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Posts by matthewsnyder
tl;dr: There's a few ways to bypass this: For all users on the machine: Get rid of /usr/lib/python3.foo/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED. To prevent your package manager from adding it back, replace it with a...
I have a Python program like this: done = False while u and not done: i = u.pop() print(f"Processing {i}") do_big_task(i) finish_up() Since this takes a long time, the user m...
Beginner questions are not a "huge problem" for StackOverflow. They are the main reason SO got big at all. During what I would call its "peak", the joke going around was that the best documentation...
Much of this is already covered in various sources like https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html. Although there are issues with relying on links, I figure official documentation is probably fa...
A page is very slow and laggy in Firefox. I am certain it's one of the many Javascripts slowing it down. Out of curiosity, I'd like to figure out which script is creating the heaviest load. Note t...
tl;dr: When a question is unclear, don't close right away, especially if it's possible to discern what they are trying to ask. Instead, use comments and edit suggestions to work with the asker and ...
The reason this practice exists is because CIs suck. The frameworks/services themselves suck, and the way people write the configs also suck, and the two combine to create a mega-suck. A CI is sup...
Suppose someone has the requisite knowledge and skillset to contribute to a FOSS project, they have the free time to do so and they are aware of the project. Yet, they decide not to contribute. Thi...
In the last few months, AI has advanced considerably, notably in the area of generating images. We now have powerful models like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc. These are quite competent at generati...
We have special features/sections on Codidact, so maybe this is a nice use for them. What if we had a section named something like "clinic" or "case study" or "debugging"? (name suggestions welcom...
Closing questions should be a last resort. Closed question are wasted opportunities to get more interesting and useful content, and potentially wasted opportunities to gain a new contributing user....
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