Cans of Worms: Benchmarking finding an element in array
This starts with comparative programming. I had reason to code some Python recently, and I discovered that there was a built-in to tell if an element is in a list.
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Dave writes code. Sometimes this means he learns something. He'll probably write it up here.
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No Mental Bandwidth For A Name: Weekly Challenge #258
Welcome to Weekly Challenge #258!
Note To Self on PAUSE Workflow
gizmomathboy told me to write a note, because I hadn’t touched this process for years. This is me writing that note.
A few quick notes on GitHub Actions
I avoided looking at GitHub Actions for a long time. I had set some automation on a few things with Appveyor and TravisCI, but the things I was coding were for work and not using GitHub, and the things I had added automation to were stable. I doubt I’ve done anything with some of the repos but test the testing. 🤓
Trying GitLens
One of the things I noticed when doing my meandering HackLafayette talk about VS Code was GitLens, which is an improvement on the existing Git implementation in VS Code.
The Best Things About VS Code Today
I recently gave a presentation about VS Code to members of my local developer group, HackLafayette. I worked through several bullet points in a fairly stream-of-consciousness and showed off a lot of how I use VS Code.
Lesser, Inferior, Lower, Junior: Weekly Challenge #257
Welcome to Weekly Challenge #257! [257(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/257(number))] is a _prime number, of the form 22n+1. It is also an irregular prime and a Jacobsthal-Lucas number.
A Perfect Square Perfectly Squared: Weekly Challenge #256
Welcome to Weekly Challenge #256! 256 is a perfect square, being 162. Of course, 42 = 16, and also 22 = 4, so 256 is a perfect square of a perfect square of a perfect square.
Preel Weeakly: Weekly Challenge #255
Welcome to Weekly Challenge #255!, 255 is the product of 3, 5 and 17. It also equals 28 - 1, which makes it a Mersenne number but not a Mersenne Prime. And, of course, it is 11111111 in binary, which is the largest integer which can be represented by one byte.
reverse_vowels(‘Weekly Challenge’) eq ‘Weekly Challenge’: Weekly Challenge #254
Welcome to Weekly Challenge #254! 254, the product of 2 and 127, is a semiprime number. It is deficient, in that the sum of its divisors is 130, which is less than itself.