@freemo So on another topic. I got that python checked into my personal github and I also put it in the qoto gitlab as well. I have found no way other than manually to synch them up when I have made a change. Though I think I am done making changes. Did you want to put this somewhere? I think we were discussion starting a discourse topic on the puzzle itself.
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@Absinthe You can have github and gitlab sync automatically I do it with all my repos, ill check the exact settings and let ya know in a few.
@freemo awesome. I figured I must have done something wrong.
@Absinthe nah just missed the setting is all :) You can sink through both push and pull (usually you pick one but you can do it both ways too)
@freemo I don't see where the setting is. I just cloned it over there. I had to get a token from github and all that. But I just don't see where I could pull or anything else.
@Absinthe Just checked it is "Settings -> Repository -> Mirroring Repositories"
@freemo Don't see a "Repository" under settings anywhere :(
@Absinthe link me to the project and ill modify the link to point you direct to the setting.
@freemo okay, not the little thingie is spinning :) You wouldn't think it would take any time at all, but I assume it has to undo all the double pushing that I did :)
@Absinthe yup i didnt forget, about to get to that shortly, just dealing with that shit post thread im about to wrap up... life of a mod.
@freemo I keep looking at the existing topics and hear myself saying "Alex, I'll take stuff I know kcuf-all about for $200" :) So I figured I would recognize it when it showed up. :D
@Absinthe also feel free to add literally any interesting topics you want too. We need peopel other than me starting topics there :)
@freemo But they all sound like thesis and dissertation titles :) I am intimidated to even open one of them for discussion :)
@Absinthe I actually try to use really simple wording with the intention of teaching people difficult topics.
@Surasanji @Absinthe If Absinthe would like you are more then welcome to copy and paste any python related stuff as topics in the discourse. It really would be perfect.
@freemo You have probably done so, but it still doesn't come across as conversational. I should probably just open and read one, and actually make a decision that way. But you know, books, covers and all that. :)
@Absinthe Yea I'm not sure id describe it as conversational. I do have a bit of a serious tone too, though i do try to be very mindful to use simple vocabulary.
@freemo Seriously, my issue is more scrolling past the topic titles rather than looking in the actual text of what is posted. It might be written to the level of a 4th grader, but if I don't open it and look I will never know. And that is on me. But others may think similarly.
@Absinthe Well that is fair yea... I'm not opposed to changing them.
@freemo Anyway, I was hoping that you could post the puzzle/solution since I would like to further expand that as a conversation. WHen I shared the puzzle with a colleague he was reminded of a similar one with prisoners and their respective numbers. However, they were not given a swap. The idea being if each could choose his own number in the requisite tries he would not be executed. However, they would all have to succeed for it to work. The query in that case is what are the chances? So assuming there were no PC's longer than the requisite chances they would all go free. However, other than the brute force method of calculating and counting the PC's I am not certain of a formula for determining the distribution and size of them in a given group size. Seemed an interesting journey.
@Surasanji @freemo That seems like a hateful job. I don't think I could do that one.
Not doing it out of hate (as I am sure is the case with @Surasanji ) is exactly what jobs like those need.
@Surasanji @freemo I had an uncle that did that job down in FL all his life, other than stating that is what he did, he never really talked about it. So there's that.
It is likely an emotionally and ethically difficult job. I can kinda understand.
@freemo @Surasanji I think it is somewhat akin to being an inmate yourself.
@Absinthe @freemo I spent 12 hours overnight in a prison. I saw a lot of human suffering there that I don't think needed to happen.
I saw human beings forced to work as slaves for the state. It was an interesting experience, but I really couldn't sit there and see that. Knowing that was standard in the US led me to leave, along with a desire for health care.
@Absinthe yea i just need to find the link where i posted the original problem and I will make it as a post... Do you have the link handy by chance?
@Absinthe Thats it, thanks, posting it now...
@freemo seems to fail the mirror now I am not sure what I did wrong, or where to look for the error
@Absinthe you doing a push or pull mirror?
@freemo I assumed it had to be a pull
@Absinthe when setting it up it let yopu pick which you wanted to do. Pulls generally are easier to setup but it means the other repo needs to be public or else your messing with keys.
@freemo yeah, the original is wide open since it is on GitHub
@freemo I was going to just drop it and start over from scratch, but that doesn't seem to be an option either. I do hate feeling this stupid about a task like this...
@Absinthe Why cant you drop it?
@freemo probably can, just can't find any menu option that suggests that is what it might do :)
@Absinthe I just looked and i dont actually see any pending attempts to pull or mirror at all. Did you delete it?
@freemo found the delete. So I started over. I redid the import, and now I am doing the mirror/pull with default settings. Let's see what it does in a minute or two
@Absinthe I'm willing to bet the local repo wasnt a fastforward fo rthe github repo so it failed. Should work fine now that it is a fresh repo.
@freemo A new broom sweeps clean :)
@freemo Looks done.
@Absinthe ill take a quick look at your settings and see what might be up. Just give me a minute.
@freemo So the next thing was the discourse topic. I was waiting for you to post the puzzle/solution and was going to add this to that discussion.