Tipewryter

5 lat temudiscuss

Interesting. I took the \K solution right from the article without trying it.

Now that I try it, it indeed does not work.

Maybe the author reads this and can look at it.

Tipewryter

5 lat temudiscuss

The solution...

    not_this|(but_this)

... is interesting. But since it returns the match in a submatch I would say the \K approach is better:

    (?:not_this.*?)*\Kbut_this

Because usually when you try hard to accomplish something with a regex, you do not have the luxury to say "And then please disregard the match and look at the submatch instead".

Tipewryter

5 lat temudiscuss

Here is how to reproduce it in a fresh docker container, so we have the same environment:

    docker run -it --rm debian:10-slim /bin/bash

    apt update
    apt install -y git python3-pip --no-install-recommends
    pip3 install git+https://github.com/bsdz/calcengine.git#master

Result: "This package requires Rust >=1.41.0."

Tipewryter

5 lat temudiscuss

This outputs many pages of debug information and then dies. The error seems to be this:

    This package requires Rust >=1.41.0.

Tipewryter

5 lat temudiscuss

    you can use pip install -r requirements.txt

I don't see a requirements.txt file.

Tipewryter

5 lat temudiscuss

Hmm.. No impact on the Microsoft stock price?

Tipewryter

5 lat temudiscuss

Additional requirement files for dev and test don't seem like a burden to me.

Can you describe an issue that you had by not locking transitive dependencies?

Tipewryter

5 lat temudiscuss

Why would I need poetry? Doesn't "pip3 install -r requirements.txt" do everything I need?

Tipewryter

5 lat temudiscuss

That is a very broad question. Can you mention a specific attack vector? Then I might be able to explain how I do or do not avoid it.

Tipewryter

5 lat temudiscuss

A Docker container starts in two seconds or so. And gives me everything I need. So no need to dabble with a VM.

There is not much overhead in running a project in a container. The project has a setup file that turns a fresh Debian 10 into whatever environment it needs. And thats it. Run that setup script in your Dockerfile to create a container and you are all set. Want to run the project in a VM or on bare metal? Just install Debian 10, run the setup script and you all set.

Tipewryter

5 lat temudiscuss

I prefer containers over pyenv and poetry. This way not only python version and dependencies are "in one place" but also all other stuff that comes along with a new project. The OS, the database etc.

The one thing I dislike about Python projects is that Python plasters the compile cache files all over the place. Is there a reason to change that? Currently I use the -B flag for all my scripts. But that makes it slow. I wish Python would have an option to perform like PHP and keep cached compilations in memory instead on disk. Or at least somewhere in /tmp/.

Tipewryter

6 lat temudiscuss

Two Tips:

1: Opensource it. The type of person who would be an early adapter probably wants to have the option to improve / self host it.

2: Make a Twitter account to keep interested people informed about your progress.

Tipewryter

6 lat temudiscuss

If. But so far, no federated system has resulted in good user experience.

Tipewryter

6 lat temudiscuss

Interesting.

Looking at Minds, I already see a big flaw: All posts are under the /newsfeed/ namespace.

So instead of

    /username/1234

your posts are here:

    /newsfeed/1234

I don't think users want to get "robbed" of their posts like this.

There also is no embed functionality. For Twitter type shoutouts it is absolutely vital that they can be embedded around the web.

Tipewryter

6 lat temudiscuss

That is a software repo. Not a public centralized service that lets users communicate with each other.

Tipewryter

6 lat temudiscuss

Can you name some alternatives? I am not aware of any.

Please note that I explicitly said "centralized". Because decentralized solutions like Mastodon have not resulted in viable alternatives for the average user so far.

Tipewryter

6 lat temudiscuss

Thought experiment:

How hard would it be to write a centralized 1-to-many message pipe that replicates Twitters core functionality?

How hard would it be to run such a thing? The moral and legal needs to censor content would probably be a bigger task then the technical implementation?

Tipewryter

6 lat temudiscuss

What do you eat in the morning?

Tipewryter

6 lat temudiscuss

Wow. What do you eat instead of bread?

Tipewryter

6 lat temudiscuss

You don't consider putting your body above work and marriage?