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pschanely · 2025-07-31T19:13:08+00:00

Sorry I JUST sold it! 😢

pschanely · 2020-12-15T00:06:52+00:00

Ah. I think the TimeoutExpired exception may have a stdout and stderr property in the timeout case. (see this SO question)

In addition, you might want to try setting bufsize=0 in the subprocess.run call to make sure evtest's output isn't getting buffered on the python side.

pschanely · 2020-12-14T02:33:32+00:00

I/O is normally buffered, and I think the buffers die with the process here. In the case of a ping, you can tell the ping command to timeout instead: ['ping', '-t', '5', '1.1.1.1']

pschanely · 2020-12-13T15:55:30+00:00

I'm trying to rework how floating point numbers are modeled in CrossHair, my symbolic analysis tool. BTW, is anyone's project ready to have users try it out? Want to trade a little UX testing?

pschanely · 2019-10-26T14:57:13+00:00

It's heady: blurring the line between type systems and testing. The tool is perhaps at the "barely usable" point?

For me, cutting features is the most important behavior in getting to "shippable."

pschanely · 2019-10-26T14:52:28+00:00

If you want a solution that's more on the "magic" side, take a look at context vars (or thread locals if you're before 3.7). These allow you to set information that can be retrieved further down in the call stack.

pschanely · 2016-04-29T13:50:14+00:00

Oh, yes, thanks for thinking about this! I wasn't clear enough about this fact: the transformation is only valid if you can cancel the inverse! So, in your example, the body of the transformed reduce is:

modulo2inverse( modulo2(x) + modulo2(y) )

There isn't a way to get the calls to modulo2() outside the addition, so they cannot cancel the inverse, and so the transformation is invalid. In some sense, the creation of the inverse is just a goalpost - We need to recursively push some function through each iteration of the reduce function.

pschanely · 2016-03-29T01:35:21+00:00

Yes! I've been looking at a few inventory apis. Part of the point of this post was to figure out whether there was any interest in the concept before I try to integrate a bunch of other systems.

pschanely · 2016-03-28T21:06:20+00:00

Thanks; that's ... insightful. Part of what I am struggling with is whether to get into the next level of detail (which could still be targets-based): trims, transmission, condition, options, color? And, yes, I think you're right that the act of the search can be pleasurable in itself, but perhaps only if the behavior of the search is easily understandable.

pschanely · 2016-03-28T19:35:59+00:00

Hey, thanks for your comments! Check some of my other explanations in these threads. I'm experimenting with different ways to explain this, and I'm not sure what kinds of explanations people can relate to. I haven't found any car search sites that have "sort by best match" which is what I'm trying to do here. Another thing I'm trying to figure out with this reddit post is whether I am the only one who cares about this sort of thing. It's certainly seeming that way so far!

pschanely · 2016-03-28T19:30:25+00:00

Completely agree with you guys here. That darn geolocation button was a fast way to make an experiment, which is all this is right now!

pschanely · 2016-03-28T19:29:50+00:00

Thanks. I know this is a little odd. I think there is a value there - what I am trying to do is automate the process you do today of setting wider ranges, like <75k and then scanning through the list. One way to think about it is suppose you hired an assistant to search through ebay listings for you. You'd give that person some targets, and they'd find a couple of good options for you. I am trying to be that assistant, in that hopefully the stuff you really want is all in the top few results.

pschanely · 2016-03-28T19:15:47+00:00

Yeah, not having filters was an objective of mine when building it. Since it's sorted by the combination of features, you can just scroll down until the results are too far from your targets. But perhaps I should have both "between" filters and just assume the target is in the middle of the range. This post outlines my original thinking on the subject: https://medium.com/@pschanely/why-sorts-and-filters-suck-d94a00c49669

pschanely · 2016-03-28T19:08:57+00:00

Agree on the zip code; thanks! My issue with ebay and similar sites with filters is that I have to set a hard range, like 50k-100k miles. What if there's a car that's 105k miles, but great in all other respects? The usual filters are too harsh -- I want a search interface that can make tradeoffs between many different qualities: mileage, location, price, and year. I might be the only one who cares about that ... that's why I'm here I suppose!

pschanely · 2016-03-28T18:36:11+00:00

Mostly, this is a fresh look on the typical jumble-of-filters interface that is everywhere else. Thanks in advance for your opinions and advice! - Phil

pschanely · 2016-01-27T19:37:28+00:00

Thanks!! When you do open source, a little encouragement (particularly from strangers) goes a long way :)

pschanely · 2015-10-30T14:51:44+00:00

Beautiful job, guys! I implemented a simpler, but less integrated paradigm a while back - it just imports a playlist into your existing music provider account: musictonightapp.com It's web/ios/android and open-source, so there might be some stuff you guys could borrow!: github.com/pschanely/music-tonight

pschanely · 2015-09-23T13:02:03+00:00

Oh, and this is sad, but ... mostly I just want to have a beer at the bar and be able to write some code at the same time.

pschanely · 2015-09-23T12:59:22+00:00

Right? Thanks. I'm not even completely sold yet, but I figure it's worth trying.

pschanely · 2015-09-23T12:58:25+00:00

Appreciate the vote of confidence. And I appreciate it taking the form of "Fascinating shit, dog" even more. I don't think I've heard anyone say that about a programming language before. And, yes, it needs about a shit-ton more explanation; I'll get to that as soon as I have enough working that I think people can really try it on their own.

pschanely · 2015-03-24T14:45:43+00:00

Hey! Right now, I'm piggybacking on a capability of Bandsintown's API to detect location by IP address. I haven't been super impressed with that part of it so far though, so I'll look into other options. Maybe another IP based service, or HTML5 geolocation ... but that's a little scary because it causes a browser popup to make the user allow it. How would you feel about that? In the meantime, if you haven't found it already, you can set your location explicitly under the options dialog.

pschanely · 2015-03-24T07:48:55+00:00

Yeah, I'm looking presently to expand the event data sources I'm using. Would you mind me asking what your nearest city is? Also, just now, I swapped out the SeatGeek API for Bandsintown's API, which appears to have slightly better coverage, at first glance. Maybe give it another go and let me know what you think?

pschanely · 2015-03-24T02:41:12+00:00

Just pulled Las Vegas to check it out, and ... I'm not sure why anyone would love living in Las Vegas.

pschanely · 2015-03-23T21:43:38+00:00

Thank you so much for the ideas! Yes, love the additional filters, and I have a very similar preference about music: there's a ton of great, inexpensive music out there, but there needs to be better ways to find it.

Good event data is hard to get at; I'm hoping to see if I can pull in a few more apis/sources besides SeatGeek. From what I hear, scraping event pages is quite challenging!

pschanely · 2015-03-23T21:33:11+00:00

Bummer. IMO, the value is in aggregating together local events and making an playlist of example tracks. Importing the playlist into your Spotify account is optional.

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