Disqus - Latest Comments for foresmac

Re: New – Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless

foresmac — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 06:38:03 -0000

I’d expect `records` to look more like:
```json
{
“records”: [
{
“id”: 1,
“user_id”: “jeffbarr”,
“first_name”: “Jeff”,
“last_name”: “Barr”
},
...
]
}
```

Re: New – Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless

foresmac — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 06:31:39 -0000

You mentioned something along the lines of “production code would symbolically access data using column metadata.” Actually, I would expect the API to return rows as JSON objects where the keys are the column names already. That it doesn’t already do so means I need to write some custom function to transform the data to use such access.

Re: The Aquabats! Super Show!: Season One!

foresmac — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:46:37 -0000

I don't see a Blu-ray option, nor Season 2. Are either forthcoming?

Re: Parallelism in one line - Blogomatono

foresmac — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:46:06 -0000

Since ThreadPool.map is blocking, there's no need to call pool.join(). You can even do it as a context manager:


with ThreadPool() as pool:
    pool.map(func, iterable)

Re: How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Sierra OS X 10.12

foresmac — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:57:49 -0000

Quick question: does Mail.app support multi-part sigs? In other words, could there be something you could add to the signature that would display a simple text sig if the email in question is plain text?

Re: Now Available – Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09

foresmac — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:19:11 -0000

I'm not sure I understand how this new AMI "includes" Python 3.6 when you still have to `yum install` it. Couldn't I `yum install` the latest Python 3.x anytime I wanted?

Re: New – Slack Integration Blueprints for AWS Lambda

foresmac — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 15:53:21 -0000

Speaking of Slack integration, it would be super useful if the AWS blog system were updated to write out useful metadata for services like Slack (or Facebook, or whatever) to build a useful preview when posting a link to a particular post.

Re: Optimizing Slow Django Rest Framework Performance

foresmac — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 15:21:28 -0000

Any reason why you can't add the `prefetch_related()` and/or `select_related()` calls to your `get_queryset()` That's where we usually pet them, and it certainly seems more idiomatic than tacking it on the serializer.

Re: See sklearn trees with D3

foresmac — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 15:13:09 -0000

Missing a open quote on the filename in your open() call.

Re: Django Logging Configuration: How the Default Settings Interfere with Yours

foresmac — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:45:45 -0000

This is helpful in that it explains why things aren't always working as expected. However, do you have any pointers or advice to set up logging from scratch? For instance, if DEBUG=True, I want to be able to see the django.db logs. Do you have some best practice that you have found useful?

Re: Print on-the-fly with Polaroid’s new Zip mobile printer

foresmac — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 20:01:29 -0000

Is it compatible with iPhones? Why isn't there a link to the product page?

Re: ‪The ‬B‪attle ‬O‪ver New Generation TV‬:‪ 4K,‬ ‪HDR - The Future Trust‬

foresmac — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:08:49 -0000

RED _cameras_ record a raw data stream without compression. REDRAY player can use REDRAY wavelet compression, and yes that can result in compression artifacts. But I have seen 4K content displayed at 80" right in front of my face and compression artifacts were not visible. I'm highly sensitive to them, too—ask anyone in my family who has to listen to me complain about content from our DirecTV.

I mean, a 20MP JPEG is still a 20MP image that can be printed easily at sizes like 12x18" without visible artifacts. Likewise, a 4K uncompressed source video compressed to a lower bitrate can carry as much detail as needed to reveal little, if any, visible artifacts at 24 or 30fps.

Re: Simple Interactive Data Analysis with Python

foresmac — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:30:43 -0000

I think there is an error in the last code snippet:

``` python
t = pd.DataFrame(report)
t.to_excel('report.xlsx', sheet_name='Sheet1')

```

Re: 10 new movies reveal roadmap for DC Comics’ cinematic universe

foresmac — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:05:10 -0000

"The 2017 release of Wonder Woman will be the first major superhero movie based entirely on a female character."

That simply isn't true.

Even if you discount Cathy Lee Crosby's starring role as Wonder Woman in a classic made-for-TV movie in 1974, Helen Slater starred as Supergirl in 1984 and Jennifer Garner starred in Elektra in 2005. That's just off the top of my head.

