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sgtlaggy

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2021-01-15

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  • > everyone inside the plane gets cooked in 39 seconds

    From the video, the 39 second figure is for the cockpit if the pilots don't get their masks on in time. The passenger cabin would be uncomfortable but wouldn't (or just didn't in that case) reach lethal levels given the volume.

  • Concurrency in Python is a weird topic, since multiprocessing is the only "real" concurrency. Threading is "implicit" context switching all in the same process/thread, asyncio is "explicit" context switching. On top of that, you also have the complication of the GIL. If threads don't release the GIL, then you can't effectively switch contexts.

  • Commented: "AltWinDirStat"

    I've also been using WizTree for quite a while, but recently learned WinDirStat scans the filesystem instead of trusting the NTFS metadata because it can sometimes be incorrect(?) and is a bit tricky due to poor documentation. The WDS developer actually addressed this in AWDS's issues 4[1] and 19[2] a few years ago, and even said he's contemplating supporting the MFT but it seems he hasn't gotten around to it.

    1: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/4#issuecomme... 2: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/19#issuecomm...

  • I have mostly the same feelings, though my only experience is with WoW and Payday 2 addons. A big gripe of mine is there's really only one namespace. If something is exported, it goes to the aether and everything can see it, making it very difficult to track where variables are defined and modified.

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