Dylan McConnell

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Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analysts at UNSW
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Celebrating episode 400

News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Sep 9th, 2024

@pythonbytes @mkennedy @brianokken Okay have kind of found an answer to my own question: https://github.com/astral-sh/rye/discussions/1342

"We don't plan to deprecate Rye any time soon, but our goal has always been to maintain it while we develop uv into a viable alternative. I suspect that uv can now replace Rye for some use cases... "

Rye and uv · astral-sh rye · Discussion #1342

👋 Since we took over stewardship of Rye in February, we've been continuing to maintain the project and ship releases, but have been primarily focused on new feature development over in uv. Rye uses...

GitHub

Genuine (and potentially dumb) question @pythonbytes - given the development / new features of uv you covered ... whats the role/point of rye?!

cc @mkennedy, @brianokken

Spy vs spy.

My @smh cartoon.

Safe zone.

My @smh cartoon.

... "Electricity Supply & Reliability Check Up review commissioned by the new Labor government to assess the state’s transition to renewable energy has recommended the power station’s operations should be extended beyond its existing 2025 closure date" 😬😬

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/eraring-should-remain-open-beyond-2025-minns-government-energy-review-20230821-p5dy79.html

Eraring should remain open beyond 2025: Minns government energy review

The NSW government’s “check up” of the electricity network has recommended it enter into negotiations to extend the life of Australia’s largest coal-fired power station.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Future uncertain for key Tasmania to mainland power transmission link after $2bn cost blowout

Federal government in discussion with states after Marinus Link price tag increases, putting decarbonisation and energy goals at risk

The Guardian

New episode: #426 What's New in PyScript [August 2023] with Fabio Pliger, @ntoll, and host @mkennedy #python

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/426/whats-new-in-pyscript-august-2023

What's New in PyScript [August 2023]

One of the most exciting initiatives in the Python space these days is pyscript which enables Python running natively in your browser. With consistent support from the folks at Anaconda, this project has been making solid strides since its initial release. On this episode we catch up with Fabio Pliger and Nicholas Tollervey to see where they are with the pyscript project.

The columns Adam Morton does every other Thursday are reliably quite good. This one is - again! - quite good!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/10/the-australian-government-admits-its-funding-is-supporting-the-gas-industry-thats-politically-risky
The Australian government admits its funding is supporting the gas industry. That’s politically risky

Labor is struggling to get its story straight on why it is helping fund a major expansion of the fossil fuel sector in the NT

The Guardian
Sometimes I doubt capitalism can solve climate change.