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indosauros··on Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500
They're not accounting for the Walmart Cloud Servers I run my business on
indosauros··on Fun with uv and PEP 723
What's going on is "we have 14 standards so we need to create a 15th" actually worked this time
indosauros··on Resolving the great undo-redo quandary
FYI if you use Jetbrains/PyCharm, it also provides this (and has saved me many times)

Just right click your file and view "Local History"

indosauros··on Jacksonpollock.org (2003)
Yes, visiting the 2003 version in the Wayback Machine prompts to download a swf
indosauros··on Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb
Is there a version of this that is annotated?

For example a few steps in are some niches on the wall -- I half expected a popup explaining their purpose

indosauros··on Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
Here's a gif of the second issue from the blog post, just reproduced on my client

https://i.imgur.com/X8FZJhi.gif

indosauros··on Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?
Any course UNSW has put up by Richard Buckland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpRRUQFbePU

So much enthusiasm -- I wish I had teachers like him at school.

indosauros··on Git 2.19.0 released
I do the exact same thing. I find WIP stash-per-branch very useful when I'm context switching often between feature branches. I've got two aliases set up for this -- `git wip` and `git popwip`:

  $ git config --global alias.wip
  !git add --all && git commit -am 'wip'

  $ git config --global alias.popwip
  !git log -1 --pretty=%B | grep -q '^wip$' && git reset HEAD^ || echo 'HEAD is not a wip commit'
indosauros··on Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment
It seems to me this product is mainly targeted at 1) new customers, and 2) AE Flex customers wanting to switch to Standard.

The third category (Existing 2.7 Standard customers wanting to just upgrade to 3.7 -- which is me unfortunately) are going to be disappointed and stuck in a hard place, I think.

indosauros··on Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment
> At this time, the original App Engine-only APIs are not available in Second Generation runtimes, including Python 3.7.

This means that if you already have a significant app running on Appengine Standard, none of the built-in APIs are supported (memcache, images, search, task queues, email, etc). That's a significant blocker to anyone wanting to upgrade their existing Standard 2.7 app to 3.7.

indosauros··on Hire a former SoundClouder
Discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14711461
indosauros··on Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
Also soon, Python: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0512/
indosauros··on 0.30000000000000004
It also matters whether you're using Python 2 or 3. This is one of the things they changed in 3:

    >>> print(0.1 + 0.2)
    0.30000000000000004
indosauros··on PEP 0448 – Additional Unpacking Generalizations

    >>> L(*stuff, 'a', 'b')
    SyntaxError: only named arguments may follow *expression

    >>> L(*stuff, *stuff)
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
indosauros··on Guido van Rossum: The Theory of Type Hinting for Python 3.5
Not likely anymore: http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2014/08/python-4000.h...