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Joe Kington
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Geology to Software to Remote sensing. Opinions and poor taste my own. He/Him. SLC-based. PhD if you care about that. This account is all dog pictures and mindless prattle.
And in case you needed another reason to read that, note the author line: Neal Stephenson
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
There's also nargs=argparse.REMAINDER instead of nargs="+", but that won't work for this actual use case.
December 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Is this a bug in argparse, or is that behavior documented anywhere?

I'd kinda hate having to document quirks like that in the docs for a CLI tool... E.g. "don't put an argument with quoted spaces after --foo" is an unfortunate thing to need to add to docs...
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
That unexpectedly produces:
['bar', 'baz', '--some-other-arg="foo bar"']
for the first argument order and
['bar', 'baz']
as expected for the second

Using a non-quoted argument or leaving out the = sign works and produces the latter expected result.
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
And also, SLC is kinda pretty too...
December 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Also, one of the things I love about living in SLC is that this was just our morning dog walk... We did drive to the trailhead in this case, but it's a five minute drive.
December 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Also, Copper does not like this tradition.....
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Even better, you can _charge_ the embodied AGI for its own training!
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by Joe Kington
On my deathbed, I will regret not mobilizing my actionables in order to maximize my market impact.
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
He's summoning the legions of maddened holiday travelers to descend on the airport. Chaos will reign.
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM