Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@kevin Disappointed in the sense that you would not have started if you knew it would end that way or just in the sense that you wanted more seasons?

@andrewblasco El concepto ya existe, se llama estivación: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estivaci%C3%B3n

No sé el verbo en español, en inglés es "to aestivate". Supongo que sería "estivar", aunque "estibar" también existe y es otra cosa.

New framework model ships "December". I do not want to go a whole month without a computer... Hopefully I can maybe get my ThinkPad working, but the "charging" light doesn't even turn on when I plug it in, which I think is a very bad sign.

@webology Hah, yeah I need a laptop, I already have a pile of desktops.

@graves501 Sorry I forgot to respond to this.

The biggest degradations have been the unread count capping out at 99 and subfolders collapsed by default: https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/9882

I am going to try fairmail, I heard it handles replying from catch alls, which never was in K9 but was a huge missing feature for me.

I guess now is also the time to think about stuff that is built to run LLMs locally?

This is a pretty interesting article about Quaker use of *thee* and *thou*: https://www.friendsjournal.org/2007098/

I knew about the general phenomenon and the justification, but I didn't realize that it had come full circle with some Quakers using thee as an informal register 😅

Also a culture war with proxy battles fought over pronouns sounds familiar 😂

I also really prefer to use informal forms in Japanese, and that is an intermediate case between Spanish and English. In Japanese everyone grows up fluently using informal forms so it's not nearly as weird, but I get the impression that if you use informal forms with bank tellers and waiters people will think something is off (though I haven't spent enough time in Japan to know exactly how this plays out).

@treyhunner Oh and timeanddate.com has a ton of this stuff, they might already have what you want somewhere.

@treyhunner Some of that stuff is probably not super easy to get. The mapping between location and zone is also probably surprisingly difficult given that that is almost certainly the best UX for users picking a time zone.

Here is an old Jupyter notebook I put together that makes a map of all zones: https://github.com/pganssle-talks/pycon-us-2019-timezones/blob/master/make_china_map.ipynb

The mapping to the legacy zone thing won't have a canonical way to do it because that is not a defined thing, but there are like 4 of those so you can just do it yourself probably.

Not sure how to get the generic label in zones where it exists. Might be something in CLDR.

Lots of stuff in this general space on this page: https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html

@konstin @hugovk @emmatyping Also, even without ever doing a "make clean" on CPython, for a project that active, if you work on stuff every few weeks or months the chances that your first build will be slow go up by a lot.

@konstin @hugovk @emmatyping I haven't written much Rust in a long time (I don't write nearly as much code in my free time as I used to, not that I soured on the language), so I cant say if things have changed much. I do remember incremental builds being reasonably fast.

That said, while fast incremental builds are an *absolute must* (because basically everyone iterates), slow fresh builds are still a problem because they're hugely discouraging for drive-by contributions (plus if we don't get pre-built binaries for non-Windows platforms, stuff like `pyenv` will be way more annoying).

@hugovk @emmatyping It's nice but building all of CPython on a local machine takes like 2 minutes, my experience with Rust is that it does NOT compile that quickly.