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dabeaz, 23 days ago to random

I sometimes wonder if I should teach a project course (like raft or compilers) where you don't even know what programming language will be used until you show up. That would certainly be one way to make things even more exciting.

jamescooke, 3 months ago to random

Found a bug in #Flake8_AAA yesterday regarding how it processes blank lines when checking if there are blank lines in blocks.

https://flake8-aaa.readthedocs.io/en/stable/error_codes/AAA05-blank-line-in-block.html

If the blank line is followed by a # comment line, then Flake8-AAA doesn’t see it 🙈

While trying to check if the bug is valid, I’ve ended up yak shaving…

pamelafox, 4 months ago to random

I'm really torn about the pretty exceptions from rich (as seen in Typer- https://typer.tiangolo.com/tutorial/exceptions/)
On the one hand, they're pretty. On the other hand, they're overwhelming - soo much traceback!

brianokken, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

--stepwise is the new -x

-x stop at the first failure
--stepwise first time, just like -x
--stepwise again, restart where we left off and continue until a failure.
#pytest

hazelweakly, 4 months ago to random

I find it fascinating that we talk about over engineering as if it's a thing in software engineering. It's not, cut it out, stop talking about that.

If I'm a contractor and I over engineer something, guess what? It works for that use case and all the future ones. The only thing I wasted was money and time. Did you make a 10 ton capacity deck when you only need 2 tons? Cool... It's still a deck.

Software engineering? We don't have over engineering. We have "building to solve the wrong problem"

leblancfg, 6 months ago to longboarding

Great little #skateboard shop if you’re around #ottawa: https://birlingtheottawa.com

Amazing service

scy, 7 months ago to random

Reading about this new Linux kernel feature called bcachefs and I'm like "wtf are BCA chefs?"

leblancfg, 7 months ago to random

Spaces 👏 in 👏 your 👏 CLI 👏 flag 👏 names 👏 should 👏 be 👏 dashes

Looking at you, gcloud.

kellogh, 8 months ago to random

i'd love an editor that predicts which file i'm going to open next. like autojump for bash or jump-location for windows that basically build a markov chain around which sequence of directories you navigate to. i'm sure there's patterns, it would be neat to have the editor try to guess

Cmastication, 9 months ago to random

Since dragging home this hunk of steel I’ve learned a lot about heavy duty trailer axles. This frame can handle 20k lbs and the axles at least 15k. But the front axle with the brakes is a bastard size. Possibly off of a mobile home (!!!). Back “idler” axle is likely a #42 spindle. I’ll add modern hubs on the back but since the front is weird it’ll likely get fully replaced with axle, brake, hub assembly.

dabeaz, 9 months ago to random

I think I've reached the point where I consider any import statement that's related to code itself to be a code smell. If I see that, I just know that some giant turd of a thing awaits.

scy, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to linux

Okay, so. I have a #PDF and a #DOCX file. And I’d like to compare them. And since I’m a programmer, I don’t want to compare them visually, but with a #diff. But how?

Like this.

alias pdfcat='gs -q -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o-'
alias doccat='pandoc -t plain'

pdfcat a.pdf > a.txt
doccat b.docx > b.txt

git diff --no-index --word-diff a.txt b.txt

And since we’re using --word-diff, it doesn’t matter that the two files use wildly different line wrapping.

#Unix #Linux #terminal #CLI

b0rk, 10 months ago to random

what helps people get comfortable on the command line? https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/08/what-helps-people-get-comfortable-on-the-command-line-/

Would love more stories of things that helped you in the last ~5 years!

(as usual, no need to reply if you don’t remember, or if you’ve been using the command line comfortably for 15 years — this question isn’t for you :) )

pybites, 10 months ago to python

Here is a 5 minute video on what a Makefile is, why you want to use one and how to - hope it helps you as #python #developers 🐍 🔥 📈
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MICrNQm5btQ

danjac, 11 months ago to neovim

The whole #neovim ecosystem feels like a deck of cards. With null-ls being deprecated and no fork on the horizon, you scramble for a replacement, only to find a wasteland of poorly maintained documentation and contradicting Reddit comments for the alternatives.

That's not to knock against the hard work of the maintainers of core and plugins. But as a tool for getting serious work done, I'm not sure it's worth the effort any more for anything beyond simple text editing.

tenderlove, 11 months ago to random

It's weird that FaceTime accepts NDI as a microphone source, but it won't accept OBS as a video source

zzzeek, 11 months ago to random

this is a really great thread unfortunately on evil bird site about Lance's "tweet" and the general topic of trans participation in sports. it's an explainer, which I appreciate since I would like to be more aware of the background on this topic (I'm not a sports person at all). including the notion of "why do we have gendered sports at all?" which I have often thought myself

https://twitter.com/assignedmedia/status/1672905549606789121?s=20

leblancfg, 11 months ago to LLMs

Trying to think about future personal use of #LLMs on desktop. Assuming people roll their own #models, what is the "natural" #API for a service running models locally?

#ChatGPT seems to choose what model to run by itself: It usually starts fast (prob. 3.5 turbo), and if the question is complex enough or it's prompted to correct itself, it'll use prob. #GPT4.

That's one way to think about it.