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Paul Preston's "The Spanish Civil War" would be the poster child of the "quality non-fiction" category specified in this post's title. He is, in my opinion, the leading Hispanist h…

Books on the Spanish Civil War I have read and can wholeheartedly recommend: - "The Spanish Civil War" by Paul Preston - "Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell Books on the same to…

I have only had positive experiences using pydantic tools. They keep iterating on the pydantic validation tool and are planning on a v3 at some point, and pydantic-ai has been a su…

I think it's fair enough to consider porting a subset of rewriting, in which case there are several successful experiments out there: - JustHTML [1], which in practice [2] is a por…

I cannot quite replicate those results myself: https://github.com/gorkaerana/hn-programming-language-trends . In my analysis, as a percentage of total job posts, Python jobs start …

I'm tempted to give it a try just for the "For HackerNews enthusiasts" section of their landing page, which states "The PRQL compiler is written in Rust" and "We talk about “orthog…

A cool feature of the Spanish naming custom is that it can infinitely keep track of surnames. E.g., following @alricb's comment below, let's consider Pablo Picasso, who's name was …

My Python virtual environment and dependency management journey has been the following: 1. Just `pip` and `venv`; specifying dependencies via "requirements.txt" and "dev_requiremen…

Spanish also delights us with unlucky surnames. E.g., three acquaintances of my father have the family names "Feo", "Bastardo", and "Gay"; which translate, respectively, to "ugly",…

A slightly unfortunate name for Spanish speakers, I'm afraid: "putero" can mean either "brothel" or "man who maintains sexual relations with prostitutes" [1]. Fun fact: the Mitsubi…

> I'm honestly more surprised that they're saying they've only got the first word figured out. They have figured out the rest of the words, as per the last image in the announcemen…