Tweets for the Week of 2019-06-23 to 2019-06-29

@kevpluck @waiterich Hah, I was going to post basically the same link: https://t.co/2mDLcFcw1b in reply to kevpluck 10:35:15, 2019-06-29
And maybe not coincidentally, it seems like the folks who want us not to deal with climate change have decided to b… https://t.co/fHKaC46hzG 10:22:44, 2019-06-28
@CHThiem @StdBikeRepair *shudder* in reply to CHThiem 01:31:32, 2019-06-28
@AlexSteffen I am *extremely* skeptical that an additional $0.30/gallon (Canadian cents, no less) resulted in a 15%… https://t.co/BIBp1TYLpA in reply to AlexSteffen 18:07:26, 2019-06-27
@cmgosnell @bryanlbowen I'm going to start eating broccoli for dessert. in reply to cmgosnell 18:04:43, 2019-06-27
Temporal discounting strikes again! https://t.co/EEwhIJTROv 14:32:28, 2019-06-27
@ericmbudd I think it's probably a hard task to try and win a domestic election with openly globalist economic poli… https://t.co/lKFzMbDOGq in reply to ericmbudd 12:22:56, 2019-06-27
@FlorianWilhelm @CatalystCoop @PyScaffold But the primary output is the data packages, which can then be used by wh… https://t.co/uD1SxnRq14 in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:20:09, 2019-06-27
@FlorianWilhelm @CatalystCoop @PyScaffold It's a specific data processing pipeline, for public data about the US en… https://t.co/TpGgrs9mQG in reply to FlorianWilhelm 12:18:20, 2019-06-27
@FlorianWilhelm @CatalystCoop @PyScaffold How important do you think it is to ensure code works on older versions o… https://t.co/BddZms61zC in reply to FlorianWilhelm 11:47:54, 2019-06-27
After today's SCOTUS rulings, I want to know where candidates stand on increasing the number of justices. 10:39:37, 2019-06-27
Burn the filibuster to the ground. https://t.co/b1VSeY7kmW 10:30:10, 2019-06-27
@bryanlbowen But… that's a very low bar. The total emissions of everyone who lives in Boulder is probably at leas… https://t.co/nWcqF1uRNV in reply to bryanlbowen 10:24:42, 2019-06-27
@FlorianWilhelm @CatalystCoop @PyScaffold @thecarpentries @gvwilson And also here: https://t.co/N3QG3B1rRh
Not rea… https://t.co/fr5z5ES6IV in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:09:24, 2019-06-27
@FlorianWilhelm @CatalystCoop @PyScaffold When we set up the repo, we tried to follow the best/good enough practice… https://t.co/OGBZLep3gW in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:07:24, 2019-06-27
@FlorianWilhelm @CatalystCoop @PyScaffold But I don't even know what the difference is between bdist, sdist, and wh… https://t.co/Weaqu3KNvK in reply to FlorianWilhelm 00:01:34, 2019-06-27
@FlorianWilhelm @CatalystCoop @PyScaffold It looks great! Though I note that in the section where you mention setup… https://t.co/6E3cyBTRcC in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:20:40, 2019-06-26
@ossronny If I actually felt like I understood how this stuff works I would happily make a PR on the docs, but I am… https://t.co/KKtvbXzngh in reply to ossronny 23:16:27, 2019-06-26
Glad *someone* is saying it. McConnell needs to go down in flames. https://t.co/7yR5djYvi7 23:15:08, 2019-06-26
@FlorianWilhelm @CatalystCoop @PyScaffold Nope, did not come across it in my searching, but will take a look. in reply to FlorianWilhelm 23:01:31, 2019-06-26
@ossronny I think the file finding / inclusion functionality at least merits it's own heading, and maybe a link to… https://t.co/vKR0HHH2L7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:59:41, 2019-06-26
@ossronny *clearly* an improvement, but I'm still confused as to why the version generation/tracking (which is of c… https://t.co/5GaF6alrWu in reply to ossronny 22:56:47, 2019-06-26
@ossronny @ionelmc And as someone simultaneously struggling through the overlapping manifest, find_packages(), pack… https://t.co/HIQjTA3SNg in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:47:41, 2019-06-26
@ossronny @ionelmc It was especially painful because the *main* think I was struggling with at the time was correct… https://t.co/k6tXjtUaAG in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:45:01, 2019-06-26
