I really love Python, it has an easy to understand and write syntax, it
can get EVERY task done when used right and has a great community on
platforms like Reddit, Discord etc.
**
All the work every contributor, especially Guido and Mark Hammond has put
into this language over yea
Hellow rn,
rn writes:
> now that you posted it, readers may remember that there was the usenet
> feature in EMACS as
> well. Unlike ThunderBird, emacs/GNUs supports X-face, which is kinda
> nice.
>
> let’s see whether emacs will allow to post here.
Gnus is the best usenet/email client in the E
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:10 AM Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:43:12 +, Alister via Python-list wrote:
>
> > I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't
> > prove it.
>
> Heh, that reminds me of Stephen Pinker's comment from "Enlightenment Now":
>
>
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:43:12 +, Alister via Python-list wrote:
> I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't
> prove it.
Heh, that reminds me of Stephen Pinker's comment from "Enlightenment Now":
"one cannot reason that there's no such thing as reason"
but on the oth
On Sat, 19 May 2018 14:38:22 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I'm looking for anyone with experience using either Rebol or its more
> modern fork, Red.
>
> And yes, it is relevant to Python.
Never mind, the Timbot has answered my question on the Python-Ideas list,
so we're all good.
--
Steve
I'm looking for anyone with experience using either Rebol or its more
modern fork, Red.
And yes, it is relevant to Python.
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 1:35 AM, Steve D'Aprano
wrote:
> In the meantime, people can help by posting their own new threads. If you
> don't have a question to ask, you could always post an observation. What's
> the coolest feature of Python you use? Got some good stories of brilliant
> Python code
ed, and the mailing list administrators don't
moderate each and every message.
Besides, this forum does have a higher tolerance for off-topic discussions.
(At least collectively -- individuals, of course, vary in their tolerance to
off-topic discussion.)
The best we can do is ask people to ch
On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 08:31 am, Terry Reedy wrote:
[...]
> I refrained because it would be off-topic and a diversion from my point:
> all bigotry is inappropriate here on this list,
Indeed it is not appropriate. But calling out bigotry is not itself bigotry.
I hope you agree with that.
On 10/11/2016 09:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Completely off-topic, but too awesome not to share:
>
> The x86 assembly language "mov" instruction is Turing complete:
>
> https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf
And apparently someone has taken this an
Completely off-topic, but too awesome not to share:
The x86 assembly language "mov" instruction is Turing complete:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf
Abstract
It is well-known that the x86 instruction set is baroque, overcom-
plicated, and redundantly redundan
Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
It is actually quite interesting how the brain forms an accurate idea of
a straight line and, say, a circle. Whenever you get a new pair of
glasses, the brain needs a recalibration and manages to do it within a
week.
I had an interesting experience in that area a few years
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016, at 15:31, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> Light follows geodesics, not straight lines.
What is a straight line on a curved space if not a geodesic? That was
actually what I was getting at.
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 05:19 am, Random832 wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016, at 15:06, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
>> No, the horizon would still be horizontal. It merely wouldn't *look*
>> horizontal, an optical illusion.
>
> I guess that depends on your definition of what a horizon is - and what
> a straig
On 09/15/2016 12:19 PM, Random832 wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016, at 15:06, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
No, the horizon would still be horizontal. It merely wouldn't *look*
horizontal, an optical illusion.
I guess that depends on your definition of what a horizon is - and what
a straight line is, if
Random832 :
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016, at 15:06, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
>> No, the horizon would still be horizontal. It merely wouldn't *look*
>> horizontal, an optical illusion.
>
> I guess that depends on your definition of what a horizon is - and
> what a straight line is, if not the path followed
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016, at 15:06, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> No, the horizon would still be horizontal. It merely wouldn't *look*
> horizontal, an optical illusion.
I guess that depends on your definition of what a horizon is - and what
a straight line is, if not the path followed by a beam of light.
-
On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 04:02 pm, Random832 wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016, at 23:12, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
>> Yes it does. Even an infinitely large flat plane has a horizon almost
>> identical to the actual horizon.
>
> Your link actually doesn't support the latter claim, it goes into some
> detail o
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 4:41 AM, Steve D'Aprano
wrote:
>> Kanvas?
>
> Oh vorry about that, that'v a villy mivtake. I obsiouvly meant to type
> Kansav.
