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The first way to use it is with any type annotation: you just use it for documentation.

# int annotation
def add_1_to_number(x: int) -> int:
    return x + 1

# callable annotation
def printer(x: int, func: Callable[[int], int]) -> None:
    results = func(x)
    print(f"Your results: {results}")

These type annotations can help document and make editors parse your code to make suggestions/auto-complete work better.

The second way to use it is by creating a callable. A callable is an abstract base class that requires you to implement the __call__ method. Your new callable can be called like any function.

class Greeter(Callable):

    def __init__(self, greeting: str):
        self.greeting = greeting

    def __call__(self, name: str):
        print(f"{self.greeting}, {name}")


say_hello = Greeter("Hello") # say_hello looks like a function
say_hello("jim")  # Hello, jim

This and the last episode were kind of weak, to be honest. I think both of them could have been combined. The pacing was a bit too slow compared to the rest of the season.

I feel the opposite. We should have mandatory voting for all federal general elections. Treat it like jury duty or taxes - voting is a civic duty. You should be compelled to cast a ballot even if you leave it blank because you have no preference.

Of course, this can only workwith automatic voter registration and 100% mail-in ballots.

Hah that last page was great. Loved how easy they gave up helping the baka couple.

I've said this before to other people, but over time, those tools eventually became what Airflow and other orchestration tools are: defining DAGs and running scripts.

When I was using SSIS, eventually, every task was a C# or PowerShell executor instead of using the built-in functionality. So glad for Airflow and other modern tools today.

Haha what a lovely chapter. Kind of fluff, but out of nowhere. I wonder what's going to happen at graduation? Will the series end?

I'm shocked.

Yep, this is the convention. Unfortunately, I've never been able to enforce it. Encouraging good git commit messages is probably the bottom of the things I can coach. I'd be happy if commits were properly squashed/rebased and that we all followed the same PR merge strategy.

Fairly substantial price increase. I will admit a major draw of this small truck was the affordability. I think some trims are up as much as $2k. Wonder what kind of effect this will have on demand and the order banks.

I mean, these trucks were on back order for a long time, which suggests that demand was way higher than supply. Yes, affordability was a major draw, but I'm not at all surprised at the price hikes here.

I'm hoping other manufacturers see this and come out with their own compact trucks. There are rumors Toyota is working on one, for instance.

Wow, 25 years! In 1998, dial up was the standard way to connect to the internet from Home, AOL 4.0 debuted, and it wouldn't be another six years until the Firefox browser was released.

Don’t be afraid to start something new. You never know where it might take you 25 years from now.

I love this quote!

I think if there were a bunch of certificates, especially ones I haven't heard of or a lot of low-level ones, I would suspect that you were using test dumps and trying to pad your resume.

I think if you had a cloud certificate and a respectable linux certificate, that would suffice as "enough". Any lab-based certificate is also more valuable than just a paper one.

In my opinion, no it's not worth it. A CCNA and the related family of Cisco certifications really trains you to be a network engineer or work in ops in general. The certificate is not very valuable for a dev or devops role in general. The material itself goes over topics that are less valuable like spanning tree protocol. And it doesn't much if anything beyond layer 4. DNS, load balancing, web protocols (HTTP, etc) are all more valuable topics to learn.

Now, the material that you're learning isn't wasteful, necessarily, but devops positions are not generally configuring routers and switches day-to-day, so I don't view this as something valuable for software engineers even in devops roles.

Some of the topics that I find valuable - general TCP/IP in general and some of the routing protocols (namely BGP is the big one) - but the other stuff just requires passing knowledge that it exists and not much else. I would pick up a networking book and go over the topics in there instead of configuring switches and vlans.