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by gorkaerana 3mo ago
Paul Preston's "The Spanish Civil War" would be the poster child of the "quality non-fiction" category specified in this post's title. He is, in my opinion, the leading Hispanist historian [1], and I hold his w
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by gorkaerana 3mo ago
Books on the Spanish Civil War I have read and can wholeheartedly recommend: - "The Spanish Civil War" by Paul Preston - "Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell Books on the same topic on my reading list (and quite frankl
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by gorkaerana 5mo ago
I have only had positive experiences using pydantic tools. They keep iterating on the pydantic validation tool and are planning on a v3 at some point, and pydantic-ai has been a superb addition to the AI engineering toolkit; which makes me
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by gorkaerana 9mo ago
I think it's fair enough to consider porting a subset of rewriting, in which case there are several successful experiments out there: - JustHTML [1], which in practice [2] is a port of html5ever [3] to Python. - justjshtml, which is a
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by gorkaerana 2y ago
I cannot quite replicate those results myself: https://github.com/gorkaerana/hn-programming-language-trends . In my analysis, as a percentage of total job posts, Python jobs start to rapidly increase in 2022, even befor
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by gorkaerana 2y ago
I'm tempted to give it a try just for the "For HackerNews enthusiasts" section of their landing page, which states "The PRQL compiler is written in Rust" and "We talk about “orthogonal language features” a lot&
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by gorkaerana 2y ago
A cool feature of the Spanish naming custom is that it can infinitely keep track of surnames. E.g., following @alricb's comment below, let's consider Pablo Picasso, who's name was Pablo Ruiz Picasso [1], after his father José
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by gorkaerana 3y ago
My Python virtual environment and dependency management journey has been the following: 1. Just `pip` and `venv`; specifying dependencies via "requirements.txt" and "dev_requirements.txt", and tool configuration options
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by gorkaerana 3y ago
Spanish also delights us with unlucky surnames. E.g., three acquaintances of my father have the family names "Feo", "Bastardo", and "Gay"; which translate, respectively, to "ugly", "bastard"
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by gorkaerana 3y ago
A slightly unfortunate name for Spanish speakers, I'm afraid: "putero" can mean either "brothel" or "man who maintains sexual relations with prostitutes" [1]. Fun fact: the Mitsubishi Pajero had to be mark
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by gorkaerana 4y ago
> I'm honestly more surprised that they're saying they've only got the first word figured out. They have figured out the rest of the words, as per the last image in the announcement tweet [1]. It's just that they don