Perhaps Off Topic, but for a good cause.
This year I met Jana Scroeder, a blind person forced to change jobs as part
of the social cost of Covid. Her outsider experience of computer coding
training became a wish to make things better. She has applied for a Holman
Prize ($25,000 over a year) to fun
Vincent Cheong writes:
> Sorry for not explaining the background of my idea. I'm involved in
> the research area of sorting algorithms. Reversals are part of
> sorting
I'm curious: Many of the sorting algorithms I know use swap pairs of
elements, but what sorting algorithm reverses segments l
On 9/4/19 5:38 PM, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2019, at 08:54, Dan Sommers
<2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote:
>> How does blocking the submit call differ from setting max_workers in
>> the call to ThreadPoolExecutor?
> Here’s a concrete example from my own code
On 11/03/2019 15:37, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:30 AM Jonathan Fine wrote:
Someone made a proposal whose purpose was not clear. A second person
criticised the first person for this. A third person (me) referred to
the public guidelines for the use of this list. A fourth pe
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:30 AM Jonathan Fine wrote:
>
> Someone made a proposal whose purpose was not clear. A second person
> criticised the first person for this. A third person (me) referred to
> the public guidelines for the use of this list. A fourth person, in a
> new thread, accused the th
Someone made a proposal whose purpose was not clear. A second person
criticised the first person for this. A third person (me) referred to
the public guidelines for the use of this list. A fourth person, in a
new thread, accused the third person of hijacking the thread. The
third person (me) respon
On 11/03/2019 12:17, Jonathan Fine wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Some weeks ago, you started a discussion here about "Clearer
Communication". Here's another suggestion to help: don't expect your
readers to either guess, or infer from the code, what your proposal
means. As the Zen of Python says
Sorry about adding a few words here, i know you are all more 'advanced'
programmers than me.
I just wanted to ask the list to keep threads informative. Just today i
decided to take the bulls by the horn and read the add dictionaries by
using the + operator. Midway, i asked myself if i was getting
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 9:12 AM Christopher Barker
wrote:
> [...]
> Sorry — on a phone, kinda hard to check now.
>
A point of order: if you're away from a real keyboard/screen, maybe it's
better to wait. The conversation isn't real-time, and you don't win points
by answering first.
We could a
On 06/03/2019 18:12, Rhodri James wrote:
On 06/03/2019 17:43, Jonathan Fine wrote:
Indeed. Although off-topic, I think
{'a': 0, 'a': 1} == {'a': 1}
True
is much better than "This means that you can specify the same key
multiple times in the key/datum list, and the final dictionary’s value
fo
On 06/03/2019 17:43, Jonathan Fine wrote:
Indeed. Although off-topic, I think
{'a': 0, 'a': 1} == {'a': 1}
True
is much better than "This means that you can specify the same key
multiple times in the key/datum list, and the final dictionary’s value
for that key will be the last one given."
Chris Angelico wrote:
I'm not sure. How long will it take for people to agree on a meaning
for "trillion"?
About a trillion years, I estimate. :-)
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Stefan Behnel wrote:
So, does that mean we now need to hold our breath for 1.9 british trillion
years or 1.9 american trillion years?
Seeing as the time-to-red-giant is only about 5e9 years,
I don't think it matters much either way.
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On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Greg Ewing schrieb am 18.05.2018 um 10:05:
>> Ethan Furman wrote:
>>> How long before the earth stops rotating?
>>
>> Apparently about 1.9 trillion years.
>
> So, does that mean we now need to hold our breath for 1.9 british trillion
> years
Greg Ewing schrieb am 18.05.2018 um 10:05:
> Ethan Furman wrote:
>> How long before the earth stops rotating?
>
> Apparently about 1.9 trillion years.
So, does that mean we now need to hold our breath for 1.9 british trillion
years or 1.9 american trillion years?
Assuming you were referring to
Ethan Furman wrote:
How long before the earth stops rotating?
Apparently about 1.9 trillion years.
> When it does, will we be
> tide-locked with the sun, or will an earth day become an earth year?
Wikipedia says the main cause of the slowing is tidal effects
from the moon, so probably it wou
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 5:53 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 05/17/2018 12:13 PM, Tim Peters wrote:
>
>> Other things can cause the Earth's rotation to speed up temporarily
>> (like some major geological events), but they've only been able to
>> overcome factors acting to slow rotation for brief peri
On 05/17/2018 12:13 PM, Tim Peters wrote:
Other things can cause the Earth's rotation to speed up temporarily
(like some major geological events), but they've only been able to
overcome factors acting to slow rotation for brief periods, and never
yet got near to overcoming them by a full second.
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