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Comment · 3 years ago

The trackpoint on Thinkpads is fantastic once you get used to it.

Comment · 4 years ago

But isn't that pretty much the distinction between value and reference types?

Comment · 4 years ago

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_(titre) somewhat equivalent of count or earl

Comment · 4 years ago

My solution was to close the tab...

Comment · 4 years ago

In Python you could do something like:

  class Base:
     def func(self):
         print("In Base.func:", self.name)
  
  class Child:
     def __init__(self, name):
         self.name = name
     func = Base.func
  
  c = Child("Foo")
  c.func() #=> In Base.func: Foo

Comment · 5 years ago

Most alarms wake you at a certain time, not a certain location.

Comment · 5 years ago

Actually it seems sum is special cased to fail for strings, but otherwise you are correct

Comment · 6 years ago

One big reason is that ubuntu splits out venv into its own package basically "breaking" python. People then don't know about the venv module and continues using the virtualenv, both due to this preceding venv, and because that is usually the word used to describe the concept.

Comment · 6 years ago

Like which nu | xargs dirname

Comment · 6 years ago

No, you need an editor that abstracts away the indentation and uses the existing style of the file. I use the tab key to indent code, my editor (Emacs) is configured to just cycle through sane choices.

Comment · 6 years ago

Because you can see their usage as a series of "points" linked to exactly one other point, that forms a "line", as opposed to other systems where you could have more of a graph or tree.

Comment · 6 years ago

Yeah, because it's not like we don't appropriate words all over the place anyway, and reuse words for all kinds of similar and dissimilar purposes.

Using "breakpoints" to describe the /points/ where the layout /breaks/ over is not a new term and quite well understood when talking design / layout.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layou...

https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_rwd_mediaqueries.asp

Comment · 6 years ago

And is that so bad? So often i did stuff like that, then finding I actually need the result of x.calculate_weight() inside the condition, or to debug it or log it in some way. Then it has to be extracted anyway.

Comment · 6 years ago

It does make sense to evaluate the default value for the parameter at the point of definition for serveral reasons. First of all, the default value does not have to be a literal value, and if you wanted it to be evaluated at call time the function would need to capture all of the default values in a closure.

  default = 10
  def foo(x=default):
      return x
  default = 20
  assert foo() == 10

I think tat makes a lot of sense.

It could also be that the default value is a more ocmplex expression, we could use a function to generate a default argument.

  def foo(x=create_default(y, z))

By evaluating it at definition time we only have to evaluate the expression once and not have this weird lazy expression.

And yes it is used, for example the fastapi Dependency Injection system has been build quite cleverly using the ability to construct default values

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/query-params-str-valid...

Yes it is one of those things you just have to learn, but there are tons of stuff like that in most programming languages.

Comment · 6 years ago

What difference would it make whether the change had been called 3.8 or 4.0?