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To win, the Tories should be the party of motorists(spectator.co.uk)
3 points by calpaterson 1y ago|1 comments
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by calpaterson 1y ago
> the amazing resources of BBC radio (that precede all modern internet podcasts and the best of which still wipe the floor with most of them) are often forgotten I don't know, there are some definite bright spots like IOT but the ty
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by calpaterson 1y ago
I read your link and it does not support your view that the facts are different than they appear. He calculates a bit differently (including not just currently living bats but those bats yet unborn) but still I feel the tunnel was not nece
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by calpaterson 1y ago
> But I think believing your requests wont block just because you're using async is a bit naive at this point in Django TBH personally I have yet to work on any professional async Python project (Django based or not) which did not h
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by calpaterson 1y ago
What is missing? The ORM works with asyncio, you can have async views, you can have long running connection-oriented async stuff for websockets etc (via django channels). Maybe there is something important that I'm missing but that s
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by calpaterson 1y ago
RE: Meetup. I think many groups effectively died during that period - but were just able to limp along a bit longer as a virtual meet rather than physical. Once your meetup is sub 30 attendees (attendees who actually attend - so ~45 RSVPs)
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Frederick Forsyth, author who reinvented the thriller with The Day of the Jackal(telegraph.co.uk)
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PyPI Organizations (2023)(blog.pypi.org)
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The number one rule of risk, and why it matters to your games business (2013)(gamesbrief.com)
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Ask HN: Who else is doing a local meetup? (We are, in Helsinki)
23 points by calpaterson 2y ago|3 comments
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by calpaterson 2y ago
Sparing everyone else a browse of the bugtracker: the maintainer does not seem to use a bot to autoclose issues. The close issues appeared to be actually closed and it seemed from a quick glance that he actually investigated each filing.
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by calpaterson 2y ago
Higher indeed. 40% no shows for a meetup I run (60-100 slots, meeting monthly)
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by calpaterson 2y ago
Yeah the London ones were enormous back in the day. I seem to remember 100+ attendees. We only have a tenth of the population - so my expectations are appropriately "managed" :)
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Tell HN: Helsinki HN Coffee Morning
12 points by calpaterson 2y ago|2 comments
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by calpaterson 2y ago
Haha, bold thread. I can understand the frustration as probably we all know this monkey business is too common - but I suspect that an open invitation to "name some names" is not probably not going to be a productive and useful a
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by calpaterson 2y ago
Speaking of - I'm organising a coffee morning for HN readers here in Helsinki. Get in touch (email in my profile) if you want to come along
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by calpaterson 2y ago
The financial system runs on a soft-whitelist system with extra checking and a shadow banning system. This is why everyone is always asking everyone to demonstrate the sources of funds in finance. Obviously it is not 100% effective, but it
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by calpaterson 2y ago
Yes - all of the code for everything is on github. The client you probably don't need - just use curl - but it is kind of cool to do `import pandas as pd; pd.read_csv("csvbase://meripaterson/stock-exchanges")`
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From Shell to Excel – with a little bit of HTTPS(csvbase.com)
24 points by calpaterson 2y ago|3 comments
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by calpaterson 2y ago
There is also a podcast. It's more in-depth than the tv series and has been updated over the years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000jf7j
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by calpaterson 2y ago
It is not correct to ascribe the blame for this issue on a social divide between the public and the establishment/aristocrats/elites/etc. Many of those culpable are pretty ordinary solicitors and technology contractors and no
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by calpaterson 2y ago
It is a really useful feature for ad hoc examination of datasets. Not every data-analysis is going into a massive, mission critical production build chain. Quite often you just want to look at the data in a REPL and IMO that sort of usage
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DuckDB Isn't Just Fast(csvbase.com)
111 points by calpaterson 2y ago|37 comments
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DuckDB Isn't Just Fast(csvbase.com)
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DuckDB Isn't Just Fast(csvbase.com)
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Tools you might not know: DuckDB (plus: the magic of WASM)(csvbase.com)
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by calpaterson 2y ago
I even installed S-PLUS 8.0 in order to look for this - but Sdatasets doesn't seem to have been shipped in the base install. If anyone knows...
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by calpaterson 2y ago
> There is no single answer to all of this, because it's too complex to boil down to a single number. Having a single number that is a rough measure is still useful, though perhaps a (weighted?) average would be more useful. Anyway,
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by calpaterson 2y ago
> The cause is that CSV is popular and is popular because it is incompletely defined. (See also: HTML, RSS.) This is a surprisingly deep thought. I'm going to need a couple of days to reflect on this...
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by calpaterson 2y ago
I'm sorry, quite right - you did. Using the computer locale. The trouble is that people transmit data from one computer to another and so from one locale to another. And sadly, they do not always set the character encoding header cor

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