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Re: Xiaomi CEO drops watermelon from 6th floor to demonstrate SU7 Ultra battery safety

Paddy3118 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 04:07:05 -0000

They got some press coverage, which was the point - mind you, a car as fast as a Rivian for that price is the comparison that stuns me.

Re: My first REST API work with Python

Paddy3118 — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 08:31:37 -0000

Useful :-)

Re: What do Britons think of the current approach to drugs and addiction?

Paddy3118 — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 01:13:27 -0000

It seems reasonable to think that those with a mental illness might need medications that affect their mental state. There are large numbers of mainly women, suffering from Chronic Pain that could be helped by substances that, because they are also criminalised as drugs, their medicinal uses are curtailed. This article doesn't help Brits in pain get alternatives to the killing opiods they currently use. Pull your finger out and allow the import of marijuana based pain killers (from Jamaica?), rather than waiting for something a UK based drug company can patent!

Re: "As a coding language, C++ appeals to the ego, not the intellect"

Paddy3118 — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 02:43:00 -0000

Not only is C++ bad, it seems to have spread its tentacles to inspire the Electronics industries SystemVerilog, and opaque verification methodologies.

Re: Reverse actual bits of the given number

Paddy3118 — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 04:59:27 -0000

You, yourself, assume 32 bits in the integer. You need more for handling arbitrary bit width.

In Python, ints are of arbitrary width so all that needed is to add a width argument to use in the loop.

Other languages, like C, might do the same, but use bit arrays of multiple words to allow arbitrary width ints.

Re: R is better than Python. Try telling that to banks

Paddy3118 — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 03:08:45 -0000

Most serious data scientists DO NOT prefer R to Python from the linked article, and are you stating all banks choosing Python aren't serious?

Re: Comments

Paddy3118 — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 08:11:47 -0000

Python came into existence and publicly available in around 2000

Yet I learnt Python in 1995 and I think it started years before that.

Re: fastcore: An Underrated Python Library

Paddy3118 — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 21:43:17 -0000

Statements after the colon but missing a newline - why? It jars and it doesn't look as if you *need* to save a line.

Re: The Spoon Theory written by Christine Miserandino

Paddy3118 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 05:24:43 -0000

A very useful analogy, thank you.
I wonder if similar thoughts would help those in "survival" situations - like breaking down in a wilderness or being trapped after an earthquake?
That describes great mental strength.

Re: ASUS ROG claims gaming laptop market share crown

Paddy3118 — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:03:47 -0000

My Zephyrus G14 with AMD arrives TOMORROW.

Re: Lego's Art Range Lets You Build Portraits of Famous People

Paddy3118 — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 04:58:20 -0000

Add Nina Simone, Bob Marley, Black Panther, deadpool and you'll get a sale.

Re: Symlinks and hardlinks, move over, make room for... - Ram’s blog

Paddy3118 — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 07:47:26 -0000

I learned something more, thanks!
Got me thinking though...

Does it copy the whole file on write or only written blocks?
If only blocks then you could, for example, change a byte in a 1 gig file and only take up a few K for the difference; you might extend a gigabyte of reflinked file by a byte and only consume extra disk for the that byte (plus housekeeing).
This gets messy for reflinks of reflinks, and/or multi reflibked files I guess.

Thanks again :-)

Re: The simplicity paradox - Loïc Knuchel 👨‍💻

Paddy3118 — Sun, 24 May 2020 23:32:01 -0000

Oh, refactorings are great. I was thinking more of complex system design and requirements simplification.
On rewards, I've trained myself to think that a quiet release is the best release and trained managers to understand that Firefighting starts from a failure best avoided. Though I have extinguished others fires before : and made sure of due credit. 😏

Re: The simplicity paradox - Loïc Knuchel 👨‍💻

Paddy3118 — Fri, 22 May 2020 05:57:45 -0000

Wow! you seem to code amongst enemies!
No, you can develop a simpler implementation first: You might try to ask what part needs to be delivered first, sometimes a customer is up and running well before many of the lesser parts are started, now alittle prompting on further costs and complexity can leave some customers with a working and simpler solution.

