🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo why can't my code have newlines?

Does everyone use #Python's `object()` for unique tokens? Like:

```
no_match = object()

val = some_dict.get('key', no_match)

if val is not no_match:

do_something()
```

I don't know what else `object()` would be used for (and why they'd keep it).

social scientists trying to call learning "epigenetic" really need to stay in their own lane.
#science #genetics #socialscience

Has any study been done on the effect of student loan debt and whether undergraduates decide to continue to grad school or do research? When I think back, I almost certainly would have gone into a computational neuroscience research track if I didn't have debts worrying me or if I was as sure I could pay them off doing research as working professionally as a software engineer.
The particulars may be different for others, but I have a hunch others made similar choices. There are, undoubtedly, a number of other factors influencing decisions like that, but I'd submit that personal finances are bound to be a major one.
#studentloandebt #education #usa

Seems like #soylent (the meal replacement company) could have bought gov't ration bars, relabeled them, and upped the price. Ration bars actually don't taste that bad, and they get the job done for a meal replacement.

cool story. sometimes, you gotta go for what you want https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/02/08/moving-from-designer-to-developer-stack-overflow/
#careers #softwaredev #stackoverflow

can we not?
(hate the cold. one of these days, I'm moving to the tropics)

I remember this scene in "Waking Life" where a character says something like "text is unreadable in dreams" or "you can't read a clock in dreams". That's total B.S. -- I've done both of those things in my dreams multiple times.

#rotoscopedlies

It's good to encourage software citation. I wonder if folks are or will be using these styles of citation even when they know they exist. I know when I've needed to cite software before, I just made a @misc entry, put the software name in the title, version in the description (or note?) along with a URL. No one worried about it, least of all, me. Kinda hard to see the push or pull towards this format other than an individual, PI, funder, or publisher mandating it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQCeAj9yKM&feature=youtu.be

#software #softwarecitation #openresearch #opensource #latex #biblatex #softwareheritage

To calendar/schedule app makers: put 👏 timezones 👏 on 👏 your 👏 event 👏 times 👏

it's not that hard
#software #softwaredev #time #timezones #usability #l10n

I'm not sure what form it'll take but I think V2V chat apps will be a thing once (if?) fully autonomous passenger cars are widely deployed. I can't be the only person who's wanted to strike up a convo with surrounding drivers.
#5G #V2X

Clever extensions to the "two hard problems in CS" aphorism.
https://hackernoon.com/the-two-hard-problems-in-computer-science-2a42ec008eee