Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #058 | Luck Rewards Patience

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My SO is interested in learning Python because she hopes it becomes useful in her work. She works with ArcGIS and/or QGIS and apparently it supports Python scripting so she's thinking about giving it a go.

She has no programming background so I was hoping you friends could suggest something for absolute beginners that would teach her both the Python and programming basics. It doesn't have to be very comprehensive, just something to get her started.

She has managed to get some scripts working through copy/pasting and minor adjustments but she lacks the foundations to really build a script of her own.

Thanks a lot!!

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I experimented with several ways to run my services:

1. "regular" systemd services (services.glance = { ... };)
2. nix containers (containers.glance = { ... };)
3. podman containers (virtualisation.oci-containers.containers.glance = { ... })

and I must say I'm starting to appreciate the last option (the least nixos-y) more and more.

Specifically, I appreciate that:

• I just have to learn the app/container configuration, instead of also backwards-translating from their config into the various nixos options (of course the .yaml or whatever configuration files are still generated from my nixos config, I just do that in a derivation instead on relying on a module doing it for me)
• Services are sometimes outdated in nixpks (even in unstable - and juggling packages between stable and unstable is yet another complication)
• I feel like it's more secure (very arguable and also of very little consequence since everything is on my homelab... it's mainly for the warm fuzzies)

Do you guys use one of the options above? Something different?

It's time to say goodbye.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22574276

If there was one reason I liked coding in Java, it'd be AssertJ and its brilliant extensibility.

The image is an example of it from bjForth

The ability to create custom assertions makes the test code concise and read naturally.

Until when Donald Trump takes office.

CHIPS Act helps with $18.2 million in direct funding and $50 million in federal and state tax credits.

Hello C++ folks, i read this article about interoperability of those languages and wonder what is your opinion about interoperability initiatives.

Do you think it's a good opportunity to acquire Rust libraries and promote use of Cpp ones to a larger audience?

Or instead you think it's a crab conspiracy to promote RIIR (Rewrite It In Rust) strategy?

Thanks in advance

It won’t be fast, but it’ll exist, and that might be enough for now.

Aiming for a capacity of 370,000 wafer starts per mont by 2027.

Hello everyone,

I am a developer with 3+ years of experience with full stack technology so mostly .Net and React along with some side projects in other languages. I wanted to ask if anyone has had any luck moving from high-end projects, to lower end projects(C++). I've become extremely interested in lower level projects like, embedded programming, firmware, drivers, compatibility layers but I don't have any professional experience in those fields.

I understand that projects like these are high priority so they are less interested in taking a risk for a Dev without professional experience in C, C++, or Rust, even if they liked the candidate. I just wanted some insight

I posted this project here before, but it's now reached 1.0.0.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/21827898

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Command dl opus to download highest quality audio as or into an opus file through yt-dlp.

Add to config.nu:

# Download highest quality Opus audio as/into .opus file
def "dl opus" [url: string] {
    yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-quality 0 --audio-format opus $"($url)"
}

Usage:

dl opus <url>

I have set up dl as an alias for yt-dlp via alias dl = yt-dlp. The def above adds an overlaying sub-command.