@ossronny @ionelmc "It also handles file finders for the supported SCMs." is… not enough. Not only does it handle… https://t.co/0er6eopBUe in reply to ossronny 22:43:05, 2019-06-26
@ericmbudd Did anybody bring up nuking the filibuster and making DC & PR states? 21:25:21, 2019-06-26
@ericmbudd Oh dear god it's two nights because this is only half of them. Why. in reply to ericmbudd 21:01:10, 2019-06-26
Well then, good thing it can cost or save us however many dollars per year we want it to with the appropriate choic… https://t.co/sMYkKbBTSa 20:56:39, 2019-06-26
@ericmbudd It's unclear whether any of them actually use the site tbh in reply to ericmbudd 20:49:19, 2019-06-26
@andyschult But they're so small. in reply to andyschult 20:48:39, 2019-06-26
@ericmbudd Seems like that part might last a while. Maybe until next November. in reply to ericmbudd 20:45:32, 2019-06-26
@ionelmc The goal of making sure that every single file in the distributed package is under source control, and com… https://t.co/oqUK0Wmoy6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:25:59, 2019-06-26
@ionelmc This seemed like a gigantic and unwanted side-effect of trying to single-source the version to the version… https://t.co/b7rD7MbOfg in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:19:49, 2019-06-26
@ionelmc The main thing that I found shocking in retrospect and spent hours trying to debug was the inclusion of *t… https://t.co/J5sDHkeu83 in reply to ionelmc 14:17:41, 2019-06-26
@ericmbudd Though I'm sure if they counted consumption based emissions the growing wealth would blow up total emiss… https://t.co/y9a6GC8q4n in reply to ericmbudd 13:59:07, 2019-06-26
@ericmbudd Yeah. Talk about a bad set of incentives… in reply to ericmbudd 13:57:27, 2019-06-26
@ericmbudd OTOH: https://t.co/RbiZqPyE5v in reply to ericmbudd 13:56:58, 2019-06-26
@ericmbudd https://t.co/zBXti1Je4d in reply to ericmbudd 13:54:35, 2019-06-26
Interesting thread on political implications of urbanization. I don't share the hopeful ending, in part because of… https://t.co/bYlnwanM6F 11:30:15, 2019-06-26
Is there any generally accepted tool or pattern for automatically and parsimoniously regenerating all those depende… https://t.co/4ZfDDTNQnm in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:07, 2019-06-26
The one aspect of all this that still feel super janky is dependency & environment management. I have my conda envi… https://t.co/gZzlzuMIar in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:06, 2019-06-26
I didn't go *all* the way down the automation rabbit hole, to (for instance) automatically generating my tox.ini fi… https://t.co/zmnmzumCyM in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:06, 2019-06-26
The documentation — even to the point of feeling like a scorn for documentation — from setuptools_scm is so bad I… https://t.co/qTEvECUu39 in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:05, 2019-06-26
Another tool, which is useful but *horribly* undocumented, is setuptools_scm, which allows your version control sys… https://t.co/DV2yq4XeRR in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:05, 2019-06-26
And a full (nearly null) example library that uses that template: https://t.co/9L1pmEWlMg in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:04, 2019-06-26
Here he provides a regularly updated repository template that implements his "best practices" for automating python… https://t.co/qLvE6CnVIh in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:03, 2019-06-26
He's also got posted some presentations on the topic of packaging from EuroPython: https://t.co/K4nmp0VQKs in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:03, 2019-06-26
And this followup post is a kind of FAQ looking at common pitfalls, their root causes, and how to avoid them: https://t.co/r7ACcFEsAA in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:03, 2019-06-26
This blog post provides an overview of the whole Python packaging process. I wish I'd seen it before we set up our… https://t.co/XsvV2trrFl in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:02, 2019-06-26
