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So you are saying it _was_ an option and the editor just has bad taste
I feel like the guardian shouldn't be messing up the oxford comma like that.
Raymond Hettinger has a great talk about how much python's dict has improved over the years. So this is super interesting and will probably just make the builtin dict better eventually.

The lesson of the talk is that if you are idiomatic then you will benefit as the language improves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw4s1QTmPg

I always assume an app that uses an installer is hiding something from me.
this is just sales slop for their own product.
Re:Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs on Saturday June 27, 2026 @07:39PM (#48702890)
did they, like, not lose a million jobs tho?
Duplication is fine, triplication and above is the issue.
Re:The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @07:17PM (#47786620)
me waiting for the "the rise of posts analyzing the rise of the em-dash on hacker news" posts
It'd be nice if desktop safari was a column.
Re:New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @02:10PM (#47156277)
damnit, I just happen to like the look of the thing. now everyone thinks I'm AI for pausing in my thoughts as I write—as if I were human...
Re:Why aren't smart people happier? on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @05:49PM (#45829141)
I mean, have you looked outside lately?
because two colors of functions suuuuuuuuuuks to deal with
Is this the first AI hallucinated desire path?
I highly recommend Macross Plus for further research this topic: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2330912/
Re:Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model on Thursday April 24, 2025 @03:09PM (#43786324)
just to confirm I read this right, "the marathon crater" does not in fact exist, but this works because it seems like it should?
Re:Mac Numbers now supports LAMBDA functions and MAP on Friday April 04, 2025 @10:07AM (#43582623)
"Mac Numbers"
Re:Self-contained Python scripts with uv on Sunday March 30, 2025 @11:44AM (#43525038)
help get this supported in vscode by liking the issue here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/24916
Re:Better Shell History Search on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @09:06PM (#43477801)
I love fzf but no need to invent the wheel here if you are using zsh. check out one of these zle plugins. (Demo https://asciinema.org/a/155704)

I prefer these two, you get good performance, search that is semi-shell syntax aware, ranking that takes age somewhat into account, and syntax hilighting.

https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-wo... with https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin...

or the same thing but older, for those who like older things because they have an air of stability about them: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser on Thursday February 27, 2025 @11:33PM (#43201722)
I always read it as ⇧⌘?… because its help
Re:Television: Blazing fast general purpose fuzzy finder TUI on Thursday January 09, 2025 @09:23PM (#42651861)
what is the tl;dr on this vs fzf?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024) on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @07:20PM (#41715411)

  Location: SF or Remote
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: Back end web in Python + Kotlin
  Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/adamhitchcockresume
  Email: [email protected]
Hi I'm Adam and I've been doing python work for startups for a long while now. I'm looking for the next place I can make a big impact. I'm most interested in anything that is looking how to leverage AI for social good.
Re:Apple to support RCS messaging standard next year on Thursday November 16, 2023 @03:15PM (#38294844)
What is the over/under on RCS messages still being green?
i'd like to be free from being hit by cars. its not freedom if its killing other people
Possibly unpopular idea here, but I want cars to enforce a speed cap inside cities. They have all the relevant speed limit and GPS data. And hopefully this would stop those cars from going 45mph on my 20mph street.

ebikes already have this, why not cars?

going out on a limb here, but i _think_ there is already a really popular project named darwin, maybe for, like, SEO or something, a different name?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023) on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:54PM (#35782726)
hi I’m Adam!

I like to solve hard problems, speak at conferences, and bike with my kids in my free time. I would like to put my skills in Python, architecture, and team mentorship to good use while learning more about applied AI.

Unfortunately after shipping some awesome stuff at Discord my son developed Leukemia and required a stem cell transplant, after working during his medical treatment for a year and a half I was suffering from severe burnout and had to take some significant me time. I am now eager to get back to what I love, solving interesting problems.

Location: San Francisco

Remote: hybrid or remote

Willing to relocate: to specific cities

Technologies: python expert, rust novice

Résumé/CV: Sr/staff level engineer with a lot of safety experience at discord/brex/Reddit/disqus https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6ywytck2ryxjbnt/AAAGmxU_NMNCcKNhd...

Email: [email protected]

Reticulating Splines?
Re:Breaking up with Python on Thursday December 29, 2022 @04:34PM (#34178322)
python is terrible, but it's the best language we've got.
"how can twitter be truly unbiased in how we allow our most wealthy users to go 'death com 3' on all marginalized people and not just one small group of marginalized people"
does a mandalorian worry if another can wear their armor? no, its just for them.

giving up on the notion "others will use or collaborate with my scripts" was the single most productive thing i've done for my scripting.

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