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by superbatfish 5y ago
Yes, it’s I’ll-advised to keep one’s savings in cash, but a shockingly large number of people do it.[1] It’s not surprising that some people would also choose to keep the money “safe” by keeping it with them when they travel. The fact that
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by superbatfish 5y ago
If-statements are for the weak :-) This uses numpy, but it's the shortest answer presented thus far. In [1]: from itertools import chain, zip_longest ...: import numpy as np ...: ...: def f(l): ...:
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by superbatfish 5y ago
I agree with you in spirit. Having separate names is preferable to context-specific semantics for the []. In pandas, using [] alone is discouraged, in favor of using .loc or .iloc. But admittedly, that only partially improves the situation.
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by superbatfish 5y ago
Your complaint applies to array processing libraries in general. It applies to numpy. Yet those syntactic niceties are exactly what make them so convenient. Sure, it takes time to get comfortable writing array-oriented code. But it isn’t a
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by superbatfish 5y ago
Honestly, I thought you were going to say it’s the latter. It’s great. It has a huge API because it solves a lot of problems. Does some stuff get complicated? Sure. Sometimes there are edge cases that get messy. The other day I was surprise
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by superbatfish 5y ago
Yes, it will take time. In my yard here in Reston, VA, they’ve been emerging in small but increasing numbers each night for the past seven days. I was just outside a few minutes ago — it looks like like tonight will be a big night for them!
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by superbatfish 5y ago
Here's a great podcast on this question (regarding Uber and Lyft drivers specifically), from Julia Galef: http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/episode-255-are-ub... She interviews three experts on the subject
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by superbatfish 5y ago
In most discussions around this topic, Uber and Lyft are highlighted as typical examples. This article is no exception. But it includes the following quote from Labor Secretary Marty Walsh: >“These companies are making profits and reven
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by superbatfish 6y ago
I agree that fungibility is a hugely under-appreciated (or cynically de-emphasized) concept when it comes to funding governments via special taxes. (Great example.) The concept also applies to non-profit donations more broadly, but only un
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by superbatfish 6y ago
I own this model, and use it to humidify a small room. I sympathize with the author's complaints with respect to the difficulty of cleaning it, though mine just doesn't need cleaning very often. And the wick DOES get moldy if you
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by superbatfish 6y ago
Not sure, but I think he is referring to a programmatic API for doing it (e.g. so he can give users a "click here to copy image" button).
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by superbatfish 6y ago
Fair enough. My snide question was uncalled for. Sorry. Thanks for the additional info.
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by superbatfish 6y ago
The article contradicts your assertion. Did you read it?
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by superbatfish 6y ago
It sounds like R's design decision to use a non-standard NaN value to represent NA is an obscenely bad one. Wasn't it obvious that this would become a problem someday?
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by superbatfish 6y ago
flights[["year", "month", "day"]].head(10)
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by superbatfish 6y ago
The Python standard makes no guarantee, but in CPython, the example above is deterministic. The cycle-detecting garbage collector is not involved in this case. Just refcounting.
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by superbatfish 6y ago
I'd like to emphasize the point even further for CPython users. Here's the author's closing sentence: >Your setup script is not going to run out of file descriptors because you wrote open("README.md").read(). In
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by superbatfish 6y ago
I'm also wondering about this. Maybe some "outside-the-box" ideas could achieve it. Just spitballing here: If the street were made to be one-way instead of two-way, could it be narrower, leaving room for the sidewalk AND th
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by superbatfish 6y ago
FWIW, The blood type correlation had already been found by a months-old study in China. But that was via ordinary blood type tests, not GWAS. I guess it lends credibility to this method that their findings are consistent with the other stud
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by superbatfish 7y ago
Couldn’t it be argued that all software is built with more “glue” than non-glue? That’s just the nature of the beast. If a user wants to, say, view a record from a remote database in her web browser, how many separate layers of code does th
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by superbatfish 7y ago
Holy crap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cny_D50Rr44
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by superbatfish 7y ago
OK, but to imply that the response to the "fuzziness in the middle" should be the same as the response to an extreme violation is also absurd.
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by superbatfish 7y ago
One piece[1] on the meaning of "clickbait" described it as follows: >When we talk about clickbait internally, we tend to focus on the idea of under-delivering on a misleading headline. The risk that a reader will feel she has b
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by superbatfish 7y ago
Un-un-popular opinion: Top-posting is fine. Interleaved posting is great, too. Bottom posting is idiotic.
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by superbatfish 8y ago
FWIW, conda is an easy way to get PyQt, too.
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by superbatfish 8y ago
What's with the name?? There is already a well-known and popular library for graph analysis (in C++) named "Lemon Graph Library". It is 10 years old. As far as I can tell, this new library is not related in any way. (Am I m
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by superbatfish 8y ago
Indeed, Anaconda is too heavy. But he is aware of Miniconda and even mentions it in his last bullet point. He then dismisses it in short order, with a vague complaint about mysterious "best practices". If he really believes that
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by superbatfish 8y ago
The author's justifications for using this home-grown tool over miniconda are weak at best, if not plain incorrect. Conda really is the tool he wants; he just seems not to understand that.
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by superbatfish 8y ago
Indeed, using pip from within a conda environment is trivial. But the preferred solution is to make a conda package for yourself, and it's really quite simple. You can host it from anaconda.org, or from a local directory for crying ou
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by superbatfish 8y ago
I'll take this opportunity to complain about my 2017 Honda HR-V. It has all of the problems described in the above piece. It's the most dissatisfying thing about my car. In fact, it might be the only dissatisfying thing about

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