Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

To be fair, it was jumping around between "way too high" and a mostly accurate number.

Probably there is a software solution to this when I get a chance to hack on it.

Hmm... Not enthused about the accuracy of my #PineTime's heart rate monitor...

And it's not like you're going to get tons of daylight after work or anything. The sun will go down at 17:30 instead of 16:30, but if you have a 45 minute commute and want to get to work at 8:30, you'll have to be out the door at 7:45, 30 minutes before the sun comes up.

Here's the Sun Graph for New York City: https://timeanddate.com/sun/usa/new-york

Notice how the DST transition keeps sunrise relatively constant? That's actually a decent feature, particularly for people like me (and people with young children) who tend to get up with the sun.

And they'd need to tell you when those hours start and end. In practice it would be a random mishmash of DST transitions on a per-service basis.

Civil time is a coordination game, so "leave time alone and just get up later" is more complicated than you think.

Imagine how it would look if everyone kept acting the same way we do now but the clocks don't change. Everyone would need to post summer hours!

For the record I actually have come to like DST transitions (particularly in the era of computers where every device I have sets its own clock), but I'd also be fine with having no DST.

I am not a fan of permanent DST.

@brettsky@mastodon.technology It will be interesting to see if any of these transition into being PyPI packages, and whether they will use the same name. Might be a good test run for trying out a process for moving a module out of stdlib and onto PyPI.

@brettsky@mastodon.technology The final list of modules to be removed looks pretty uncontroversial to me.

Oh wow, the SC accepted the latest version of PEP 594, "Removing the dead batteries from the standard library" a few days ago!
https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-594-take-2-removing-dead-batteries-from-the-standard-library/13508/22?u=pganssle

https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/

Congratulations @ChristianHeimes@twitter.com and @brettsky@mastodon.technology, and everyone who worked hard on this!

#Python

Foods I wish I liked earlier: sushi, spicy food, onions, fake sugar, asparagus, avocado.

Foods I wish I liked more: mango, tomatoes, peppers, chocolate, less-sweet versions of food I already like.

What foods that you like now do you wish you had liked earlier in your life?

Are there any foods that you don't like but wish you did?

I doubt I was ever successful at this, and I probably slowly ate gummy bears out of a briefcase for several weeks or months until I had a briefcase.

I'm still kind of sad that I lost the briefcase. I'm glad I have some photographic evidence that this caper occurred.

Back when I was in college trying to be self-consciously weird, I went out and bought a briefcase and filled it with gummy bears.

My plan was to try to make someone curious enough to surreptitiously open the briefcase, only exacerbating their curiosity and driving them mad.

@cryptoxic I usually use pipx for things where it's basically an implementation detail that it's written in Python. `isort`, `black`, `virtualenv`, `build`, `tox` and any of those sorts of command line tools could be written in any language and be just as useful, but `pipx` is a convenient way to install them (`virtualenv` is a bit of a weird one in that respect because it defaults to using the Python it's installed with as the runner).

That said, each of my projects has coding standards to be enforced, and I want to enforce those irrespective of what is installed in any global system (e.g. on CI, or on a random contributor's computer), so that stuff all goes into `tox`.

I use `virtualenv` to create an isolated environment in which to either install libraries to play around with or to execute little scripts that have some dependencies.

@cnx At the end of the day I might end up buying a FitBit or some other "high end" fitness tracker with way more sensors and just deal with the privacy / control issues.

I'm starting to re-consider whether my privacy and control focus is really worth it since opsec is *really hard* and I'm protecting against a long tail risk and mostly not a concrete harm anyway. 🤷

@cnx @lupyuen It was only $40 shipped so I just bought it. It doesn't have everything on my wish list but worst case scenario I gave some money to a company that's at least trying to do what I want 😛

AFAICT the big thing it doesn't have that my Pebble has is sleep tracking, but the Pebble is just using the accelerometer (not even HR monitoring), so I suspect higher-quality sleep tracking is possible with just software upgrades. Though I don't know that I'll have time to actually *implement* that…