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” Try learn a bit Mandarin if you could or at least talk to Chinese ppl living around you” If I DM you my address, could you send some guys round to invite/escort me to one of your…

> * Python only: what's this for, then? http://www.picklingtools.com/ From the picklingtools FAQ: What versions of Python does PicklingTools support? Historically, versions 2.1.x t…

In the last 12 years of writing python, I have only hit had issues with .pyc files a handful of times, and always with python If you’re seeing this regularly, it suggests there may…

It’s a map from a ‘WeakRef’ to a value. So if you have an object reference, you can associate a value with that object. But not the other way round

Admittedly the example was a bit fake :) I /have/ put other secrets into frontend code before, strictly for small temporary projects where the cost of implementing secret managemen…

Seems to be related to this: https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server/issues/1604 It's not clear (without a lot more digging) what impact the sockjs changes have on this issue…

I threw the code together last night. It's running on cloudflare backed by an S3 static file, so shouldn't be capacity issues It was only tested on Firefox, as a basic proof-of-con…

you can replace with this: function shorten(text, length) { return new Promise((a, r) => fetch(`http://leftpad.io/shorten?l=${length}&v=${encodeURIComponent(text)}`).then(rx=>rx.te…

No disagreement here. I don't use gnome desktops, for similar reasons (although I'm also not the target audience for adopters, as I currently use Linux as my primary desktop enviro…

> Like how the file explorer has a built in terminal that follows the folder you're in. That’s a nice feature. But it has little to do with Windows/OSX equivalence. It also highlig…

There is a hitherto-unwritten rule that it is allowed to comment...

This is the plan. Once google have verified the advertisers, they can ‘help users understand the source of the advert’ by replacing the mini Ad icon with the advertisers’ favicon, …

> With the COVID crisis our users are unable to depend on us for their daily spends. If this is truly a humanitarian issue, then then disable the contact harvesting feature

I think you're mistaking "It just works" for "It just works in the way I want it to" Unfortunately if you go with the suggested methods for using zoom, it is very easy to join a me…

The thing about rural areas, is that not many people live there. We live just ouside a mid-sized UK town (and cities down to small/mid sized towns covers a really high % of the pop…

Back in 1995 all websites shared one global stylesheet. Every time a new rule was added, you had to wait up to 24 hours for the css servers to propagate.

From the docs: "CPython implementation detail: Keys and values are listed in an arbitrary order which is non-random, varies across Python implementations, and depends on the dictio…

It’s fast coz the cpu be blazing ;)

Workflows are full of trade offs. Different people & teams value different features in different ways. It’s what makes software development such a vibrant ecosystem.

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> Uh, I'm not very confident on this helping; wouldn't this mean fewer people will be using and evaluating beta components? Probably. But the benefit gained by doing this is that e…

Yeah. I only trained addition. Actually exploring the impact of training a net to perform a range of operations on the minimum plausible neuron count would be quite interesting I d…

A child comes pre-programmed to put things in their mouth. They also have very sophisticated reward functions built-in that identify tasty sugars entering their mouth. Very quickly…