Earflap

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[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)
[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 2 points 6 hours ago
[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 2 points 10 hours 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 19 points 11 hours ago

What is this, a crossover episode?

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 11 points 1 day ago (3 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 2 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 6 points 4 days ago

"Swing low sweet chariot" basically means "for the love of all that is holy please please let today be the day I finally die and end this"

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