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New comment by Luyt in "Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items"

Luyt — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:35:23 +0000

I use that one too. An alternative might be https://aiosmtpd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli.html

New comment by Luyt in "Git's list of banned C functions"

Luyt — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:38:40 +0000

It would be great if the BANNED() macro could suggest the correct function to use.

New comment by Luyt in "Two-Thirds Scale VT100 Is a Perfect Match for PiDP/8 Replica"

Luyt — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:36:05 +0000

I wish I never threw out my amber Hercules monitor...

New comment by Luyt in "WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets"

Luyt — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 09:43:09 +0000

Tuples are immutable, but that doesn't mean they can't contain references to mutable objects.

When you want to use a tuple as a key in a dictionary, Python checks if all members of the tuple are immutable. If one or more of them aren't, you'll get an 'unhashable type' error.

New comment by Luyt in "WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets"

Luyt — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 09:30:38 +0000

A while ago, I was also sceptical about the walrus operator, although I use assignments in expressions all the time in C++. But when I was perusing a library written Python the other day, I found five spots in which the walrus operator would make sense - eliminating one line of source code without readability suffering from it.

New comment by Luyt in "WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets"

Luyt — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 09:24:09 +0000

When you write in a language which uses curly braces for statement grouping, do you indent your code? ...? I thought so.

New comment by Luyt in "WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets"

Luyt — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 09:15:46 +0000

Of course you can. The first element of that tuple is a list, which is mutable, and can be sorted in-place.

New comment by Luyt in "Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4"

Luyt — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:03:59 +0000

There is a 64-bit Kali Linux image for the Raspberry Pi.

https://www.offensive-security.com/kali-linux-arm-images/

New comment by Luyt in "Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4"

Luyt — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:01:47 +0000

Normal-sized HDMI connectors would be great, too.

New comment by Luyt in "Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4"

Luyt — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 09:59:43 +0000

Those small SMD resistors come on a reel, and they're typically much cheaper than 2 cent: more like 0.1 cent. Still, that's $1000 for one million units.

New comment by Luyt in "Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE"

Luyt — Sat, 04 May 2019 14:06:39 +0000

Have you tried Cython already? That's almost Python and much faster.

New comment by Luyt in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

Luyt — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 08:07:03 +0000

Remember QBASIC.EXE, too?

New comment by Luyt in "The Insect Portraits of Levon Biss"

Luyt — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 12:36:53 +0000

He makes 30 microscopic pictures of a beetle, pastes them together, prints it on huge panels (for a museum exhibition). But you can also view them on the website, including at high zoom levels.

The Insect Portraits of Levon Biss

Luyt — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 12:35:24 +0000

Article URL: http://microsculpture.net

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12153146

Points: 15

# Comments: 6

New comment by Luyt in "Shuffleboard at McMurdo"

Luyt — Wed, 18 May 2016 08:02:25 +0000

Chemtrails, really? I read this: "After sailing for three weeks with no signs of human activity, no power lines, no chemtrails, no evidence that we exist on the planet at all except for a mournful wooden cabin at Cape Adare, it’s jarring to see this open-air museum of prefabricated regret."

I'm sure the author means contrails ?

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4027 "Chemtrails, real or not?"

New comment by Luyt in "Thoughts on the future of Python and graphical interfaces"

Luyt — Tue, 17 May 2016 16:39:16 +0000

Especially when wrapped with Borland's VCL (in contrast to MFC).

New comment by Luyt in "Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's .gitignore has"

Luyt — Tue, 10 May 2016 11:15:47 +0000

You got downvoted for your sarcasm, but you have a point. Some people think that Ruby classes are instantiated using the create method.

New comment by Luyt in "Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's .gitignore has"

Luyt — Tue, 10 May 2016 11:13:02 +0000

Yeah... Qt and Rails are in the list too. And is Symfony a language, too?

New comment by Luyt in "Media Websites Battle Faltering Ad Revenue and Traffic"

Luyt — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 12:03:16 +0000

Forbes.com detects your adblocker and will deny you access to their content. Except if you instruct your browser to use a UserAgent string like GoogleBot does: then suddenly, you are can read the articles.

New comment by Luyt in "NASA Is Trying to Grow Potatoes on Mars"

Luyt — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:21:23 +0000

The rays are ionizing and will smash apart the DNA molecules in living cells.