working on my first pyside app. I am so so so slow at it. I feel like a programming toddler right now and I've been coding for like 18 years or something. GUI stuff just hits different.

There will be a time for doing more than this, but at the moment dissociation is all I can muster. Writing code is one of the ways I escape, and this week I started learning React and Next.js. I made a lot of progress, which is actually kind of a bad sign.

@trisha_gee ah ok yup. That makes sense. I missed that specific nuance!

@trisha_gee super interesting read! I definitely use AI as a tool to improve my productivity. I also question the AI responses and adjust things as needed, I suppose because I have been coding for a long time. I wonder if it's really that dire of a situation though, with junior programmers and AI - won't juniors still have to have to have their code reviewed, and won't they still need to figure out better ways to do things, whether that's with or without the use of AI?

@jogoodma this looks really cool! (eek I did not see this when you first replied) - I will def give this a try!!

They do a good job of explaining the sources and the nuances of the data they're including.

I'm a relatively new US citizen and voted in a federal election for the first time last week. I keep seeing news reports about record-breaking voter turnout and various voter turnout stats. But I was wondering about historical numbers at both the state and national levels. Turns out there's a site that provides a bunch of data: https://election.lab.ufl.edu/voter-turnout/

nevermind. #memray is happening NOW. memory-profiler was too slow for me (with the @ profile decorators)

wow, memory profiling in python is wild. only very partially know what I'm doing. So far just using memory-profiler. Memray looks v cool but seems a little bit beyond my skill level currently. Maybe next week? ;-) #python #pycharm #memoryprofiling

@eamon Another reason I think I tried it at first was because someone told me Spyder was similar to the Matlab IDE, so I was going for familiarity. But I really quickly switched over to Pycharm and haven't looked back. Which IDE do you use for Python?

@eamon really? I thought it was still pretty popular. But yeah I did see more of the tutorials and examples I was looking at were using pip/venv rather than conda. Wasn't sure if that was broadly true or just related to the types of things I was trying to learn/do.

@eamon yup. It was fine though - I did find it to be a very approachable way to get into Python, coming from Matlab/scientific programming. What made you switch?

Does anyone have recommendations on packages or approaches for time/memory profiling #Python code? I am looking at MemRay and cProfiler currently but pretty new to this. What has worked for you?

@eamon not sure if this is what you mean, but I use pip/virtual environments these days, after lots of years using conda. I haven't paid as much attention to managing versions/dependencies more broadly probably bc I haven't published/distributed any of my work very widely (although I'd like to get better at that!)

@eamon oh, the FOMO!

ok well. I guess I just needed a really long break due to a combination of life and US politics and world events being bonkers. I'm back. I'm ready to geek out on python things. (those other things are still all still ongoing, I'm just ready to maybe look at mastadon again?) HI

"The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Active Shooter Edition"

Published almost exactly 10 years ago these best practices are still valid and seems to be much more important than decade ago.

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https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/breakingnews-consumers-handbook
#️⃣ #media #OrangeIdiot #shooting

The bright spot around 9pm, between ~40-60 Hz - I'd have to look closer but if I had to guess I'd say could be blue whales.

Still tinkering with ocean data... This plot shows a day of recorded sound at Axial seamount, an active, underwater volcano sitting off the west coast of the US and Canada. The brighter band around 20 Hz is all fin whale calls! #OceanObservatoriesInitiative #OpenData #OceanData #marinemammals

@unicornCoder Thanks <3 Part of it is that, when it happens, I automatically think things like, oh well, they didn't mean it maliciously, or it was an honest mistake (both of which were probably true) but those small things add up. Also I regret that there were junior people in the room who were witnessing it - and specifically witnessing me not respond. That's the part I regret most.