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Currently omlx repo is down in github, As per Junot in the post comments: "My GitHub account got suspended right after the announcement, most likely by an automated false positive. I'm reaching out to GitHub through several channels and hopefully it gets resolved soon."
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Re:Ty: A fast Python type checker and LSP on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @09:11PM (#46297406)
Agree, we already had a solution documenting types in docstring.

In my case they just add noise when reading code and make it more difficult to review

Re:Ty: A fast Python type checker and LSP on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @08:19PM (#46297073)
Not quite, static typing is used at runtime, python type annotations are not
Re:Ty: A fast Python type checker and LSP on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @07:14PM (#46296578)
Is there any study that shows that typing in Python improves code quality and reduce runtime issues?
how does dark mode save the earth?
Why do you think there must be a dark mode version of HN?
Re:The Case Against Character Count Line Limits on Thursday April 03, 2025 @05:24AM (#43567068)
Code is not read like a book, so not clear how relevant is that argument.

In my case being able to read more significant lines in one go, clearly helps me navigate and understand code better.

And I let my IDE (Jetbrains) to the wrapping based on the actual width of the editor windows at any time, it works really well.

Re:The Future of Ionic's Commercial Products on Friday February 14, 2025 @06:08AM (#43047199)
Max Lynch, Ionic's founder comments about the announcement: https://bsky.app/profile/maxlynch.com/post/3lhyhwbsx6c26
Re:Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @12:43AM (#43022264)
Now it would be great if Apple allowed associating more than one country for my purchases to my apple id, i.e. based on having credit cards issued by banks in different countries. Seems that for Apple does not exist the concept of living between to countries (expats, dual citizens, etc)
Re:Poll: How many pages down do you review HN submissions? on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:53AM (#42849904)
I go back until I reach the ones I read before, not rare 1000 submissions back
Re:WordPress: Joost/Karim Fork on Friday January 10, 2025 @10:38PM (#42663090)
Indeed
Is there any study that shows any significant evidence of less bugs in python when using types?
Re:Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:17PM (#42314456)
Congratulations!

Any plan to support native iOS & Android? I will love to consider Liveview as an alternative to our Ionic+Capacitor setup

Nope, at least some of sites are current WP Engine ones.
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Re:Django-Cotton: Enabling Modern UI Composition in Django on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @02:35AM (#42049408)
You might want to check JinjaX: https://jinjax.scaletti.dev/
Re:Crises at Boeing and Intel Are a National Emergency on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @01:26AM (#41922079)
You said that because all the responsible of those two debacles are white men, don't you?

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Re:Ask HN: How are you bypassing YouTube anti-adblocker? on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @06:01PM (#38105930)
Nice try, Google!