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> Why? While it seems obvious that some students should be redirected to remedial classes, the evidence is that very few students made it past those courses. IOW, the obvious solut…

You've done a nice job articulating why people support equity programs. The sticking point is that there is a big difference between theory and practice. We end up with elimination…

That sounds like what happened at Boeing.

If the service is free, you are the product :-)

Note that Python already offers MappingProxy that wraps a dictionary to hide mutating methods. People hardly ever use this tool. That suggests that there isn't much of a need for a…

All good suggestions. However, the last one should have also mentioned functools.cache and functools.lru_cache.

Do you want to take advantage of having multiple cores? * Processes do this right out of the box. * Threads only do this on Python's new GIL builds. * Async, not so much.

History of women in the Python world: In 2006, the first two women were voted in as PSF fellows, Laura Creighton and Anna Martelli Ravenscroft. In 2008, there were two women on the…

Crypto did pretty well during that timeframe. Likely, they didn't pivot hard enough to offset losses to the core business.

Python's key-functions nicely encapsulate the whole process.

One place where Visual development tools almost always win is in problem domains that are intrinsically visual (think CAD, form designers, etc)

A notable exception is MS Access. It was a huge productivity win. It did not work well with version control but otherwise, it let developers rapidly develop and maintain moderate s…

No, that is not the recommendation. People routinely and reliably inherit from dict. The UserDict class is mostly defunct and is only still in the standard library because there we…

> IMO it's not the recording of ideas that is thinking, but rather the act of putting thoughts into language. I agree with you but that article itself says, "for example, handwriti…

Also shift in organizational investment away toward AI and away from earlier hotness.

Grace Hopper technology: A well formed Python program shall define an ENVIRONMENT division that specifies the environment in which the program will be compiled and executed. It out…

> Scientists genetically engineer a lethal mosquito STD to combat malaria Nothing could possibly go wrong.

This makes me happy. It was such an obvious right thing to do, but it took so long to come to fruition. Next, it would be great if published standards were freely available. It is …

No, it would fail upstream before the template post-processing even begin. The template object itself could not be formed because the each name must be a visible variable name. Thi…

How does this Python docs example work with t-strings? cur.executemany("INSERT INTO movie VALUES(?, ?, ?)", data) Can SQLite3 cache the query as it does now?

ISTM software engineers have been living in a privileged and elite world. They are then utterly shocked to be treated like employees are treated elsewhere. Pretty much anywhere if …

> Even the JS standard library struggles with this. You just have to remember that .sort() modifies the array in place ISTM that there are almost always some kinds of mutable data …

Interestingly, I encountered exactly this issue this week. It was mystifying for a short while but easily hunted down. Perhaps lint tools would have been of help.