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sharpshadow commented on A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut   science.nasa.gov/science-... · Posted by u/acossta
jacquesm · 8 days ago
Upward lightnings happen frequently enough, there is a guy called Tom Warner that has done pretty extensive research into this including high speed photography.
sharpshadow · 8 days ago
Here is his website[0] very cool stuff indeed.

0. https://ztresearch.blog/2014/07/03/unique-image-showing-ligh...

sharpshadow commented on PYX: The next step in Python packaging   astral.sh/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko
nilamo · 13 days ago
Pip is broken and has been for years, they're uninterested in fixing the search. Or even removing the search or replacing it with a message/link to the package index.

imo, if pip's preference is to ship broken functionality, then what is/is not shipped with pip is not meaningful.

sharpshadow · 12 days ago
Your comment gave me an flashback to when I started programming and drag and dropped downloaded python packages into the packages folder instead of installing them.
sharpshadow commented on Satellite Scanning   geoscaninc.com/default.as... · Posted by u/sharpshadow
_alternator_ · 18 days ago
Is this real? The website copy has some real red flags (“created by Scientists”) that make me think it’s bunk, like a rebranded dowsing rod.
sharpshadow · 18 days ago
There are other companies which offer a similar service GeoScan and Merlin Burrows but they don’t talk much about their technology. It has been shown to work though.

If somebody has more information about this topic, please share it.

sharpshadow commented on The internet wants to check your ID   newyorker.com/culture/inf... · Posted by u/jbegley
sharpshadow · 20 days ago
It’s really hard to imagine getting asked for an ID online and outside those mentioned countries not noticeable at all that something that fundamentally changed. It certainly affects the behaviour of the person if they showed their ID before and can easily be taken to responsibility. Would not even be surprised if they try to prosecute people who faked it to access online content.
sharpshadow commented on TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process   9to5mac.com/2025/08/05/ts... · Posted by u/mikece
bilbo0s · 21 days ago
Musk does seem to think in terms of how much money he can get from the government for his companies. But to be fair, government subsidies are a successful strategy for entrepreneurs who want to make a lot of money.

Maybe they shouldn't be? And I think honest people can have that debate.

But you can't really argue against the effectiveness of government subsidy as a path to prosperity for the guy getting the money.

sharpshadow · 21 days ago
It’s primarily in the government interest in subsidising, except when it’s a corrupted subsidy.
sharpshadow commented on Cellular Starlink expands to support IoT devices   me.pcmag.com/en/networkin... · Posted by u/teleforce
sharpshadow · 22 days ago
More scrap parts for Russian drones.

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sharpshadow commented on How Python grew from a language to a community   thenewstack.io/how-python... · Posted by u/lumpa
wirrbel · 22 days ago
this summarizes pretty well my first thoughts when reading the headline: "How python grew from a language to a community", because the Python community in 2000, the Python community in 2010, these are a different place to "whole world uses Python" in 2025.

Back then it felt like a bit of a club, one that forms around a common hobby. Nowadays it feels more like the "community" of a high-school graduation class. Sure there is community there, but its mostly one of folks randomly thrown together into classrooms.

Folks like Raymond Hettinger would today be totally drowned out in the listicle-style attention seeking times.

> in the web world

I would put that more broadly though, it was web, data-science, there was a point when it became the universal scripting language, and part of me kind of hoped that the crowd would move to nodejs for all of it, so that Python can become more peaceful again. But I guess there is no going back, we went from dinghi to cruise ship, and when the crowd leaves, it will just be a deserted cruise ship.

sharpshadow · 22 days ago
The folks at the German python forum were very friendly to beginners and even answered the ‘dumb’ questions back then. Don’t know how it is today.
sharpshadow commented on PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming   deprogrammaticaipsum.com/... · Posted by u/secstate
Zak · 22 days ago
The author makes a fair point that the language is no longer the fractal of bad design it was in 2009, but doesn't make the case for starting a green field project with it in 2025.

What does it do better than other languages? The article mentions features that sound like parity with other modern languages, but nothing that stands out.

sharpshadow · 22 days ago
Maybe it is a good base for vibe coding since there is a lot of code around?

u/sharpshadow

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