what it is. It ain't "passion."

That's not what OP is referring to. Go read her Twitter feed and blog.

No one is picking on people for having a different life. I don’t care if people want to have lawns. I care if they run a goddamn engine right outside my home every single day of the week.

You can have your lawn. I really could not care less about it. What you can’t have is my acceptance of constant engine noise in the place where I live.

- Yes, they controlled for objects appearing in the pictures that might indicate political affiliation. The images are tightly cropped around the face. See Methods.

- Yes, this is significantly better than both a coin flip and a human classifier. They gave the same test to humans, who did much worse than the model. See Abstract, Introduction, and Results.

- Yes, this is doing more than just detecting a person's race, age, and/or gender. The classifier is still accurate when they compare people with the same race, age, and gender. See Results.

If you want to discuss actual limitations in the study, here are some the author points out:

- "A more detailed picture could be obtained by exploring the links between political orientation and facial features extracted from images taken in a standardized setting while controlling for facial hair, grooming, facial expression, and head orientation."

- "Another factor affecting classification accuracy is the quality of the political orientation estimates. While the dichotomous representation used here (i.e., conservative vs. liberal) is widely used in the literature, it offers only a crude estimate of the complex interpersonal differences in ideology. Moreover, self-reported political labels suffer from the reference group effect: respondents’ tendency to assess their traits in the context of the salient comparison group."

I'm tired.

Topaz: Don't know. But the Arena's mainframe for the Obedience Disks have been deactivated and the slaves have armed themselves.

Grandmaster: Ohhh! I don't like that word!

Topaz: Mainframe?

Grandmaster: No. Why would I not like "mainframe?" No, the "S" word!

Topaz: Sorry, the "prisoners with jobs" have armed themselves.

Grandmaster: Okay, that's better.

I might be misreading the grammar but it looks like you can produce the desired effect by using an attribute, e.g. the following would perform an equality check, not an assignment:

  match status:
      case requests.codes.not_found:
          return "Not found"

(The other significant factor is running tests.)

Maybe I should try the Simple English pages instead. :-/

Doh.

This should come with a trigger warning.

Oh, that's rich. This from the guy who designed a language where the case of a symbol's name determines the symbol's visibility.