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nedbat, to python
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Are you sure you know how decorators work? This should be no problem! 😈 🤯 🤓

sovietfish,
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@feudjais @nedbat I haven't looked it up (so cave canem) but I suspect that .__doc__ pulls out the docstring from the class. In less pathological examples docstrings are usually much longer descriptions of the class (or other thing, e.g. function) the code defines. E.g. in my experience I have seen many more classes documented with multi-line strings beginning and ending in """ (tripled double quotes alone on a line) rather than this string syntax

brainwane, to random
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My friend made https://amtrack.live/ and it's neat!

If you take Amtrak and want info on train status/delays, it's annoying that the official Amtrak website is slow to load & doesn't have train status perma-URLs to bookmark/share. https://railrat.net/ is pretty good but has ads. amtrack.live is faster & has no ads.

sovietfish,
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@brainwane the high-octane train nerdery content I COME to this website for! Thank you!

treyhunner, to random
@treyhunner@mastodon.social avatar

friends who aren't attending the auction: come play Cabo with me tonight. I'd to teach you!

After the lightning talks, I plan to quickly eat tacos at Condados and then hang out in the Westin lobby and play Cabo. I won't be up too late though. See you tonight!

sovietfish,
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@treyhunner @mathsppblog I can bring you one; I picked up one at local Pittsburgh legend Center for Creative Reuse with the intention of leaving it in the Green Room as a diversion. More the better that someone actually wants it!

sovietfish,
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@treyhunner works for me! I'll wait for you by registration with a green mask & long straight brown hair

nedbat, to random
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A first for me I think: no one I know waiting to board the flight to .

sovietfish,
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@nedbat evidently pycon began on the Pennsylvanian this year

cstross, to random
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I can't help thinking that we'd be in a better place as a society if we assigned a notional value of, for example, 1 human lifetime per ten million dollars lost through financial crimes, and punished white collar criminals who cause >= $10M in damage as if they'd committed the corresponding number of murders.

(Lower the valuation if you want: $10M is plausibly a working lifetime’s earnings for a very well-paid professional. I went high because I'd rather err on the side of mercy.)

sovietfish,
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@cstross I disagree because it seems like the thrust of the argument is retributive justice. I would like to see people who ruin untold numbers of lives through high-budget crimes be actually prevented from reclaiming a position of prominence, rather than revenge. I think the latter prospect only feels good to consider because both are unreachable.

Sheril, to random
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With the new vaccine approved, a reminder that we’re all indebted to the ancient & wondrous horseshoe crab.

Their blue blood contains Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) which clumps at contact with bacterial toxins. They are caught for their blood to test sterility of medical equipment & injections.

Unfortunately the harvest is unsustainable & populations are in decline. An effective synthetic substitute has been around for 2 decades & we just need the biomedical industry to switch.

sovietfish,
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@Sheril are there petitions or other calls to action for folks who see this and are moved by the issue?

bibliotecaria, to ai
@bibliotecaria@blacktwitter.io avatar

OMG! I just don't even know what to even say about this nonsense: "As lawmakers worldwide attempt to understand how to regulate rapidly advancing technologies, Microsoft chief economist Michael Schwarz told attendees of the World Economic Forum Growth Summit today that 'we shouldn't regulate AI until we see some meaningful harm that is actually happening, not imaginary scenarios.'"

There are folks who have laid out harms already happening!!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/meaningful-harm-from-ai-necessary-before-regulation-says-microsoft-exec/


sovietfish,
@sovietfish@todon.eu avatar

@misc @bibliotecaria good question, and one I'd love to hear answers to. Perhaps if anyone would like to try their hand at portmanteau?

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