Hi, I'm James. Eternal dilettante and purveyor of nonsense, much of it about #Python or #physics. I work for a computer vision company whose customers actually care about results, so the current """AI""" craze is slowly melting my brain. I boost more than I post. TANSTAAFL
So I'm thinking that I'd like to try and attend #PyOhio, but it turns out that Cleaveland gets pretty lousy passenger train service, the only option from Boston would have me arriving at 4 AM 😭
It seems that this change also broke "Read With Kindle", I cannot get the book I wanted on my device after a good hour of waiting for sync to catch up.
@xgranade@glyph even in the specific context of PyCon US at that venue there's plenty of nuance. I didn't realize that the sheltered terrace on the rooftop had some access to power until I had already left, but dedicating some of that space to sprints or open spaces up there could be pretty awesome and definitely a compromise for the people who find masks annoying.
Most of the pushback I've seen has been from a crowd who just… seem upset that the rule exists. Haven't heard a lot of nuance.
Here's one thing I don't like about how software people write documentation:
If A is a type of X and B is a type of X, there's a preference to separate X into its own definition elsewhere (like deduplicating code by putting it in a function). But this means the explanation of A or B is incomplete, because you have to click to learn what X is. If X is a type of Y, now you have to click again to figure out Y. You just wanted to learn what B was, but now you have to learn everything.
Was chatting about #YokoKanno at dinner one PyCon evening (pretty sure with @davidism) and it struck me today (as my “anime OP/ED" playlist was playing) that we never brought up one of my favorite Kanno works, the #TurnAGundam soundtrack.
Especially the main theme, "Moon”, whose vocal performance is credited to one Gabriela Robin…eventually revealed to be a pseudonym of Kanno herself! Turns out she can compose /and/ sing (and how.)
@bitprophet yea, I'm familiar with the texture of "oh man that's a lot"
Turn A sounds good and 08th MS Team also seems like it would appeal to me. I saw some of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing many moons ago and enjoyed it, but I was very much in "wow cool robot" mode about it (not that the bits I saw had all that much to say about war or anything else)
@ehmatthes if it's for the sake of other developers, I would probably often put this in a CONTRIBUTING file or other dev docs. If a project had documentation dedicated to design summary/etc. that might also make sense.
@nedbat@ludob I sat in on a conversation where the talk came up, and one of the things mentioned was how delightful Ben's art is and what it added to the talk 😸
"To reach the cafe car, simply walk forward until you reach the cafe car. If you are unsure which direction on the train is forward, please look out the window, it is the direction the train is moving in"
If there's anyone else at #PyConUS I haven't bumped into (or haven't bumped into enough) I may be up for one last outdoor meal and/or drink in a little while, assuming any restaurants are open. HMU!
