milliams

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   by milliams 5y ago

   I think that Python's type checkers do this sort of thing now, e.g. via TypeGuard ( https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0647/ )
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   by milliams 5y ago

   I found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-A78RgMhZU "A Talk Near the Future of Python (a.k.a., Dave live-codes a WebAssembly Interpreter)" to be a brilliant introduction to WASM as well as writing inter
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   by milliams 5y ago

   Yes, because they're all just repeats of this one.
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   by milliams 5y ago

   > I found out that "prepone" was not an actual word in English, based on the dogma that all legitimate words in a language must be found in a dictionary. I disagree. In this case, it was based on the fact that no one you were t
5. 305.▲
   by milliams 5y ago

   > "Let’s [sic] take IRC further" Why the "sic"? Is there something wrong with contracting "Let us" in this way?
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   by milliams 5y ago

   It wasn't until halfway down the page that I saw > It allows you to download any kind of data (JSON, CSV, images, text files, zip folders, etc.) into your repositories at a repeatable schedule. that I had any idea what "Flat Da
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   by milliams 5y ago

   I'm from the UK so the section "What percentage of your salary goes to taxes?" seemed perfectly normal to me. The way the "comment from the editor" is written ("Unfortunately, in England, higher salaries will m
8. 308.▲
   by milliams 5y ago

   That mouse trail is so unbelievably obnoxious.
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   by milliams 5y ago

   I posted the link to the first PEP yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27134290 ) I think this looks like a very promising project.
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    by milliams 5y ago

    I don't think so. Pydantic and co. were using the annotation system in a quite in-depth way to generate their special classes. Flask just seems to be using type annotations like any other Python library would.
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    by milliams 5y ago

    This PEP seems to be proposing introducing a sort of JIT-lite interpreter to CPython. It would make optimisations based on a much smaller number of examples than a traditional JIT compiler and would also back out much more cheaply. It'
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    PEP 659 – Specializing Adaptive Interpreter(python.org)

    16 points by milliams 5y ago|1 comments
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    by milliams 5y ago

    Isn't the world "neurotypical" by definition?
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    by milliams 5y ago

    > data transfer rates of below 1 megabyte That doesn't bode well for my confidence
15. 315.▲
    by milliams 5y ago

    I wish the "Click a highlighted word to navigate to a different page" was just an <a> tag rather than a JavaScript onclick handler.
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    by milliams 5y ago

    I'm not an expert on web fonts etc, but if they want the site to look "native" on each platform and to use whatever the computer works best with, why can't they just use `sans-serif` and `monospace`? It's my (limite
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    The social contract of open source(snarky.ca)

    4 points by milliams 5y ago|0 comments
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    What's in the Box?(fasterthanli.me)

    169 points by milliams 5y ago|74 comments
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    by milliams 6y ago

    I really like that with GitLab you can run the CI script in a local container to debug things and then only commit and push once it's working.
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    Hello, HPy(hpyproject.org)

    345 points by milliams 6y ago|52 comments
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    by milliams 6y ago

    Especially where the article doesn't define it or even use the term "APT" except in the title.
22. 322.▲
    by milliams 6y ago

    They're missing the attribution to OpenStreetMap.
23. 323.▲
    by milliams 6y ago

    Specifically, it seems to be under the MIT license.
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    by milliams 6y ago

    Nokia sold Qt
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    by milliams 6y ago

    I realise that ISO 8601 is behind a paywall but using > 2-26-21 as a date format is just wrong.
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    by milliams 6y ago

    Disclaimer: I am one of the trustees of the mentioned charity, The Society of Research Software Engineering. You say that you don't see it having much "difference with regard status and salary". The problem here is two-fold.
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    Drums, Rust, WASM and a Bevy(levpaul.com)

    1 points by milliams 6y ago|0 comments
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    Meso-computing and meso-data: the forgotten middle(milliams.com)

    27 points by milliams 6y ago|2 comments
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    Qt 6.0(qt.io)

    447 points by milliams 6y ago|360 comments
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    by milliams 6y ago

    Possibly. It was called KImage, then KImageShop, then Krayon and then renamed to Krita in 2002. https://krita.org/en/about/history/