I am no messenger.

But I do bring you a message:

the message - of death!

It’d be nicer to see tagged unions first, with the machinery for those, and then take steps to provide a semantic fix for error handling.

Some of the GoF patterns over-emphasise inheritance, but by-and-large, you don’t build large systems without either using or rediscovering software patterns, whether they’re OO, FP, or what-have-you.

No, it didn’t.

The point of Java is to be a language for 90% of programmers. The vast majority of software development is not sexy, doesn’t require a PhD. Java was intended to be a commoditising language and in that it succeeded wildly.

Facebook shareholder claims Facebook should be able to steal.

C++ is one if those languages where writing a library feels hugely different from using it. Boost is a case in point here: there are brilliant peiple behind it, but (error messages aside) the ergonomics of using thise libs in an application are usually pretty good.

(Scala felt similar to me. There are other languages where it feels much less like I’m swapping hats as I flip between parts of a codebase.)

Developers aren’t the ones at fault here.

Possibly the thing that was intended to be deployed was. What got pushed out was 40kB of all zeroes. Could’ve been corrupted some way down the CI chain.

Check Crowdstrike’s blurb about the 1-10-60 rule.

You can bet that they have a KPI that says they can deliver a patch in under 15m; that can preclude testing.

Although that would have caught it, what happened here is that 40k of nuls got signed and delivered as config. Which means that unparseable config on the path from CnC to ring0 could cause a crash and was never covered by a test.

It’s a hell of a miss, even if you’re prepared to accept the argument about testing on the critical path.

(There is an argument that in some cases you want security aystems to fail closed; however that’s an extreme case - PoS systems don’t fall into that - and you want to opt into that explicitly, not due to a test omission.)

[[[ …specifically garbage collection (GC) is really really fast compared to some other languages (I’m looking at you Java) ]]]

… Really? This is quite a claim - does anyone have references to the details behind this?

The “why” is that the import system is caching modules in sys.modules.

The “what to do about it” is “not this”. Use a package layout with explicit names (p1.generic_name etc) instead.

You can use relative imports under those packages if you prefer (from .generic_name import ...).

If you want executables on the path look at setup.py or any of the myriad of overlapping modern equivalents that’ll let you specify a command-libe executable to install, then pip install -e . to install it in your venv’s bin dir.

If things are changing a bit each month, then in your module rather than a plain variable assignment

darabase = ...

you might want a function that you can pass in parameters to represent the things that can change:

def database(dir, ...):
    ...
    return ...

Then you can call it like this:

from database import database
db = database("/some/path")

… gope that makes some sense.

If it is the first thing, just put the db setup code you’re using in one file, call it “database.py”

database.py

# the code you commonly use, ending with
database = ...

From a second file in the same directory, write: main_program.py

from database import database
# The first "database" here is the module name.
# The second "database" is a variable you set inside that module.
# You can also write this as follows:
# import database
# ... and use `database.database` to refer to the same thing
# but that involves "stuttering" throughout your code.

# use `database` as you would before - it refers to the "database" object that was found in the "database.py" module

then run it with python main_program.py

The main thing to realise here is that there are two names involved. One’s the module, the other is the variable (or function name) you set inside that module that you want to get access to.

There’s not much here to go on. Are you asking how to write a module that you can import?

Are these the same set of DB files every time? Are the columns and other configurations the same? Are you writing new python code every month?

Are you using some ETL process to spit out a bunch of files that you’d like to have imported and available easily? Are the formats the same but the filenames differ?

I think it’s the first thing you’re after. There are a bunch of tutorials knocking around about this, eg, https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-write-modules-in-python-3

You might also be asking: if I write a module, how do I make it available for all my new python projects to use? You could just copy your whatever-my-module-is-called.py file around to your new projects (this might be simplest) but if you’re also expecting to be updating it and would like all of your projects to use the updated code, there are alternatives. One is to add the directory containing it to your PYTHONPATH. Another is to install it (in edit mode) in your python environment.

[I get the impression you’re a data person rather than a programmer - perhaps you have a colleague who’s more of the latter you can tap up for this? It doesn’t have to be difficult, but there’s typically a little bit of ceremony involved in setting up a shared module however you choose to do it.]

Incidentally, this kind of passive-aggressive pressure is the kind of thing that might be considered a legitimate security threat, post xz. If you need to vent, vent in private. If “it works for you” but the maintainer is asking legitimate questions about the implementation, consider engaging with that in good faith and evaluating their questions with an open mind.

Which mantra is that? The ellipsis doesn’t offer a clue.

Casey’s video is interesting, but his example is framed as moving from 35 cycles/object to 24 cycles/object being a 1.5x speedup.

Another way to look at this is, it’s a 12-cycle speedup per object.

If you’re writing a shader or a physics sim this is a massive difference.

If you’re building typical business software, it isn’t; that 10,000-line monster method does crop up, and it’s a maintenance disaster.

I think extracting “clean code principles lead to a 50% cost increase” is a message that needs taking with a degree of context.

Fab, cheers.

Dare I ask what the adjective “hella” means in this context?