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> or any phone for that matter. I'm strapping phone to my arms during runs; for me, shaving off those extra grams count. Bought an Infinix specifically for this reason. I didn't sp…

TIL of KlongPy (and Klong). Looking at the project page, I think it looks really cool. https://pypi.org/project/klongpy/

> Duolingo banked on the gamification, and that works really well. However, learning a language is only incidental. Agree to a point. I used Duolingo as a stepping stone to studyin…

I have personally never had a problem with activating a virtualenv and `pip install`-ing inside it. Most libraries nowadays also specify minimum versions for packages (e.g., >=3.6,…

> If they can find any fault in a question or answer they will take the opportunity to do so. This has been my experience with learn language subreddits as well. I will give a one …

Not the author but it seems that the site was made using Quarto [1] which uses pandoc [2] behind the scenes for producing the final output. The pandoc website suggests EPUB is poss…

Here's the link for Jetbrains survey results last year. There's web dev (django perhaps), dev ops and sys ad, education, and software testing. https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-devel…

> Is RSS still being used? I am also curious. I've enjoyed Outlook 365 RSS reader for a long time but I just cancelled my subscription. Currently navigating through Thunderbird. Re…

In the latest (that I can find) Excel team's Reddit AMA [0], Python was not addressed at all. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/m22uc6/we_are_the_mic...

This makes sense. Maybe over time, the community average will move up according to some arbitrary metric. But the benchmark of "being average" means it's relative to the community.…

Python's `collections.Counter` is written in Python and is a subclass of the builtin `dict` type. I don't think it's comparable to something like using `pandas` to solve the proble…

Chris Webb's BI blog ( https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/feed/ ). Facebook Engineering and LinkedIn Engineering also support RSS.

Love the acknowledgement for Stefan Schnell('s SAP Tracker). His SAP Blogs contributed a lot to my VBScripts. I've always been averse to "low code, no code" solutions. Most of the …

Lots of my peers are going to Malta. I wonder how is it.

I just got reminded of this scene from Big Bang Theory. Sheldon: laughing at his own joke Howard: I haven't seen him laugh that hard since the day Leonard made that multiplication …

Definitely this. I was a long time Notepad++ fan but immediately changed tune soon as I tried VS Code.

> He couldn’t escape the sense that hitting on someone in person had, in a short period of time, gone from normal behavior to borderline creepy. As a Z-ennial, this was one of my c…