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mb5 commented on Python’s new t-strings davepeck.org/2025/04/11/p... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

tubthumper8 · 4 months ago

Do the python type checkers / linters / whatever have the ability to warn or error on calling certain functions? That would be nice to eventually enforce migration over to the newer functions that only take a t-string template

mb5 · 4 months ago

They sure do, e.g. https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/pandas-use-of-dot-is-null/

mb5 commented on All clocks are 30 seconds late victorpoughon.fr/all-cloc... · Posted by u/fouronnes3

dylan604 · 8 months ago

I've done a lot of work with hosts on various shows. One guy stood out more than others on being so natural on the vamp/stretch to fill the time. Starting at 5mins, we give one minute signals. Not once did it ever sound unnatural in trying to rush or filled with ums, uhs, or ahs. Others struggled with the rushing being most noticeable.

mb5 · 8 months ago

Jonathan Agnew has a similar story about the late, great Australian cricket commentator Richie Benaud, although filling ~52 seconds rather than 5 minutes.

https://youtu.be/FsmtFZQJbHU

mb5 commented on You've got to hide your myopia away: John Lennon's contact lenses onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d... · Posted by u/geox

BlueGh0st · a year ago

Toric lenses align themselves, the mark is for visual inspection by the doc while in the eye.

mb5 · a year ago

They do align themselves but, for me at least, it can take a little while. Aiming the mark downwards really speeds things up.

mb5 commented on lsix: Like "ls", but for images github.com/hackerb9/lsix... · Posted by u/gaws

aidenn0 · a year ago

The only direct dependency is imagemagick; the rest are pulled in by that; here's a breakdown:

Common build-time requirements:

- bash

- m4

- libtool

Image decoding libraries:

- libpng

- jbig2decjpeg-turbo

- libtiff

- openjpeg

- ghostscript

- giflib

- openexr

- webp

- jpeg-xl

- aom

- libde265

- x265

- libheif

- libraw

Image manipulation:

- imagemagick

- liblqr

- little-cms2

Font-rendering (needed to display vector formats):

- freetype

- fontconfig

General purpose and/or math libraries:

- glib

- libomp

- imath

- highway

This leaves the following:

- brotli : a compression library; I suspect some image format uses it.

- libidn : probably a deep dependency, command line tools ought not be doing domain-name lookups

- libvmaf : A video related library; probably a dependency of one of the video-codec based image libraries?

- shared-mime-info : figure out what file type a file is

- jasper : found a few possibilities for what this is; I don't use homebrew so don't know how to resolve a brew name to an OSS project

mb5 · a year ago

Nice breakdown.

I think jasper is this, a library for JPEG-2000 images: https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~frodo/jasper/

Linked to from here: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/jasper

mb5 commented on Koheesio: Nike's Python-based framework to build advanced data-pipelines github.com/Nike-Inc/kohee... · Posted by u/betacar

muspimerol · a year ago

I think this is a fair criticism. You chose to share this on hackernews, which invites feedback (including constructive criticism). I don't see the problem ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Do you expect people to only voice praise for open source projects?

mb5 · a year ago

Why do you think the poster is connected with the repo? I couldn’t see any link.

mb5 commented on Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape... · Posted by u/mellosouls

bbor · a year ago

I can’t wait until there’s warnings on stock market apps like cigarettes and lottery tickets. Well actually I guess there are no warnings on lotto tickets, probably for the exact same reason as why the government doesn’t protect people from being scammed by hedge funds with way more info than they have: the government needs that revenue.

mb5 · a year ago

CFD trading apps have this in the UK (and possibly EU, but I can’t see whether ESMA kept the rule):

“78% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.”

https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-confirms-perm...

Of course, there are a lot more ways to lose money than CFDs.

mb5 commented on Hackers threatening to publish a stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlist techcrunch.com/2024/04/18... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

cedws · a year ago

As I understand, in the finance world lists like this are considered classified because knowing you're on one, or the circumstances that put you on one could help you/others circumvent the measures. Fraud detection works like this - if you're under investigation, you won't know about it, you'll have some vague issue with your bank account.

mb5 · a year ago

This is where the article is insufficiently clear. Lists of people who are under investigation for fraud is definitely something banks keep quiet, for the reason you mentioned. But as a sibling comment says, sanctions lists are public, as are records of people convicted of relevant crimes in most (all?) jusrisdictions. So what kind of lists are these? Because the article's line about "individuals who were sanctioned as recently as this year" is hardly exciting - the UK sanctions list has people sanctioned today, 18 April.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-uk-sanctions-...

mb5 commented on Why it's taking so long for Americans to get payments instantly wsj.com/finance/banking/w... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

kelnos · 2 years ago

I don't think GDP is a reasonable proxy for value of bank deposits.

mb5 · 2 years ago

It isn’t, but I don’t think the parent comment is trying to use it like that - they’re going for “how many banks are needed to support an economy”. Otherwise deposits per bank or perhaps assets (loans etc) per bank would be much better choices.

mb5 commented on Met Police Scans Almost 250k Faces Using Facial Recognition Technology in 2023 bylinetimes.com/2023/11/1... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac

mb5 · 2 years ago

> the Met’s director of intelligence Lindsey Chiswick said that if there is not a match the image is not only immediately deleted, but is also pixelated

Which is it?