Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Ah yes, a banana is the perfect exemplar of the letter “C”, considering that they have so many carbohydrates!

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.

@gadgetbridge Bonus if I can wear it on my ankle or something so it doesn’t have to also be a good replacement for my Pebble Time😅

Does anyone have recommendations for the best #fitness / sleep tracker compatible with @gadgetbridge, or even just a decent one?

I’m getting jealous of all the data my wife is getting from her Apple Watch, but I’m not enthusiastic about using some cloud walled-garden service.