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Habitual Pythonist. Experienced Yak shaver.
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I'm going to try actually leaving this time #TwitterX

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@ijrussell TBH it's the non-coding interviews that I hate. "Tell me about a time when..." ... ugh. If I was good at improvising bullshit that makes me sound good I'd be applying for a sales role. At least in a coding interview I know how to code.

[Łukasz Langa @llanga]

Did you know that the backend of #MetaThreads is built with #Python 3.10?

It's running on Instagram's #Cinder fork that includes a JIT, lazy-loaded modules, pre-compiled static modules, and a bunch of other interesting tweaks against vanilla Python 3.10.

https://t.co/RiiGfQSLMJ

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@chrisalbon pyenv, can install that via homebrew

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all the worst tweets on my timeline have blue ticks

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"we asked ChatGPT to provide a joke a thousand times. We applied a predefined list of ten differently worded prompts..."
... with this methodology I think they were lucky to even get 25 distinct jokes, each prompt is going to have one most likely response. Doesn't tell us much

[Boyang "Albert" Li at ICML 2026 @AlbertBoyangLi]

https://t.co/BNgO3CQMTA A fun read. Over 90% of ChatGPT generated jokes were the same 25 Jokes. ChatGPT is also overfitted to a particular joke structure.

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@marquanimous https://t.co/XSMsUQkbC3

[Raymond Hettinger @raymondh]

#Python tip: It is easy to forget that zip() has a useful corner case with only one input iterable:

>>> list(zip('abc'))
[('a',), ('b',), ('c',)]

This is nicer than a list comprehension that builds 1-tuples:

>>> [(x,) for x in 'abc']
[('a',), ('b',), ('c',)]

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they appear to emit lines of coke though... amazing feature, though perhaps not the most convenient orientation

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And we call it... the Vision Pro #alteredstates

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"Speakers positioned close to your ears deliver rich Spatial Audio while keeping you aware of your surroundings." ...and annoying anyone else in the room

but there is no one else in the room, it's clearly a device only usable when alone

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@andrewingram TBH I was surprised about the speakers, assumed it would use air pods by default, or some new spatial air pods

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@andrewingram wow, and I thought I was getting some bad questions in interviews lately...

I think there must be a glut of good candidates around at the moment, that companies are relying more on these kind of, objectively-worthless, subjective tie-breakers - they don't know how else to decide

[Charlie Marsh @charliermarsh]

Interesting, I'd missed that Python gets a whole new generic syntax in 3.12 via the `type` statement. Looks very TypeScript-y.

I think Ruff should be able to do automatic upgrades to this new syntax.

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@_0x91_ Yes, it turns out the problem was between Alembic/Pysqlite
Workaround is here https://t.co/8wzhWuJKBI

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All of the innovative edge compute services using SQLite... how do you cope with db migrations in absence of transactional DDL? seems like a big mess waiting to happen (happening to me RN in low-stakes side-project)

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@Rainmaker1973 30% stronger gravity, not great for anyone watching their weight...

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will probably have to give this lib a go on a future project: https://t.co/mImTTH55BJ
(e.g. vs Pydantic)

[Simon Willison @simonw]

llm, ttok and strip-tags—CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs

I've been putting together a fun suite of CLI tools for working with the OpenAI APIs - here's what I've got so far:

https://t.co/p4RQBb4AOz