We're not in Kanvas any more, Toto!
ChrisA
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:45 pm, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-09-15, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 06:19 am, breamore...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> It is so blantantly obvious that the world is not flat I find this
>>> discussion flabbergasting.
>>
>> You wouldn't say that if you lived
On 2016-09-15, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 06:19 am, breamore...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> It is so blantantly obvious that the world is not flat I find this
>> discussion flabbergasting.
>
> You wouldn't say that if you lived in Kanvas, or the west coast of Ireland.
>
> I'm told that
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
And then there is Pratchett's Discworld... which is both flat and round
(just not spherical)
And it has a horizon -- if you go far enough you fall
off the edge.
--
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:04:26 -0700, Chris Kaynor wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:19 PM, wrote:
>
>> It is so blantantly obvious that the world is not flat I find this
>> discussion flabbergasting. Anybody who has tried to take any form of
>> vehicle up, or probably more dangerously down, any
istory Professors, one in
particular seemed to make it his life's purpose to say bad things about
religion/bible etc.
I should have known better than to get into such an off-topic quagmire.
Dale
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On Wed, Sep 14, 2016, at 23:12, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> Yes it does. Even an infinitely large flat plane has a horizon almost
> identical to the actual horizon.
Your link actually doesn't support the latter claim, it goes into some
detail on why it wouldn't if it were infinitely large due to
gravi
On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:44 am, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 1:26:49 PM UTC+12, Chris Kaynor wrote:
>> If you find somebody determined to not trust evidence such as the blue
>> marble photos, it can be quite hard to prove that the world is not flat.
>
> A flat wor
On Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 1:26:49 PM UTC+12, Chris Kaynor wrote:
> If you find somebody determined to not trust evidence such as the blue
> marble photos, it can be quite hard to prove that the world is not flat.
A flat world doesn’t have a horizon.
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On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:19 PM, wrote:
> It is so blantantly obvious that the world is not flat I find this
> discussion flabbergasting. Anybody who has tried to take any form of
> vehicle up, or probably more dangerously down, any form of hill knows
> that. As for the raving lunatics who make
On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 06:19 am, breamore...@gmail.com wrote:
> It is so blantantly obvious that the world is not flat I find this
> discussion flabbergasting.
You wouldn't say that if you lived in Kanvas, or the west coast of Ireland.
I'm told that a few years ago somebody accidentally dumped a tr
On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 03:43 am, Dale Marvin wrote:
> On 9/14/16 12:20 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Wednesday 14 September 2016 16:54, Rustom Mody wrote:
>>
>>> everything we know will be negated in 5-50-500 years
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that in 5, 50, 500 or even 5000 years, the sun will still
>>
On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 9:00:04 PM UTC+1, MRAB wrote:
> On 2016-09-14 18:43, Dale Marvin via Python-list wrote:
> > On 9/14/16 12:20 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 14 September 2016 16:54, Rustom Mody wrote:
> >>
> >>> everything we know will be negated in 5-50-500 years
>
On 2016-09-14 18:43, Dale Marvin via Python-list wrote:
On 9/14/16 12:20 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wednesday 14 September 2016 16:54, Rustom Mody wrote:
everything we know will be negated in 5-50-500 years
I'm pretty sure that in 5, 50, 500 or even 5000 years, the sun will still rise
in
On 9/14/16 12:20 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wednesday 14 September 2016 16:54, Rustom Mody wrote:
everything we know will be negated in 5-50-500 years
I'm pretty sure that in 5, 50, 500 or even 5000 years, the sun will still rise
in the east, water will be wet, fire will burn, dogs will ha
On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 6:54:39 PM UTC+12, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Yet we remain cocksure of our assumtions inspite of the repeated data
> that everything we know will be negated in 5-50-500 years
Let’s see, 500 years ago, people knew
* That the world is round, and how to measure its radi
On Wednesday 14 September 2016 16:54, Rustom Mody wrote:
> everything we know will be negated in 5-50-500 years
I'm pretty sure that in 5, 50, 500 or even 5000 years, the sun will still rise
in the east, water will be wet, fire will burn, dogs will have mammary glands
and frogs[1] won't, and t
On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 10:52:48 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> (Unlike *our* divine revelation, which is clearly the truth, the whole truth,
> and nothing but the truth, *their* divine revolution is illusion, error and
> lies. All of the gods are myth and superstition, except
On Monday 12 September 2016 12:26, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro
> wrote:
>> On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 1:11:39 PM UTC+12, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> I have some _extremely_ strong views about absolutes (they come from the
>>> Creator of the Un
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, 09:20 Steven D'Aprano, wrote:
> I'm not sure that partial is intended as an optimization. It may end up
> saving time by avoiding evaluating arguments, but that's not why it exists.
