Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

A central part of the "Free Hat" episode of South Park is the confusion between "free as in beer" and "free as in freedom". I'm curious, did anyone watch this episode in a language that makes a clear distinction between these? How was it translated? Did they add a gloss?

"Alexa, who lives in Buckingham Palace?"
"Buckingham Palace's resident is Prince Philip."

Just submitted another one and it's #923. 😬

Oh boy, my #PyCon proposal is number 734. Gonna be some stiff competition this year.

I was reminded of this when replying to someone else and I thought I'd post it separately, here's a 2015 blog post from @bderickson that I found very useful about how to generate LaTeX using Jinja2: http://eosrei.net/articles/2015/11/latex-templates-python-and-jinja2-generate-pdfs

@arkedos A fun little challenge there is that Jinja uses some of the same characters as LaTeX in its syntax, so I had to modify the grammar of Jinja's templates (it's easier than it sounds). There's a blog post on how to do it here: http://eosrei.net/articles/2015/11/latex-templates-python-and-jinja2-generate-pdfs

@arkedos I also love my TeX resume. I wrote a thing that takes resume content in as YAML and generates a TeX resume from it: https://github.com/pganssle/resume-tex

It probably took me more time to write than it will save me over a lifetime of manual resume edits, but it was still fun.

I'm really glad people were tweeting about getting their #PyCon proposals in, because I really let the deadline sneak up on me this year.

@pganssle One thing that concerns me is that there is no incentive for news outlets or researchers/universities to be careful in their reporting of science.

If it were up to me, nothing would be reported in the popular press without pre-registration and replication.

This paper from 1975 ominously foreshadows the replication crisis and detailing how to prevent it: https://faculty.washington.edu/agg/pdf/Gwald_PsychBull_1975.OCR.pdf

Interesting and somewhat depressing. The current generation of scientists is doing better by looking at incentives, but it's an uphill battle.

Been issuing <details> for a while now, but the <summary> tag is new to me, very nice!
https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/201912/fancy_console_output_in_github_comments.html

Movie idea: thieves find that the security software for their target doesn't handle DST correctly; if they can pull off a heist during the first 1AM-2AM period no one will notice. Climax has the protagonist sliding out of camera range just as the clock ticks from 1:59:59 to 1:00.