Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

I did some basic profiling and I think the multi-threading behavior is actually not buying me much, because a lot of the time is spent doing the zip encoding.

Not sure if there is a simple way to parallelize that or if it's even worth doing.

I soft-launched this a few weeks back, but here is my most polished (i.e. not very) @rustlang project to date: metadata-backup, a tool for backing up your file system metadata.

Contributions welcome!

https://gitlab.com/pganssle/metadata-backup

Blog post: Testing an Arch Linux package in Gitlab CI

This is basically the blog post I was hoping to find when I was struggling with permissions issues in my new CI pipeline. It's a bit outside my comfort zone, so I'm especially keen on feedback (e-mail is best, but twitter or mastodon works in a pinch).

https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2019/12/gitlab-ci-arch-pkg.html

#archlinux #linux #gitlab #docker #testing

#PyO3 is considering dropping support for Python 3.5, but is looking for feedback from users. See the issue here: https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/issues/685

#Rust @rustlang #Python

I see no mention of translations in the Wikipedia article for the episode: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Hat

A central part of the "Free Hat" episode of South Park is the confusion between "free as in beer" and "free as in freedom". I'm curious, did anyone watch this episode in a language that makes a clear distinction between these? How was it translated? Did they add a gloss?

"Alexa, who lives in Buckingham Palace?"
"Buckingham Palace's resident is Prince Philip."

Just submitted another one and it's #923. 😬

Oh boy, my #PyCon proposal is number 734. Gonna be some stiff competition this year.

I was reminded of this when replying to someone else and I thought I'd post it separately, here's a 2015 blog post from @bderickson that I found very useful about how to generate LaTeX using Jinja2: http://eosrei.net/articles/2015/11/latex-templates-python-and-jinja2-generate-pdfs

I'm really glad people were tweeting about getting their #PyCon proposals in, because I really let the deadline sneak up on me this year.

@pganssle One thing that concerns me is that there is no incentive for news outlets or researchers/universities to be careful in their reporting of science.

If it were up to me, nothing would be reported in the popular press without pre-registration and replication.

This paper from 1975 ominously foreshadows the replication crisis and detailing how to prevent it: https://faculty.washington.edu/agg/pdf/Gwald_PsychBull_1975.OCR.pdf

Interesting and somewhat depressing. The current generation of scientists is doing better by looking at incentives, but it's an uphill battle.

Been issuing <details> for a while now, but the <summary> tag is new to me, very nice!
https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/201912/fancy_console_output_in_github_comments.html