Oh it won’t end

Have you considered putting your gaming pc in one of the storage freezers? /s

Not true, I bitch about them more than ever

true, and i can’t think of a legitimate case where it would have tripped me up. but if someone, a novice perhaps, wrote

def some_func(foo, bar=[1, 2, 3]):
    bar.reverse()  # for whatever reason
    print(bar)

some_func('hello')    # output [3,2,1]
some_func('hello')    # output [1,2,3] 

i think they would be within their rights to be surprised that calling this function twice has different results. that’s what i was surprised by; it feels like bar would be re initialised each time with a scope of the function but apparenty not

Python item 1

Mutable default arguments don’t get re-initialized with each function call.

got an audible wtf from me… Been using for years, totally unaware.

The “internal business tool” was a well known industry wide product that I had experience in. I should have known that changing an email address in any environment caused that new email address to be notified. It was my fault yes

My first week at a major fund company I was assigned to an internal business tool used by thousands. I noticed all the company email addresses in the sandbox weren’t correct, so I ran a script to correct them. Cue a call from C-level to my boss asking why he got a “email changed notification”. Followed by another… And another… And another…

I went out to lunch

Programmers in the next universe iteration: deep sigh

tine dilation

Holds up fork and squints at it

Play Game Dev Tycoon half asleep, cover all bases

I asked Alexa to order one in for me and my Indigo Witch just arrived…

Anakin:

Every day further from god’s light etc…

Amazing, lol

“somehow RIF returned…”

I follow the 80/20 rule recursively. as soon as I’ve gotten 80% of the way there for 20% effort I immediately stop, and start a brand new project for the remaining 20%. Bam! 96% complete for only 24% effort.

taps forehead

Remember to throw in “=” at the start just to toy with the poor sap who has to manipulate the results in excel