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New comment by nitroll in "Touchpad Blocker: Disable touch-pad while typing"

nitroll — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:17:52 +0000

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

New comment by nitroll in "Mutable value types are evil Sort of"

nitroll — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:30:41 +0000

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

New comment by nitroll in "My lab went from 4000 kg to 130 kg of waste a year"

nitroll — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 07:45:22 +0000

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

New comment by nitroll in "Design of This Website (2021)"

nitroll — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 09:13:35 +0000

My solution was to close the tab...

New comment by nitroll in "Why general inheritance is flawed and how to finally fix it"

nitroll — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 16:29:49 +0000

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

New comment by nitroll in "It’s not a self-driving car unless you can sleep in it"

nitroll — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:52:01 +0000

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

New comment by nitroll in "Teeing, a hidden gem in the Java API"

nitroll — Tue, 11 May 2021 15:03:15 +0000

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

New comment by nitroll in "Magicimport.py: Python code that fetches its dependencies without complaining"

nitroll — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 01:13:39 +0000

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.

New comment by nitroll in "One Year of Nushell"

nitroll — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 20:55:22 +0000

Like which nu | xargs dirname

New comment by nitroll in "GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all"

nitroll — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 23:24:08 +0000

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.

New comment by nitroll in "Linear types are merged in GHC"

nitroll — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 20:37:01 +0000

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.

New comment by nitroll in "Stupidly simple (but surprisingly helpful) tool for developers using Bootstrap"

nitroll — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 21:17:30 +0000

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

New comment by nitroll in "Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Python? (2013)"

nitroll — Sat, 02 May 2020 17:39:34 +0000

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.

New comment by nitroll in "SICP in Python"

nitroll — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 21:50:30 +0000

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.

New comment by nitroll in "Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2"

nitroll — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 21:16:09 +0000

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

New comment by nitroll in "Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative"

nitroll — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 21:54:58 +0000

I would rather just use google translate to do it automatically on the entire page, and yes I do that quite regularly from German.

New comment by nitroll in "Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with no Python 3"

nitroll — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 17:39:06 +0000

Distributing a container, virtual machine or something similar.

New comment by nitroll in "What's Coming in Python 3.8"

nitroll — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:01:50 +0000

I think the importance is the orthogonality of the features. Eg. having so many ways to do string formatting or now multiple ways of doing assigments are not ortogonal and thus can be seen as cluttering.

New comment by nitroll in "What, No Python in RHEL 8 Beta?"

nitroll — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 22:22:26 +0000

python3 -m pip install foo

It also works for python2. I try to avoid using python tools that installs their own scripts and go for calling the module through python. This also works for python3/2 -m venv venv

New comment by nitroll in "Ask HN: Whats the best alternative to Inbox?"

nitroll — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:53:53 +0000

https://blog.newtonhq.com/goodbye-newton-ae6b506fd94f