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by dalke 4y ago
Agreed. In my answers to the survey, I mentioned "nix" was the technology most likely to affect the future of Python packaging, in part because of reading that same article on Riff. I think now I should have mentioned Riff too.
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by dalke 4y ago
I do that, using manual CPUID tests, along with allowing environment variables to override the default path choices. But if the compiler by default doesn't enable AVX2 then it will fail to compile the AVX2 intrinsics unless I add -mavx
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by dalke 4y ago
I agree it would be cool and useful. But it appears to be such a hard problem that modern packaging tools ignore it, preferring to take on other challenges instead. My own attempts at extracting Python configuration information to generate
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by dalke 4y ago
I asked that question nearly 11 years ago on StackOverflow, at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7395157/windows-equivale... . ;) Quoting the best comment, "echo test | type CON or echo test | type CONIN$ w
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by dalke 4y ago
Yes, I understand that. I see I misunderstood korijn's comment. My earlier reply is off-topic, so I won't continue further off the track.
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by dalke 4y ago
Should PyPI kick my project off because it don't support MS Windows? My package uses C and Cython extensions. While I support macOS and Linux-based OSes, I don't know how to develop on or support MS Windows. I've tried to be
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by dalke 4y ago
What if I have a dependency on a commercial third-party Python package which is on Conda but not on PyPI?
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by dalke 4y ago
> Remove setup.py files and mandate wheels What alternative is there for me? My package has a combination of hand-built C extensions and Cython extensions, as well as a code generation step during compilation. These are handled through a
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by dalke 4y ago
Set the Way-Back machine to 1974. I was not quite 4 years old. I loved the game. So much that when we moved that year, my parents conveniently "lost" it for a few months.
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by dalke 4y ago
I would like to know which dance style you are learning. My experience is there is a good number of 50 somethings in tango. And like I said elsewhere, it's much more of a café scene than a bar scene, making it easier to socialize.
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by dalke 4y ago
I don't agree with your conclusion. I took years of dance lessons, and at my peak was dancing about 25 hours per week. My social life was my dance friends, made after I started taking it so seriously. My friends also went to dance less
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by dalke 4y ago
> I can't talk while I dance as I need to concentrate on getting the moves right (it's a well known style of dance, not just club dancing) I recognize that feeling! It took me a long time before it disappeared. Practice helps a
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by dalke 4y ago
> but if Debian users think that it's useful Which is why I pointed out earlier that I had 19 "Debian GNU/Linux" downloads in the last 6 weeks. I assume they downloaded it because they thought it was useful. On averag
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by dalke 4y ago
You earlier wrote "Debian et al act as quality filters by only actually packaging the stuff anyone cares about or needs." I think you omitted the important qualifier "as long as there's someone willing to maintain the pa
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by dalke 4y ago
I had code that was in Debian. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chemfp . Someone else added it, so I guess they thought it was useful. I know someone who used it too. You can see it's version 1.1p1, which was a very
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by dalke 4y ago
Okay, then Swedish apartment buildings. It's clearly not the case "families do not want to live in apartments" here. I've lived in apartments in the US (Tallahassee, Urbana IL, Mt. View, Santa Fe) plus visited others, an
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by dalke 4y ago
> you’d hear angels singing Here's a fun anecdote along these lines from the 1950s. Quoting from "Remembering Philip Rabinowitz ( http://www.ams.org/journals/notices/200711/tx071101502p.pdf ) by Ph
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by dalke 4y ago
I spent some time a few years back looking for precursors to "squircle". See https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/04/02/history-of-the-ter... It appears that if you have four rods in a 2×2 forma
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by dalke 4y ago
> This proposal would be a clear improvement It's honestly hard for me to judge. I don't know what it's like to be, say, a Swede moving to Spain and wanting to open a local bank account. Still, the marketing scenario is th
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by dalke 4y ago
I am neither good at crossword puzzles nor at making them. I am curious about how hard it is to make a simple one. I'm planning to put together a sort of activity book for a user group meeting this fall, for the open source package &qu
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by dalke 4y ago
The scenario was "With the EU Digital ID wallet, the bank can request the necessary credentials from the applicant. He or she selects them, and in seconds they are verified by the bank. The process even includes an eSignature that sign
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by dalke 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_documents_in_Sweden : "There are several identity documents used in Sweden. None are compulsory by law, meaning that there is no formal penalty for not possessing one." I
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by dalke 4y ago
I don't believe a word. The three scenarios used to promote the benefits have some big stumbling blocks that can't be solved with simple credential storage. > With the EU Digital ID wallet, the bank can request the necessary cr
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by dalke 4y ago
"finally settled" appears to be a legal phrase. I'll quote from https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/finally-settled : > finally settled means that all parties to the litigation shall have entered
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by dalke 4y ago
> I had to indemnify the publisher against all claims related to my work, including any that the publisher decided, unilaterally, to settle. I got something like this last month, as a (very small) software vendor! The lawyers from a pote
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by dalke 4y ago
Yes, it was some luck ... and a lot of hard work. But it wasn't only NumPy that helped. I was around in the 1990s when Python started making waves in the scientific computing and research community. Python wasn't installed by defa
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by dalke 4y ago
> the Empire State Building can fit entirely inside of an n-cube with sides of 1 cm, for sufficiently large n. My sole attempt at writing an essay for my local SF fan club, when I was in high school, was to apply this observation to expl
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by dalke 4y ago
Following up on yesterday's "Master's at Arms" badge ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31344293 ), I thought people might be interested in what the requirements were for the "Computers" bad
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“Computers”, BSA Merit Badge Series (1973)(archive.org)
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by dalke 5y ago
I was using Perl and Python in the 1990s for scientific work. Around 1993 I got hooked on Perl. I read the Perl book and it was great. But 1) I couldn't figure out how to handle complex data structures (this was Perl 4), and 2) I could

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