If you want to do web requests/ use API’s, use ‘requests’

graphs/reporting, I’ve used ‘bokeh’ before, it was nice.

I’ve never used PyDroid, so I’m not sure how you’d install things, but these are both available via pypi, python’s package repository.

There’s an earlier bit that complements that nicely:

“it turns out that the core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can’t actually deliver is highly transferable.”

First guy looks like hes from Silent Hil 2

I’m glad you confirmed that, but I’d be utterly surprised if it was any other reason.

BukakkIP

Unless you’ve been DuckTypeCast, in which case you can be anything (this is what happened to Gary Oldman)

And then helicoptering it around the room.

What you’ve never put a scissor handled blunt right up your ass before? (Look at the kid top middle in the background)

True polymorph is a hell of a drug.

Does Lemmy have a maps without New Zealand community?

“granodiorite” sounds exactly the kind of name someone who doesn’t want to admit it’s just granite would make up.

GMLRS: And I took that personally

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reproducibility: Intermittent

I want to hate it, but it’s a bullpup on a robopup, so I’m torn.

Yes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Maritime_Self-Defense_Force

This is all actually just props used in live-action anime.

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Exactly, yes! They were self-limited, and the valar trusted them to be so, which is why Saruman turning evil caught Gandalf super off guard!

LotR magic is interesting. Sauron bred all kinds of monsters essentially “hacking the system” to produce something in a world where no one but Illuvatar can create life, and Melkor got around the whole life/sentience thing by convincing lesser spirits to inhabit this creations. Balrogs, werewolves, etc.

Other creations Melkor imbued with his own vast power, essentially spreading his “divine fire” out amongst his thralls, and thereby diminishing himself. Sauron eventually does the same, in creating the One Ring.

So, when Gandalf became Gandalf, his power to affect things was explicitly limited. , The basic difference between The Istari and Sauron: they did not seek to usurp their position in ‘the song of Illuvatar’. In fact the five Istari (Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast and the other unnamed two) were maiar spirits that had until that point stayed out of Arda (Earth) and all its shenanigans on purpose!

So, the staff served as a badge of office mostly. And thought it never stated, it’s kind of implied that some of their power is imbued within it. This is why Gandalf looks totally different when he comes back as the White, he took Saruman’s job as the head of the order, and had some more of his power unlocked as a result. The main strength of the Istari was their wisdom, knowing how the world worked and to a point, how “the song” was supposed to go. They were trusted to do the job (of taking down Sauron) because they wouldn’t use their knowledge and power to ‘hack the system’.

IMHO, Gandalf needed his staff not as a conduit of power here, but as an emblem of his station: He had to show Grima that his boss had just been fired.

It houses the flame of Anor! Thirty rounds of it!