in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

I think in some ways the concept of "pythonic code" overlaps with functional programming (i.e. less loops, more comprehensions/generators, no manual counters) or "feels" similar (context managers somehow remind me things in lisp that wrap code and execute it in a specific way), however some things are outside the notion of "pythonic", like recursion.



woooo, new post on Ex Urbe!

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Cool. Stoicism is close to my heart, and expresses a lot of what I have discovered for myself.

But it definitely carries with it the danger of an interpretation where person A might tell person B that person A's actions were justified and person B's distress is entirely internal, therefore there is no reason for person A to change their behavior, B should just be better at accepting their fate.

We can do both. This is where I refer to the Serenity Prayer. It's one of the best pieces of Christianity, and it is pure Stoicism.

Grant me the wine to accept the things I cannot change,
The coffee to change the things I can,
And the shrooms to know the difference.

in reply to clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

Mother Goose had it centuries before Reinhold Niebuhr, apparently:

> For every ailment under the sun
> There is a remedy, or there is none;
> If there be one, try to find it;
> If there be none, never mind it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity…

(and of course various Stoics and Buddhists a millennium or two before her, but her version is pretty much exactly the Serenity Prayer in content, just with different phrasing)



For anyone #teaching #programming, this is excellent.

Ten quick tips for teaching programming


journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol…

Full citation:

Brown, Neil C. C., and Greg Wilson. “Ten Quick Tips for Teaching Programming.” PLOS Computational Biology 14, no. 4 (April 5, 2018): e1006023. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1…

#research #scientificComputing



Debian SnowCamp in Laveno 28 Feb / 3 Mar 2019


Just like last year, we are organizing a small DIY DebCamp in Laveno from Thursday 28 February to Sunday 3 March 2019.

A DIY DebCamp is chance to meet other debianites and work together, with no preset schedule other than what the participants themselves decide to have.

There is still room to register by adding yourself to the table on the debian wiki:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/it/2019/SnowCamp

See you in Laveno!


Debian SnowCamp in Laveno 28 Feb / 3 Mar 2019


Just like last year, we are organizing a small DIY DebCamp in Laveno from Thursday 28 February to Sunday 3 March 2019.

A DIY DebCamp is chance to meet other debianites and work together, with no preset schedule other than what the participants themselves decide to have.

There is still room to register by adding yourself to the table on the debian wiki:

wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/i…

See you in Laveno!



Become A Facebook-Free Business


This is an interesting initiative!

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Being a Facebook-Free Business means your customers can trust that you aren’t collaborators with the Facebook machine. That when you spend your money with a Facebook-Free Business, none of that money will find its way back to Facebook’s coffers.

The rules are pretty simple. Being Facebook Free means:

- We do not buy advertisement on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
- We do not use Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, or WhatsApp to promote or represent our business or to communicate with our customers.
- We do not assist Facebook in its data collection regime through use of Facebook social Like buttons or by offering Facebook logins.


m.signalvnoise.com/become-a-fa…

Thanks to @Debacle for the pointer!

#facebook #business #facebookfree

I'd like to send virtual chocolate¹ to all of the distribution maintainers who deal with toxic upstreams so that the users can get the software without having to deal with the toxicity themselves.

You are doing a great and *useful* job!

¹ if you're not in the mood for chocolate it will turn magically into whatever virtual comfort food you want

P.S. this is not restricted to any episode / project you may be thinking about.

Comfy clothing


Last autumn I followed the Otari Hoodie sew along using black cotton sweatshirting as the main body and leftovers of cat print cotton jersey as the lining.

I had enough sweatshirting for a matching skirt, with applied pockets, using the circle_fraction_skirt pattern (on my git repository.

I had pockets on the hoodie and the skirt, but they aren't very big (and knits aren't great at carrying weight), so I added zippers to both seams so that I can access my pockets, so that I can have the “privilege of not lending” my scissors :D

And then today was a great day to wear it while on the couch (not pictured: warm blanket, book)

I only need to be careful not to wear this while playing munchkin steampunk in case those things count as toy cats for the mousetrap level 2 monster (“+1 for each living or toy cat you can see in the room when this card is turned up”. I wouldn't see my own clothing (riiight?), but other players would, and I suspect that they wouldn't be happy :D )

It has finally happened!
I've been using valentina to draft #sewingPatterns for a while, using the upstream packages inside a virtual machine, and I can recommend it to other people who want to draft their own patterns from measurements (and not just because there are afaik no other free software alternatives).

I've been planning to try and package it for debian for a long time, but ended up spending my #sewing time on sewing-in-a-hurry instead of working on the tools, so I'm quite happy that somebody else had time to do it.

Yesterday I finally “released” version 0.2 of my veeery slowly developed collection manager lesana. Made a new package (not in a state fit for release) and installed it on my pc.

And then today I had an idea on how to implement a feature that I was having issues implementing…

(When I say “released” and 0.2 I really mean it: I've been using it for two years, and it's still not fit for human consumption)

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