Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/27
[Archive.is] Kevlin Henney on Twitter: “#FizzBuzzFriday… “.
Related: [Wayback] Your C# is already functional, but only if you let it | In Absentia:
A few days ago I tweeted a C# code snippet, showing a FizzBuzz implementation using some of the new features in C# 8.0. The tweet “went viral”, as the kids say, with several people admiring the terse
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/21
[Archive] SimenHolmestad/Privacynator: A utility for removing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from videos.
Privacynator is an utility for removing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from videos. It is primarily meant for videos captured from cars.Privacynator uses the Detectron2 model from facebook research: https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2.
It is written in Python 3.
It is unlike this: Need to check if “PrivacyNator” is already out: a local TensorFlowJS app that blurs your screen when you are not behind it
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/14
An interesting thought: [Archive] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Basically, show me a Python regex with \d and without ASCII flag, and I can show you a bug, often exploitable.… “
Basically, input parsing is still very much underrated by most systems and a constant source of peculiarities and therefore bugs, or phrased differently: [Archive] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “In many cases an uncaught exception, and hence a component crash.… “
Kris also states [Archive] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Again, Python is not alone in this. Perl, when “use utf8;” is active (which it should) also does this, so every single fucking Regex needs a ‘/a‘ at the end. Nobody ever asked \d to match tengwar or klingon numeric symbols.… “.
The point is in the last few words as Arabic numerals are so white spread over the world that the ten digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9 they represent should be the de facto \d pattern, but aren’t in Python as per [Wayback/Archive] re — Regular expression operations — Python 3.10.0 documentation: /d (emphasis mine):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/22
I have been into more and more Mojibake example pages like [Wayback] Mojibake: Question Marks, Strange Characters and Other Issues | GPI
Have you ever found strange characters like these ��� when viewing content in applications or websites in other languages?
They made me realise that all these (including the Mojibake examples on my blog) are just artifacts, but the real list of examples is the set of ftfy test cases at [Wayback/Archive.is] python-ftfy/test_cases.json at master · LuminosoInsight/python-ftfy
I got reminded when Waternet moved from paper mail using “Pyreneeën” to email using “Pyreneeën“. Not as bad as Waterschap AGV did earlier: they took it one level further and made “Pyreneeën” out of it, see Last year, a classic Mojibake was introduced when Waterschap Amstel, Gooi en Vecht redesigned their IT systems.
This seems like a trend where newer systems perform worse than older systems. I wonder why that is.
BTW: the trick on the [Wayback/Archive] Python.org shell to run ftfy (which is not installed by default) is first dropping to the shell (see my post How do I drop a bash shell from within Python? – Stack Overflow), then starting python again:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/10/06
An interesting thread by Kristian Köhntopp last year:
[Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Python: >>> print(1+2+” = “+2+1) Traceback (most recent call last): File “”, line 1, in TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: ‘int’ and ‘str’ Java: System.out.println(1+2+” = “+1+2); 3=12”
The examples from him and others in the thread:
Python: >>> print(1+2+" = "+2+1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str' Java: System.out.println(1+2+" = "+1+2); 3=12 php8.1 -r 'print 1+2+" = "+2+1;' PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Unsupported operand types: int + string in Command line code:1 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in Command line code on line 1 php7.3 -r 'print 1+2+" = "+2+1;' PHP Warning: A non-numeric value encountered in Command line code on line 1 Node? Chrome & FF dev console: window.alert(1+2+" = "+1+2) 3 = 12 Sind ja immerhin verschiedene Sprachen. SELECT Wert1 FROM table1 WHERE Wert1 < AVG(Wert1); DB2 vs. Oracle vs. MSSQL vs. ....
The joke is that Python actually does better than Java.
But in practice, this is a problem on many platforms, so it deserves constant attention, that’s why Kristian pointed to [Archive] Anna “Legacy Archaeologist” Filina on Twitter: “My annotated slides “Fantastic Bugs and How to Avoid Them” from @LonghornPHP: #LonghornPHP”
[Wayback/Archive] Fantastic Bugs and How to Avoid Them – Speaker Deck
I’ve expanded the examples from the thread below. The results are interesting and consistent over versions of the various languages.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/20
If you ever want a good visual representation to compare the breaking distance for a car at two different speeds, and see at what speed you will hit the human “obstacle”, then use the Python script mkbremsweg.py.
Git repository: [Wayback/Archive.is] joschtl / bremsweg · GitLab.
The image is generated in the current directory
It probably won’t work on Windows as it dynamically builds a very long command-line calling ImageMagick tool [Wayback/Archive.is] convert once to do all the drawing.
The text in the picture for now is hardcoded in German, but would be easy to adopt.
The fonts used are and FreeSans and [Wayback/Archive.is] Alte DIN 1451 Mittelschrift Font Family · 1001 Fonts (which the Germans use for Traffic Signage and is very similar to fonts used in other countries).
Calculations are based on [Wayback/Archive.is] Bremsweg-Rechner für Anhalteweg & Bremsweg – Johannes Strommer.
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/07/11
After yesterdays post (which I will be editing to add some more pictures) MCH2022 badge sneak previews from tweeps that attended the Bitlair 20220709 Sweatshop (@MCH2022Camp) now a call for help:
The Badge Team needs volunteers helping them on the software side.
At the badge event, the version 1.0 firmware was flashed so the badge will function perfectly fine during the event, but it would be cool if more features are available that attendees can get when upgrading at the event or downloading from the hatchery.
There is a virtual environment to test and a GitHub projects page with open issues to get started.
See the links below on how you can help:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/27
A while ago [Archive.is] Adam Jacob on Twitter: “Let’s say nice things about technology today. I’ll start. If it wasn’t for @lkanies and @puppetize, there is no way we would have been able to adapt as an industry to the rise of the cloud. Quote tweet me with your own.” sparked some interesting threads.
First posts are below; click on them to see the full threads.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/16
Last year, Waterschap Amstel, Gooi en Vecht sent me a paper letter notifying the yearly water bill was going to be late as they were redesigning their IT systems.
Their letter introduced a classic Mojibake that had not been present in all their older paper letter communication.
"Pyreneeën":
"Pyreneeën":
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/10
When writing this, [Wayback/Archive.is] ftfy · PyPI:history indicates ftfy was already at 6.0.3.
It is still my goto tool for figuring out the cause of Mojibake. I remember writing about it the first time in 2016 (see the ftfy category) when it was already at version 3.0, discovering it after a few Mojibake posts.
By now it even understands right-to-left Mojibake garbage: 
[Archive.is] Elia Robyn Speer on Twitter: “ftfy 5.8 is out! … A user reported that Hebrew text wasn’t being fixed, and this made me think about how to expand some of the trickier cases to non-Latin alphabets.”
Mojibake mishaps still happen a lot, so by now I hope I will have done a Mojibake themed Delphi talk at one or more conferences.
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