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by nerdponx 2y ago
But if you watch all of those videos, a common theme is negligence and normalization of deviance due to management being cheap. If it's not news, every time it happens, it will keep happening. It doesn't matter what industry it&#x
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Wait, is it global by default (Lua, Bash) or truly dynamic ? The latter would be kind of mind-bending to program with as the sole or default style. Was that ever a thing? Maybe I'm just too young to have experienced that.
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Gerbil is based on Gambit, right? Have you tried Gambit itself? I'm curious how they compare.
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It looks like the author has written plenty of code to back their rant: > I did agency work for 11 years before making the choice to work for a very large tech company. I have worked across sectors like insurance, healthcare, retail, ban
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The Boston Globe is a lot better than the NY Times lately. It's a nice foil to the WSJ.
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You definitely should "annotate" arrays with their expected sizes, but if you're doing a lot of broadcasting operations it can get pretty verbose to write out those tables over and over. That said, yes, you definitely should
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Ironic for the Pulitzer Center of all places to be publishing a different article, based on the original but not at all the same thing, and claiming that it's a "translation". Maybe they should follow their own lesson plans.
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Pulling off a completely fake story is one thing. An elderly survivor of one bomb carrying out identity theft in order to claim to have survived both bombs is another thing entirely.
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And you don't need to run your own server in order to escape the big players. I have been a happy Fastmail customer for many years now.
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The idea that code should communicate intent, whether by comments or other means, is popular and common. It ends up being somewhat difficult to execute. In practice, you have to write code like you write prose. Keep your audience in mind, a
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by nerdponx 2y ago
As a more or less daily user, I was surprised at how not-breaking the 2.0 changes will be for 90% of Numpy users. Unless their dependencies/environments break, I expect that casual users won't even notice the upgrade. Even the new
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The broadcasting doc is surprisingly readable and easy to follow. And the rules are surprisingly simple. The diagrams and examples are excellent. https://numpy.org/doc/stable/user/basics.broadcasting.html Aft
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It's already very much a DSL, and has been for the decade-ish that I've used it. They're not building a language. They're carefully adding a newly-in-demand feature to a mature, already-built language.
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Meanwhile the Python Package Index has recently dropped official support for PGP signatures: https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-05-23-removing-pgp/ -- apparently due to too few useful/verifiable signatures, as
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by nerdponx 2y ago
You mean the pipe operator from Magrittr %>%, and the R 4.0 built-in operator |>? Pandas has a .pipe(fn) method, but without the lazy evaluation to enable the R symbol capturing magic, the syntax is pretty clunky and not particularly
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Except when there's a financial incentive. Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by greed. Not sure if there's a name attached to this counter-principle, but it's just as important as the original in m
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Successfully carrying out even 1/3 of this list would scare off competent contributors who weren't completely desperate for a job. The article kind of missed that detail, but this form of sabotage doesn't even need to be tha
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Your circle is not representative of the job market.
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> Change the incentives so credit card companies would be personally liable for any fraudulent transaction and suddenly everything changes. They already are, which is why CC numbers are secured and all the other important info is not. Th
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This is less likely to happen on a device that you control, than on a device that you do not control, but nevertheless depend on.
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Terminal.app is definitely a little faster, but the appeal of iTerm 2 for me is better control over font, colors, and keyboard shortcuts. It also provides the ability to integrate the terminal with the shell much more deeply than Terminal.a
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by nerdponx 2y ago
A lot of times the open-source software is used "unofficially", where IT/security turns a blind eye to it as long as it doesn't openly violate policies. And often the developer is not offering a support contract. They mi
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But semi truck road usage is generally limited to certain kinds of roads and isn't broadly increasing. My point is that the effect of non-large vehicles getting heavier is magnified beyond what people might realize.
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And relevant for public policy, as both SUVs and EVs (including EV SUVs) become more common on roads.
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A derivative of the Gorton typeface family (called "Gorton Modified") was famously used by Comptec for their keycaps: https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7262/7802282838_e1079e98c2_c.... The successor of Comptec t
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Note to readers who enjoy complaining about Python: the title is more bad-sounding than the actual content. It's analogous to how IDNs and IP addresses have no single canonical form, but 2 or more equivalent forms that can be parsed. T
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UV isn't "improved" yet, at least not until it reaches some semblance of feature parity. However it's a great experiment and I expect that it will end up being a net benefit to the Python ecosystem.
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Conda is a lot more than a Python package manager specifically, it's more like an entire userspace (akin to Homebrew or Pkgsrc), that happens to be focused on Python because that's where it originated.
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Pip in its default configuration uses a global wheel/sdist cache. This might be a problem on your end.
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That's fair. It depends on why you care about AI-written code. At the code review stage, we care mostly that the code is good (correct, readable, etc). So if the AI-written code passes muster there, then there's nothing wrong wi

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