Funny you mention that, I’ve been posting them over in !peanuts@midwest.social starting from the very beginning

Really appreciate you adding context to these comics!

Recently saw that comment over in !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Introduced a couple of strips back, as one of the crap tributes that The Mistress got:

https://discuss.online/post/17811370

I think he means what is also called “word problems”. The sort of math problem like “If Susie and Arnold are X miles apart and Susie is traveling towards Arnold at Y miles per hour…”

She just wants everyone to have a healthy immune system.

Think that’s pretty common for kids their age to copy adults like that though. IIRC, they’re about 4 at this point in the comics, though later they get aged up to 8 or so.

What sort of background are you coming from? That might help recommendations. This is a great resource for example if you’re coming from a YEC background, but not so much for other backgrounds that don’t deny science:

https://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html

Doesn’t really help much. Seems to be some spin on blockchain/cryptocurrency, and doesn’t really do a good job of explaining the value proposition.

Yeah, I think this is where they were trying to go with the joke from the previous strip. That one just wasn’t absurd enough

Very Simon Stålenhag-esque

Generally speaking, you’d using a company like Zenefits that exists in the HR-as-a-service space. There’s probably others, that’s just one that I’ve used before.

Create, enable and scale economic and digital exchange across and between diverse sectors.

Seems cryptocurrency related. Lot of marketing fluff.

Beckn Protocol is perhaps the least well-known project outside of tech circles, but is likely the most impactful of all work Nilekani has championed since Aadhaar

Who and what are those?

The github repo is slightly better, but not by much:

Beckn is an open protocol that allows local businesses across any industry to be discovered and engaged by any beckn-enabled application. Beckn protocol helps businesses co-create solutions for the masses seamlessly, by combining services of any form or provider.

Beckn protocol is a collection of open specifications consisting of protocol APIs, message formats, network design and reference architectures to allow any two entities to execute commercial transactions without being on the same platform.

This server-to-server communication protocol allows any consumer facing online platform to discover and transact with any business with minimal implementation overhead. The server-to-server nature of the protocol allows rich user experiences to be built by bundling services from multiple independent platforms.

Beckn protocol decouples the demand side digital infrastructure in the form of apps and other channels from the supply side service provisioning infrastructure. It does this by making integratedservices available not just on a single platform but potentially on any online consumer interface, (online maps, messaging, wallets, voice assistant apps and devices) that have mainstream adoption in a city.

Beckn is a protocol, not a platform. It adopts a decentralized architecture that obviates the need for creating a centralised platform in order to integrate services from multiple providers simultaneously ensuring privacy and security by design by enabling secure, encrypted iteractions.

The project could really use a “What problem is this trying to solve?” section. Is it aiming to replace something existing like HTTPS/Visa/etc?

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

Whenever and wherever my family gets together for a big dinner, my mother (whose name is Doris) feels compelled to pull out her camera and take the quintessential shot of the Larsons about to bolt down their meal.

Since wolves are such social animals, it was an easy jump in my mind to go from a wolf-kill to a Larson meal.

Moominmamma has such a knowing, world-wearied face in the last panel

The closest thing I could think of is https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntiquatedLinguistics

Anyone know if there’s an easy place to find all of the new comics? That cub scout one isn’t available on the site anymore. Kind of weird that they’re trying to close off access to them.

Good call, thanks. I’ve got a script that tries to determine if there should be a number or not from the HTML, but it’s a pretty finicky process. Thanks for the kind words!

If you want to watch this as a movie:

https://moominsontheriviera.com/

Yeah, they’re definitely still the standard. They’re not really replaced by comments, comments are more for explaining why bits of code are the way they are. Docstrings are kind of like comments for functions/classes/etc that Python knows how to handle specially. The interpreter will parse the docstrings and make help text out of them available to the help builtin function