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

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

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

My solution was to close the tab...

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 = Ch…

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

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

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, bot…

Like which nu | xargs dirname

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 va…

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

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

Distributing a container, virtual machine or something similar.

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…

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 work…

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

Portals main mechanic is movement, portals are created to enable new venues of movement. If portals were simply point at somewhere and click to teleport there the game would hardly…

Both map and filter returns an iterator, so you only iterate once when creating the list.

I hate when I code python and refactor stuff, moving stuff around and such, that I cant just copy/clip around and then do a final 'indent all my work correctly' like I can in a lan…

One of the problems of being the sole developer...

Having higher order functions is not really what makes a language functional.