Fred

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  • Maybe I’m wildly misunderstanding something, not helped by the fact that I work very little with Web technologies, but…

    So, in a RESTful system, you should be able to enter the system through a single URL and, from that point on, all navigation and actions taken within the system should be entirely provided through self-describing hypermedia: through links and forms in HTML, for example. Beyond the entry point, in a proper RESTful system, the API client shouldn’t need any additional information about your API.

    This is the source of the incredible flexibility of RESTful systems: since all responses are self describing and encode all the currently available actions available there is no need to worry about, for example, versioning your API! In fact, you don’t even need to document it!

    If things change, the hypermedia responses change, and that’s it.

    It’s an incredibly flexible and innovative concept for building distributed systems.

    Does that mean only humans can interact with a REST system? But then it doesn’t really deserve the qualifier of “application programming interface”.


  • FredtoPythonPython's pathlib module
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    Scapy is another library where they redefined / to layer packets, such that you can write:

    IP(dst="172.23.34.45") / UDP() / DNS(…)
    

    Then Scapy has magic so that on serialisation, the UDP layer knows defaults to dport=53 if the upper layer is DNS, and it can access the lower layer to compute its checksum.

    And don’t forget that strings have a custom % (as in modulo) operator for formatting:

    "Hello %s" %(username)
    

    Of course in modern Python, f-strings will almost always be more convenient


  • I can’t remember if threads are core bound or not.

    On Linux, by default they’re not. getcpu(2) says:

       The getcpu() system call identifies the processor and node on which the
       calling thread or process is currently running and writes them into the
       integers pointed to by the cpu and node arguments.  ...
    
       The  information  placed in cpu is guaranteed to be current only at the
       time of the  call:  unless  the  CPU  affinity  has  been  fixed  using
       sched_setaffinity(2),  the  kernel  might  change  the CPU at any time.
       (Normally this does not happen because the scheduler tries to  minimize
       movements  between  CPUs  to keep caches hot, but it is possible.)  The
       caller must allow for the possibility that the information returned  in
       cpu and node is no longer current by the time the call returns.
    


  • That seems like a weird dichotomy between ruff and Jedi. One does linting & formatting, the other code completion, goto-definition, refactoring. With pylsp you can have both: it uses Jedi (in the default config), and has a plugin to call ruff for linting and formatting (according to the doc; I don’t actually use ruff).


  • I’m using pylsp (python-language-server). My reason being a process of elimination. I also use mypy for type-checking, so even without considering the danger of allowing MS to entrench itself into my tooling, it didn’t make much sense to use a tool built around pyright.

    The ruff-lsp seems to only do the things that ruff is good at: linting, code formatting, auto-fix of certain issues, and I wanted more.

    Since I saw that pylsp uses Jedi under the hood, and offered a mypy plugin, I felt that pylsp offer a superset of the features that the Jedi LSP has. In the end I’m happy with pylsp, and never tried Jedi LSP.

    However: with the mypy plugin for pylsp, the memory usage kept growing to ridiculous amounts and getting killed, so I ended up disabling it. I had a look in their bug tracker Instead, I’m using flymake that triggers mypy on save, and that seems to work well. (I have a few changes on top of com4/flymake-mypy.el, because it leaves behind plenty of temporary files.)

    That offers me:

    • jump to definition (using Jedi under the hood)
    • rename symbol (and then Jedi goes and rename uses of that symbol)
    • smart completion (eg. offers only variables in scope, or after a . only the instance members, etc.)
    • short documentation on hover
    • squiggly lines for errors found by flake8 or mypy
    • and a few more that I don’t really notice

    One thing I struggled with: where do you install the LSP? Using pipx for a user installation, or in a per-project venv? I did the latter, which works for me because I work on a small number of projects. That also means that mypy finds all the relevant third-party libraries in that venv. I wrote a bit of elisp that allow emacs to find the right mypy binary to check code.




  • Justification I’ve heard is that if one part of the couple is managing the other, or is promoted after the relationship started, then:

    • there is a power imbalance in the couple, possibly one is coercing the other (« I can’t leave him/her, they’ll make my worklife hell / get me fired »);
    • there is a risk the manager will promote their partner even if their job performance doesn’t warrant it

    Companies will want to both avoid this sort of things, and avoid being seen to enable this sort of things. They might want to move one of the parties to a different department so that the higher up one doesn’t make promotion decisions for the other.

    I’ve once worked at a company that wanted to know about relationships between their employees and suppliers/customers’ employees, again because that might enable situations where a supplier / customer is treater favourably because of personal relationships


  • FredtoProgrammingReal examples here?
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    And Fabrice Bellard, the original author of ffmpeg, went on to create qemu which pretty much made open-source virtualization possible. Also TCC (even if I don’t think that one is widely used), he established a world record for computing decimals of Pi using a single machine that had ~2000× less FLOPS than the previous record, and so much more…







  • FredtoJeux Libres FR@jlai.lu[ZOOM SUR] Vega Strike
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    Peut-être. La prise en main est un peu difficile mais pas excessivement. L’espace a beaucoup de vide :) donc le gameplay n’est pas particulièrement rapide. À l’époque je n’avais pas la patience, aujourd’hui je n’aurais pas le temps à consacrer aux JV. Je ne connais pas FSOpen.


  • FredtoJeux Libres FR@jlai.lu[ZOOM SUR] Vega Strike
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    9 months ago

    J’ai joué à Vega Strike il y a “quelques” années, donc ça fait remonter des souvenirs :) La simulation de vol est réaliste (pour autant que faire voler un vaisseau spatiale peut l’être…), elle suit les lois de la physique newtonienne, la distance entre planètes est respectée, avec un outil de “compression temporelle” pour rendre les voyages entre planètes faisables en moins d’un mois. À l’époque c’était un peu trop hard-core pour moi, mais j’ai passé de longues heures sur Wing Commander: Gemini, un remake de Wing Commander: Privateer sur le moteur de Vega Strike. Gemini n’est pas libre par contre, les modèles, textures etc. ne sont pas opensources.