Tom RitchfordIt takes a special sort of attention to focus on the 4,431 US military who were killed in the Iraq…The US military is volunteer-only. All of these 4,431 soldiers volunteered to go to another country to kill strangers who never offered…1 min read·1 day ago----
Tom RitchfordYou don't name these several crimes, so I'm very skeptical.Imagine you are at a party. There is a (voluntarily) naked person there. Later you discover this person was 17. What crimes, exactly, did…1 min read·May 2, 2024--1--1
Tom RitchfordFirst, what possibly about my postings demanding socialized medicine and enforcement of laws on…I am not. Probably the word "socialist" covers me best.2 min read·Apr 30, 2024----
Tom RitchfordThere are other reasons to decorate classes: for example, some class decorators decorate every…I don't remember where I first saw this idea, but I stole it for my very useful library, https://github.com/rec/tdir, which runs a function…1 min read·Apr 29, 2024----
Tom Ritchford"Exceptional competence" compared to Trump, certainly, but after decades of the Democratic Party…For example, socialized medicine has been standard in other developed countries for sixty years now, and yet after a world-shaking…1 min read·Apr 28, 2024--1--1
Tom RitchfordThis article would be much better if it started with the warning that from module import * is a…Most Python linters will flag this statement, and most production projects these days use some sort of linting anyway.1 min read·Apr 28, 2024----
Tom RitchfordIn fact, there's a more general way to do this, which doesn't require the iterators to have been…becomes:1 min read·Apr 22, 2024----
Tom RitchfordOld person here.Things were so, so, so much easier when I was younger.1 min read·Apr 19, 2024----
Tom RitchfordA sweet story with a sad and slightly bitter ending... just like life itself.Accept many claps and some cups of coffee.1 min read·Apr 16, 2024----