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Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin
(www.mercurynews.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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2023 python programmers not understanding why you need to use the context manager when you open files (or not learning c++ first) "whats a file socket?" "why do exceptions mess everything up" "__exit__ worse than c++ destructors" (if they even know dunder methods and didn't have python as a first language) "whats the big deal if you don't close a file"