mypalmike

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1081.
by mypalmike 10y ago
Why would you mix expect with ssh? Most of the time, if you can ssh, you can use an exec channel ("ssh somehost somecommand"), so you shouldn't need to pretend to be typing characters and waiting for prompts.
1082.
by mypalmike 10y ago
And then there are the "enterprise switches" from at least one major vendor, whose crappy ssh implementation only supports a single tty channel (no exec channels), so you have to run expect anyhow. :-( $ ssh root@router uname -a
1083.
by mypalmike 10y ago
True. But nowadays most regex implementations are quite good (apparently go's is not - I haven't used it). That said, most regex performance problems are PEBKAC. Writing a fast regex is hard and requires a pretty thorough understa
1084.
by mypalmike 10y ago
How do I know that ("jane" "jim") is a list (like ["jane", "jim"] in JSON) rather than an associative array (like {"jane": "jim"} in JSON)? S-exs can represent the difference certa
1085.
by mypalmike 10y ago
If LISP had a widely-accepted standard, non-turing-complete subset to represent the equivalent persisted data structures JSON does, it would still be less readable than JSON. There are reasons JSON is the lingua franca of modern API interac
1086.
by mypalmike 10y ago
I built a similar thing recently with python. Not complete, but a bunch of stuff does work. It's modeled on interacting on-device with a JunOS or Cisco config. Probably the most interesting feature is text completion. https:/&#x2
1087.
by mypalmike 10y ago
> close to no one ever listened to / watched ads I can still sing jingles I learned from watching TV ads in the 70s.
1088.
by mypalmike 10y ago
Yes. It's not that Earth is a political utopia. It's that Titan is simply uninhabitable. Not just very difficult to colonize. Impossible.
1089.
by mypalmike 10y ago
> One requires massive social and economic change. The other requires sending a limited number of people to another part of the solar system. Do social and economic factors magically not apply to people who colonize the solar system? See
1090.
by mypalmike 10y ago
There's a huge difference between using IRS-allowed expenses to reduce your tax bill and claiming (as Snipes' accountants did) that all domestic income is not taxable. One is legal and the other is not.
1091.
by mypalmike 10y ago
Decent quality earbuds for hearing, and the built-in stereo mic on my Logitech webcam (I'm usually docked when conferencing). Never heard any complaints about clarity of my voice. * Used this for 4 years a a remote developer with multi
1092.
by mypalmike 10y ago
Lots of people do exactly this, as least for some portion of their finances. Buying houses through an llc and renting to oneself is not uncommon. You lose the tax benefits of interest deduction, but if you're paying cash that doesn&#x2
1093.
by mypalmike 10y ago
My experience has been quite the opposite wrt ruby and python. I spent 2 years with Ruby as my primary language, and the regularity in which I would end up with a subtly (or drastically) broken Ruby environment was astounding. With python,
1094.
by mypalmike 10y ago
It's just a term. Don't worry about it.
1095.
by mypalmike 10y ago
With AWS API gateway + lambda + dynamodb, I maintain exactly zero servers. Zero physical servers. Zero server OSes. Zero sysadmin. It's perfectly reasonable IMO for that to be called "serverless".
1096.
by mypalmike 10y ago
Great. We now know what color to paint the bike shed. Hoorah, progress!
1097.
by mypalmike 10y ago
Perhaps using http://pdfkit.org/
1098.
by mypalmike 10y ago
The analysis suggests that the speeds involved would require a few minutes of said g-forces, not seconds.
1099.
by mypalmike 10y ago
"We" is fine. Just ask your dog or cat what they think first.
1100.
by mypalmike 10y ago
What about one where you feel that, acting in various directions, at every curve, every speed transition, and every elevation change. Because that's the "barf ride" being discussed, not merely getting thrown to the back of yo
1101.
by mypalmike 10y ago
> nearly all control structures are implemented as an extension of GOTO Well put. Under the hood, every IF, ELSE, WHILE, SWITCH, FOR, and other decision point in structured code is implemented with at least one unconditional JMP.
1102.
by mypalmike 10y ago
Consider this: def load_data(): with open('some_file.json', 'r') as f_in: data = parse_json_stream(f_in) data['timestamp'] = some_date_fn() # Do something with the *definitely-valid*
1103.
by mypalmike 10y ago
Exceptions are for flow control. That's their entire purpose. Throwing an exception when parsing fails is a near perfect example of where exceptions produce clarity of code. That is to say, a parse function is usually a pure function t
1104.
by mypalmike 10y ago
> purely to compare one algorithm to another, not actually measure literal, real world performance. Estimating real world performance is the whole point of Big-O notation. Trying to solve the traveling salesman problem on all the stars i
1105.
by mypalmike 10y ago
One of the points he makes in the paper is that none of the 36 quantum mechanics textbooks he found in the library held that fields were fundamental. "30 implied a universe made of particles that sometimes acted like fields, 6 implied