Oh god, I'm rewriting an old Python script we use at work and I had a look at the original tests for inspiration... There are 600 lines of "passes", #TODOs, assertions that can never fail, and tests of imported packages. Basically none of it is testing the actual script 🙃

I posted on StackOverflow, it didn’t get downvoted or marked as duplicate, and I received a useful answer that solved my problem. Am I dreaming?

Comedy gold

“A man is null”

I want to automatically backup all my local files to the cloud that have been copied onto my Linux server a week or longer ago. How do I do that? My idea is that if something goes wrong locally I have a week to restore from the cloud.

Not really dev, but any time I have to use Matlab or R is a WTF experience.

Any recommendations for cloud backup? I want somewhere I can backup my Linux NAS. Backblaze (personal, not B2) would be amazing if it had any support for Linux.

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MySpace has lost its entire music catalogue pre-2016, an estimated 50 million songs in a failed server migration: https://theregister.co.uk/2019/03/...

Max file size allowed is 10 MB, and this is what I get when I try to upload a 5 MB file. Do I really want to apply here?

Thanks you

Why is it so fucking difficult for mobile OSs (Android/iOS) to revert to mobile data when the WiFi is clearly not working? It’s so annoying when my phone connects to some AP 10 fucking nautical miles away and tries desperately to get a connection to the internet when I have a data plan that works just fine. The solution would be so fucking simple: before the phone switches to WiFi connection it should simply probe the internet. Login required? Ask me if I want to proceed before showing me the fucking login portal. No response at all? Then don’t even bother going any further with it.

I’m a very logical person (INTP), so that’s probably why I like coding, and it definitely affects my relationships. I’m not very emotional, and that’s an issue when your partner demands you to be. When I’m down I make a plan in my head how I’ll deal with that issue and that lifts me back up. But there are people who simply need to be lied to telling them things will be just okay. So, yeah. I need to find girls who are also logical at least to some extent.

Data scientists: I have logged how busy my gym was for a week (every minute). How would I generate a graph of a typical day? I haven’t done anything like this, so I don’t know how to approach the problem. Basically I want to see what time of the day there’s a quiet period on average.

Today I met a girl who’s super cute, down to earth, smart, uses no social media, and games. I would normally wake up soon after such dreams, but this actually happened today. I asked her out before it was too late 😊

Music production mostly, but I’m into anything that involves technology and creativity. I also like Battle Royale games.

Our university has a rather small gym, and it tends get pretty crowded. They have an online counter, so I wrote a Python script that queries the current number of people every minute, and logs it in a CSV (no need to get fancy). Hopefully in a week I’ll have enough data to spot the quiet times 😎

Isn’t it ironic that the only browser that can’t deal with Google Calendar’s importing is Chrome? It has been broken for months now.

1, People stop forcing Node.js on me
2, Browsers actually comply with W3C and don’t publicly experiment on their own
3, Internet Explorer is pulled from all installations retroactively

One doesn’t simply transfer a domain out from GoDaddy 🤬

I consistently wake up 2 minutes before my alarm. Bug or feature? 🤔

Okay then

Generally devs who are too arrogant to accept help or constructive criticism. There’s this data visualisation library that missed a specific feature that psychologists use quite frequently, so I added it myself and opened a PR. The maintainer closed it because people should use whatever he’d already implemented. It’s like not giving someone the option to listen to disco because rock music is better. Yeah, cool story bro. Now all my visualisation projects depend on my fork instead. Same with the now abandoned Material Design Library devs. They didn’t have a drop down with free input, so I opened a PR with my solution. Closed as it was out of scope, simply because Google didn’t specifically include that in the Material specs, only an input and a drop down separately which my solution matched. I also opened a PR for an obviously missing feature (being able to validate forms via JS), closed as this behaviour wasn’t in the Material specs either. No wonder MDL died before it was ever finished.

“Let’s spend two pages and 100 lines of code on bad practice before you learn good practice in 5 lines.”

Django (& REST) tutorials in a nutshell 🙄

How do I run an APT update right before shutdown? I want my Ubuntu to auto-update like Windows 😛

Why do people pronounce char like charcoal when it clearly stands for character? It should be pronounced like car 🤔

My family members don’t seem to understand that you can attach multiple photos to an email, so they send them one by one, even if that means 10 emails 🙄

Genius UI design: the text next to latest news changes between 2 and 3 lines, and every time that happens the entire website gets pushed up and down. I thought my touchpad was going crazy for doing phantom scrolls, but no, it’s that same incompetent designer from my previous rant.

Genius UI design

I normally have my Windows desktop and my Kubuntu laptop, but I’m on “holiday”, and I only brought my laptop. “I can write a simple research proposal on it, right?”, I thought. Ahahahaha, no. Turns out Libre Office and Mendeley are fucking useless on Linux. I had to give up and use my mum’s prehistoric Windows 7 laptop... Also Snap is “great” in theory (basically a Linux setup.exe, rendering packages pointless), but nothing I’ve tried worked so far. Docker can’t figure its permissions out, Chromium cursors break, and Mendeley doesn’t even detect Libre Office as installed. What a fucking shit show. I love Linux for dev, but no fucking surprise that no sane human being uses it for everyday tasks.