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So through lines 2-5 you are making the line the correct size to fit the characters of the name. Instead of directly printing this save the full line into the variable by appending the final + sign. Then in the later part of the program you can print line, print pipe name pipe, then print name again.

line = "+" for _ in name ... line += "+"

print(line) print("|"+name+"|") print(line)

Does that make sense?

Depending on your exact location it will vary a lot and depending on your experience level and stage of your career it will change too.

That said, if I were speaking with a young person just entering the workforce there are a few good options. They depend on what you are interested in, happy to do, and how much money you feel is able to drive you to do stuff you don't like.

First off, some things are flaky. Being in tech right now is risky because all of the tech bros are trying to automate jobs. Even before the current AI trend firing whole teams was a common practice for financial reasons and made the industry unattractive.

Other things are rock solid. We have been using indoor plumbing for centuries, an alternative seems unlikely, so chances are plumbing will remain a reasonable job for a full lifetime. The same goes for electricians, some forms of construction, and so on. Trades is what we call them in Australia and they are as close to guaranteed as anything. They also pay well here and lead to owning your own business, managing your own clients, and making good long term decisions to build your own wealth.

The next set of needs are to do with demographs. Right now in the western world there is a population of people reaching the age where they need care. That means support workers, nursing, aged care, physiotherapy, and other allied health services. These are growth industries and will be so for the next 15 years or so. This is a good time to get in as the people in power are impacted by or soon to be impacted by the quality of those services, so funding is not as hard to get approved.

After that, different countries have really different needs. In Australia we have a big problem with truck drivers right now. Lots of truck drivers quit or died during the pandemic and very few young people have taken on that role because of all of the hype around self driving cars. That technology is a fairly long way off and honestly I don't see it happening in the next 10 years to any significant degree. 10 years of good pay would make studying something else much easier and so it may be a good option for a period of time.

If you have a look at immigration rules for your country you will probably find that certain professions are given priority. Those are in demand roles with not enough workers, so you may have a good opportunity there depending on the case.

Other than all of that, don't do a job you can't morally stand to do. Don't do a job you already hate. Don't stay at a job because it seems safer or easier. Be willing to move to another job within 2 years. Longer than 2 years and you are probably missing out on income growth.

Just to clarify, it would be wise to avoid a lot of the language around scores and so on. Many of the mass shooters over the last few years have been related to the Terrorgram group, a bunch of idiots who glorify violence in the language of video games. They include the Christchurch shooter who live streamed his attack on a mosque in New Zealand. If you want to use the phrasing around a high score it would be a good idea to be very clear about what you mean as those idiots have a tendency to see anything that is not outright against them as probably in favour. If you are interested a podcast called Weird Little Guys is great for learning more about far right weirdos.

As with all other scientific things someone knows more than me, but I will give my opinion.

The last step is the greatest weakness. The result has to somehow be sent to the website and verified. If you have physical access to the device doing the verification then it will eventually be spoofed. A man in the middle attack would be easy enough given that the device absolutely has to go via a network the user controls.

Beyond the transmission issues, biologically there are not any markers that are a clear and simple age measure. Most biomarkers are more of a range with ages that correlate to some degree. You could say for example testosterone, but that goes up through puberty from a baseline in kids to an adult level, but the adult levels are really varied. Some people are higher than others and some XX people have higher testosterone levels than some XY people, and visa versa for oestrogen. So with the sex hormones out, you would want something that accumulates over time. Unfortunately that is going to vary by where a person lives and what they are exposed to. Honestly it is not at all workable.

That said, a simple solution which would make much more sense than any of this crap is to just have something on the internet account end. If the ISP can offer a check box for "Block adult sites and services" and people can opt in to that then kids will only get access to the full internet when their parents allow it or they are old enough to have their own device on their own internet plan.

