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How One setuptools Release Broke Everything, and What We Can Learn From It
If you work in python package development or maintenance, then your world may have stopped for a few hours on Monday afternoon. To most, it probably felt like one of those “random” errors that pops up one day and is gone the next, but behind the scenes were hundreds of developers arguing back and forth
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Comparing Hurts vs. Mahomes and What Has Changed Since 2022
As a Penn Stater (and yes, an Eagles fan) it makes me very happy to see Saquon Barkley getting a chance at a Super Bowl ring after suffering with the Giants for a few seasons. From the initial reaction I saw, not everyone was pleased with a Chiefs/Eagles game again. I had a small preference
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Mahomes Isn’t The Only One Flag-Baiting
There was a lot of noise this weekend—and rightly so—about Patrick Mahomes baiting defenders into late hits in hopes of drawing flags. He was able to get one early on in the game, but didn’t fool the refs later on when he loitered on the edge of the boundary and then flopped out of bounds
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Never Write “dev” Anywhere, Ever
I was going through our deployment process this week and hit a snag: I was using the dev host in our production environment. And then another one, and another, and another… It turned out that we’d been breaking our own rules, not all at once, but slowly and surely. Sometimes it was a matter of
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Reviewing My 2024 Goals, Plans for 2025 and This Site
I’ve been reading The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg, recently. You might know it by its bright yellow cover. I’m about halfway through, but as usual when I get into one of these books (Atomic Habits by James Clear being the other one), it makes me start to think about my own habits and
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Norris Qatar Grand Prix Throttle Trace Analysis
At the Qatar Grand Prix on Sunday, an errant side mirror from the Williams ended up on the front straight, causing some brief yellow flags that Norris did not heed to, resulting in a 10-second stop-and-go penalty and effectively ending his day. Let’s take a look at the data and see what actually happened. First,
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How F1 Can Keep Monaco Relevant
Monaco has always been the most prestigious event in all of motorsport. It shares a weekend with the Indy 500, known as the Greatest Spectacle in Motorsport, and it makes up one-third of the Triple Crown of Motorsport, which also includes the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This past weekend, however, there was little argument
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IndyCar Poised for A Breakthrough Season
When F1 defiantly denied Andretti’s bid to enter the series, it rubbed a lot of open-wheel race fans the wrong way, not only in the US but abroad. Then, F1’s season-opener in Bahrain put fans to sleep, with only 10-cars finishing on the lead lap, Verstappen finishing 22 seconds ahead of the field (or rather
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Pebble Beach Weather Leads to Favorable Odds
I just recently started following the PGA Tour, and even more recently started dabbling in betting on golf. Thankfully, there’s a site called datagolf.com—probably one of the greatest sports statistics and betting sites I’ve come across—which makes it very accessible to get started. They offer live finishing odds for every player in every tournament. For
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Unhappy in Happy Valley
Fans and reporters were not pleased after PSU’s loss to Michigan. After Penn State fell to Michigan 24-15 last Saturday, a reporter questioned James Franklin on his two-point conversion attempt in a now-viral video. The situation was this: Penn State just scored a touchdown and was down 9, with 1:59 remaining in the game. They
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