> It exists to enable the functional programming idiom of partial evaluation
> in a simpler, m
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:23 am, Sivan Greenberg wrote:
> 1. When is the use of functools.partial beneficial? When can it be a
> hindrance? Perhaps it can save on func argument evaluation time when
> creating many invocations for asycn exec?
I'm not sure that partial is intended as an optimization.
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:23 am, Sivan Greenberg wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> First apologies for the rather off topic but I grep'd over the existing
> mailing lists and couldn't find one that's suitable, at least judging by
> the titles.
Too many UNRELATED questions!
Hi All,
First apologies for the rather off topic but I grep'd over the existing
mailing lists and couldn't find one that's suitable, at least judging by
the titles.
My inquiry is both technical and social, first for the technical stuff:
1. When is the use of functools.partial b
On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 09:19 pm, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
>> As far as the reaction of matter and anti-matter, we've known for about a
>> century that mass and energy are related and freely convertible from one
>> to the other. That's the famous equation by Einstein: E = m*c**2. Even
>> tiny amounts of e
On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 18:02:04 -0500, William Ray Wing wrote:
>> On Mar 3, 2016, at 3:20 PM, alister wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:03:55 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, alister
>>> wrote:
On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:35:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 1
Gregory Ewing :
> Mass on its own is not a conserved quantity. The thing that's
> conserved is total energy.
Similarly, momentum is conserved.
Whether mass is conserved or not depends on the chosen terminology.
> As far as I know, there are no negative masses anywhere in any of our
> current th
alister wrote:
On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:03:55 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, alister
wrote:
Antimatter has positive mass.
Are you sure?
mix 1 atom of hydrogen + 1 of anti hydrogen & you end up with 0 mass
That's not because anti-hydrogen has negative mass, though.
> On Mar 3, 2016, at 3:20 PM, alister wrote:
>
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:03:55 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, alister
>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:35:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
1) No physical object can have negative mass.
2) I am a part of
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:20 PM, alister wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:03:55 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, alister
>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:35:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
1) No physical object can have negative mass.
2) I am a part of the
On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:03:55 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, alister
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:35:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> 1) No physical object can have negative mass.
>>> 2) I am a part of the universe and have positive mass.
>>> 3) I am not Kennet
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, alister wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:35:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> 1) No physical object can have negative mass.
>> 2) I am a part of the universe and have positive mass.
>> 3) I am not Kenneth.
>> 4) The sum of my mass and Kenneth's mass must exceed Ken
On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:35:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> We can be absolutely certain that Kenneth weighs less than the entire
>> universe. We don't even need a set of scales.
>
> Formal proof:
>
> 1) No physical object can have neg
On 03/03/2016 03:57, Rustom Mody wrote:
On Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 7:59:13 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 04:02 am, Rustom Mody wrote:
And how is [1]'s starting different from Kenneth's finding his weight
to be the weight of the universe?
Is that a trick question?
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 02:57 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:
> William Blake starts Auguries of Innocence with:
>
> To see a world in a grain of sand,
> And a heaven in a wild flower,
> Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
> And eternity in an hour.
>
> Reading the whole at http://www.artofeurope.com/bla
On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:29:43 +
Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 29/02/2016 22:40, Larry Martell wrote:
>> I think for the most part, the mental health industry is most
>> interested in pushing drugs and forcing people into some status quo.
> I am disgusted by your comments. I'll keep my original
On Mar 2, 2016 9:01 PM, "Rustom Mody" wrote:
>
> On Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 7:59:13 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 04:02 am, Rustom Mody wrote:
> >
> > > And how is [1]'s starting different from Kenneth's finding his weight
> > > to be the weight of the universe?
