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• Post #3814897

  Reviewing conference talk proposals is wild in the age of LLMs, and exhausting in ways that it never was in the past. Never knowing if what you read was directly from the mind of a human, “touched up” by an LLM, or fabricated whole cloth by a stochastic lying machine. Low effort proposals in the past were frequently just a couple sentences and nothing else, but now “low effort” can also produce hundreds or thousands of words for reviewers to sift through. Proposals *about* LLMs take it to th...

• Post #2227021

  RE: https://social.northbaypython.org/@NorthBayPython/115861794229890398 As you head into the weekend, think about sharing something cool with all the excellent folks who attend North Bay Python. I know you all have some amazing talk ideas banging around — I’ve been on committees for half a dozen conferences by now — but NBPy is literally the coolest possible venue to give that talk at. And we have the best, funniest, and most engaged audience imaginable. We want to hear your ideas. Yes, even...

• Post #1986870

  How am I supposed to work in these conditions? #cats #PythonCats

• Post #1818523

  Yesterday was my last day at Astral, as the acquisition by OpenAI closed. It's unfortunate that my time there was short, but I'm proud of what I've accomplished: - New "range suppression" system for Ruff, better than "noqa", that can cover multiline statements with a leading comment, or entire blocks of code: https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/linter/#comments - Markdown code block formatting, enabling Ruff to format Python code in your docu...

• Post #1750613

  "We love AI [and the buckets of money over there, whatever]" 😏 #NBPy

• Post #1750610

  "The laser pointer does not own you" 😮‍💨 @baconandcoconut at #NBPy

• Post #1750609

  It’s been a day. #NBPy

• Post #1750608

  98% of ticket purchasers actually claimed a badge, and the one other person had a good excuse [shows an x-ray of a fractured bone]. 👏 #NBPy

• Post #1750607

  If you've enjoyed the #NBPy parade, please donate! Help us run the conference we all want to attend. https://nbpy.link/donate

• Post #1750606

  And if you want more Python conferences in California: @pycon is in Long Beach, May 12-19 (ish) @pybeach is in Santa Monica, October 24, with an open CFP organized by @pythonbynight @pybay is in San Francisco, October 3rd

• Post #1717535

  “The impact of a system is what we continue to allow”, a better corollary to the problematic “purpose of a system is what it does” coined by @amcasari@hachyderm.io at #NBPy

• Post #877144

  Might be a long shot, but does anyone know a real human I could commission to write a short story in the Catalan/Valencian language? Bonus points if they are queer/adjacent.

• Post #813308

  And thanks to everyone who helped in making this an incredible event! #PyCascades

• Post #611029

  We did it! Y'all are absolutely amazing, and together we've matched $17,000, for a total of $34k raised for @ThePSF! A personal thank you to everyone who donated, and an extra heap of thanks and gratitude to @glyph for organizing and managing all of this. And of course, thank you again to every single person at the PSF, and all of the board members, for being a model of ethics for the rest of the world! :python: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115493527623089000