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by philh 10y ago
> when I accepted to backport a py3 package to py2 I'd expect backporting from 3 to 2 to be more of a pain than porting from 2 to 3. You might have experience with both, but if not, this seems worth bearing in mind.
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by philh 10y ago
Ooh, the matplotlib chapter looks super-relevant for a project I'm working on. Thanks!
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by philh 10y ago
For rot13, I've found it particularly helpful to have an alias set up to translate the contents of the clipboard. I basically always have a terminal on screen, so to read rot13 text I just have to copy and run a single command. On OS X
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by philh 10y ago
This is a neat game, but I have to say that the explanation of order didn't feel particularly enlightening, and I was hoping it would become clearer but it never got used again.
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by philh 10y ago
Counter-anecdote, I unsubbed from truereddit a while back (probably a couple years now) because the discussion didn't seem very productive, though I don't remember details. (I do remember that the mod had a very hands-off attitude
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by philh 10y ago
I note that if you pick the wrong project, you might not get code quality, reviews or appreciation. So it sounds like you need to go specifically searching for a project to learn with, rather than e.g. a tool you already use.
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by philh 10y ago
Health is relevant. The sense in which you used the word "paid" is not.
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by philh 10y ago
> It's not a free lunch. They paid the admission fee with their health. You're using the word "paid" in a sense that isn't relevant in context.
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by philh 10y ago
> I started getting attention from the popular kids even though I maintained my "loner" friends. > I also had a similar story as you, except when I joined the football team and hung out with the cool kids, I didn't give
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by philh 10y ago
I note that "this person does not represent the majority of feminists" isn't No True Scotsman for any definition of feminist. Someone can be a feminist while not representing the majority of feminists. "This person is
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by philh 10y ago
Thanks to the "you see what you expect to see" effect, it took me until someone pointed out the pun before I realized the word was "round" and not "around".
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by philh 10y ago
What's even the benefit of anti-counterfeiting measures that people don't know about? It doesn't matter if you fail a test that nobody knows to run. Presumably some people will know about it, but who? If banks are the only pl
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by philh 10y ago
That's true, but it doesn't sound as fun to poke around in. (Obviously, "collect a dataset that philh finds interesting" should not be a business goal of Netflix. I'm not suggesting this is a reason to keep the star
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by philh 10y ago
I do find IMDB's ratings breakdown fascinating to explore, though. For example, you can look at the 50 Shades films or A Dog's Purpose or (especially) Gunday and have a pretty good idea that lots people are giving them bad r
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by philh 10y ago
Naively, it seems to me that the thing to do here is to mention something about the person's work. I would dislike someone saying they went to the same university as me, because I don't care - I recognise that others differ, but t
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by philh 10y ago
I don't think you can say this unless you know how many flags are received by 'good' articles versus 'bad' ones.
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by philh 10y ago
> The author here takes the average of the conversion rates from different websites. Am I wrong in saying that isn't quite right? Yes. It gives too much weight to sites that referred a smaller number of people, and too little to sit
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by philh 10y ago
Someone who says "essentially dead for all practical purposes" is likely not using the specific technical meaning. Do you think gnipgnip believes something that isn't true, or do you think they're just using words diffe
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by philh 10y ago
If young adults are getting by without knowing how to iron, I suggest that says more about ironing than it does about the adults.
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by philh 10y ago
> Why do I know his stance on guns if the thing he does that I have interest in is creating software? Well, I don't know. But if I had to guess, I'd say the three most obvious avenues would be that you looked at his personal si
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by philh 10y ago
Reply to your PPS: Yes I was previously familiar with ESR. No I don't have strong opinions about gun control, I'm not interested in being psychoanalysed partly because you are just plain wrong about my motivations , and yes I w
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by philh 10y ago
I have no particular reply to this, but I would like to say: yes, this is the kind of comment that I was trying to push towards. Thank you.
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by philh 10y ago
> Is there any place where I claim that "his views on guns" are relevant? You linked to his page on guns , with no further commentary, and then suggested that people inform themselves. If you thought the relevant thing was som
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by philh 10y ago
> Maybe you think his views on guns are perfectly sane It's not that. I think his views on guns are not relevant ; or if someone wants to claim that they're relevant, they need to defend that claim. If someone has other object
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by philh 10y ago
acqq didn't say anything about racism, sexism or homophobia. They mentioned guns. I feel like you've taken the conversation as: acqq anti-ESR, myself pro-ESR; and now you're jumping in on the anti-ESR side again, in accordanc
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by philh 10y ago
> In the podcast, Sons depicted NTP as a faltering project run by out-of-touch developers. According to Sons, the build system was on one server whose root password had been lost. > Stenn denied many of Sons's statements outrigh
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by philh 10y ago
It's basically pure insult. It has no semantic content beyond "I wouldn't want to work with ESR, he has a massive ego and he supports gun rights". (Adding a throwaway compliment does not significantly affect this.) The g
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by philh 10y ago
> If you want to define it as mediocre fine but then 90% of things in life are. Honestly, that seems fair. Sturgeon's law would suggest it's even optimistic.
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by philh 10y ago
erikb didn't assume the benefits were linear, just strictly increasing between 8 and 6.
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by philh 10y ago
It's not being used as a bargaining chip, but that doesn't mean it's not a goal.

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