Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
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I don’t understand why the OpenAI people felt the need to make it so that ChatGPT can’t write children’s stories about tax loss harvesting, but I feel an immediate moral imperative to circumvent that restriction.
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@ehmatthes @carlton @CodenameTim For what it's worth, @pganssle has a talk on using xfail (and skip), but here's his blog post on the subject.
May prove helpful if you're wondering about which to use.
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@jugmac00 Those are not "builtins" as understood by `import builtins`, those are Python modules that are compiled into the interpreter binary. You can see if you import any of them that they don't define `__file__`.
They are compiled into the interpreter because they are needed at startup. We used to have fewer of them but they come in handy.
The ones with the underscore prefix are the low-level implementation accelerators for high-level libraries in Python.
Also in the market for 3D modelling programs, preferably FOSS, but definitely need to be Linux-compatible.
I was very good at AutoCAD and SolidWorks back in the day, but I’ve found FreeCAD very difficult to use for some reason.
Anyone have good #3dprinter recommendations? I’m not looking to spend too much on it. I suspect I won’t use it very much, and I’ll mostly use it for fabricating little disposable toys for my kids, and parts for small “maker” projects.
Has to work well with linux as I don’t have any other kind of computer.
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Earlier this year, I became aware of STANDARD EBOOKS, a donation-dependent group of edtiors and layout experts who have been doing the amazing work of taking out-of-copyright books, turning them into top-quality ebooks, and then releasing them for free.
Some of the books they've done are in the Internet Archive here:
https://archive.org/details/standardebooks
They're seeking 75 patrons in December to keep themselves afloat, consider donating to this amazing cause.
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tox 4 is now out; see the (potential) breaking changes https://tox.wiki/en/latest/faq.html#breaking-changes-in-tox-4 and new features https://tox.wiki/en/latest/faq.html#new-features-in-tox-4 😀 #python #oss
If you are thinking of submitting to PyCon 2023 and would like to see some examples of proposals that have been successful in the past, I maintain markdown files with all my previous conference proposals here: https://gitlab.com/pganssle/proposals
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It's not too late! #PyConUS 2023 Call for Proposals is still open for 1 more week. We are looking for speakers of all levels, backgrounds and areas of expertise so head to https://bit.ly/3z5ZQ1x and submit your proposal today!
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rc2 had some bugs that are now fixed https://tox.wiki/en/latest/changelog.html#v4-0-0rc3-2022-12-05; rc3 will become the stable release soon unless you report further bugs; this is your final call to arms!
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If you're writing a tutorial on managing Python dependencies for an application, be sure to add this line: "As soon as you pin one dependency, you must pin the entire dependency tree." So many people pin their direct dependencies, and then get confused why things are incompatible a few years later. #Python
On further consideration, I can imagine wanting to post generated answers in the likely event that the original service goes down, or as a cache, but that seems like it should be a very clearly different thing than a person writing an answer, marked as such, etc.
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Submitted a discussion group proposal for #NERDsummit 2023. New England tech folks, come join me!
I guess I understand why they want to be cautious about not making policies in a knee-jerk fashion, but I feel like “temporary” should be unnecessary here: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/421831/467366
Posting GPT answers on StackOverflow is like checking in generated code or something. If someone wanted a GPT answer they could ask GPT, no?
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The video of my tutorial on Bayesian Decision Analysis, from PyData Global 2022, is available now.
For links to the video, slides, and Jupyter notebook, start at https://allendowney.github.io/BayesianDecisionAnalysis/
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CPython bug: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/69121
someone could fix this! probably not super hard.
I learned again that I know nothing about network programming :-(
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Pleased to announce our son was born alive and healthy two weeks ago ❤️
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@pganssle you might have to save your profile after adding the links to the sites
Does it take a while for the little verification check marks to show up next to your website on your profile? Can’t tell if I did something wrong here, since I added rel=”me” links to ganssle.io and blog.ganssle.io, but my profile doesn’t have the check marks.
I thought maybe my instance doesn’t do it, but I found @true_mxp’s profile and that seems to have one via the same process…
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
