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prometheon1··on Guido van Rossum on his favorite Python IDE [video]
Short summary:

His main opinion is: Use whichever one you prefer. Guido himself went vi -> emacs -> vscode.

Interesting quote:

"To me, VS Code is in a sense the spiritual successor of Emacs"

prometheon1··on Fairphone 5
What is so unsustainable about bluetooth? It has been around for quite a few years. They even offer headphones with replaceable battery and parts which should last at least as long as the phone: https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds-xl
prometheon1··on Asyncio, twisted, tornado, gevent walk into a bar
I'm not sure whether this was your intention, but I think you are in full agreement with the article.
prometheon1··on "About 67k” sites are banned from submission on HN, the list is kept secret
HN is a forum, but also a valuable information resource. If it were easy to delete your historical comments, a lot of that information would be lost. If you make a contribution to a Wikipedia page, do you expect to be able to delete it?

I know HN is not Wikipedia, but it is also not like Facebook, in the sense that one can actually learn useful things on HN.

prometheon1··on Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans
Search was broken for me a week ago, but it suddenly worked a few days ago.
prometheon1··on Kagi raises $670k
Can lenses be shared with other users? And is there some kind of shared repository for them where we could crowdsource for example a lens with the urls of all Python docs of popular packages?
prometheon1··on Baseball-sized hail destroys Scottsbluff solar farm
Interesting that this is the top comment right now.

My initial reaction is more along the lines of: "What?! Baseball-sized hail?! Can we still let our children play outside?!"

prometheon1··on An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac
Not sure if it's the exact same app, but this one works as well:

https://github.com/artginzburg/MiddleClick-Ventura

prometheon1··on Thoughts on Svelte(Kit), one year and 3B requests later
I think sametmax was saying that "everybody" is using React for usecases that Django could do long ago, and that Svelte is in the "gaining traction" category.

On indeed.com I get 311 Django jobs and 3421 React jobs so in that sense it looks like "everybody" moved from Django to React.

prometheon1··on JupyterLab 4.0
Do you have an example of how this works with another tool/language?

I don't know if I understood it correctly but maybe you could:

- Upload your notebook to Github, then create a url with Binder (part of the jupyter ecosystem) directly to an editing/fiddling playground: https://mybinder.org/

- If by user-local you mean on their own machine, they can clone your repo and run their own jupyterlab to fiddle

- If everything should stay on your own computer/server, you could share a link to your own jupyterlab and collaborate with others in real-time: https://jupyterlab-realtime-collaboration.readthedocs.io/en/... (doing this securely might be a bit of a hassle)

prometheon1··on JupyterLab 4.0
Cufflinks seems to be stale, maybe it is not needed anymore to bind plotly and pandas? I don't think these options existed in 2021 when cufflinks was last updated:

- Plotly can be used directly as pandas backend: https://plotly.com/python/pandas-backend/

- The plotly.express module makes it easy to create interactive plots in html/js format from pandas dataframes: https://plotly.com/python/plotly-express/#gallery

prometheon1··on JupyterLab 4.0
You're right, thanks!
prometheon1··on JupyterLab 4.0
> I get an analysis that I like, but there isn't a good way to share it with others, so I end up just taking screenshots.

What would be your preferable way of sharing your analysis with others?

- You can turn jupyter notebooks into pdfs directly in the jupyter UI.

- You can upload them to Gitlab/Github and share the link to the rendered result.

- You can upload them to Colab/Binder/Kaggle and let people play with the code themselves.

- You can turn jupyter notebooks into beautiful websites/documents with: https://quarto.org/docs/tools/jupyter-lab.html

- You can add jupyter notebooks to you docs using nbsphinx: https://nbsphinx.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.1/

- You can turn jupyter notebooks into interactive web apps with voila: https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila

- You can turn jupyter notebooks into presentations with rise: https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila

prometheon1··on Let's Talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter and Microsoft Copilot
Codium and Codeium are different products
prometheon1··on Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline
There is something similar to a central repository at https://filmot.com/
prometheon1··on xkcd: Escape Speed
You found a lot more than me! Mine are:

-a cool bug

-a pretty leaf

-a rock with neat stripes

-a friendly jumping spider

-a hot dog

-a normal-sized apple

EDIT: ok this was fun:

- The Long Now Foundation's archive of every Animorphs book

- a broken smoke machine

- a first of its kind

- two Andalites, one canonical

- a friend

- baby shoes (and baby)

- a baby hedgehog

- a tiny pteranodon

- a piece of coronium (iron)

- a hydrogen ion

- a piece of pumice

- a sparkling gem

- some tin from the pantai remis mine

- a whale shark

- the Principality of Sealand

- some microbial life

prometheon1··on AI clones teen girl’s voice in $1M kidnapping scam: ‘I’ve got your daughter’
I cloned my friend's voice a few weeks ago using Tortoise-TTS using 20 seconds of audio and Google Colab: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts

Other friends said it sounded really like him.

prometheon1··on GNOME 44
Just to give another perspective, this interaction is a bit earlier in the same thread and seems very reasonable:

>@Federico: you are a gtk/gnome developer, is it? Then, can you start to make this enhancement? Thank you in advance.

>I am, but I don't have time to work on this. It's not a simple feature. I'll gladly mentor someone who wants to implement it, though.

He goes on to actually provide tips on how it could be implemented.

prometheon1··on Microsoft Edge sets Yandex as default search engine in Moldova
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Ru...
prometheon1··on Show HN: Ichido, search engine that tags sites using Google and Cloudflare
Ability to block/boost domains as seen in the following link:

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-features

I only know about it because it pops up often on hn. Haven't tried it because at this point I don't want to pay $10 per month for search.

prometheon1··on Ask HN: Which book would you recommend for learning Python in detail?
I think this is a challenge for you, to figure out the answer to the questions. You will need to google some things and do some experimentation with complex Python code, but when you figure out the answers you will know quite a bit about the internals of Python.
prometheon1··on Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewer notifications
By making the metric the goal, it could be that the underlying assumptions change. Maybe previously all time spent on Facebook was "positive" time where the user feels engaged and is interested in ads. After adding dumb notifications. The time spent might become partially "positive" and partially "negative", where the user feels abused and might hate the ads. Is the metric still the goal then?
prometheon1··on Amazon rescinding the offer while I am on the notice period
I don’t think that not rescinding an already made offer and “hiring indefinitely” are the same thing
prometheon1··on What's Great about Julia?
What about R?
prometheon1··on From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server
Sorry, no idea
prometheon1··on From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server
I had issues getting it to stream directly to my TV. It wasn't easy to find but what solved it for me was changing the DLNA profile settings like this example: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-docs/issues/233
prometheon1··on Show HN: Feep! search, an independent search engine for programmers
If I know I want something from docs rather than SO, I open devdocs.io instead of a search engine. It's not a perfect solution but maybe it helps you as well.
prometheon1··on Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs
One of the main reasons for this is research funding and regulation by the European Union. Something similar is probably going to happen with hydrogen production over the next years. (Not as fuel for cars but for industry)
prometheon1··on Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, recovery email
> that many times

If you're already logged into Chrome and logged into your phone, it might take a few years before you get to "many times"

prometheon1··on Zoho became a $1B company without external investment
A small non-profit that I'm part of uses Zoho mail. In my opinion it is comparable to other webmail services like Gmail, Fastmail, and better than Outlook webmail. It's especially cool that using your own domain is free.

I haven't tried any other of their products.

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