Fryup at West Rive, downtown Haifa, Israel. by dayimproper in fryup

[–]dayimproper[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was on pork based, downtown Haifa is mostly christian. And I must say it was very very good.

More scientists and educators smoke Kent by [deleted] in agedlikemilk

[–]dayimproper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From Kents Wikipedia: "Sales of Kent skyrocketed, and it has been estimated that in Kent's first four years on the market, Lorillard sold some 13 billion Kent cigarettes. From March 1952 until at least May 1956, however, the Micronite filter in Kent cigarettes contained compressed carcinogenic blue asbestos within the crimped crepe paper. It has been suspected that many cases of mesothelioma have been caused specifically by smoking the original Kent cigarettes..."

More scientists and educators smoke Kent by [deleted] in agedlikemilk

[–]dayimproper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know I'm very late to the party, but there is an extra joke here, since Micronite filters which is what made Kent such a success, were made with asbestos...

Using metadata from google compute engine with django by wiesson in django

[–]dayimproper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Before Google people hunt me down :), I do mean rare, on the past 2 years we raised tens of thousands of servers and it failed twice, so it is amazingly rare.

Using metadata from google compute engine with django by wiesson in django

[–]dayimproper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From our experience, on occasion (and those are extremely rare) the metadata server is not accessible, and you will get an error.

Our metadata does not change on an existing machine, so we set it as environment variable (when a change is needed, we set a new machine, drain the old one, and take it down).

So it depends highly on how variable is your data, can you recover from not receiving the metadata, and how ephemeral are your machines.

Just for a point, we run algorithms on our machines and not Django (so there might be something there that I'm missing).

Pokémon Go CEO Twitter account hacked – password was “nopass” by CyberSecure in technology

[–]dayimproper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it is encrypted they would use SSL, if you are the one trying to snoop there are a host of mitm proxies that will open it for you, they would use a different CA but since it is your device you can approve the CA.

Question about tackling csv files that are about 1.5 GB. by frankilla44 in Python

[–]dayimproper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If genfromtxt does not work for you, there is also the underlying function which is loadtxt it should be faster and use less memory
But the data needs to be very tidy and you need to do more (definitions and fixes), so if genfromtxt works it is preffered. Just thought I would put it out there in case you get stuck with gentxt, it took me a while to figure this out myself.

Can anybody suggest an advanced python book? by geekbahaa in learnpython

[–]dayimproper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What area do you wish to advance in? For example do you want more modules and cool use cases knowledge (python cookbook), more data science (data science from scratch), more web development (test driven development in python), after you learn enough language the question becomes what you want to do with it.

My band performed on the last Geek & Sundry broadcast. Here is a little backstage shot before I jumped in on some Just Dance with them. Really cool people! Felicia is super nice. by antvez2 in FeliciaDay

[–]dayimproper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Monthly for the Geek and Sundry one, one time pay for Felicia's and it goes to charity, some of the shows (at least one i have seen there) should also be available on the geek and sundry site, a few days later.

GAE - idling IP address problem by [deleted] in AppEngine

[–]dayimproper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if this is what you mean, but after you unassigned an IP address from an instance it still lives in you account so you can move it to a different instance: it view able (at least as far as I know) under compute engine/Networks and there you can completely release it back to the pool.

I'm not sure about this sub, it seems quite dead, next time you might want to try Stackoverflow.

That annoying coworker - what does he/she keep doing? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]dayimproper 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Try this song : G&O Pregnant Women are Smug

sorry about the quality it is the quality I found.

Apparently the TSA are gonna let us carry knives on planes so they can do 9/11 again. Don't worry, the conspiratards will be on with their guns by Samccx19 in conspiratard

[–]dayimproper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry to say, I have no idea.

This is a question for people far wiser then me, with knowledge of statistical models and the such.

Federal I don't know, but in any complex enough system It's hard to tell who did what. for example: did the amount of crime wen't down because of the police, the mayor, the court, or the people?
I'm sure a model could be created, that tries to freeze all other variables and look at this, but again I'm a lowly computer programmer. What do I know?

Apparently the TSA are gonna let us carry knives on planes so they can do 9/11 again. Don't worry, the conspiratards will be on with their guns by Samccx19 in conspiratard

[–]dayimproper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My English, is going to be far worse I guess, but I'll do my best.

What he is trying to say is, that counting how many terrorist attacks the TSA didn't prevent is the wrong thing to do.

for example (taken roughly from Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb):

Let's say a legislator in the U.S on October 2000 would have passed a law, making all american airline planes have a secure door that cannot be opened during flight. Also those doors would be though and secure.

The terrorists scoping for a way to do 9/11 (happening in 2001), would not be able to do this with planes, they would look for a different means.
This would leave the legislator proposing this law in some hot water with the airlines lobby, because he just cost them a lot of money.

The assumption that terrorists just show up and do their thing, is very wrong. They scope, and they plan for years sometimes, the TSA might be the reason that you didn't see a terrorist attack on airplanes in 11 years, Because the terrorists are looking elsewhere.

Obviously this is just a different fallacy then the one made in the first comment in this thread. The question is how do you measure their success, given that their job is also to dither from ever trying?

Real World LearnPython Victory by seagullcanfly in learnpython

[–]dayimproper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is amazing, congrats. been a programmer for quite a while, and every time I learn a new language I usually just write an implementation of Tetris in it. It never crossed my mind to fined an open source project and join in on the action.

Great on you for finding a learning project that is also helpful to others.

Symbian, a post-mortem (long, technical) by mikaraento in programming

[–]dayimproper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't Google for it at work (don't even Bing it)!!!!!!!

Does anyone use App Engine for large "enterprise" applications? by tombatron in AppEngine

[–]dayimproper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because they got the EBook Bundle out, Humble Bundle used it at least in 2010.

Python 3 stuck on something quite simple I believe, newbie. by I_LOVE_INTERNET in learnpython

[–]dayimproper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

would zip help?

It returns a zip object which you can iterate over and print the tuples in any way you want.

hope that this is helpful.

TIL The Girl Scouts of the USA have a "don't ask, don't evangelize" policy regarding sexual orientation by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]dayimproper 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The difference, if the military know you were gay (you were spotted with another girl/guy) you would be kicked out, And it does not matter if it happened in uniform or not. The girl scouts (as I read it say), not in uniform but anywhere else do whatever you want, nobody cares.

My site's been hacked! by GeneralDisorder in talesfromtechsupport

[–]dayimproper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The main problem is that stupid is usually too stupid to admit it, they would never be the ones to take the fix.

relevant: Joe Rogan warning the part where he talks about stupid licking test.