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granitosauruson New ThinkPad Guts Bring Intel Core I, DDR4, USB 3 to Cult Laptops

Don't forget IPS screen that you can get off ebay for $50! The biggest upgrade I've done to my x220. I think you can even get FHD moded IPS somehow, but it looked like a bit of work last time I checked.

granitosauruson The Incredible Growth of Python

You have to give props to Python Foundation and just python's community in general - very well managed on both sides. PEP proposals and the general pythons philosophy is still going strong while new major changes are being introduced in every version without breaking stuff.

As someone who has been contributing to python q&a websites and such for quite a while now, I feel like I'm starting to have trouble of keeping up - a lot of new newcommers but even more people willing to help!

I'd be really be surprised to see Python on a decline any time soon.

granitosauruson Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai

Did you really compare this to racial _genocides_?

Maybe men are slightly better at something and maybe women are slightly better at other things - why is this an issue? Clearly the difference is not remotelly big enough to be impactful since we see men and women work in every profession. Average worker skill is pretty low so this "genetic advantage" would only really matter at top 0.1% of professionals.

e.g. women are worse at some sports like Tennis, but to most people it will never matter since only few people play at that level where genetics can give you an edge.

granitosauruson CouchDB 2.1.0

My favorite explanation: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15184612/3737009 They are very different things and Couchbase is just misleading since it doesn't have much to do with original CouchDB at all and in general the consensus seem to be that CDB is better than CB but CB is just being heavily marketed.

granitosauruson DHL pilot alleges poor labor practices that are spreading throughout industry

Meaningless post, the only concrete example is:

> For example, my colleagues and I have been asked to sit on 14-hour flights from the UW to the Middle East, only to then fly the same aircraft to Asia on another nine-hour journey

Which is a lot to __ask__ for. Wasn't the company willing to pay overtime wages? I'm not a pilot, but to me it sounds like that's a pretty much unavoidable issue in the industry and the pilots are compensated heavily for this overtime, aren't they?

granitosauruson Web Scraping Finds Price Fluctuation

Increasing price before a sale is actually illegal in pretty much every first world country. AFAIK the time gap between price increase and a sale has to be around 1 month in EU.