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Guilty. And as we all know, people just love to vote for the guilty. Let's...
Guilty. And as we all know, people just love to vote for the guilty. Let's check what happening at election betting odds.
Effectiveness of efforts to do regime change -may be overstated, esp with...
Effectiveness of efforts to do regime change -may be overstated, esp with respect to psyops -may rely on conspiracy theories (that there is a secret group running the...
On one hand everyone says "Don't anthropomorphize the bots" & so we make bots &...
On one hand everyone says "Don't anthropomorphize the bots" & so we make bots & put in them in a situation where they can't tell if these should be answered like humans do or like...
**Unit tests**: tons of formalizations, tons of tools **Integration tests**:...
**Unit tests**: tons of formalizations, tons of tools **Integration tests**: ... uh you're on your own... maybe just never do any integration tests...
Re: masking at pycon The organizers knew their likely attendees, not everyone...
Re: masking at pycon The organizers knew their likely attendees, not everyone had an opinion, but the majority who did, were pro-mask & were vocal about it in advance of the...
Why "Self check-in" registration" when `registration.check_in(self)` was right...
Why "Self check-in" registration" when `registration.check_in(self)` was right there
I went to a openspace on DevEx (DX), esp in the context of work some idea the...
I went to a openspace on DevEx (DX), esp in the context of work some idea the attendees mentioned - a lot of social/organization issues-bosses' fault? - varies by context-startups...
IP law and AI & LLM. Mostly governed by copyright law.
IP law and AI & LLM. Mostly governed by copyright law.
keynote - We overestimate how many problems have already solved with tech -...
keynote - We overestimate how many problems have already solved with tech - Attempting to block chain assumes that there was tidy data to put in the block chain (eg. for countries...
Now for some AsyncIO. First let's get our ducks out of row.
Now for some AsyncIO. First let's get our ducks out of row.
next up is duckdb. Fits a role in between small data and huge data. pandas >...
next up is duckdb. Fits a role in between small data and huge data. pandas > duck db > distributed systems (spark etc)
Time to learn to use rust with python. from this guy
Time to learn to use rust with python. from this guy
You can use pyperf to get perf stats using what was learned doin perf...
You can use pyperf to get perf stats using what was learned doin perf benchmarking for the python runtime
- Pydantic and the `match` statement speaker - what will this do? audience:...
- Pydantic and the `match` statement speaker - what will this do? audience: mumble speaker - right! I'm getting annoyed.
Now for better error handling
Now for better error handling
I learned that pip can install from pyproject.toml. Or can it? `pip init`...
I learned that pip can install from pyproject.toml. Or can it? `pip init` doesn't do anything. So step one I have to google to figure out what pyproject.toml format pip can digest.
Putting my amateur philosopher hat on: The words "intelligence" and "conscious"...
Putting my amateur philosopher hat on: The words "intelligence" and "conscious" haven't been solved for humans. Applying these words in IT is going to be problematic. By analogy,...
Now for Simon Wilson, the man who stared down the Coding Horror, didn't blink...
Now for Simon Wilson, the man who stared down the Coding Horror, didn't blink and was still polite. It is keynote time.
profiling - There is a tool named `perf` that uses stackpointers (a feature of...
profiling - There is a tool named `perf` that uses stackpointers (a feature of 3.12) and features tangentially related to JITs (3.13) to allow native code profilers to tell you...
Now learning how to package native binaries with my python code
Now learning how to package native binaries with my python code
Next up is "dead code" at I use vulture and some decorators to mark what is...
Next up is "dead code" at I use vulture and some decorators to mark what is public, what do you all use?
Gotta catch up on mocking with at When I ask the bots to write unit tests, they...
Gotta catch up on mocking with at When I ask the bots to write unit tests, they use ALL the mocking libraries, The theme at the talk is mocking using `unittest` the built in way.
A github interaction I won't link to: **me**: this is broken on windows, here...
A github interaction I won't link to: **me**: this is broken on windows, here is a fix, explanation for why it is broken and a suggestion that you merge the github actions that...
Consumer boycotts, unless they're just right, (target a consumer oriented...
Consumer boycotts, unless they're just right, (target a consumer oriented company, e.g. the companies who buy lots of ads and PR) aren't a good lever. Yelling at Nabisco about sat...
Secret location of us-east-0, my own AWS data center.
Secret location of us-east-0, my own AWS data center.
One by one, US federal agencies are banning ChatGPT/LLMs from use. NARA, GSA,...
One by one, US federal agencies are banning ChatGPT/LLMs from use. NARA, GSA, EPA, DOE, VA, SSA, Ag, DHS, USAID, etc, etc
multi-pipeline builds.. 1 for artifacts, 1 for tests, 1 for docs. It isolates...
multi-pipeline builds.. 1 for artifacts, 1 for tests, 1 for docs. It isolates build artifacts from test & docs libraries for security. Seems like it should simplify build scripts...
Readme files for public libraries/apps have a format, roughly GNU Gnits & what...
Readme files for public libraries/apps have a format, roughly GNU Gnits & what evolved. So Title/Desc/Installing/Usage/Other Stuff/Maybe Credits/Changes/Links to more docs I keep...