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> or any phone for that matter.

I'm strapping phone to my arms during runs; for me, shaving off those extra grams count. Bought an Infinix specifically for this reason. I didn't specifically look for the thinnest but it came the the most lightweight.

__marvin_the__on Thinking in an array language

TIL of KlongPy (and Klong). Looking at the project page, I think it looks really cool.

https://pypi.org/project/klongpy/

__marvin_the__on How much can Duolingo teach us?

> Duolingo banked on the gamification, and that works really well. However, learning a language is only incidental.

Agree to a point. I used Duolingo as a stepping stone to studying Mandarin, up until I got bored and switched to YouTube videos. I got bored mainly due to repetition and not much new words per level.

Apparently in order to get me back, Duolingo kept on giving me push notifications about how I'm gonna lose my streak, or how I'm gonna fall behind in the leaderboard. No, Duolingo. I do not care about those.

__marvin_the__on Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?

I have personally never had a problem with activating a virtualenv and `pip install`-ing inside it. Most libraries nowadays also specify minimum versions for packages (e.g., >=3.6, <4.0).

__marvin_the__on Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?

> If they can find any fault in a question or answer they will take the opportunity to do so.

This has been my experience with learn language subreddits as well. I will give a one or two-sentence answer. Someone else will expound on that in the replies. If the reply was written in a snarky way, I get downvoted. That's just an invitation to not participate imo.

__marvin_the__on Modern Polars: A comparison of the Polars and Pandas dataframe libraries

Not the author but it seems that the site was made using Quarto [1] which uses pandoc [2] behind the scenes for producing the final output. The pandoc website suggests EPUB is possible.

[1] https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/authoring/text-editor.ht...

[2] https://pandoc.org/

__marvin_the__on Why I'm still using Python

Here's the link for Jetbrains survey results last year. There's web dev (django perhaps), dev ops and sys ad, education, and software testing.

https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-developers-survey-2021/

__marvin_the__on Ask HN: How do people find your blog?

> Is RSS still being used?

I am also curious. I've enjoyed Outlook 365 RSS reader for a long time but I just cancelled my subscription. Currently navigating through Thunderbird.

Related: [Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32191140)

__marvin_the__on New Text and Array Functions for Excel

In the latest (that I can find) Excel team's Reddit AMA [0], Python was not addressed at all.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/m22uc6/we_are_the_mic...

__marvin_the__on Ask HN: Are authors of “how to be great developer” blogs great developers?

This makes sense. Maybe over time, the community average will move up according to some arbitrary metric. But the benchmark of "being average" means it's relative to the community.

__marvin_the__on Performance comparison: counting words in Python, C/C++, Awk, Rust, and more

Python's `collections.Counter` is written in Python and is a subclass of the builtin `dict` type. I don't think it's comparable to something like using `pandas` to solve the problem.

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/collections/...

__marvin_the__on Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?

Chris Webb's BI blog (https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/feed/). Facebook Engineering and LinkedIn Engineering also support RSS.

__marvin_the__on My biggest mistake as an RPA developer

Love the acknowledgement for Stefan Schnell('s SAP Tracker). His SAP Blogs contributed a lot to my VBScripts.

I've always been averse to "low code, no code" solutions. Most of the problems that these seem to solve are mostly already addressed by programming tools. Even version control has GUI nowadays.

__marvin_the__on Where in EU would you relocate?

Lots of my peers are going to Malta. I wonder how is it.

__marvin_the__on How to write better scientific code in Python?

I just got reminded of this scene from Big Bang Theory.

Sheldon: laughing at his own joke Howard: I haven't seen him laugh that hard since the day Leonard made that multiplication error. Sheldon: laughing hysterically Oh. Oh, Lord! That multiplication error. He though he carried a 1. But he didn't! Leonard: It's not funny. That mistake got published. Sheldon: Stop! I'm gonna wet myself.

__marvin_the__on What do you really get from IDE-driven development?

Definitely this. I was a long time Notepad++ fan but immediately changed tune soon as I tried VS Code.

__marvin_the__on Why are young people having so little sex? (2018)

> He couldn’t escape the sense that hitting on someone in person had, in a short period of time, gone from normal behavior to borderline creepy.

As a Z-ennial, this was one of my confusions, growing up. I would read articles on dating that, in today's standards, I think would not hold up.