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>If Peters had not wanted to publicize his suspension, that should have been his choice.

You seem to miss the point. Although I suppose Mr. Furman does too.

Aside from Tim Peters saying it was him, everyone who was paying attention to the threads that led to the suspension should have known it was him (I can't guess who Antoine Pitrou suspected instead in https://discuss.python.org/t/three-month-suspension-for-a-co... - but maybe that was his subtle way of implying that someone else deserved it instead?) and after the Register article (and perhaps Lunduke's coverage, and that of blog posts such as Chris McDonough's and my own, and I also saw others talking about it on social media), everyone else who cared knew too.

But the Steering Council nevertheless insisted that they were suppressing the name out of some kind of privacy concern, even though the suspension was accompanied by a suspension from the forum that explicitly cites the Steering Council decision. This is public information on Mr. Peters' profile (https://discuss.python.org/u/tim.one/summary) - there's no way around that with the Discourse software. Furthermore, there's simply no way to hide the fact that a normally active discussion participant has suddenly gone radio silent.

In my view, Mr. Peters absolutely does want to publicize his suspension - which is why Lunduke was able to interview him, for example. I rather doubt that the Register did that kind of investigative work, either (even if it should have been easy). Meanwhile, this supposed concern for privacy was completely ignored when the forum moderators decided to slam the door behind myself and Dr. Mertz on our way out, while repeating the Code of Conduct Work Group's ridiculous claims about us.

Mr. Furman is absolutely correct, in any case, about "chilling effect". It's abundantly clear from that post, as well as the one announcing the suspension, and the discussion in the PSF section (https://discuss.python.org/t/pr-disaster-surrounding-recent-...), that nobody dares whisper the name "Tim Peters" - despite the fact that everyone reasonably ought to know who it is anyway. Presumably they fear being sanctioned themselves.

> The problem is that the reasons I have seen given for the suspension are flimsy.

Yes, this is also covered, of course.

Anyway, the people I see disagreeing with Mr. Furman are very much part of the set of people I'd expect to see there. The ideological clique is so well defined that even likely-neurodivergent people like myself can easily sketch it out. The group I have in mind also includes other Steering Council and CoC WG members (although perhaps they'll decide discretion is the better part of valour, or see their views as redundant at this point) - and, among core devs: Nathaniel J. Smith, Victor Stinner and Ned Batchelder (although he became a core dev quite recently and rarely posts much of anything at all). There are others I could think of but I doubt they'd feel strongly enough about it to post.
Probably one of the variables is undefined, and static typing could catch that.
For a moment I thought this was about the urban legend, which got me reminiscing about the era when Snopes was a fun treasure trove of wacky urban legends, not “fact-checking” SEO slop.
Yes, but only because the Mozilla Foundation has the same problem. If it was just the corporation then the foundation could decide to replace it entirely.
Snipaste alternative, a screenshot software focused on macOS – tuji
I'm not sure it's rose-tinted glasses or some sense of nostalgia for the "good old days", but it does feel that our manufacturing processes have taken a step backwards since then.
> Don't be afraid to make decisions for yourself. Wear the watch you want to wear. If it doesn't exists, don't panic. Thanks to the wonders of our connected world, you can find people that will help you!

Good advice for people that have money to commission custom pieces from lauded swiss companies.

Meanwhile I'm wearing the watch I got for "free" (ended up still costing for maint/repairs), and trying to get my mortage paid.
>When I was a teenageer a school counselor incorrectly perceived me to be in a crisis and had me sent to 72 hour hold

How could they do that without notifying your parents and telling them exactly where you've been sent to, and what they should do?!

How could they've done that without giving the hospital your parents' contact info? How could the hospital accept you without requesting it, given that you were sent from school, where you have limited rights because they have the responsibility for your well-being?

How could have they discharged without allowing you to contact your family yourself?

This should be grounds for a civil lawsuit, if not criminal prosecution. I am not a lawyer, but I really hope that anyone reading this would contact one if they end in a situation like that.

>They're just trying to get the bodies through as quickly as possible.

I don't think taking 30 seconds over those 20 hours to contact your family would've slowed them down any.

This is not about efficiency. They should not be allowed to operate.
Well, it really doesn’t suit itself for automation, much less for real-time transactions. Say, you want to sell access to an article on your website. It would be cumbersome for the customer to have to switch over to their online banking and typing in all details (ok, today we have QR codes, but you still need to jump through many hoops, much more than with, say, a credit card or PayPal payment). Then it takes time until the money shows up in your account - sometimes several days. And, finally, there was no API access available from the banks for small sellers that would have allowed them to build an integration, even if they had the resources to write custom software.
There's a saying in the indie hacking community, never quit your full-time job until your side project(s) come close to your current salary.

