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There’s a new dateutil release: 2.8.2, with bug fixes and updates to the built-in tzdata. This will likely be the last release that bundles tzdata (we plan to switch to the tzdata package).

Thanks to new maintainer @mariocj89@twitter.com for putting it together!

PyPI: pypi.org/project/python-dateut

Changelog: dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/sta

RT @Yhg1s
There's one thing more exciting to me about pyfound.blogspot.com/2021/07/u than the fact that we hired Łukasz, and that's the number of qualified candidates we got. We had a *very tough decision* because we could only hire one -- this time 'round. Fund @ThePSF so we can hire the rest!

Does anyone know of any culture that has a unique unambiguous gesture to say “thank you” ? We generally manage to convey it by nods and smiles and other context-dependent signals, but does some culture have a context-independent clear non-verbal way to convey thanks?

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I wanted to say “thank you” to someone using an emoji, and realized there’s no clear single emoji for that. In fact no clear real world non-verbal way to say it either. How weird that we created nods and shrugs and namastes and many others, but none for this very common thing humans want to express.

At my son’s preschool they made paper crowns to celebrate 4th of July and now I’m worried that I may have accidentally enrolled him in a Royalist school…

Another of my favorite podcasts is going "spotify only". Reminder, in case you support spotify, that they are terrible and are ruining the last widely used distributed part of the web.

anybody out there (within range of US domestic shipping) have use for a texas instruments t-nspire cx? student in your life who can't afford one? just want to hack on it?

this thing: education.ti.com/en/products/c

free to a good home. full disclosure: i hate this thing. have had for some years, pretty much like new since i've barely used it.

(boosts welcome.)

Bearded man in a Firefox t-shirt wearing latex gloves and eating ice cream: “Wow, how’d it get that name?”
Naturalist: 😐

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Foxglove beardtongue: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penstemo

Weirdly, there’s no “etymology” section where it explains that it got its name from someone desperately looking around the room and naming random objects that came into their vision.

I really need a way to find podcasts that are not put together for the purpose of building and maintaining an audience. Mostly this is amateur stuff, but professionally produced podcasts from universities and some non-profits also often fit the bill as well.

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There was a podcast ages ago called “Life of a Law Student” that doesn’t seem to be archived anywhere. It was just a dude who would say all the stuff he learned in each of his law school classes (eventually other people got on board). Low quality audio but fantastic content.

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I miss the days when podcasts were all unmonetizable works of art (like the “old web”).

As much as I like the improvements to production values, along with professionalization has come a sort of optimization for audience acquisition that drives all the worst parts of journalism.

The new, highly produced podcasts with engaging narratives of dubious truth value are so popular that they drown out (or worse crowd out) the niche mostly amateur content. Even if it’s all still there, I don’t know where to find it. ☹

We moved our chat room from the IRC network that seems to be set on getting rid of its users to Matrix: #k9mail:matrix.org.
The Matrix room is bridged to #k9mail on @liberachat; for those of you who still prefer IRC.

See you all there 👋

Not that there’s much action you can take as an end user of pandas other than getting your deployment pipeline in good enough shape that you can deploy the latest version of pandas on short notice.

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If the underlying problem isn’t fixed, the real problem is going to be when pytz transitions to using zoneinfo under the hood: github.com/stub42/pytz/issues/

Exacerbated by the fact that pytz bundles in the time zone data, so you may be stuck on old tzdata if you pin pytz!

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