jabwork

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by jabwork 6y ago
Configargparse is a great drop in replacement for argparse that I use to handle bridging env vars with cli flags https://pypi.org/project/ConfigArgParse/
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by jabwork 7y ago
Have you used pythons cffi and if so how would you differentiate this from that? Does this work for all revisions of C? iirc cffi works for all of c89 and most of c99
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by jabwork 7y ago
I ran into this same issue with python/SQLAlchemy. It's a connection pool thing
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by jabwork 7y ago
I spent two years using and then administering two RT servers. I arrived with effectively no real PERL knowledge but a high level of Linux sysadmin competency I hugely enjoyed working with the system. It was productive, flexible, and never
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by jabwork 7y ago
For those of you using argparse I recommend looking at configargparse. A drop in replacement which adds environment variable support (similar to click) and config file support
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by jabwork 7y ago
The os module ships with python, so the function call mocking os.listdir will always succeed even if the code being tested does not use os.listdir By mocking mymodule.os.listdir you add a requirement that mymodule actually import the os mod
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by jabwork 7y ago
I've wrestled with this problem several times. My conclusion was mocks are just fine, but this is a wart in that there isn't "one way to do it" For the most part I can get by with one rule: always mock the module .
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by jabwork 7y ago
For the OPs context (their kids) I expect they'll have a lot of typing too do on school computers
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by jabwork 7y ago
Even Apple had the famous episode of releasing an update that bricked phones with replacement parts that weren't sanctioned. They reversed it after much public outcry. For less common hardware the situation is just as bad. Agriculture
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by jabwork 8y ago
Drat,I had hoped for another edition of this https://www.litepc.com/ For the uninitiated this basically cranked your ability to uninstall windows components up to 11, allowing you to strip out IE and and get windows humming
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by jabwork 8y ago
I've never had problems with this when requirements.txt contains package versions Have you, or are you not using explicit versions supplied by eg pip freeze?
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by jabwork 8y ago
punative damages could exceed that under a lot of conditions
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by jabwork 9y ago
I read this as an assertion the masses are losing interest overall, not switching to a competitor
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by jabwork 9y ago
Music with minimal words (which I find distracting) but often with vocals. Usually an album at a time e.g., Ibiza chill sessions (annual albums) Melody AM The altogether Little dragon (NPR remix) a lot of electric guitar - Steve Vai, joe
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by jabwork 9y ago
I regularly have 200+ FF tabs open, but FF steadily grows in memory usage. Normally I have to restart around 3gb due to notably degraded performance (around every 4 days ). Do you use extensions to avoid this?
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by jabwork 9y ago
I read this as the culture of cheating teaches analysis of the system (education /testing) and how to identify weak points and exploit them Then, using the same analytical skills, students are better prepared to analyze other systems
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by jabwork 11y ago
I still write a variety of things. I've found it improves my ability to recall the things I write > Some say that because we write slower than we type, it allows for deeper thinking as opposed to faster thinking, which could be bene
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by jabwork 12y ago
Unreadable on a 10" tablet - slides are larger than my screen and cannot zoom out (Opera)
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by jabwork 12y ago
For RoR's method_missing give me the docs For apache configuration, give me the examples! I really like the use case of helping upstream maintainers decide on method deprecation/adding helper functions. Fantastic idea
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by jabwork 13y ago
Python objects can override __dir__, which is all dir() calls anyway. It looks like this is all for an autocompletion library. Why not just write jedi.dir (jedir?)
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by jabwork 14y ago
Ostensibly because high demand fields are more likely to get hired and lead successful careers outside of Amazon. Logistically it also simplifies things because you can respond to "Why can't I pursue education X?" questions with "because th
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by jabwork 14y ago
"... run into some tiny annoyance, do a bit of research ... So you switch ..." If you pick a solution and run into a tiny annoyance learn to work around it in some way. It is a tiny annoyance . Best case scenario, learn why it's happening,
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by jabwork 14y ago
Can you give any sort of indication of the value of a schemaless database and the flexibility it provided as the team fleshed out the data model? Was this a mere convenience over traditional schema migration or something more?
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by jabwork 15y ago
It would appear so. Based off of testimonials and briefly looking at the API I'd say this is primarily aimed at a simple API + fewer "gotchas" E.g., urllib/urllib2 both support urlopen(url, [data]) if `data` is supplied the request is execu
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by jabwork 15y ago
I had a hard time connecting "development on VMs is a good idea because ..." to "Mac is the ideal VM host OS" AFAIK everyone agrees that Mac hardware can be gotten cheaper by not buying it inside a Mac. Why not assemble a PC, install a VM,