No, simpler solutions can be very rewarding. The buzz of a job well done? Shaker furniture? Zen gardens? Unfortunately, poor managers might pay by amount rather than quality, and coders might be tempted to start coding cutting time to understand/question their requirements.

Re: The Singleton Design Pattern in Python

Paddy3118 — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 09:26:48 -0000

In Python we have the Borg patten.

"Avoiding the Singleton Design Pattern with the Borg Idiom ..."

"Why is the Borg pattern better than the Singleton pattern in ..."

The Singleton patten isn't necessary.

Design patterns tend to work in the language they are developed for, indeed, some pattens would be non-idiomtic in other languages. You need to think carefully about idioms from other languages to see if they are necessary, or best implemented in a certain way, in other languages.

Re: Rappers Are Wordsmiths, So Why Are They Often Mocked for the Way They Speak?

Paddy3118 — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 03:59:18 -0000

Does Trump speak like you? Does Boris speak like you? Slang doesn't necessarily mean an inability to communicate - more who controls the use of the term.

Re: 6 interesting features in programming languages

Paddy3118 — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 11:38:24 -0000

In Python, we call them list comprehensions. There are other types of comprehensions too, but nothing with the name "for comprehension" in Python :-)

Re: Complexity Waterfall

Paddy3118 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 01:21:27 -0000

You need to ne able to easily and accurately shut the darned things up!
Linters are an aid. As your coding skills improve there may be better reasons to adjust or drop a Linters rule. Here's one: you write a parser for data that has too long lines. You, as a matter of good maintenance, should include sections of expected data throughout, as samples of the data are the only spec for it that is given. If the data has long lines then your code will too.

Here's another case where you may want to limit the refactoring suggested by an automatic tool: diffs between successive versions can be large for little benefit, and having ruled against the Linters on one thing, how easy is it to not have that one thing clutter future reports?

And, of course, there's spec complexity: If the spec includes a high complexity expression, do you faithfully use as is, or do you simplify it. Some might argue the former.

I like Linters. They are useful, but one needs to understand their judgements, and, sometime after you first think you know better, you need to be able to shut them up.

Re: Dear Huawei, Please stop sending huge EMUI updates for a security patch

Paddy3118 — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 22:48:43 -0000

It is not an issue for me. Keep them coming!
Most manufacturers skimp on updates or are slooow to update which is much worse.

Re: Huawei Unveils its New Harmony OS so Google Can Shove Android Up its Butt – Eventually

Paddy3118 — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:43:07 -0000

I'd love to get a dual boot capability on current phones to try it out.

Re: Hot Pavement is More Dangerous Than You Realise

Paddy3118 — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 01:49:50 -0000

Real scientists using Fahrenheit?
Detracts from the credibility of your report.

Re: Top new features in Python 3.8

Paddy3118 — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 08:26:41 -0000

print(f'{input-output=}')

The result would now print a-b=50.

I hope not. Not with those variables in the print statement

Re: Top 10 British Things Americans Are Missing out on This Independence Day

Paddy3118 — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:31:42 -0000

1. Football.
2. Al-u-min-i-um.
3. Cheese without a spray can.
4. Manners.

Re: Flexible haptics patch senses pressure too

Paddy3118 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 06:52:08 -0000

I wonder, would it allow more accurate and less bulky mobile blood pressure monitoring such as being integrated into a watch strap? There is an, (Omron I think), large watch with a bladder to apply pressure that works on the wrist and is quoted as being of similar accuracy as an upper-arm band measurer, but the bulk and price are large.

Other wrist sensors, such as a Xaomi give ridiculous readings.

Re: Live Free or Dichotomize - Using AWK and R to parse 25tb

Paddy3118 — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:02:46 -0000

Of course it isn't. Awk predates and inspired Perl.