ax3man1ac
@ax3man1ac.online
Software developer of ~30 years (mostly Python these days but a fair few others). Retro computing (love love love the Speccy) and sci-fi/fantasy & horror fan.
Then maybe some unicodedata stuff that normalises strings - not sure if that's 100% casing but...
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Then maybe some unicodedata stuff that normalises strings - not sure if that's 100% casing but...
I imagine the most used are upper, lower, title, capitalize - then you've got the not often used casefold and swapcase. I suppose at a push that translate could technically be considered meeting the requirement.
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I imagine the most used are upper, lower, title, capitalize - then you've got the not often used casefold and swapcase. I suppose at a push that translate could technically be considered meeting the requirement.
I like your optimism they'll even find the right street to make that possible
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I like your optimism they'll even find the right street to make that possible
really scary that if it wasn't for the eye colour - that's very very close to a mirror image... 😱
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
really scary that if it wasn't for the eye colour - that's very very close to a mirror image... 😱
Nice little bonus for when/if we ever get to pensioner age then 🤣
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Nice little bonus for when/if we ever get to pensioner age then 🤣
God bless having some twitch ad revenue 🤣
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
God bless having some twitch ad revenue 🤣
It was okay... for me it was a turn off because "oh it's Tom Cruise yet again". Felt a bit like the 90's when Samuel L Jackson appeared in what felt like every other movie... 🤷♂️
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It was okay... for me it was a turn off because "oh it's Tom Cruise yet again". Felt a bit like the 90's when Samuel L Jackson appeared in what felt like every other movie... 🤷♂️
Thanks and no worries - all cool 👍
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Thanks and no worries - all cool 👍
My head at the end of some very long days that might just be able to keep a roof over my head, the lights on and some occasional food just went off and seemed an idea to just put into factual context how f'ing stupid that whole thing is.
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
My head at the end of some very long days that might just be able to keep a roof over my head, the lights on and some occasional food just went off and seemed an idea to just put into factual context how f'ing stupid that whole thing is.
Sorry Richard - did not intend it to be like that. Wasn't having a great day and when you see some of the world (not you obviously and I did get the humour) has come to normalise and praise 💩 like that it's - I just don't know anymore.
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Sorry Richard - did not intend it to be like that. Wasn't having a great day and when you see some of the world (not you obviously and I did get the humour) has come to normalise and praise 💩 like that it's - I just don't know anymore.
on a side note... not sure if it's bluesky or my browser or how you're posting but while the url is fine and works fine... it just looks odd? (think I've seen it a couple of times now)
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
on a side note... not sure if it's bluesky or my browser or how you're posting but while the url is fine and works fine... it just looks odd? (think I've seen it a couple of times now)
I'm probably the same - it's generally going to be that or a non-lazy form of itertools.product.
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I'm probably the same - it's generally going to be that or a non-lazy form of itertools.product.
Only a third of the entire African continent's GDP... tax will obviously not be a thing for him... etc... etc...
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Only a third of the entire African continent's GDP... tax will obviously not be a thing for him... etc... etc...
Worth a punt... freed up half a gig even if it doesn't work anyway 😂. Ta.
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Worth a punt... freed up half a gig even if it doesn't work anyway 😂. Ta.
"mistletoe and swine" made me chuckle...
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"mistletoe and swine" made me chuckle...
I do love me a choccie biccie but plain hobnobs are safer for clothing. Strangely I'd be more annoyed if it broke in my cuppa rather than having to put my shirt in the wash... not sure what that says about me 🤔
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I do love me a choccie biccie but plain hobnobs are safer for clothing. Strangely I'd be more annoyed if it broke in my cuppa rather than having to put my shirt in the wash... not sure what that says about me 🤔
I still prefer Marmite over Bovril but Bovril definitely makes a better hot drink...
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I still prefer Marmite over Bovril but Bovril definitely makes a better hot drink...
Everyone knows you're meant to mix it with some of these and you can have a tasty PBJ sandwich after you're done!
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Everyone knows you're meant to mix it with some of these and you can have a tasty PBJ sandwich after you're done!
Handy if you want to have very specific return codes to check against in a bash script or similar. I think that example could benefit from being expanded to show more than 0 and 1 as it's not really showing why you would do this and loses information from if you'd just let the exception go unhandled
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Handy if you want to have very specific return codes to check against in a bash script or similar. I think that example could benefit from being expanded to show more than 0 and 1 as it's not really showing why you would do this and loses information from if you'd just let the exception go unhandled
I've recently had a brief play of:
- The Lost Vikings
- William Shatner's TekWar
- Hexen: Beyond Heretic
- Blood
- Creature Shock
- Carmageddon
- System Shock
- Syndicate Wars
Not sure if they qualify as "wonderful" or "strange" but should be streamable... 🤷♂️
- The Lost Vikings
- William Shatner's TekWar
- Hexen: Beyond Heretic
- Blood
- Creature Shock
- Carmageddon
- System Shock
- Syndicate Wars
Not sure if they qualify as "wonderful" or "strange" but should be streamable... 🤷♂️
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I've recently had a brief play of:
- The Lost Vikings
- William Shatner's TekWar
- Hexen: Beyond Heretic
- Blood
- Creature Shock
- Carmageddon
- System Shock
- Syndicate Wars
Not sure if they qualify as "wonderful" or "strange" but should be streamable... 🤷♂️
- The Lost Vikings
- William Shatner's TekWar
- Hexen: Beyond Heretic
- Blood
- Creature Shock
- Carmageddon
- System Shock
- Syndicate Wars
Not sure if they qualify as "wonderful" or "strange" but should be streamable... 🤷♂️