On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
>> Aviators have pinned down the best solution to this, I think. A pilot
>> is not expected to be perfect; he is expected to follow checklists. A
>> preflight checklist. A departure checklist. A landing checklist.
>> Everything that needs to be d
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 5:13 AM, Skip Montanaro
wrote:
>> If you have a Windows key, you can assign it to be
>> the Compose key.
>
> Would this be true on a machine running Windows? My work environment
> has me developing on Linux, with a Windows desktop. It's not clear to
> me that any sort of xm
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 1:55 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 8:07:47 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
>> > You could go one step more sophisticated and use TeX-input method
>> > (C-x RET C-\)
>> > After which \'e wil
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 2:14 AM, bartc wrote:
> JPEG uses lossy compression. The resulting recovered data is an
> approximation of the original.
Ah but it is a perfect representation of the JPEG stream. Any given compressed
stream must always decode to the same output. The lossiness is on the ENc
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 10:38 PM, bartc wrote:
> On 27/11/2017 03:04, Michael Torrie wrote:
>>
>> On 11/26/2017 08:39 AM, bartc wrote:
>>>
>>> The problem was traced to two lines that were in the wrong order (in the
>>> original program). I can't see how unit tests can have helped in any way
>>> a
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> You could go one step more sophisticated and use TeX-input method
> (C-x RET C-\)
> After which \'e will collapse as ÄC
> â £Yeah ok but how the ^)*^$# am I to remember the mantra \'e?!â Ø you may
ask
> Trueâ | So as you rightly do,
> - pick it
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 9:01 PM, wrote:
> On Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 7:09:25 PM UTC-8, Michael Torrie wrote:
>
>> So you are using this Infinity class as a sentinel value of some kind?
>> Representing game state? There may be an easier way than a full on
>> custom type. Sometimes just a se
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Gregory Ewing
wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:11 AM, bartc wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>> If I had to bother with such systematic tests as you suggest, and finish
>>> and
>>> sign off everything before proceeding further, then nothing would eve
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 11/26/2017 07:11 AM, bartc wrote:
>>> You may argue that testing doesn't matter for his small game, written
>>> for his own education and amusement. The fact is that software in
>>> general is of abysmal quality across the boards, and pr
Not sure whether this is an issue for -owner or not; apologies if not.
I'm seeing a whole lot of reasonably-recent posts getting re-sent, with
"nospam" attached to the posters' names. And they're getting re-sent multiple
times. Sometimes the posts have encoding problems (small amounts of mojibake)
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Skip Montanaro
wrote:
>> There seems to be a gateway loop of some sort going on.
>> I'm seeing multiple versions of the same posts in
>> comp.lang.python with different numbers of "nospam"s
>> prepended to the email address.
>
> This is the second thread about thi
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Skip Montanaro
wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Please forward one or two to me. Mark Sapiro and I have been banging on the
> SpamBayes instance which supports the Usenet gateway. I suppose it's
> possible some change caused the problem you're seeing.
>
> Skip
Sent a couple t
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 11/25/2017 5:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 9:05 AM, wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, my goal is to obtain an interpreter that internally
>>> uses UCS-2. Such a simple code should print 65535:
>>>
>>>import sys
>>>pr
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 9:05 AM, wrote:
> Hi, my goal is to obtain an interpreter that internally
> uses UCS-2. Such a simple code should print 65535:
>
> import sys
> print sys.maxunicode
>
> This is enabled in Windows, but I want the same in Linux.
> What options have I pass to the configur
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:11 AM, bartc wrote:
> The way I write code isn't incrementally top down or bottom up. It's
> backwards and forwards. Feedback from different parts means the thing
> develops as a whole. Sometimes parts are split into distinct sections,
> sometimes different parts are merg
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 3:43:29 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 9:05 AM, wojtek.mula wrote:
>> > Hi, my goal is to obtain an interpreter that internally
>> > uses UCS-2. Such a simple code should print 655
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 11/25/2017 5:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 9:05 AM, wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, my goal is to obtain an interpreter that internally
>>> uses UCS-2. Such a simple code should print 65535:
>>>
>>>import sys
>>>pr
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 9:05 AM, wrote:
> Hi, my goal is to obtain an interpreter that internally
> uses UCS-2. Such a simple code should print 65535:
>
> import sys
> print sys.maxunicode
>
> This is enabled in Windows, but I want the same in Linux.
> What options have I pass to the configur
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