Python (code, not cock) menz:
I’m working with a small team on something at work, and need to learn a bit of python. My company’s online training catalog doesn’t have it. Can you guys recommend a good tutorial or training site for it? Codeacademy, perhaps?
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11 tagsJennifer Lawrence talks about fixing government:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQij4aQq1k
Some of those stats are pretty sad. Especially the 30% passage rate. :( -
11 tagsUtterly fascinating read.
They've discovered fossils...from not only the DAY the asteroid hit and wiped out the dinosaurs, but from within *hours* of it hitting.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died -
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11 tagsShack audiophiles:
Get elucidated about digital signal processing with these two great videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWjdWCePgvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM
Then you can understand why audio formats above 44KHz are complete snake oil.
https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1105/0b42c641807bbcf24ba7f6e11af49f135e8f.pdf -
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11 tagsThis is a really interesting (and very long) history of the development of MS Windows:
https://www.filfre.net/2018/06/doing-windows-part-1-ms-dos-and-its-discontents/
On MS-DOS being hot garbage:
True to its post-quick-and-dirty moniker of the Microsoft Disk Operating System, most of its 27 function calls involved reading and writing to disks. Otherwise, it allowed programmers to read the keyboard and put text on the screen — and not much of anything else. If you wanted to show graphics or play sounds, or even just send something to the printer, the only way to do it was to manually manipulate the underlying hardware...
An example of how truly ridiculous things could get is provided by WordPerfect, the most popular business word processor from the mid-1980s on. WordPerfect Corporation maintained an entire staff of programmers whose sole job function was to devour the technical specifications and command protocols of each new printer that hit the market and write drivers for it. Their output took the form of an ever-growing pile of disks that had to be stuffed into every WordPerfect box, even though only one of them would be of any use to any given buyer. Meanwhile another department had to deal with the constant calls from customers who had purchased a printer for which they couldn’t find a driver on their extant mountain of disks, situations that could be remedied in the era before widespread telecommunications only by shipping off yet more disks. It made for one hell of a way to run a software business; at times the word processor itself could almost feel like an afterthought for WordPerfect Printer Drivers, Inc.
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11 tagsSuper High resolution pics of the moon landing
https://qz.com/1329999/outtakes-from-1969-moon-landing/
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11 tagsThought this was a pretty great video about H.P. Lovecraft
Outsiders: How To Adapt H.P. Lovecraft In the 21st Century
https://youtu.be/l8u8wZ0WvxI
He even got a great response from the director of the movie he speaks about in the comments.
https://twitter.com/Hbomberguy/status/1014896035578155009
who then links to a new, better quality version for free on youtube https://twitter.com/Hbomberguy/status/1014896763768107008
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