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by aroberge 2mo ago
> Understanding never was the goal, results were. Understanding is the goal, both at an individual level and at a societal level. If no one can understand it, no one can teach it and it can't be used to progress.
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by aroberge 11mo ago
> Python is quickly turning into a crowded keyword junkyard * Javascript (ECMAScript) has 63 keywords. * Rust has 50 keywords. * Java has 51 keywords + 17 contextually reserved words, for a total of 68. * Python has now 36 keywords + 4 &
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by aroberge 1y ago
> The workers were breaking the laws, ... How sure are we of that? Did we really get this information from trustworthy sources?
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by aroberge 2y ago
I accept your suffering if you choose so. If I knew you personally, I would even do all I could to help and comfort you. However, I cannot condone you imposing suffering on others in the name of YOUR religion.
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by aroberge 2y ago
It is not that someone else shares YOUR birthday: it is that two people (among those 23) will have the same birthday.
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by aroberge 2y ago
He did mention he lives in France ...
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by aroberge 2y ago
If I remember correctly, unlike the standard Python interpreter, ptpython does not support the replacement of sys.excepthook by a custom one. I know that I look at seeing if I could have it support friendly-traceback but couldn't.
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by aroberge 2y ago
If they are not located in the US, why would they?
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by aroberge 3y ago
In my experience (in a different field), it is common for researchers to acknowledge the source of their funding. In particular, researchers are keen to acknowledge funding from government grants, as this is perceived to be helpful in apply
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by aroberge 3y ago
This is simply not true.
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by aroberge 3y ago
Tooling is a single screwdriver. There is no "unused bits" clutter, and no need to pay someone to replace a part.
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by aroberge 4y ago
> How bad could it be? It could suggest that someone vulnerable commit suicide and have that user do it.
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by aroberge 4y ago
> yet didn't the truckers get robbed by the government? No. In the end, a few accounts were proactively and temporarily frozen by banks acting on their own, which they could (possibly would) have done due to fintrac [1] requiremen
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by aroberge 4y ago
No. "Dark" matter refers to something that does not interact at all with photons - not that it scatters too little light.
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by aroberge 5y ago
electron volts is a unit of energy. Using E = mc^2, one expresses masses in the equivalent energy quantity. It turns out that electron-volts is a convenient scale for the (energy equivalent) mass for elementary particles -- much better th
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by aroberge 5y ago
Up until a month ago, when I searched Youtube using the "latest" filter, I could reliably get the latest videos uploaded that were relevant to the search terms. Now, it shows a couple of recently uploaded videos followed by many w
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by aroberge 5y ago
44% down since November is a bit more than fluctuation I would think. Still, I agree that today's drop should not be described as a crash.
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Bitcoin price crash: Crypto plunges by 9% as billions wiped off market(independent.co.uk)
25 points by aroberge 5y ago|13 comments
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by aroberge 5y ago
You could also perhaps look at https://friendly-traceback.github.io/docs/index.html
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by aroberge 5y ago
A modern version using Python is https://reeborg.ca/reeborg.html
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by aroberge 5y ago
One way might be to do like what IDLE does (I think) which is to essentially print the traceback to a string and extract the information. An alternative is to use https://friendly-traceback.github.io/docs/index.html wh
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by aroberge 5y ago
Perhaps a better approach is to click on "favorite" at the top. I personally find it easier than trying to go through my comments history.
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by aroberge 5y ago
You can already get this information for Python 3.6+ with https://friendly-traceback.github.io/docs/index.html
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by aroberge 5y ago
I really like the look of it! If it were possible to easily turn it into something that could be shared privately and live for collaboration with other people, it would be perfect.
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by aroberge 5y ago
Imagine a spherical cyclist ;-) Mass scales like the cube of its radius. Surface area (air resistance) scales like the square of the radius. As the radius (mass) increases, the air resistance becomes relatively less important.
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by aroberge 5y ago
https://www.amazon.ca/CPython-Internals-Guide-Python-Interpr...
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by aroberge 5y ago
If all this were true, there would be no reason for the U.S. to want to double tariffs on Canadian lumber: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/lumber-price... This is purely protectionism, and keeps lu
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by aroberge 5y ago
I write programs as a hobby. For most of my career, I have been teaching Math and Physics courses. The whole point of teaching is to get someone to learn something and use it as they see fit, with no constraint imposed upon them. I view the
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China's Newest Computer Science Student Is a Computer(sixthtone.com)
17 points by aroberge 5y ago|4 comments
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by aroberge 5y ago
I disagree: I find that she makes an excellent point about the choice she made in the video linked above. She is a designer, exploring ideas about body augmentation. She is not (and nor is anyone else) at the stage of perfecting a design so

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