Now, I'll grant you that female heroes are portrayed far less often than male heroes, but give some credit where credit is due.

Re: 10 new movies reveal roadmap for DC Comics’ cinematic universe

foresmac — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:53:13 -0000

Um, Cathy Lee Crosby starred as Wonder Woman in 1974: http://www.imdb.com/title/t...

Granted, that was a made-for-TV movie, which inspired the 70s TV series starring Lynda Carter.

So, even if you discount that, Elektra had her own movie in 2005: http://www.imdb.com/title/t...

Re: Karns Online|Bower unable to connect to github

foresmac — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:50:10 -0000

That second code snippet appears to also reconfigure git globally.

Re: ‪The ‬B‪attle ‬O‪ver New Generation TV‬:‪ 4K,‬ ‪HDR - The Future Trust‬

foresmac — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:44:43 -0000

@KB3M: Yes, 720p movies projected on a 40' looked like shit. You don't remember me complaining, but rest assured I did.

@Ken3580: Movies are already produced at 4K. They are down sampled to 1080p for Blu-ray, and further compressed (with plenty of artifacts) by the likes of Comcast/DirecTV for delivery to your home. You can get 4K content from Sony or Red right now.

@harshcritic1966: "viewed at the correct distance" varies for the viewer, since visual acutance is not an absolute. Rest assured native 4K content looks amazing on a 60" screen, even at a distance of 10'.

For some reference, I wrote this report at CES almost 2 years ago: http://arstechnica.com/gadg...

Re: Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries

foresmac — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 11:23:15 -0000

It's fast, relatively easy to pick up as a language, has a quickly growing dev community, and is built for web services.

Re: Please. Don't Patch Like An Idiot.

foresmac — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:13:49 -0000

I have never, ever worked on an API where a client could remove a property from a model. That would only work with a NoSQL DB, and most frameworks wouldn't allow you to remove properties from a model anyhowways. So, I get the point you're trying to make, but practically speaking using PATCH the way everyone uses it is not only technically valid but a de defacto standard.

Re: Please. Don't Patch Like An Idiot.

foresmac — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:41:24 -0000

"You can use whatever format you want as [description of changes], as far as its semantics is well-defined."

I just don't understand why I can't define the semantics to be that a list of keys and values means to "patch" the existing keys of a resource with the values provided. It just sounds like you're are trying to suggest there's some difference between doing that and listing the changes as a more verbose, complicated set of JSON Patch or some other thing. If the RFC said "PATCH must use a list of changes in JSON Patch format," I'd agree that you have a point. Since the RFC leaves it up to individuals to decide how that [description of changes] is formatted, I see no logical or semantic reason that list of changes can't be key-value pairs.

Re: Losing our collective mind

foresmac — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:04:30 -0000

There is almost the start of a thesis here. Why you stopped short of actually making a point I do not understand.

Re: Python to OCaml: retrospective - Thomas Leonard's blog

foresmac — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:56:43 -0000

Some web benchmarks:
http://www.techempower.com/...

Re: Python to OCaml: retrospective - Thomas Leonard's blog

foresmac — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:52:00 -0000

That was for only one small, trivial function.

Re: Python to OCaml: retrospective - Thomas Leonard's blog

foresmac — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:27:03 -0000

I can't speak to OCaml's strengths wrt Oinstall and how it works, but I can say that IME web servers written in Go execute two orders of magnitude faster than Python. I wonder if you had targeted Go instead of OCaml if you would have gotten an even larger speed increase.

Re: 5 Hybrids Worth the Hype | hybrids - Zagat

foresmac — Thu, 29 May 2014 19:29:25 -0000

I have to take umbrage with your assertion that chef Kevin Cuddihee “created” the “bisconut”. Anyone who grew up poor in the Midwest is likely familiar with making “white trash donuts” (aka “ghetto donuts”, with all the unfortunate racist and/or classist connotations such terms contain). Basically, you pop open a tube of Pillsbury biscuits, poke a hole in the middle of each pre-portioned slab of dough (or don’t—who cares, you’re poor!), fry them in a pan of oil, then roll in cinnamon or powdered sugar.

Kudos to Cuddihee for elevating this to new, innovative, even aspirational levels. It’s going a step too far to suggest he created the concept of a “bisconut”, however.