Oh it won’t end

Not true, I bitch about them more than ever

true, and i can’t think of a legitimate case where it would have tripped me up. but if someone, a novice perhaps, wrote

def some_func(foo, bar=[1, 2, 3]):
    bar.reverse()  # for whatever reason
    print(bar)

some_func('hello')    # output [3,2,1]
some_func('hello')    # output [1,2,3] 

i think they would be within their rights to be surprised that calling this function twice has different results. that’s what i was surprised by; it feels like bar would be re initialised each time with a scope of the function but apparenty not

Python item 1

Mutable default arguments don’t get re-initialized with each function call.

got an audible wtf from me… Been using python for years, totally unaware.

The “internal business tool” was a well known industry wide product that I had experience in. I should have known that changing an email address in any environment caused that new email address to be notified. It was my fault yes

My first week at a major fund company I was assigned to an internal business tool used by thousands. I noticed all the company email addresses in the sandbox weren’t correct, so I ran a script to correct them. Cue a call from C-level to my boss asking why he got a “email changed notification”. Followed by another… And another… And another…

I went out to lunch

Programmers in the next universe iteration: deep sigh

tine dilation

Holds up fork and squints at it

Play Game Dev Tycoon half asleep, cover all bases

I asked Alexa to order one in for me and my Indigo Witch just arrived…

I didn’t unfortunately :/

Debian + GNOME. I’m extremely new to Linux so excuse my ignorance. I searched around the topic a while finding some commands that didn’t work and others having the same issue. If you know different that would be much appreciated!

It seems impossible to set display scaling from the command line. Anything that fixes that would be nice.

Anakin:

Every day further from god’s light etc…

Amazing, lol

“somehow RIF returned…”

I’m I the only one who pronounces regex with a soft g? Hard g feels so clunky

I follow the 80/20 rule recursively. as soon as I’ve gotten 80% of the way there for 20% effort I immediately stop, and start a brand new project for the remaining 20%. Bam! 96% complete for only 24% effort.

taps forehead

Remember to throw in “=” at the start just to toy with the poor sap who has to manipulate the results in excel