I think your first successful side project got stuck somewhere in the middle and you also lost interest along the way managing it.
I'm pretty sure that the GP understood that, and was just being nitpicky about grammar. It's incorrect grammar to say "it has been 10 years" in this case.
One of my favorite intern stories was a kid who was a compsci senior, very good university, and who was assigned to write some Python code for my team. He had the very immature "Python is a baby's language" attitude. He wasn't working on my stuff so I don't really keep track of what he's doing, but a few weeks later I look at what he has written. Almost all of his Python functions have one parameter with an asterisk, and he does a len() check on it, printing and return an integer if it's not the right length of function arguments. Turns out this guy learned this behavior from Perl, used an asterisk because why not he always does in C, and was just manually unpacking every function argument and using a C style return error handling process.

Still the most insane thing I've seen, but I know there are a lot of kids out of college who got used to gen AI for code writing who put out a lot of this kind of code. Also, coincidentally, we haven't hired any US college interns in about 3 years or so.
After a decade or two of not wearing watches, and always looking at my laptop or phone for the time, analogue stopped making sense to me. I recently got a gorgeous casio lineage radio controlled (and solar powered) analogue watch, so I had to relearn telling the time!

Like Technology Connections says, the minute hand is a progress bar, but I found I got confused about the hour hand. It points at, apparently, 5 o'clock, but it's actually 4:55, because the hand just doesn't line up so precisely in the visual field. A watch with just the hour hand would be less accurate, but less confusing.

I since found out about jump hour watches, that display the current hour as a digit (in a little window like you see for the date) and have a minute hand. That makes more sense to me.
https://www.tpr.org/news/2024-01-03/texan-bitcoin-miners-pro...

it's a thing.
Agreed. I’ve experienced this in different programming domains.

A mere ten or so years ago I only wrote firmware in C and MacOS apps in objective-c. That was my world and it was all I knew, and all I’ve done for a long time.

Then something happened. Small startup. Website needs urgent fix and the web guy is MIA, so what the hell, I can take a stab at it.

Literally had no idea where to start. I didn’t know about npm, minified transpiling, much less actual testing and deployment. Could not make sense of anything anywhere. Hopelessly lost. I even grepped the JavaScript for “void main()” out of desperation. Just ridiculous
You'd only be off by a factor of 3 instead of 4, then.

In any case, comparing it to a solid ball isn't so useful. Even the idea of "density" for something that is dispersed as small particles isn't too useful; proportion of mass is really the only useful metric.
Connecting Texas to the rest of the grid would make the Texas grid subject to federal grid regulations. Texans don't like that.
Yep, I think it's called "Containerise" with the British spelling. To make it work you need to remove your existing URL rules from the main container tabs add-on, or they'll fight like cat and dog if there's a conflict.

What's great about regex matching is that you can grab a regex for each of your Google accounts, and bookmark the URL that the regex matches. I've changed the Firefox search bar config to prioritise bookmarks in the results. I can now type 'gmail', and the top two results are:

Gmail (work)

Gmail (personal)

Each opens in opens in the correct container. The trick sometimes is finding a bookmarkable URL with a specific string that you can use in a regex.

To be honest it's one of the features I wish Firefox would add to their add-on because I don't like giving their party add-ons access to my data.
Min P Sampling: Balancing Creativity and Coherence at High Temperature
Can you expand on this, I don't see how it can be.
Thats "too" much simple

I need some customization features similar to feedly
A friend of mine says LLMs are good at producing bad pandas code because there's just so much of it out there to train off of.
looking at the uv docs it seems it doesn't support conda packages. That's a non-starter for us as we need both conda and pypi (some packages are in one, some in the other). So we'd probably look at pixi as a possible replacement for conda.
Also dramatic changes in the availability and cost of fresh produce.

Depending on time, geography, and species, it might be a choice between canned and nothing at all. Getting an orange for Christmas was a rare treat, not simply a healthier filler to displace candy.
You can run the demo locally following the Usage part. Currently the WASM shaper feature is not enabled in any browser, so the demo won't work in web pages.
I have exactly the same watch for exactly the same reasons. With saphire glass and a titanium case and strap, it's very light and after two years of being worn constantly, it's still completely unmarked. It's also nicely inconspicuous - it's "just a casio", but those who know, know.
More privacy-related about:config settings: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Privacy_Task_Force/firefox_...
Staring into the abyss, medic-school edition:

Full tunnel vision, retinal rods reporting only peripheral darkness, overexcited cones showing that what remains of a central distant world is on fire. Something nearby is also probably really burning.

Maybe people should learn some perspective and refrain from using grandiose words in their writing?
How I ask GPT-4 to make tiny Python scripts in practice
Who.is Down?
The headline is not lying. Bekenstein, Hawking, Bardeen and Carter asserted four laws of black-hole thermodynamics and proved three of them. The fourth is what the guys this article is about proved is wrong.

