Children of Dune: Good
During my afternoon break I finished the third book of the Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert: Children of Dune. I liked the book a little less than the previous two but I still recommended it.
Everything you need to know about involuntary borgs in Python
Sometimes, sharing the same object within your code is exactly what you want.
For example, you can create a class that behaves de facto like a singleton by using the borg pattern. It’s called borg pattern as a reference to the Borgs in Star Trek where they are linked in a hive mind called the Collective.
I explained the Borg pattern in detail on my blog here.
In this article, however, we have learned how to avoid such pitfalls when we do not want to share information in presumably different variables. I sometimes refer to the examples in this article as involuntary borgs.
Source: Everything you need to know about involuntary borgs in Python, an article by Bas Steins.
God Emperor of Dune
Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world’s savior, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity’s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years.
Leto’s rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance but his morality inhuman. A rebellion, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family, has risen to oppose the despot’s rule. But Siona is unaware that Leto’s vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted—or could possibly conceive....
In the evening I started in book 4 of the Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert: God Emperor of Dune.