carso

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by carso 2y ago
One of the underappreciated accomplishments of Obamacare was the end of those 1m caps. One of the ongoing failures in health care policy is out of control drug costs.
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by carso 2y ago
And I wouldn't be sure the polls were the key factor - big donors calling the shots by withholding funds may have been the deciding factor.
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by carso 2y ago
And are also not great for air pollution - they burn less gas per mile, but the engines are very dirty.
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by carso 2y ago
Yes, but she’s also not seeking re-election which gives her a little more freedom. Definitely an interesting choice of collaborators there though.
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by carso 2y ago
It's not the WaPo, it’s the anonymous sources trying to send a message. Or maybe Amazon, which is really good at killing strong privacy bills. There was very little about what she was holding out for, so it’s hard to say if it is unrea
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by carso 3y ago
When did you last evaluate it? I have been using ruff for advent of code (low stakes project) — last year it still felt a little beta-ish, this year it seemed more ready for prime time.
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by carso 3y ago
War correspondent in Gaza https://cpj.org/2023/12/israel-gaza-war-takes-record-toll-on...
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by carso 3y ago
You can use markdown by adding the md suffix to your conf.py and myst_parser [1] to your sphinx extensions. They are starting to work towards full sphinx functionality in myst markdown, too. [1] https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io
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by carso 3y ago
Jupyter Notebook is a one-file-at-a-time interface. Jupyter Lab lets you have multiple files/directories/terminal/csv files/json files/html pages/etc open at once in the same browser window.
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by carso 3y ago
I haven't upgraded to JupyterLab 4 because the plugins that I use to make jupyter lab IDE-like (jupyterlab-git, jupyterlab-vim, jupyterlab-lsp) need to all be stable on the new version first. But, yeah, you can develop python software
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by carso 4y ago
Rewriting little by little just means: each time you make a change, leave the source base at least a little better than you found it. Leave a few comments about the thing you reverse engineered. Delete a little dead code. Eventually you get
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by carso 4y ago
There were no good choices because they didn't think through their ethics in advance -- even given their history with other sites like Daily Stormer... They decided they were "just" an economic entity, not a moral one. Uneth
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by carso 4y ago
You don't actually have to be an expert in everything that interests you: For example, you can enjoy music without ever becoming an expert musician. Many people are fascinated by the images coming from the JWST without becoming PhD lev
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by carso 4y ago
Pre-commit running tools in it's own virtual environment is a feature, not a bug, in my book -- it means that the dependencies for my linter tools aren't mixed in with the dependencies for the code I'm writing. And, keeping t
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by carso 4y ago
Funny. The way I found to not get yelled at for having too many commits is to just “git commit —amend” every time I want to checkpoint and only push when the ticket is done. Git has an extraordinary collection of foot guns and unwritten rul