#Set intersection

[proeduorganization]

Python Sets

Introduction In previous post, we talked about the concept of python tuples. In this post, we will understand the concept of Python Set. In Python, a set is an unordered collection of unique elements. It is defined using curly braces {} or the set() constructor. Sets are mutable, meaning you can add or remove elements from them. However, unlike lists or tuples, sets cannot have duplicate…

[itsdirttime]

This is what I feel like when I get a notification for @need-him-pregnant-poll

"Darling, Julian made it to the next round. Garak? Let me see. Yes, yes. Looks like he's still in too. Kirk? Don't be ridiculous now, love! Of course he's still in. Don't you remember Amok Time?"

[artbyblastweave]

Would you mind talking at all about steampunk as a genre? I strongly feel like for it to properly become a genre, more than an aesthetic, it needs to shed the historical milieu of being in 18th-19th century, but the most that people ever do with it is place it in China or something, which is great, but I'm convinced, falls short of its potential.

My apocryphal understanding of the origins of Steampunk (and understand that this isn't my wheelhouse, so I'm going to be talking at least a little out my ass for the rest of this post) is that a lot of it can be traced to William Gibson's 1990 novel The Difference Engine- where the point-slash-gag was to transfer well-understood cyberpunk tropes into a historical milieu, to demonstrate that Scramble-for-Africa participants and the Dutch East India company would not be significantly better behaved than 1980s-flavored megacorps if they were in possession of anachronistically powerful computing technology. That Cyberpunk was about hegemony and how advanced technology can be used to reinforce or subvert that hegemony, and that if you were hung up on the surface level aesthetics of leather jackets and cyberspace, or little details like "does this technology actually remotely make sense," you were missing the point by a mile.

If you strip out the specificity of the time period, there frankly isn't a lot left- you're back to cyberpunk, or dieselpunk, or atompunk, or any of the other decade-linked sub-breeds. There are a lot of steampunk works that run with the original idea that giving 19th-century great powers the keys to a mech would be politically catastrophic - often in conversation with turn of the century seminal science fiction like Wells or Verne- and there are also a lot that reproduce the original criticism of cyberpunk by leaning into the aesthetics of airships and brassy robotics without giving as much thought to the political dimensions. If you're just gluing gears onto a tophat, you aren't necessarily doing it wrong but you're certainly doing it superficially. What are those gears doing

[tomurakii]

TIL Ryoko Kui is a pathfinder enjoyer

[subwaylesbians]

very very cool context re: make way for cyrus, from sasha hutchings’s (cowgirl’s) instagram. there’s an incredibly interesting article on step and gumboot dance and their intersections here https://encompass.eku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?filename=2&article=1000&context=ekuopen&type=additional for anyone interested!

[seventeendeer]

just watched the barbie movie everyone was discoursing about last year and I can't help but feel like a lot of the problems in its execution could have been avoided if the kid character's arc had been about learning to embrace girly stuff as an act of rebellion against the adultification of teen girls while barbie went full butch transmasc

[the-weeping-dawn]

.....I need to amuse myself through act 1a and I will stretch out the question of 'okay so can we all agree Baluran is at least a demigod of some kind?' which Ilz mostly raises to distract from anyone noticing how little he's said about himself and to fuck with Wyll, whom he finds endearing when he goes off fanboying about it.

[deep-sea-gigantinism]

x-files and chuck crossover fic when⁉️

[aldieb]

what’s going on at the core of dust is

selby: knows the rules and does everything she can to follow them

alesa: doesn’t know the rules and doesn’t care that she doesn’t know

pathia: doesn’t know the rules but mostly ends up taking actions that conform to them anyway

quirin: knows the rules and uses this to break them more effectively

[suzirya]

re ur tags on "define lists in parallel and zip them" its cuz these are computer science terms, computer science is full of these its really awesome

I was guessing this was a CompSci term (lovingly thinks of zip folders but there's probably lots that I'm missing due to: CompSci not my area of expertise even remotely)

What are some other good CompSci terms feel free to share!

[astrosynthesis]

um... idea that once was

[bisexualamy]

I feel like the ninth doctor would get on with Miles O’Brian

i do too!! i think they'd both appreciate the other's ability to sit quietly both in moments of great joy and sorrow. nine is comparably a doctor of few words and i feel like both of them have a gravity that the other would see and respect.

also they're both people who work with their hands, they both have a working class feel to them (miles comes from a union family; a lot of what chris eccelston brought to the part is his own background as a working class person) in spaces where that isn't always a good thing and i think they'd feel a solidarity over that.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

set construction timelapse from guthrie theater's instagram:

Watch as the Wurtele Thrust Stage transforms into Skid Row, home of Mushnik's Flower Shop, and join us for LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, onstage June 22 – August 18. See You Downtown → Link in Bio Scenic Design by Lex Liang

[lady-gravity-129]

Trying to figure out how exactly the POVs could intersect for the end of season 2 because oh my god that was the highlight of season 1 in my opinion.

[sagent-of-chaos]

gag on sandpaper

[timothyslucy]

almost got into another head on collision while out driving to go get gas, but i somehow managed to swerve out of the way in time, phew. 😮‍💨