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I love that the resulting planning dispute ended up being decided by the secretary of state. And the chief planner wrote the wonderful: "any system of control must make some small space for the the dynamic, the unexpected and the downright quirky, or we shall all be the poorer for it"

This looks very nice, but the killer feature in conda-forge for me is support for non-python dependencies. It looks like this is focused just on pypi, so python only.

This is brilliant, I’m going to get fake credit for half of the Dark Energy Survey!

I’m pretty sure OJA counts as a mainstream journal now!

This was the basis of another of my comments on @astroroyalscot.bsky.social’s code

I did have to add a handwritten exam to make sure they could actually write some code unassisted.

I actually sent feedback about this to AQA a few days ago, as the largest exam board.

We should tell students that in this situation it’s perfectly fine to accept the offer from the group and then change your mind later. They haven’t signed a contact.

[3/3] That's what it's felt like trying to use the "R" programming language this week.

[2/3] I've found it a useful metaphor since, for cases where you can just about recognise the the basis of something, but it's been morphed, perhaps surreally, into an impression of something once coherent.

I saw what was about to happen there and unsubscribed within five messages. Very proud of my foresight.