Hacker News: cauthon

New comment by cauthon in "Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)"

cauthon — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:01:33 +0000

TIL, thanks!

(I love being wrong on HN, always learn something)

New comment by cauthon in "Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)"

cauthon — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:59:39 +0000

You _can_ write pathological code like the Everything example, but I can see this feature being helpful if used responsibly.

It essentially allows the user to check if a class implements an interface, without explicitly inheriting ABC or Protocol. It’s up to the user to ensure the body of the case doesn’t reference any methods or attributes not guaranteed by the subclass hook, but that’s not necessarily bad, just less safe.

All things have a place and time.

New comment by cauthon in "Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic"

cauthon — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:48:28 +0000

Amazon famously more trustworthy

New comment by cauthon in "Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib (2021)"

cauthon — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:47:51 +0000

Why on earth would you want to do exploratory data analysis in a compiled language

New comment by cauthon in "Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees"

cauthon — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:13:51 +0000

I’d love a brood war remaster

New comment by cauthon in "Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source"

cauthon — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:42:07 +0000

> In the last 7 days I spent 3-5hrs every day pairing with others

This sounds remarkably inefficient?

New comment by cauthon in "Zoom Fatigue Is Real, According to Brain Scans"

cauthon — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:41:04 +0000

Zoom also has this option

New comment by cauthon in "What Is the Future of the DAW?"

cauthon — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 16:06:46 +0000

In the same way I don’t expect a biologist writing for biologists to explain “DNA” stands for “deoxyribonucleic acid”, it’s probably not necessary for a music producer writing for producers and engineers to define “DAW”.

Users here probably feel the same way about HTML, FIFO, DAG, etc

New comment by cauthon in "macOS Sonoma is available today"

cauthon — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 23:15:36 +0000

Fedora mostly works out of the box on my 2015 MBP

New comment by cauthon in "Americans now need to spend 43% of their income to afford a home"

cauthon — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 02:15:03 +0000

They definitely did not fix housing prices. Demand and purchasing power are lower with the higher interest rates, but supply is abysmal for the reasons you mentioned.

New comment by cauthon in "Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom"

cauthon — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:33:35 +0000

Is a switch lite that much larger than a GBA or DS?

New comment by cauthon in "BioWare is laying off 50 employees"

cauthon — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 22:32:23 +0000

When was the last BioWare game that was actually excellent? ME2 in 2010?

New comment by cauthon in "Two men die in Ironman Cork competition in Ireland"

cauthon — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:53:48 +0000

No, it's just pointing out the colloquialism.

"IRONMAN" and "IRONMAN 70.3" are the official names, even though "full" and "half" are how they're commonly referenced.

"so-called" isn't diminutive or derogatory

New comment by cauthon in "Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?"

cauthon — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 10:07:26 +0000

Set Boundaries, Find Peace is another good one in this space

New comment by cauthon in "The Jupyter+Git problem is now solved (2022)"

cauthon — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:39:16 +0000

right, so what's the issue with sharing a notebook (code) and rendered html (results)?

If someone starts playing with the inputs, they're going to lose the outputs you've created unless you have a saved rendered copy anyways

New comment by cauthon in "The Jupyter+Git problem is now solved (2022)"

cauthon — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:29:41 +0000

> You want to share the outputs so that you can share the results while showing your work.

What's wrong with rendering to HTML?

New comment by cauthon in "Advanced Python Mastery"

cauthon — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:49:04 +0000

For the purposes of discussion, it'd probably be helpful to describe the issues you would identify during review

New comment by cauthon in "LazyVim"

cauthon — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:51:41 +0000

what's the current recommended package manager for vim? I used to use vundle but that seems to be unmaintained/deprecated and has broken on recent installs.

New comment by cauthon in "The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition"

cauthon — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:13:46 +0000

This is amazing, I may never use pandas again

New comment by cauthon in "False 911 Calls Increase During Festival as iOS Mistakes Dancing for Car Crashes"

cauthon — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:27:13 +0000

I don't have bluetooth in my car. Going over about 10-15 mph seems to trigger it.