The sentence with the word plausible is a bit deceptive, but the headline is fine.
The article stage some sites got shut down. It does not sound like normal delisting on google. The normal dmca takedowns on google are usually for specific content/urls.

Guess hosting etc. was in US for DMCA to be applicable to these sites
>It's been a VERY long time since any of the various operators and filters worked consistently on Google. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

They don't even work consistently on DuckDuckGo. One time I added "-pandas" to a search (trying to get only pure Python approaches to something) and the results went from mostly about Pandas to almost exclusively about Pandas.
This is california law and I believe the code is 51-50 but this is over 20 years ago so I’m a little fuzzy. I think looking back they were just liability papers the university was having me sign, I remember having to acknowledge things (that I didnt have time to read) that I wouldnt be able to purchase a firearm for 7 years and a whole bunch of other legal gobbledegook about being detained and what my rights were. The whole time a cop is standing above me making me sign it though and no one was answering my questions. I was extraordinarily confused for most of it until the cuffs went on and I had kind of a vague understanding I had said something wrong. At no point did anyone tell me what I did other than to tell me stuff like “you’re very ill and are being looked after for your own safety, care will be provided to you and you will be ok” kind of stuff. I cannot stress enough that this assessment was based on less than a 10 minute conversation with me. They even had a followup with me I was forced to go to, because I had missed the finals (because i was gone for like 3 days) and therefore actually failed. So they then convinced me to do a medical withdrawal to save my grade which very ironically led me to actually dropping out because I lost all my scholarships and grants. I would have probably been fine had I never sought help, and I suspect although my experience was extreme and probably malfeasant, that this treatment of people undergoing difficult mental things is probably very commonplace within the system.
I just want to use a robust, secure and decently fast browser that uses a different backend than Chrome to support the open web not ossifying into a single browser spec. I'll pay monthly!

Please just let me pay for this in money and not my privacy :-(
They could do it with HVDC to "isolate" the two grids.
For desktop apps you could try Godot with C#.
It also has a more complicated (chronograph) brother, the LIW-M610. It's fun to see the hands in the subdials spin around as you change functions and timezones.
Well then I'm afraid I'm not entirely sure where the confusion lies. Perhaps you could clarify?
Spending 20k to talk about "my own design" hipster watch. Must be nice to be that rich.
Quanta articles are usually very good. I'm a scientist and I have been contacted by Quanta to fact-check their work before. They're very keen to make things as correct as possible.

They also don't just write articles about theoretical physics, but about pretty much anything in science and math.
It is Clojure right? Does it imply a `recur` in the anonymous function? I don't really understand what the code will do since I only saw examples of `loop` with a condition. Why the `fn` ?
Happy triple booter here - yup, it's a thing.

I have a stable/secure Linux and an experimental Linux on my trusty old T430, but I need a Windows instance for testing.
This sort of thing is a weird relic of CS programs doing double duty as "professional school for software development" and "undergrad prep for an academic math career."

You just don't know how much they actually learned about programming as a discipline in its own right and it very well could be functionally zero. I've seen recent CS grads who didn't know how to use git, didn't know how to split code across multiple files or understand why you would even want to.

I think there's a fairly sound argument for these being different degrees, that a certain kind of researcher doesn't necessarily need these skills. But since it isn't there's just a huge range in how schools reconcile it.
This is equivalent to about:config and works on the regular firefox mobile version too:

chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml
We don't panic because we already know that huge monolithic kernels with millions of undetected bugs in ring 0 are still much better than secure micro kernels with 0 bugs in ring 0. Linus made that clear, because Linus
Most people outside of the pacific have no idea about monsoon effects on local weather/functions.
My bad, I'm sorry
r/selfhosted on reddit has a very helpful community.

DNS is very easy. Email is tough. Usually one would add a media server such as Plex and Nextcloud which is very useful.
If dentists are so interested in challenging the water fluoridation narrative so that they can do more fillings - why do they offer that tooth painting?
This is why 'leaders' should spend some time in the trenches, doing the job of those they 'lead', so that they have at least a basic understanding of the actual difficulties, limitations, possibilities, etc.
No, N means 10 in both parts of the sentence you quoted.

> when the average span between arrivals is [10] minutes, the average span experienced by riders is [20] minutes.

>The average wait time is also close to 10 minutes, just as the waiting time paradox predicted.

The average wait time is half the 'average span experienced by riders', since the rider arrives, on average, halfway through the average span.
I doubt that it would cut down on the amount of low effort garbage. The high effort non-garbage stuff is produced by professionals who have the luxury of spending a full work week's amount of time improving their craft. writers writing free content with no business model can't do that unless they have a trust fund. which, I suppose they're out there, but I doubt the number of those that are writers.
> And really Valve/Linux Community is more responsible for AMD's Opensource Radeon drivers and Gaming performance on Linux than AMD is!

