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Re:Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:39AM (#18346611)
Are there? For python? People like python.
Re:Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @06:19PM (#18341751)
Why should there be something better? Just because you want it? Someone has to make it.
Re:IBM acquires Red Hat
on Sunday October 28, 2018 @05:04PM (#18323185)
Why are these things announced on Sunday? Microsoft acquiring Github was announced on Sunday too.
Re:Malicious Python libraries found and removed from PyPI
on Saturday October 27, 2018 @10:54AM (#18315938)
Things like diango don't really seem like they would target typos as much as malicious copy and paste targets.
Re:In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts
on Saturday October 27, 2018 @10:48AM (#18315905)
It's because they realise that they will die of old age before their own life is at risk so they'd rather continue their unsustainable lifestyle and let their children figure out how to pay the debt.
Re:Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released
on Thursday October 25, 2018 @09:53AM (#18300876)
I use i3 currently. I might remove the old nvidia card from my box and purge the nvidia drivers from my system. The Intel graphics will be good enough. I run Gentoo but I don't want my graphical stuff to be high maintenance. Can anyone comment on whether it's worth it to move to wayland/sway?
Re:Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the Dell XPS 13
on Thursday October 25, 2018 @08:36AM (#18300385)
I did this ten years ago and I've never looked back. When I see what Windows 10 is today I'm so glad I made the jump. Linux is easier to use than ever. It wasn't always this easy. I run Gentoo at home and everything just works and what's more is I understand why it works (well, mostly).
Re:Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave
on Thursday October 25, 2018 @06:13AM (#18299766)
No. This is a different thing. The problem is when people haven't coded their CSS correctly and assume default background is white and then set a non default foreground of black or something. Those sites will still break for dark themes even with this API.
In fact, if people actually understood the first C in CSS, this thing wouldn't even be necessary.
Re:Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave
on Thursday October 25, 2018 @04:27AM (#18299378)
Firefox has the option to set default colours based on your theme, so mine are set to dark colours. However, I find that many sites become unusable because they assumed the user defaults would be black text on white background. I use Stylus to override things which sometimes works but not always. Is there actually a way to fix this?
Re:Carbon Removal Technologies
on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:17AM (#18290852)
Stopping our reliance on animal products is the next big change for humanity. People will look back on these times like we look back on times of slavery and tyranny. Either that or we die.
Do yourself a big favour and learn HTML, CSS, Python, and then Django, strictly in that order.
Re:Automatic Differentiation with Julia
on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @08:48AM (#18282877)
Programmers might like it for no known reason and as such the preference might be arbitrary, but the choice for a language to reflect that preference is not.
Re:Automatic Differentiation with Julia
on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @07:25AM (#18282412)
> or any other kind of offset that you so desire
This is too often the attitude of Julia people. But zero-based indexing is not just some arbitrary offset. Programmers just like it. You say that many things are more intuitive with one-based indexing, but many things are less intuitive too. I don't think python ever would have become popular without zero-based indexing.
The thing is, we really don't know why people prefer certain types of language. All we know is that they do. Computer languages can't evolve gradually like natural languages, but if they could I really don't think we'd go to one-based indexing.