I use this extension for Stylus on Firefox: https://github.com/pyxelr/hacker-news-bluish-gray
Readit Newsmpicker0 commented on Managing Python Versions with Pyenv thepythoncorner.com/posts... · Posted by u/EntICOnc
I always have different python versions on system level (`$ sudo apt install python3.7 python3.8 python3.9 python3.10`) and use virtualenv to manage versions for each project (`$ virtualenv env -p python3.9`), and that has served me well for years. Could someone tell me why pyenv is superior?
pyenv can compile Python versions that might not be available with "apt install" yet. And you can have multiple minor versions available (3.7.8 and 3.7.9, for instance), if you ever need it.
Such an amazing and well-maintained tool!!!
Anyone interested in sharing use-cases where it has helped you?
We have a product that depends on data received from external web services. We often want to test certain conditions in the data (specific results, error scenarios, etc), and it's difficult or impossible to guarantee these conditions when we call out to our external services. We use mitmproxy to intercept and manipulate the responses we get.
Even if we don't need to manipulate the data, it's a very useful tool for watching requests go back and forth.
mpicker0 commented on Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993) latimes.com/archives/la-x... · Posted by u/donohoe
I used FoxPro 2.6 back in the day. We used to ship machines to our clients, preloaded with our FoxPro application.
As computers got faster, passing the 300MHz mark, our application suddenly started crashing on startup. Apparently FoxPro tries to figure out how fast it can perform certain operations at startup time, and there's a divide-by-zero error on higher-powered machines. The machines literally got too fast!
An old discussion thread: http://computer-programming-forum.com/2-vfp/e6d3528c90cc45d2...
Not related to Tibetan musical notation, but the notation of Gregorian chant is also an interesting system and quite accessible (and probably interesting) to musically inclined modern students, self-taught or otherwise (the scale is movable).
See:
https://www.sanctamissa.org/en/music/gregorian-chant/choir/l...
Another style I enjoy is Byzantine chant, though I only recently realized it has its own notation:
mpicker0 commented on Samsung states that broken Galaxy Folds are due to user error techcrunch.com/2019/04/17... · Posted by u/manneshiva
The title of the article is "Samsung responds to reviewer complaints about its Galaxy Fold phone". The phrase "user error" appears nowhere in the article.
They do mention that some reviewers tried to remove the protective film over the screen but nothing in this article seems to be suggesting this is a "you're holding it wrong" reaction from Samsung.
mpicker0 commented on Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms bradfrost.com/blog/post/d... · Posted by u/octosphere
How about username/password fields that actually look like data entry fields? In the Delta example, the "fields" are indicated by a faint grey underline with placeholder prompts nearly as dark as the page text. I've seen this on multiple sites; I guess it's not fashionable to show "ugly" text entry boxes in the UI, but without them, it's hard to immediately recognize where I should click to enter my username.
mpicker0 commented on If Satan was a web developer imgur.com/gallery/qA4Bu?u... · Posted by u/napolux
Not pictured but also terrible:
Enter your phone number in these three separate fields. We may or may not automatically take you to the next field when you've entered enough digits in this one.
Enter your phone number in this specific format (which may be: with dashes, with dashes/parentheses, without any punctuation, some other crazy thing). We can't simply extract the numbers on our end; that's unbelievably difficult.
Pick your area code from this dropdown.
This looks very cool.
Do people actually manually write ASCII diagrams like that?
This is a great place to use Mermaid (https://github.com/knsv/mermaid)
I've used this for quick-and-dirty ASCII diagrams. They might need a bit of touching up to be usable with Spongedown.
http://asciiflow.com/
Makes me wish they'd start showing thumbs-down counts on videos again, maybe that would have some impact on the problem.