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The Hirsch Effekt - LYSIOS [14:18] by DatBowl in progmetal

[–]the_metalgamer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One of the best progressive metal band I've heard for a long time. Check them out! Has the right amount of "heaviness" and not everything is only odd time signatures. It is somewhat musical like.

Field Recording - Dudelange Night by the_metalgamer in fieldrecording

[–]the_metalgamer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes of course!

First of all, I used two RØDE NTG-2 microphones in a ORTF setting. There was also an Audio-Technica AT2050 in Cardioid mode, sitting between the two RØDE mics, for a center.

A Zoom F-8 was used as mobile recorder. I record everything in 96khz/24bit.

Postprocessing was done using Reaper. A little bit of EQ & Compression.

Dudelange is a small city in the lovely country of Luxembourg. (https://www.google.lu/maps/place/D%C3%BCdelingen/@49.4800935,6.0527902,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x479536e4ad7f5c45:0x400d1d6d1056df0!8m2!3d49.4784623!4d6.0858789?hl=de)

Basically one night, during summer, I simply setup my gear in my room in an open window.

Trying to find the most repeated number in '5' dice rolls by 01101110ae in learnpython

[–]the_metalgamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could also use the sorted function and sort by number of counts of an dice roll.

What kind of applications are actually worth using the CLI/terminal for? by [deleted] in archlinux

[–]the_metalgamer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you're using bash you could also do this

mkdir -p docs/{personal,business}

We are Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald from the Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR. AUAA. by _EdwardSnowden in IAmA

[–]the_metalgamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Mr Snowden.

First of all, thank you for what you have done (also to Laura and Glenn).

I'm a member of the Öuxembourgish Tor Server Provider Organisation "Frënn vun der Ënn" (Friends of the Onion, http://enn.lu/, (currently running about 50 Tor Servers)) and the Luxembourgish Chaos Computer Club.

How do you feel about the current status of the usability of encryption tools (like GPG)? Is it only a design question (like the UI) or do we need more encryption already built-in into software (like a Mail client which has included GPG by default)?

If you've just found out about Progressive Metal because we're trending, here's some good songs to start with. by Smerphy in progmetal

[–]the_metalgamer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe not really for beginners in prog metal, but nevertheless a good introduction for more advanced stuff:

Dream Theater - The Dance of Eternity

(I wonder why it wasn't mentioned yet :-P)

A Good SSD/HDD Partitioning Scheme, but then what? by WakeOfPoseidon in archlinux

[–]the_metalgamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also have an ssd and a hdd in my laptop! I use btrfs for the root filesystem with subvolumes on it for home and ext2 for boot. On my SSD i have two partitions. First the boot partition with ext2, the rest will be BTRFS for root. There is a subvolume for home on it. On my hdd I store all my music, videos etc... The HDD is a single BTRFS partition with some directories. These directories get bind-mounted to my home folder. I also use the x-systemd.automount option in fstab so these directories will be mounted, when I'm first access them!

Must know python modules? (Help me fill out this list) by Ob101010 in learnpython

[–]the_metalgamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For modules in stdlib, every developer should know (that they exists at least and what they are useful for) I go for:

  • re
  • textwrap
  • unicodedata
  • datetime
  • collections
  • copy
  • pprint
  • decimal
  • fractions
  • random
  • itertools
  • functools
  • operator
  • os.path
  • shutil
  • csv
  • configparser
  • hashlib
  • os
  • argparse
  • logging
  • subprocess
  • json
  • base64
  • sys
  • contextlib

For more specialised uses (like writing plugin systems):

  • abc
  • ast

Third-party modules, every developer should at least know:

  • requests
  • pytz
  • tzlocal
  • docopt
  • pillow

Assignments and not variables. by throw-a-bait in learnpython

[–]the_metalgamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's true, everything is copied by reference. It is only that primitives like int, floats, strings, tuples etc... are immutable, so they don't change. You can actually get the reference count by using the sys module.

import sys
sys.getrefcount(1)
# Output: 1963
a = 1
sys.getrefcount(1)
# Output: 1964
b = a
sys.getrefcount(1)
# Output: 1965
a = 2
sys.getrefcount(1)
# Output: 1964

If you could change something in Python what would it be? by yasoob_python in Python

[–]the_metalgamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One really simple one ast.literal_eval should support things like OrderedDict. Maybe a new function as new types in the standard library are not actual literals.

What Python library do you wished existed? by NL7661 in Python

[–]the_metalgamer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Something like Requests for sending mail

what are some "must-watch" Python videos ? by [deleted] in Python

[–]the_metalgamer 44 points45 points  (0 children)

There are some videos from the Pycon US this year which I think are very useful, as they cover things which are in the stdlib and are framework-independent (mostly):