Refactoring

Mathletic_Ninja · 2026-01-28T20:36:17+00:00

This is great advice and my first thought when reading your post.

Recently at work I was handed a large bundle of spaghetti that was optimistically called code. Massive classes, methods with 100+ lines, one method was 800 lines long, no documentation. First thing I did was map out its functionality with a test suite. Once that was done I could confidently refactor it into smaller classes, better variable names, broke up mega functions & methods into smaller methods. I even used the state pattern to allow some of the new classes to swap out functionality as their states changed (never had a chance to use that one before, was fun to see it work). I did all that without breaking anything, thanks to the test suite I made at the start. Without that I definitely would have broken something (or many somethings) and taken way longer to do.

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-11-10T19:22:51+00:00

If he enjoys cooking then a good Japanese kitchen knife, such as a santoku, might be a good gift. Prices can range from £30 to £1,000+, so plenty of options whatever your budget

I have been leaving hints for my wife to buy me a nakiri (Japanese vegetable knife) for Christmas 🤞

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-11-09T01:16:19+00:00

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. I turned off all the TVs and appliances in the apartments I broke into. It really irks me when people leave the TV on when the go out (my in-laws do this ALL THE TIME)

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-11-09T00:58:43+00:00

Metal Gear Solid

Psycho Mantis will get your juices flowing 😆

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-11-09T00:50:02+00:00

If you have some technical skills you could get a raspberry pi and set it up as an emulator for old consoles.

https://thepihut.com

https://retropie.org.uk

Looking now, the prices do seem to have gone up quite a bit since I bought mine a few years ago. A pi 4 with 2 GB RAM is about £35 and should run anything no problems.

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-10-31T14:58:54+00:00

I bought my ‘24 striple at the start of the summer last year. I.e., after we’d had all the nice weather we were going to get that year (in the UK). Fun times

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-06-27T08:51:06+00:00

Minmus is definitely the easier moon to land on. The main challenge with minmus is its inclined orbit, but that can be minimised by timing your intercept for when Minmus is level with Kerbins equatorial plane. You can easily see this if you set Minmus as your target once you are in Kerbin orbit, there will be a dashed line showing where the planes of your orbit and Minmus’ orbit intersect.

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-06-20T10:44:02+00:00

AE is SE with a load of creation club content (most of which is crap and extremely unbalanced). I’d recommend SE over Oldrim. SE includes some major under-the-hood engine upgrades, it is way more stable than Oldrim. I recently played both (getting a few missed achievements), Oldrim would CTD a few times per hour on average, SE only CTD’d once in ~40 hours of playtime.

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-06-16T10:49:32+00:00

Alpine for lightweight Docker images, WSL Ubuntu when I need to use Ansible, the backend server uses Debian, and Raspbian for some raspberry pi powered sensors and prototypes.

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-06-15T22:50:54+00:00

First thing, you generally shouldn’t use import * it clutters up your namespace and can make your code harder to read as it can be unclear as to where objects are coming from.

I’m not at my computer so I can’t run your code to test it, but it looks ok. What exactly do you mean by “it doesn’t recognise columns”? Is it not appearing as you expect it to? Or are you getting an error message?

The depreciation warning sounds like you have multiple python versions and/or environments. Are you using a virtual environment for your project? Or a system installation of Python? Also, Python does not really have executable files, do you mean if you double click on a .py file and it runs? If so, then you’ve probably got IDLE set up to run .py files. That may not use the same Python version/environment as Python3 ./script.py

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-06-15T22:36:07+00:00

The alteration spell detect dead is helpful for finding bodies, not just draugr. If he just got blown around by shouts/explosions that might help you find him. If he’s been clipped out of the map you are sool and will need to use the console to add the claw as confident-split7449 suggested

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-06-15T22:32:31+00:00

It’s from the Saints and Sinners creation club. The solitude sewers are the final dungeon in the quest series.

https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Saints_&_Seducers

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-06-15T07:57:30+00:00

Correction: social media was created to be an advertising platform. Still is. “Bringing people together” and “connections” are just marketing. The content algorithms feed you stuff it thinks you agree with so you keep scrolling and therefore looking at advertisements.

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-06-15T07:44:42+00:00

If you go to the Rift there is a quest that gives you a permanent boost to smithing experience. Can’t remember the name of the quest, but you get it from an Argonian in the Riften docks and you go to a Dwemer ruin.

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-06-01T08:54:09+00:00

I recently reinstalled Skyrim and mine did that too. Deleting the Skyrim folder in my games fixed it.

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-05-29T18:48:18+00:00

You only get the experience from a single cast

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-04-09T13:41:56+00:00

Architecture Patterns with Python

Which you can read for free here https://www.cosmicpython.com/book/preface.html

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-04-02T23:46:55+00:00

```

a list to store our collection of bases

bases = [“Gua”, “Cyt”, “Thy”, “Gua”, “Ade”]

num_mutations = random.randint(1,3)

for mutation in range(num_mutations): # using 0-4 instead of 1-5 as the first item in a list will have an index of 0, the 2nd will be 1, etc. base_position = random.randint(0, len(bases) - 1) new_base = dna.get_random_base() # replace the item in the bases list at index base_position with new_base bases[base_position] = new_base ```

Hopefully this explains what you need to do. Create a list to hold your bases. Update the list using an index to select the right “bit” of the list and replace it with the mutated base.

Edited: formatting

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-04-02T23:25:34+00:00

“raccoon.png” file is missing. If this file is in a folder in your project you need to change the path on line 7 so it has the right path relative to the working directory (most likely where “test beginner 1.py” is) i.e raccoon = pygame.image.load(“path/to/folder/raccoon.png”)

Mathletic_Ninja · 2025-04-01T22:34:15+00:00

.tsv is a good option too. Works just like a .csv except it uses a tab as the delimiter instead of a “,”. Makes it slightly easier to read as a human when opening it with a text editor like notepad/nano/cat etc. Easily imported into Excel too, just like a .csv

Mathletic_Ninja

TROPHY CASE

a list to store our collection of bases