__marvin_the__

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Comment · 1 year ago

> or any phone for that matter.

I'm strapping phone to my arms during runs; for me, shaving off those extra grams count. Bought an Infinix specifically for this reason. I didn't specifically look for the thinnest but it came the the most lightweight.

Comment · 2 years ago

TIL of KlongPy (and Klong). Looking at the project page, I think it looks really cool.

https://pypi.org/project/klongpy/

Comment · 3 years ago

> Duolingo banked on the gamification, and that works really well. However, learning a language is only incidental.

Agree to a point. I used Duolingo as a stepping stone to studying Mandarin, up until I got bored and switched to YouTube videos. I got bored mainly due to repetition and not much new words per level.

Apparently in order to get me back, Duolingo kept on giving me push notifications about how I'm gonna lose my streak, or how I'm gonna fall behind in the leaderboard. No, Duolingo. I do not care about those.

Comment · 3 years ago

I have personally never had a problem with activating a virtualenv and `pip install`-ing inside it. Most libraries nowadays also specify minimum versions for packages (e.g., >=3.6, <4.0).

Comment · 3 years ago

> If they can find any fault in a question or answer they will take the opportunity to do so.

This has been my experience with learn language subreddits as well. I will give a one or two-sentence answer. Someone else will expound on that in the replies. If the reply was written in a snarky way, I get downvoted. That's just an invitation to not participate imo.

Comment · 3 years ago

Not the author but it seems that the site was made using Quarto [1] which uses pandoc [2] behind the scenes for producing the final output. The pandoc website suggests EPUB is possible.

[1] https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/authoring/text-editor.ht...

[2] https://pandoc.org/

Comment · 3 years ago

Here's the link for Jetbrains survey results last year. There's web dev (django perhaps), dev ops and sys ad, education, and software testing.

https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-developers-survey-2021/

Comment · 3 years ago

> Is RSS still being used?

I am also curious. I've enjoyed Outlook 365 RSS reader for a long time but I just cancelled my subscription. Currently navigating through Thunderbird.

Comment · 4 years ago

In the latest (that I can find) Excel team's Reddit AMA [0], Python was not addressed at all.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/m22uc6/we_are_the_mic...

Comment · 4 years ago

This makes sense. Maybe over time, the community average will move up according to some arbitrary metric. But the benchmark of "being average" means it's relative to the community.

Comment · 4 years ago

Python's `collections.Counter` is written in Python and is a subclass of the builtin `dict` type. I don't think it's comparable to something like using `pandas` to solve the problem.

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/collections/...

Comment · 4 years ago

Chris Webb's BI blog (https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/feed/). Facebook Engineering and LinkedIn Engineering also support RSS.

Comment · 4 years ago

Love the acknowledgement for Stefan Schnell('s SAP Tracker). His SAP Blogs contributed a lot to my VBScripts.

I've always been averse to "low code, no code" solutions. Most of the problems that these seem to solve are mostly already addressed by programming tools. Even version control has GUI nowadays.

Comment · 4 years ago

Lots of my peers are going to Malta. I wonder how is it.

Comment · 4 years ago

I just got reminded of this scene from Big Bang Theory.

Sheldon: laughing at his own joke Howard: I haven't seen him laugh that hard since the day Leonard made that multiplication error. Sheldon: laughing hysterically Oh. Oh, Lord! That multiplication error. He though he carried a 1. But he didn't! Leonard: It's not funny. That mistake got published. Sheldon: Stop! I'm gonna wet myself.