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v8engine · on April 10, 2024

Check out old Pycon schedules and search for 'efficient(cy)/improve/speed/performance'.

Every Pycon has at least one talk on it and they are usually filled with a variety of tips and insights.

Prioritise by keynote speeches, recent ones, country level ones and then city Pycon.

v8engine · on Aug 11, 2023

I am facing this issue in the recent versions of Android Firefox where if I switch apps and come back, or lock and unlock the phone instantly leads to the page refreshing and scrolling back to the point where I was reading. This is quite frustrating as I have to keep the Firefox app always open or wait a frustrating amount of time for the page to completely load and scroll down. Some pages with progressive loading will take a huge amount of time for the page to completely re-download and if you scroll even slightly, the auto-scroll to where you last left is lost.

I can replicate it with just a single tab and I have excluded Firefox from all my battery saving and memory saving features.

v8engine · on Dec 22, 2022

I know of https://autonews.io/ mentioned before. They look unrelated but would you know of any connection except for their similar domain?

v8engine · on July 25, 2021

https://web.archive.org/web/20190321175020/https://www.exped...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442597

v8engine · on May 17, 2021

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/receipt-box-spending-tracker/i...

Did the developer change since his screenshot?

v8engine · on April 29, 2021

Feels very US related. Twitter in India is all about COVID-19 second wave right now and that hasn't affected the graph even though the sheer mass of English speaking Indians should have had some effect. The only mention I can see is April 28, 2021 twentieth word 'oxygen'.

v8engine · on Jan 28, 2021

Any reason my Antivirus considers it a problem? " C:\Program Files\qutebrowser\qutebrowser.exe is infected with Gen:Variant.Mikey.118185 " This is with Bitdefender.

I downloaded the prebuilt windows binary from https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/releases

toyg · on Jan 28, 2021

Some AVs have an issue with PyInstaller: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/4269

I've also seen some AVs having an issue with QT dlls, probably because some malware used them at some point.

jnxx · on Jan 28, 2021

Antivirus software can have random positives, and for niche software they might not correct that.

But it is a good reason to only run stuff that has a pgp-signed checksum.

The-Compiler · on Jan 28, 2021

Like mentioned by toyg, AV engines are really overzealous when it comes to PyInstaller executables :(

Not much I can do about that, but I opened https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/6081 to send a couple of appeals whenever I'm bored enough to do so.

account42 · on Jan 29, 2021

If the Anti Virus spits out something with "Gen" or similiar in the name it's some atodetection bullshit and you should take it up with your antivirus vendor instead of botherung anyone else.

v8engine · on Jan 11, 2021

>"Won't this change mean we operate at a loss to subsidize your other company, which will affect staff bonuses".

I don't get it. Can you explain?

danielheath · on Jan 11, 2021

Boss owns two companies.

Staff at company A have negotiated a profit share / performance bonus.

Boss directs company A to provide services “below cost” to company B. Company A now has no profit to share; it has been funnelled elsewhere to avoid paying the staff their bonus.

tinix · on Jan 12, 2021

This is a dirty tactic, but I've seen it used... a lot.

It has slimy tax advantages too, for the company.

If you're getting profit sharing, you should be able to see the books, and have controlling shares, too... IMO.

v8engine · on July 13, 2020

Check out Dyscalculia.

v8engine · on May 26, 2020

Reminded me of these similar threads I read a while earlier:

Azure: https://web.archive.org/web/20190321175020/https://www.exped...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442597

AWS: https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10202286

jaytaph · on May 26, 2020

I figured somebody has done this before. I purposely did not look for it to keep my findings unbiased. It was fun clicking on random services and tweak with it until figuring out what it was for and how to use it (and actually see some results)

philipodonnell · on May 26, 2020

Any update to the Azure list anyone has seen? 2017 is a long time ago.

freeone3000 · on May 26, 2020

New Azure services tend to have names like "Cognitive Services Speech" or "Cognitive Services Image Recognition" or "Azure Stateful Functions"... There's not a lot to riff on.

dynamite-ready · on May 26, 2020

Would love to see an update to the Azure list.