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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 = Child("Foo")
  c.func() #=> In Base.func: Foo

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, both due to this preceding venv, and because that is usually the word used to describe the concept.

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 through sane choices.

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 tree.

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 the /points/ where the layout /breaks/ over is not a new term and quite well understood when talking design / layout.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layou...

https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_rwd_mediaqueries.asp

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 has to be extracted anyway.

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 value, and if you wanted it to be evaluated at call time the function would need to capture all of the default values in a closure.

  default = 10
  def foo(x=default):
      return x
  default = 20
  assert foo() == 10

It could also be that the default value is a more ocmplex expression, we could use a function to generate a default argument.

  def foo(x=create_default(y, z))

And yes it is used, for example the fastapi Dependency Injection system has been build quite cleverly using the ability to construct default values

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/query-params-str-valid...

Yes it is one of those things you just have to learn, but there are tons of stuff like that in most programming languages.

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 be seen as cluttering.

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 works for python3/2 -m venv venv

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 be portal anymore and probably not fun at all.

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 language like lisp.

I am kind of developing a grudge against whitespace sensitive languages. Not because it forces the programmer to indent properly, but because it disables my editors abilities to do it for me.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_sandglass

It is, especially if these checks are done at compile time, not at runtime.

I totally agree. When you release bi-annually anyway, dont really care about how much breakage a Major release introduces, totally ignore minor versions and with patch versions being more or less insignificant, why not just go with $year.$month

Or use the zoom feature of your browser...

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