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Input a video and subtitle file, receive a synchronized output, no need to mess with python environments are dependencies (which historically was a challenge for ffsubsync users). …

I started burning down the backlog of all the stuff I wanted to get to for side projects but never had time for (before LLMs): - https://smacke.net/ffsubsync -- automagically synch…

Some auto formatting italicized the text between * on different lines :') Should be `reduce[$*$]`

Hi HN, sharing my holiday season passion project, pipescript, which lets you write code like this in Jupyter Python notebooks: 42 |> $+1 # 43 The $ is a placeholder for the value i…

Hi HN, I built pipescript over the holidays after I discovered magrittr for R and realized the same kind of pipe operator and placeholder syntax could be implemented for Python not…

Pickling + unpickling the object is a neat trick to update objects to point to the new methods, but it's even more straightforward to just patch `obj.__class__ = reloaded_module.Ne…

I developed a tool ( https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync ) which can sync subtitles against each other (or even against an audio track), and this can be used in conjunction with ot…

Discussion on reddit from when I posted about this (more than 10 years ago now!): https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/144qc4/a_beautiful_pr... Original pdf seems to have been ta…

You're probably referring to nbgather ( https://github.com/microsoft/gather ), which shipped with VSCode for a while. nbgather used static slicing to get all the code necessary to …

ipyflow has a %%memoize magic which looks quite similar to %%xetmemo (just without specifying the inputs / outputs explicitly): https://github.com/ipyflow/ipyflow/?tab=readme-ov-fi…

I'm a big fan of Marimo (and of Akshay and Myles in particular); it's great to finally see a viable competitor to Jupyter as it can only mean good things for the ecosystem of scien…

I don't think anything here is in conflict with the statement that Fortran can be faster than C in some cases, but yes you're right that technically that should be qualified as nai…

Fortran can be faster than C because it has a more restrictive memory model (compiler can make more optimizations when it knows nothing else is aliasing some memory)

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> Another giveaway is the ratio of stars to watchers / forks. I remember one project with thousands of stars but only 10 users "watching" it. They went on to raise a sizable seed r…

Is the recursion limit an implementation detail of the compiler though, or something statically built into the language? If the former there's nothing to prevent the language itsel…

Ah yeah, Carlos is very low on cycles (like all of us I guess), probably due to the day job. (If only OSS had competitive pay...)

Have you opened an issue against https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-server ? I'm an occasional contributor for easy fixes; if your fix is easy chances are it would get picked…

It's not in the highlights, but one of the things that excites me most is this: https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.12.html#pep-669-low-i... > PEP 669 defines a new API for prof…

Didn't try downloading the SDK yet, but in the playground, seems like the "Python superset" advertisement does not hold (trying to define a class gives "error: classes not implemen…

What would a "composable" experience look like?