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Simple use case: What version of the json module is this live code running? (when you don't even know the attribute name) # At a pdb prompt, from a frame where json is global or lo…

Meet Pobshell. Think cd, ls, cat, and find — but for Python objects instead of files. Stroll around your code, runtime state, and data structures. Inspect everything: modules, clas…

Clickable links for convenience: * 2 min demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5QoSrc_E_A * PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/pobshell/ * GitHub: https://github.com/pdalloz/pobshell …

Hi HN, I've just launched Pobshell. Think cd, ls, cat, and find — but for Python objects instead of files. Stroll around your code, runtime state, and data structures. Inspect ever…

But how many citizens know calculus, literature and physics? Certainly not enough know history - or US democracy wouldn't be facing the threat it does now. The poorly educated need…

As an aside: Hardware as a service is annoying and feels horrible, but is probably the only way to achieve the long lifetimes we need for consumer goods in a world where reviews ar…

We managed to recognise stromatolites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite

I wonder if the fact that DNA & RNA only occur with one chirality tells us something about how frequently this step occurs in the Drake equation. If the step from non biological or…

Even searching for tank woman or tank cat returns results!

Attribution is not from tracing connections or domain ownership, it's from looking at the coding style, the "Tactics, Techniques and Procedures" and the choice of targets.

There's surely a lot of bespoke software in those core Govt systems. So they'll be trying to run a software image from months ago with yesterdays data. The success of that depends …

With sticks and stones? They've been inside the nuclear defence computers for months. With sanctions? When the government may just stop working altogether for a year or more?

Yes, its the clean images I'm wondering about. It might not be easy to find clean images that are compatible with separate data backups.

But if you restore from backup aren't you going to restore the trojans? And if the trojans wipe the disks after x days of radio silence?

If Russia has root access to the most important US Government computers, and has potentially installed many backdoors or trojans. What is to stop those trojans from wiping the disk…

Here's my opinion, I'd like to hear what HN'ers think: * You get a multiplier from using the right tools * You get a multiplier from using tools you know well * You get a multiplie…

I can see the appeal of these. Just holding one makes you feel you can soak in attention to detail and beautiful handwriting through your fingertips. But the reality is different. …

Actually you can sometimes convince people their ideas are wrong by laughing at their ideas. I'll never forget my Dad's reaction when I bought a magazine about flying saucers. Whet…

I like Mathematica a lot, and I'm happy to see the client library for Python. What it really needs though is a decent debugger. I'd upgrade today if this release had one. I think t…

What if you're having trouble with an API, you don't look at code to see what kind of arguments a function needs? You just go to the docs? What if the docs are sparse?

That's what I used to think too. But some (admittedly junior) developers I've spoken to said that there was so much concern about IP theft they weren't allowed to look at other peo…