Which is an extremely questionable business decision, probably driven by statistics like desktop market share.

But the resources need for driver development are negligible and Linux does run on most computers worldwide, so the behavior of many hardware manufacturers is quite puzzling from a business and technology standpoint.
In my first job in a software maintenance project, I was overenthusiastic and was closing issues left and right. My manager called me to his office and told me that if I solved all the issues, the project will need much lesser people when they renew the contract, which might lead me, the junior most person, to be sent to the bench until they get a new contract.
I do not believe that we can design a system that will withstand waves and wind from tropical monsoons or even most tropical storms or cyclones in the pacific. I can't speak for other oceans or areas of the world, but I believe that this design requirement will probably make it a non starter.
I hop on video and do screen share. It probably takes less aggregate time, they think they get special treatment when really I'm just saving time and I know how my stuff is being used more.
If I spend money on a taxi and try to reimburse it I get a colonoscopy from my administration. This guy was like, "hold my beer..."
Bolt's Letter to Investors
I think there is still some hope for self-healing of the web. Increasingly you can't find anything useful using Google, thus more will look for alternate search engines like Marginalia etc. Maybe they will unearth all the golden content from the ancient small web.
The rather mild water resistance on that model always has me doubting..
What you guys probably want to do instead is get to a common definition of what a typo is. Personally, I understand it as a typographic error, which is a fancy way of saying a spelling mistake (a mistake on a letter), not a mistake where one use a word for another.

Maybe you meant the latter?
Maximizing Uptime: The Power of Live Migration for Seamless Software Updates
LFP cells prices for direct sale to consumer are about 70 EUR/kWh right now. With 5000 cycles that's 1.4 EUR cent per kWh cycled out of the battery, so it fully makes economical sense in all electricity markets.

Fully integrated consumer battery prices haven't (yet) followed the decline in cell price, probably because there's lot of demand for this kind of product.
That only describes what is not happening as they expected. Like any con it comes down to trust. To go with the flow or do exhaustive critique for zero reward.
I recently switched to LibreWolf[0] and, after tweaking a few settings that were more zealous that I'd like, it has been just as good as vanilla FF.

0: https://librewolf.net/
The fix for this is obviously to pre-filter that exact string /s
I know a fair amount of people with watches in this range or above, none of them custom. For a custom one this is fairly OK, I'd even say cheap...

(I live in .ch, where people love watched a bit more than I've experienced elsewhere)
And here I thought I was clever for pointing out that things like "# coding: punycode" are legal but basically unusable...
They're not that expensive (in the world of luxury watches, anyway), and they are really cool, but the mere thought of paying thousands of dollars for a fragile thing that I wear on my wrist that I will probably bang against a door handle or something within a week is making me sweat.

The alternative option is to order some parts from AliExpress and make your own custom watch. Elliot Coll has some videos on how to do that on YT.
This is so cool! I am genuinely happy that through this I barely ever had to boot up windows anymore when I still had my gaming PC. I wish we could have something similar on Mac. I tried GPTK and Whiskey before but a bunch of my steam games that flawlessly worked on Proton won’t even start and if they do there is a fair chance they random crash and have unacceptable performance.
Cool! I've never heard of this shop before, thanks for sharing your experience.
Science has pretty much determined the ill effects of global warming and we haven't stopped that despite the overwhelming evidence, why makes you think there would be a significant movement over this issue -that like you correctly point out its highly speculative-?
I am literally doing this right now for a client with a prototype, never realized the market is as big as people are saying!
Apparently they have some for "import" of electricity.
This type of bug is trivial for GPT to fix though. It was born for this. Sometimes it does generate real footguns but this sounds like an example from an earlier generation of generative AI.
> If you're casting, then it's not real duck typing.

'If' being the operative word. You're not actually casting. That was merely to not try and confuse the commenter further. In fact, Go doesn't even support casting! It does support type conversion, which is oft confused with casting, but that uses the syntax `type(variable)`, which is not what is going on here either.

> In reality there is no interface tying the methods together, and the whole thing is done at runtime, along with a runtime error if the method doesn't exist.

Right, which is how it works.
The issue are the surrounding things. Need a mod? Windows only.
Need a software with macros? Windows.
Need a save editor to avoid having to replay the game for a missed item? Windows.

It will catch up though. I'm a happy user of the steam deck
Why forward requests to a DNS server like 1.1.1.1 at all? I used to use stuff like pi-hole/dnsmasq, but now I'm using unbound on my opnsense router which supports using blocklists and custom overrides (as well as automatic for DHCP clients). I found the default blocklists in pi-hole broke a few things but not had any problems with the lists I'm using now.
Apple is shaking up how it manages the App Store