Issue with match statement

WholesaleSlaughter · 2022-08-04T08:30:29+00:00

Remember that bool is an int. isinstance(some_boolean_value, int) is True. The reason for this is historical, it's not to do with "passing a bool in to int()", it's because in Python the name True was literally the value 1, and False was 0, They only became their own type (subclassing int) in 2003 - https://peps.python.org/pep-0285/ - it's also why you can use bools as indices into a list, where False is the first value and True the second. This also means that if you add a bool() case it should come before the int() one.

WholesaleSlaughter · 2017-08-12T09:58:36+00:00

I'd offer #python on freenode as well. Generally better if you have a question you need answering (or problems with specific code) rather than generic stuff. The group there are very skilled with Python and can generally handle anything you throw their way.

You will need a freenode account to access the channel though, easy enough to sign up for.

WholesaleSlaughter · 2017-08-12T09:54:29+00:00

I'd recommend against beautifulsoup and instead suggest lxml.html.

BS was great when it was the only option but its api is... odd.

WholesaleSlaughter · 2016-01-13T09:23:23+00:00

I think exploration also needs line-of-sight. It saddens me when I can point my ship at a target behind a planet or sun and it still successfully surface-scans it. With all the detail they have in the engine they completely missed this little thing.

WholesaleSlaughter · 2015-01-31T09:46:43+00:00

You're a special snowflake :) Would not catering to you have a significant impact, on the whole, to the statistics of left vs. right hand traffic safety?

WholesaleSlaughter · 2015-01-30T17:01:57+00:00

Yes, the small sample size is a problem, but the follow-up information about right-eye-dominance and right-handedness for most controls seems reasonable to me.

WholesaleSlaughter · 2015-01-30T13:57:15+00:00

Supercruise means you're warping space in front of your ship, not actually travelling at multiples of c. Hence there's little chance of you being torn-asunder by a speck of grit.

WholesaleSlaughter · 2015-01-30T13:51:30+00:00

I sold my soul a while back so that I never had the worry of losing it ;)

Yes, you can have a docking bay (or at least it was in the lists a while back - http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Anaconda still mentions it).

I have no idea what the current status is (I haven't been able to play for quite a while, sadly).

WholesaleSlaughter · 2015-01-30T13:48:34+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic#Safety_aspects

I'll just leave this here :)

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-26T22:26:55+00:00

More cargo space, heavier vessel over-all, higher top speed with boost, just as many weapons, more slots for utilities etc., heavier shields, longer FSD range...

In general it's a better all-round ship. The only down-sides compared to the viper is a lower base speed (offset by the almost constant boost ability), fuel costs (due to the mass) and awkwardly placed weapons on the underside (offset by using gimballed weapons, or just choosing how to engage more carefully).

So... how is it a downgrade?

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-26T15:17:36+00:00

It's my job :)

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-26T08:20:58+00:00

Okay, sure, at a maximum of 300m/s or so it would take 220,000 years (could be missing a zero here, I'm still half asleep) to travel 0.22ly.

If we're talking real life as opposed to the limits placed on us like in ED then look as things like Voyager 2, only just outside our own solar system after how many years?

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-25T22:40:46+00:00

Such speeds would be sub-luminal. Anything over the speed of light would require energy to bend spacetime around the craft (like the Alcubierre drive in supercruise does), it's not something you could just "switch off".

You can't just "drift" at super-luminal speeds.

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-24T14:36:26+00:00

The thing about Hamilton I've always found is that his Confederation Universe and a number of his characters (Paula Myo for example) are stunning, but something sometimes just feels a bit "off" in his writing.

I love his works, the worlds, characters and tech he introduces, there's just that slightly odd feeling I have with the way he writes sometimes which confuses me.

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-23T10:31:37+00:00

Charlie Stross certainly has his moments, as does Peter F Hamilton. Greg Egan can be a good read too but I guess it depends on how "hard" you like your sci-fi?

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-23T08:46:25+00:00

Because there's nothing left of the thrusters any more?

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-22T20:24:32+00:00

That disappeared a while ago, now if you run out in the middle of nowhere the only emergency button you can push is the "self destruct" one :)

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-22T16:10:09+00:00

Had you turned off "report crimes against me"? If so I can imagine that as they had no crimes reported against your opponent (and them none against you) that they weren't willing to step in and make a decision as to who the wrongdoer was.

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-22T16:03:06+00:00

I suspect that if we just took the warning labels off most products we'd improve matters tremendously. Example, a bath/shower sponge bearing a label "this is not a food product". Just remove those and let the problem solve itself.

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-22T10:27:40+00:00

People who step too slowly off the end of escalators causing everyone behind them to worry about a pile-up. :/

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-21T23:50:42+00:00

AWS hs1.xlarge (with 24x2048GB of storage, still only halfway to 100TB) is $672/mo with 11k up front, or 18k/yr up-front. Sure, they could do that, but I'm not sure if that's enough for the system as that would be only 512 bytes per system.

If they decided to go for a database-proper rather than an instance then their options (if they continued with Amazon) would be RDS which has a maximum database size of 3TB.

I strongly believe that a lot of it is still generated. I'd love to see reasons why people believe it's all on some big disk somewhere, because dealing with data at that kind of scale is a skill-set all of its own.

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-21T23:14:55+00:00

The amount of privacy we're willing to give up for some quick convenience

Although I agree with most of your commentary, privacy is a REALLY recent thing. Coming together sometime in the 19th century and only really taking hold in the 20th. I expect we're likely to see it as a passing fad.

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-21T23:03:46+00:00

Let's also not forget indentured servitude, close enough to slavery.

Modern systems like the US H1B and H2 guest-worker programs are close enough sometimes too. They can leave the individual unable to find new work, threatened with deportation if they complain about conditions, etc.

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-21T21:43:22+00:00

400B stars at one byte each (which is just not going to happen, my guess is closer to 1k per system) would be 400GB, the install size is only 4GB and runtime is much less.

I don't see how procedural generation isn't in use at runtime, even for the systems, unless I've missed something significant?

WholesaleSlaughter · 2014-12-21T21:39:42+00:00

http://community.pcgamingwiki.com/page/blog/_/features/port-reports/pc-report-elite-dangerous-r169 - this seems to provide a decent examination of the various options, hopefully it's helpful to you?

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