PyPI went online in late 2002, but easy_install wasn’t released until 2004.
Does anyone know how people installed stuff from PyPI before then? Did you download an sdist and unzip it manually?
I don’t even see a download link on this wayback snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20031101220800/http://www.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=docutils&version=0.3
Lately, I’ve been increasingly using Super + ↑↓→← to move my windows on a grid, but I’ve been frustrated by the lack of keyboard shortcuts to move them between monitors. Turns out you just need to do Shift + Super + ← / →:
You’ll know you’ve made it when you overhear this in a café:
“People were able to Photoshop teeth onto stuff in the past, this is nothing new! Heck, image editing has been around almost as long as images!”
“It’s a matter of scale! Kids today can see anything with human teeth!”
Northern Flicker at my feeder the other day.
These are beautiful birds — and they are even more colorful in flight, because they have yellow-shafted feathers and a yellow underside.
I’ve only seen them at my feeder twice, and they got scared off pretty quickly when they saw me both times.
Apparently this guy is watching his cholesterol — doesn’t want to eat any of these hard-boiled egg yolks…
In about three hours I'll present a few Python tips, and chat about my strange career, to a PyLadies meetup https://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-SWFL/events/274417833/ and you can swing by if you like
Apparently CVS Minute Clinics will do it, but not in CT or some other states. We may just go get it done in Massachusetts to minimize the fuss, as annoying as that is.
Would be nice to know why Minute Clinics have this rule in CT, so that I can (I assume) call the relevant legislator.
I can’t seem to find any way to get a flu shot for my 2 year old without going to a pediatrician (we don’t have a pediatrician in the area yet, since we recently moved). Pediatricians won’t give the shot unless you are a patient, CVS won’t do it, urgent care doesn’t do vaccines.
This seems less than advisable for a public health measure. I’d think that for something like preventing a kid from being a vector for a deadly disease, you’d want as little bureaucracy as possible. 😕
@Electronics Anyone have a suggestion on how to convert an LTSpice model to something that ngspice / oregano can handle?
I found a .asm / .asc schematic for the ULN2003 transistor array that I’d like to try out, but oregano doesn’t seem to have a way to import it.
I’m willing to try other circuit simulators as long as they have a reasonable GUI. I already tried Qucs and it seems to be worse in this regard (and buggy in general).
I would really love it if there were a cultural norm that science journalism aimed at the general public would not publish stories about anything until it’s accepted widely enough to be included in textbooks.
Instead, no one reads textbooks but they read the science section of the newspaper, which spouts out nonsense (and contradictory nonsense) that never gets any further scrutiny or coverage, and the public gets a horrible misunderstanding about both the nature of science and the nature of the universe. ☹
One thing I’ll note about this: it’s easy to think that I’m just talking about political news, but this 100% applies to “science journalism” as well. The scientific news cycle is so horribly broken (which I see as a major contributor to stuff like the reproducibility crisis), and I think a big part of the reason is that people have taken to following science happening “up to the minute”, and as a result the only things that get covered as news are early-phase research papers — and ones that give surprising results!
Both of these things make it much more likely that any conclusions drawn from them would be spurious!
This is one reason I am a fan of targeted advertising in principle — it should prevent people from polluting the information landscape.
In practice, I’m not convinced it works amazingly well, and the pursuit of it has done all kinds of damage to the information consumption and distribution architecture — plus it’s involved creating incredibly juicy targets for adversarial actors like governments.
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