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by williamsmj 2y ago
I'm weakly opposed to the PEP, but if your concern is that you're going to lose the ability to catch all exceptions in new code, then that's wrong as discussed in the Backwards Compatibility section, i.e. do "except Base
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by williamsmj 2y ago
We may never know https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41234180 .
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by williamsmj 2y ago
If you're referring to this PEP's "twin", i.e. "PEP 758 – Allow except and except* expressions without parentheses", that is not an opposing PEP. These two PEPs are orthogonal. One does not contradict the other
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The GLP-1 weight loss revolution(chemistryworld.com)
1 points by williamsmj 2y ago|0 comments
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"Reddit" is the sixth most searched term on Google in the United States(twitter.com)
7 points by williamsmj 2y ago|3 comments
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NYC is going to war with citizens who make money from its idling complaint law(curbed.com)
4 points by williamsmj 2y ago|0 comments
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Why There Are So Many Ties in Swimming(deadspin.com)
3 points by williamsmj 2y ago|1 comments
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How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1?(physics.stackexchange.com)
1027 points by williamsmj 2y ago|195 comments
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Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland(washingtonpost.com)
283 points by williamsmj 2y ago|321 comments
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by williamsmj 2y ago
This is just the Verge regurgitating a Reuters article that has already been posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40297126 .
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by williamsmj 2y ago
If the CTO builds an engineering team that lacks the expertise to write a regex that matches the company's own name , and builds a culture of security and quality process that failed to catch this before shipping to production, then t
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X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs(mashable.com)
29 points by williamsmj 3y ago|7 comments
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by williamsmj 3y ago
> People love trucks, so this might work out great for TSLA. 1. there is essentially no market for pick-up trucks outside the US. 2. the market for pick-up trucks inside the US is dominated by suburban American dads. They love trucks bec
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by williamsmj 3y ago
> The technological gap is tightening, Tesla was alone before, the same way that Nvidia is "alone" for now. It's worse than that. Nvidia has a moat (deployed software and the open source software ecosystem) that buys them
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by williamsmj 3y ago
22% of households in Manhattan own a car. There are about half a million households below 60th St. So there are about 100,000 cars in lower Manhattan that belong to residents. Of those, about 25,000 are used to get to work each day. The res
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Elon Musk's Tweet Restriction Fiasco(wired.com)
6 points by williamsmj 3y ago|0 comments
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Terrestrial Test Patterns Used for Aerial Imaging(xn--wgiaa.ws)
2 points by williamsmj 3y ago|0 comments
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by williamsmj 3y ago
Ah, fair point! I don't see <title> elements in my browser setup and missed that. It's not the title shown in the article.
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by williamsmj 3y ago
"How Google perfected the web" is a pretty misleading title for this HN post. The article is about how websites make themselves worse in response to the imperatives of Google's search algorithms.
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US retail lobbyists retract key claim on 'organized' retail crime(reuters.com)
44 points by williamsmj 3y ago|38 comments
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by williamsmj 3y ago
It’s slightly more than the annual budget of the New York Public Library system, which is being forced to open fewer days and close branches thanks to Adams’s budget cuts. It’s slightly less than the amount by which the NYC schools budget i
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The interested normie's guide to OpenAI drama(maxread.substack.com)
2 points by williamsmj 3y ago|0 comments
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New York, City of Broken Clocks(hellgatenyc.com)
1 points by williamsmj 3y ago|0 comments
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Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting(retractionwatch.com)
103 points by williamsmj 3y ago|107 comments
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Octopuses Used in Research Could Receive Same Protections as Monkeys(nature.com)
6 points by williamsmj 3y ago|2 comments
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by williamsmj 3y ago
That's a good point! (Although in practice I assume the terms of a "voluntary resignation" under something like https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-voluntary-resignation... are written to make that claim v
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by williamsmj 3y ago
This is good advice for contract workers, but is not applicable for the vast majority of "at will" W-2 employees in the US, where terms of employment can be amended ... at will.
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Building Meta’s Threads App (Real-World Engineering Challenges)(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
8 points by williamsmj 3y ago|2 comments
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by williamsmj 3y ago
I bought the same Ikea coffee table three times in three countries ( https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/lack-coffee-table-black-brown-0... ).
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by williamsmj 3y ago
I just moved cross-country in the US and my mover specifically carved out particle board Ikea furniture as "best effort", i.e. they will do their best to make sure it arrives in one piece, but they are not responsible for damages,

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