So anyway, many of the best resources I came across, and ended up using, are from @ionelmc. I'm sure there are (man… https://t.co/2SZkCfTCT7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:02, 2019-06-26
So while it's poorly designed for current uses (owing to its early origins and the different context of that time),… https://t.co/7QqmADZt0J in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:01, 2019-06-26
How did it get this way, and why hasn't it been fixed? My intuition is that it's a legacy system that dates back to… https://t.co/tFttefNfLt in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:01, 2019-06-26
Part of what made this such a pain is the fact that several layers of historical packaging norms and systems still… https://t.co/atiVuE4nO6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:00, 2019-06-26
Okay after a (lamentably) week+ long crash course in Python packaging for @CatalystCoop's PUDL library, I wanted to… https://t.co/EmOZTgyO1O 09:32:00, 2019-06-26
Boy this sure rings true of Python packaging. https://t.co/ufnUREoiIR 22:56:36, 2019-06-25
@AaronBrockett12 Also @DavidQuammen's book The Tangled Tree is good. If you're into that kinky promiscuous genome sharing scene anyway. in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:08:12, 2019-06-25
@AaronBrockett12 I blame the eukaryotes and horizontal gene transfer. Cramming all those traditional single-genome-… https://t.co/3LANT8h08l in reply to AaronBrockett12 22:06:24, 2019-06-25
@AaronBrockett12 Hey, if the metal is rusting it means there's still oxygen in the atmosphere. It wasn't always so… https://t.co/rg720nYoc7 in reply to AaronBrockett12 21:46:57, 2019-06-25
@TheAncientWorld Would love to read a thread on ancient election practices. in reply to TheAncientWorld 21:36:28, 2019-06-25
The difference between having zero and one mosquitoes in my room when I go to sleep is psychologically surprisingly… https://t.co/AUHxB6GABa 21:32:26, 2019-06-25
@DrKariLJordan @YouVersion At first I thought this was related to databases… in reply to DrKariLJordan 21:20:21, 2019-06-25
A new (100 page…) paper from @priyald17 and many others on potential applications of machine learning to many asp… https://t.co/cq8T7b5hDP 19:17:20, 2019-06-25
Well this sets up all kinds of horrific incentives and feedback loops now doesn't it. https://t.co/6EbyTUPYKr 18:01:49, 2019-06-25
RT @erinoverturf: Are you super smart and interested in advancing regional energy markets? Yeah? Then you should totally come work with m… 17:57:19, 2019-06-25
@alexbaca Well that escalated quickly. in reply to alexbaca 17:55:33, 2019-06-25
There's really no requirement for self-consistency in politics, especially not on the Right in the US now. I think… https://t.co/tQQynj1L0t in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:46:25, 2019-06-25
I've been having this train of thought too, and have been trying not to think about it too hard. Which is probably… https://t.co/jw5MjAOtSw 14:44:49, 2019-06-25
@TheCharlier I was hoping for a more entertaining killer robot apocalypse. in reply to TheCharlier 01:03:55, 2019-06-25
The more distributive the economy is up front, the less redistribution is required. https://t.co/qlySxy1iOG 22:40:09, 2019-06-24
@ericmbudd @boulderprogress Wow, that's quite a showing! It does feel like maybe you are extending the… https://t.co/avwfTiF4eX in reply to ericmbudd 18:44:37, 2019-06-24
It feels very Merrick Garland-esque. https://t.co/3my7ijoCkZ 16:26:56, 2019-06-24
@seancllns This could be a whole degree program at Naropa. in reply to seancllns 16:20:33, 2019-06-24
@LaurenGifford @LKritz @500womensci Let me know if you want an e-mail intro. She has also run a summer program for… https://t.co/BLedAtc4pK in reply to LaurenGifford 13:55:07, 2019-06-23
@LaurenGifford @LKritz @500womensci This sounds like my friend Mylène Jacquemart in Boulder, but not on Twitter. Am… https://t.co/KolpC4qyvG in reply to LaurenGifford 12:20:58, 2019-06-23

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