ghost-in-the-zsh‭

When writing Python-based apps (e.g. Django, Flask, etc.), it's often the case that import statements can be found all over the place, often more than once for the same module. For example, you can...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

Summary The location within a module where an import statement is found by the interpreter is not expected to cause differences in performance such as speed or memory usage. Modules are singleton ...

posted 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

I agree. Something that might be more useful is to allow the text boxes to be resizeable by the user. In most places, there's a small tab on the lower-right corner of a text box that allows the use...

posted 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

Summary I'm building an internal system (hardware simulator, using Rust) to help test some Python-based services that talk to hardware. (The services talk to hardware via TTYs.) To trick the Pytho...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

Summary/Context I'm currently working to improve performance and throughput of our automation infrastructure, most of which is a combination of Bash/Shell scripts, Python scripts, Docker, Jenkins,...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

If I understand your question correctly, i.e. Is it possible to enforce that constraint at the database level? Then the short answer is: No. In the business logic for the program, every re...

posted 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

How can we use git-send-email(1) to sign patches (emails) with the gpg(1) keyring? The git-send-email command does not have any CLI options to perform cryptographic operations, so, to the best...

posted 2y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  edited 2y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

I have written a screensaver program that, in part, uses the current wallpaper for some visual effects. However, finding the current wallpaper in different operating systems and environments is les...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

Summary I've fixed the issue and what follows is the best explanation I have so far. What I had described in the OP were some of the observations, but I'll be including more detail so that it's (h...

posted 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  edited 3y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

Summary I'm refactoring a Rust-based service/daemon to move away from gRPC and use a Rocket-based API instead. I'm also using the daemonize crate to turn the foreground process into a background p...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

This answer will use Python 3 for code examples. I encourage people to post other answers for other languages. I'll continue to update this answer, as I'm able, based on comments with tested/verifi...

posted 2y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  edited 2y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

I'm working on a background service/daemon for an embedded device, in Rust. The daemon manages several hardware components and these are structured using the Composite design pattern. The composite...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

I think you have the answer to your question within your own question, but let me make it a bit more explicit. You said: The problem is, sometimes downloading from Perforce fails If P4 fails ...

posted 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

Perl modules sometimes have different implementations. The ::PP suffix means it's a "Pure Perl" implementation, where portability is the goal. The ::XS suffix is for the C-based implementation, whe...

posted 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

I did not find a way to get Rocket and Daemonize to work together without problems. However, I was able to get a more recent version of start-stop-daemon installed in the system (v1.20.11), and was...

posted 2y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