Exceptions

January 24, 20244min readThe most detailed global look at groundwater yet shows a lot of loss but also stories of success in restoring some aquifersBy Stephanie PappasGroundwater-fed irrigation of maize in Kabwe, Zambia. In 1997 Union County in southern Arkansas faced a serious crisis: its key water source, the Sparta Aquifer, was declining by as much as two meters per year. This underground reservoir of water trapped within pores and fractures in rock was the county’s only supply, and it was disappearing.“If we didn’t…

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to ban rodeos in the city despite opposition by some in L.A.’s Latino equestrian community, who painted the crackdown as an attack on their culture. Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, who represents the west San Fernando Valley, led the council in passing the ban, describing in graphic detail the broken bones and pain endured by rodeo animals. The vote, 14 to 0 with Councilmember Nithya Raman absent, asks the city attorney’s office to draft an ordinance outlawing rodeos…

Several nations are expected to hold elections next year, including general elections in Indonesia and India, and presidential elections in the US, Finland, Pakistan, and Taiwan.Meta -- whose social media platforms include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads -- has flagged AI as a top priority and plans to add generative AI capabilities across all these platforms. Its Ads Manager tool is touted as a launchpad for running ads on the platforms, offering an "all-in-one tool" for creating, managing, and tracking…

At six weeks gestation, many people don’t know they are pregnant — their period is only two weeks late — but, as of last Friday, that is the point at which most women in Iowa are barred from obtaining an abortion. Lest they be accused of being unreasonable, Iowa Republicans are quick to point out that their new ban includes exceptions — like for instances of rape. Under the law signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds, individuals who have been raped will have six weeks and four days to report the incident if they want to obtain an…

The shift towards digital access has changed the way libraries buy materials. Credit: Shutterstock Recent op-eds about Canadian copyright law call on the Canadian government to stop allowing uncompensated copying in education. At the end of May, an op-ed in The Globe and Mail described the current state of affairs regarding…

You may be wondering then, "Why even use Do Not Disturb?" Well, there are simply times when you want to be disturbed as little as possible. This can be especially true if you are constantly inundated with a deluge of notifications and you just need to be offline for a while. Also: How to use 'Do not disturb' schedules in Google ChatI have a rule set up on my phone so that as soon as I walk in the door of my house, Do Not Disturb kicks in and I don't have to worry about the never-ending stream of notifications. However,…

Modifying Exceptions During Runtime: Suppose there is a Registration Form. If you got exceptional data in the form like in the place of Name you got phone numbers to remove that ambiguity from the data we use the following logical abstraction without any explicit coding(if-else ladder) not only for registration form can be applied to DBMS Data and also various Datasets.Exceptional Data: The Data is said to be exceptional when data is incorrect or does not belong to the same group. this data is also called ambiguous data…

Clean up your code by creating your own custom exceptions(image by Sarah Kilian on Unsplash)There’s a big difference between exceptions and errors; exceptions are deliberate while errors are unexpected. This article focusses on creating your own exceptiosn and how using them cleans up your code, resulting in a less error-prone program, a better flow and faster debugging. Let’s code!To demonstrate how the custom exceptions work we’ll imagine we’re building a website. We focus on improving the log-in function of the website…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As next month's midterms loom ever larger, both Democrats and Republicans are weighing how the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will affect voter turnout. Will it bring out issue-only voters? What will it mean for voter enthusiasm among women and for mobilization overall? …

Python has so many built-in exceptions that we rarely need to create and use custom ones. Or do we?Custom exceptions: Own your own error. Photo by Brett Jordan on UnsplashShould we use custom exceptions or built-in ones? That’s a very good question, actually. Some say,Avoid custom exceptions at all costs. There are so many built-in exceptions that you seldom need a custom one, if ever.Others say,Use custom exceptions in your projects. Leave built-in exceptions to typical situations in which they are raised, and raise…