Earflap

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[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 3 points 3 days ago
[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

That's kind of my point though. For being made specifically for the purpose of being machine readable, its kind of a pain in the ass to work with.

I want a command line utility where I can just

xmlquery --query 'some/query' --file foo.xml --output foo-out.xml

or in python


import xml

with open("foo.xml", "r") as file:
    data = xml.load(file.read())

That's the amount of effort I want to put into parsing a data storage format.

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 22 points 3 days ago

What is this, a crossover episode?

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Meh. I just wish XML was easier to parse. I have to shuttle a lot of XML data back and forth. As far as I can tell, the only way to query the data is to download a whole engine to run a special query language, and that doesn't really integrate into any of my workflows. JSON retains the hierarchy and is trivially parsed in almost any programming language. I bet a JSON file containing the exact same data would be much smaller also, since you don't list each tag twice.

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My employer has their own power plant and gardens and I got to go on a "field trip" to both of those places and yeah, it was pretty dope. They sent out an invite asking the department if we wanted to go check out these places, so I signed up figuring it would be a good networking opportunity. It was, I connected with a bunch of people. Plus i got to see the inside of a power plant, how cool is that? More employers should do this.

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That will pay for like an hour. The dude is screwed.

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

Training an AI to kill humans on sight is a horrifying prospect

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Or they wanted to play off that kneejerk reaction to get you engaged. Ciri studied under Triss, Yen, and Avala'ch and knows actual magic. They could just be the more powerful actual versions of what witchers try and emulate.

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was talking to my cousin (journalist) a while ago and she told me how she was supposed to interview a whistleblower for Anaheim PD. I snarkily commented something like, "yeah but let me guess he shot himself twice in the back of the head" and she alarmingly said "...yeah, how did you know?"

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So then don't buy it at launch and wait until it goes on sale. CP2077 ended up in a excellent state. Then you have the bonus of supporting only their fixed products while also not paying full price.

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Someone like Gallowboob. They just post an endless stream of low quality drivel and eventually turn into ad machines and push specific narratives and propaganda. We're much better off without them.

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