> >
On Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 7:59:13 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 04:02 am, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> > And how is [1]'s starting different from Kenneth's finding his weight
> > to be the weight of the universe?
>
> Is that a trick question?
>
> "How is a raven like a
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> We can be absolutely certain that Kenneth weighs less than the entire
> universe. We don't even need a set of scales.
Formal proof:
1) No physical object can have negative mass.
2) I am a part of the universe and have positive mass.
3) I a
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 04:02 am, Rustom Mody wrote:
> And how is [1]'s starting different from Kenneth's finding his weight
> to be the weight of the universe?
Is that a trick question?
"How is a raven like a writing desk?"
"Neither of them are made of cheese cake."
We can be absolutely certain t
On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 10:36:02 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 04:08 am, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> > And who is the last arbiter on that 'reality'?
>
> I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this is a genuine question, and
> not just an attempt to ask a rhetorica
On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 04:08 am, Rustom Mody wrote:
> And who is the last arbiter on that 'reality'?
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this is a genuine question, and
not just an attempt to ask a rhetorical question to demonstrate your
profundity.
You should not assume that there is any su
On 01.03.2016 13:13, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:38 am, Larry Martell wrote:
But what is reality?
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Just like that.
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:38 am, Larry Martell wrote:
> But what is reality?
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
--
Steven
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On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 4:39:12 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery from a
> MentalHealthError exception.
>
> http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-occurred
>
> Although the connection to Pyt
On 02/29/2016 04:35 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
The story reminded me of "A Beautiful Mind" by Sylvia Nasar, about
mathematician John Nash who suffered from mental illness in the
1970s-80's(?) but later recovered and won the Nobel Prize in economics.
The book is excellent and I recommend it if you fin
Ben Finney writes:
>> "All that he had learned" meaning his delusions and psychoses?
> Indeed. If a revelation is unconnected to reality, it's misleading to
> say that one has “learned” it
> When someone describes the ill effects their mental illness produced, I
> find it rather condescending
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence
wrote:
> On 29/02/2016 22:40, Larry Martell wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Ben Finney
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Rustom Mody writes:
>>>
>>> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> Ian Kelly writes:
On 29/02/2016 22:40, Larry Martell wrote:
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Rustom Mody writes:
On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
Ian Kelly writes:
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
I found this to be a very sa
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Rustom Mody writes:
>
>> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
>> > Ian Kelly writes:
>> >
>> > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
>> > > > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Ian Kelly writes:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell
>> wrote:
>> > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but I
>> > don't think they needed to drug him, and take all that he had
>> > learned away fr
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell
> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery from a
>>> MentalHealthError exception.
>>>
>>> http:/
On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 11:04:20 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> Rustom Mody writes:
>
> > On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> > > Ian Kelly writes:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> > > > > I found this to be a
Rustom Mody writes:
> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Ian Kelly writes:
> >
> > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> > > > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but I
> > > > don't think they needed to dr
On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> Ian Kelly writes:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> > > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but I
> > > don't think they needed to drug him, and take all that he had
>
Ian Kelly writes:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell
> wrote:
> > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but I
> > don't think they needed to drug him, and take all that he had
> > learned away from him and turn him back into what he was before.
>
> "All th
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery from a
>> MentalHealthError exception.
>>
>> http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-oc
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery from a
> MentalHealthError exception.
>
> http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-occurred
>
> Although the connection to Python is only quite sl
Yes, thank you for sharing.
Stories from people we know, or know of, leads to normalization:
mental illness is a routine illness like Type I diabetes or
appendicitis.
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 2:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery fr
On 02/27/2016 01:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Although the connection to Python is only quite slim, I found it fascinating
to read.
Thanks to you and Kenneth for sharing that.
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On 27/02/2016 09:37, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery from a
MentalHealthError exception.
http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-occurred
Although the connection to Python is only quite slim, I found it fascin
The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery from a
MentalHealthError exception.
http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-occurred
Although the connection to Python is only quite slim, I found it fascinating
to read.
--
Steven
--
https://mail
hur has be working on and promoting on his
'AI Mind' project for at least a decade, probably more. AFAIK, it has
been a few years since his last off-topic response like this. Arthur,
please promote you once-Forth, now Perl project elsewhere. Everyone
else, please don't respond furt
On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 11:56:53 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Completely off-topic. Stop reading now if you only want to read things about
> Python.
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:46 am, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > \ “Of course, everybody says they
esn't mean
it's not going to happen ever.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015, 01:05 Nick Sarbicki wrote:
> Well who would we fight if we were all friends with each other?
>
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:31 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> Completely off-topic. Stop reading now if you
On 08/28/2015 01:27 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> --
> \ “Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of |
> `\men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good |
> _o__) of everyone.” —John Maynard Keynes |
Now that is an interestin
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 04:35 pm, Nick Sarbicki wrote:
>
>> Well who would we fight if we were all friends with each other?
>
> According to the Nac Mac Feegle, there's always *someone* to fight. If not
> an enemy, there's always your friends,
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 04:35 pm, Nick Sarbicki wrote:
> Well who would we fight if we were all friends with each other?
According to the Nac Mac Feegle, there's always *someone* to fight. If not
an enemy, there's always your friends, family, inanimate objects, and if
all else fails, yourself.
"Criv
On 08/28/2015 11:24 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Would you rather be an powerful, armed war hero admired and feared by
your nation or a foresaken unemployed drunkard who rots in jail?
Marko
Time to quote the most famous general in the galaxy:
“Ohhh. Great warrior.Wars not make one great.” ;)
J
Ben Finney :
> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>> Many people over the ages have thought that if only war was more
>> terrible, we would stop making it. Alas, that appears to be false: no
>> matter how terrible war is, there is always someone who thinks that
>> it is better than peace.
>
> Those who bene
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> With the greatest of respect to Chomsky, I think he is simply wrong
> about Hitler. Hitler actually believed that war was good for the
> national character, and indeed good for the soul, and that long
> periods of peace would enfeeble a nation and make it decadent and
>
On Fri, 2015-08-28 at 06:35 +, Nick Sarbicki wrote:
> Well who would we fight if we were all friends with each other?
That's what Paintball is for.
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Well who would we fight if we were all friends with each other?
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:31 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Completely off-topic. Stop reading now if you only want to read things
> about
> Python.
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:46 am, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> >
Completely off-topic. Stop reading now if you only want to read things about
Python.
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:46 am, Ben Finney wrote:
> \ “Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for |
> `\ peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: what kind
Am 14-Aug-2015 03:00:05 +0200 schrieb torr...@gmail.com:
> But I digress. We get sidetracked rather easily around here.
You don't say. ;)
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However, if that only works due to importing it is not a solution. I
>> need to make sure I catch all try: blocks, the current stack is in
>> (and is about to step into).
>>
>> Ah yes, and it should work with Python 3 as well.
>
> Back to topic, please. :)
But we
On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 03:25 am, Rick Johnson wrote:
> On Sunday, July 19, 2015 at 4:18:31 AM UTC-5, Laura Creighton wrote:
>> And, despite Norway not being part of the EU, Scandinavia
>> is still in Europe.
>
> This is a bit off topic: But i don't consider Scandinavi
On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:13:25 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Deep in the brain, well underneath the level of modern languages and
> consciousness, there is a deeper "machine language" of the brain. If you
> can write instructions in this machine language, you can control
> people's brains. Back
alex23 wrote:
> On 24/12/2014 2:20 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> And even _with_ all the technical jibber-jabber, none of it explained
>> or justified the whole "writing a virus to infect the brain through
>> the optic nerve" thing which might just have well been magick and
>> witches.
>
> While I
On 24/12/2014 9:50 PM, alister wrote:
what feels like 3 or 4 chapters in & it is still trying to set the scene,
an exercise in stylish writing with very little content so far.
even early scifi written for magazines on a per word basis were not this
excessive (because if they were they would proba
On 24/12/2014 2:20 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
And even _with_ all the technical jibber-jabber, none of it explained
or justified the whole "writing a virus to infect the brain through
the optic nerve" thing which might just have well been magick and
witches.
While I love SNOW CRASH, I do think it
On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:20:10 +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2014-12-23, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
If I really didn't trust something, I'd go to AWS and spin up one of
their free-tier micro instances and
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2014-12-23, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
If I really didn't trust something, I'd go to AWS and spin up one of
their free-tier micro instances and run it there :-)
>>>
>>> How do yo
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