If the government want to make a system to protect kids from adult stuff on the internet that is great. If they make it opt in that is all fine with me. But if they make it something you have to verify your age for, using things like state issued ID or facial inspection by an algorithm, then I think it is disastrous. It will be circumvented rapidly by people who are old enough to verify but simply do not want to. That technique will be shared with kids. Kids will be able to bypass it. This nanny state approach is not actually about protecting kids in my opinion. I think the companies involved will use the data, the face images for during verification, as training data for AI models, use the licence data for various profit driven business activities, and in the process make us all less secure. They will eventually have a leak or hack that exposes your data including what site you were on and your licence. The only question is when.

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Found it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGUeDr5TeIw

Choosing a distro is both very easy and very hard. The easy answer is go with the flow, look for what the most popular distros are and see what appeals from those. A common distro will have lots of other people with the possibility of having the same issues you have finding solutions. It makes troubleshooting way easier and is worth the distro not being perfect if you can get more support.

The hard answer is don't choose a distro. Try distros. Maybe before killing your Windows install get VirtualBox and install various distros in VMs and try them out. Performance is fairly good in a VM so you can get a realistic idea if how it will work for you in terms of how intuitive it is to find things, how the workflow is, and whether it is too opinionated about how things are done.

For example, Ubuntu has a little less ability to control things at a deep level, but it is more supportable because everyone using it either does or does not have a given problem.

At the other end is something like Arch which is more of a base than a distro. You choose your desktop environment, what services you want, all the back ends, and you have to configure it yourself.

I would recommend EndeavourOS as a great Arch based distro.

I have found that with Arch I don't run out of troubleshooting before the problem is solved like I did with Debian. That said, the learning curve is a little steep so not switching makes sense, but I find it better personally. Just like in Windows things are out of your control I felt that Debian had strong defaults and I had trouble changing them too far. I am sure ignorance played a role but I have found the documentation on the Arch wiki was more useful in actually solving my problems.

First off, that looks super cute. 8Gg storage with microSD support up to 256 GB would work for music, though for audiobooks I would struggle. Do you have any experience using it for audiobooks? Can it change the playback speed at all?

That said, I have two phones now, one for work related stuff which had a sim card and actually uses the internet, then the other which has no mobile service, relying instead on WiFi tethering from the other phone. All my entertainment stuff comes through the offline phone so when I am out and about it is offline unless I actively turn on the tethering. Just this small change has made my usage drop, leaving my phone unable to pipe social media into me 24x7. That said, I am considering getting a Linux phone to make it even less of a direct feed from internet to veins.

As for podcasts, I would recommend batching them. Do a weekly update and just be a week behind. It means you don't have the daily stress of "what happened now?" intruding in your life. You get your podcast dump, download them all, move them over, and then listen as you wish. If you want to keep something you haven't heard yet you can make that choice but eventually you will have to delete or not get something new due to space constraints. Very handy for forcing a reevaluation of your listening habits.

Past that, I would recommend considering a little gaming handheld. For people who like retro games something that does emulation up to PS1 can set you back around $70usd, not a horrible amount. Because it is purpose built for that it is generally set up for good suspending of games, resuming when you open it up, and it being separate makes your phone cleaner. You can also consider moving media consumption like film and TV onto that device to further clear off your phone.

Another thing is to consider using the grey scale mode on your phone. All the attention getting stuff is made less impactful by grey scale and while you can still use apps, read text, and even view pictures it is far less gripping.

Oh, and also, fidget toys. A Rubik's cube is great but is a little brain centric. You need to look at it at least a little. Best to have something you can just okay with without any visual input, something you can just touch and play with.

Yeah, I think the sentence structure is not really clear and while reality tries very hard to constrain humans we are creative and make chaos wherever we go. Could it have been a backroom MRI? I mean, I should be able to say absolutely not, definitely not, and yet, here we are. The modern American healthcare system is so scam and grift filled that the idea of someone taking an MRI, maybe an old outdated one, and then offering services without proper training and oversight so they can undercut and make a profit is not outlandish. It should be so obvious this was bad wording. We live in the worst timeline.

I can't remeember if me too, but probably...

Glad it wasn't a dodgy backroom MRI or similar.

The language here is really confusing and the link to the police statement is broken for me. When they say and unauthorized MRI room do they mean he was unauthorized to enter or something about the MRI room being unauthorized, like a backroom dodgy deal sort of thing?