Problem structuring methods Puns

Right now I'm trying to learn about and implement unit testing in a small project of mine from a little while back. I ran into a class with methods structured like the simplified/fake one below, which made writing the unit test a bit funky.

Context aside, is calling a class method like this instead of passing an argument a bad practice, and are there any other issues doing this could cause?

Also, should the method getting the value for self.fore and self.forecast be called in __init__ like this? Or should they be set as none, with the class methods called after all attributes are set to none and have the method assign a value to the attributes?

Everything appears to work correctly as is, but it felt clunky having to write a test for it without having arguments to pass. The resources that I looked at didn't structure things this way, and if it is a bad practice than I definitely want to avoid making it a bad habit accidentally. Thank you in advance!

class Forecast:

    base_url = 'www.fakeurl.com'

    def __init__(self, zipcode: int):
        self.zip = zipcode
        self.fore = self.get_forecast_week()
        self.forecast = self.extract_forecast_info()

    def get_page(self) -> requests.models.Response:
        # code to build location url from user inputs
        return requests.request('GET', location_url)

    def get_forecast_week(self) -> bs4.element.ResultSet:
        request = self.get_page()
        # code to parse through request and extract day and temperature information and return a bsr.element.ResultSet
        # temperature is extracted as a string like 'high of 55 degrees'
        return forecast_items

    def extract_forecast_info(self) -> dict[str, int]:
        forecast_items = self.get_forecast_week()
        # extract temperature values from bs4.element.ResultSet as integers and return dictionary of [day, forecast_temperature]
        return forecast_dict

• Citation: Rosenhead, J. (2001). Rational analysis for a problematic world revisited: Problem structuring methods for complexity, uncertainty and conflict. Chichester: Wiley.

• ISBN: 0471495239 9780471495239

• URL

Hello, first of all forgive my English, that ain’t my 1st language. That being said here’s the problem that I have, hopefully somebody will help me with this. When I’m structuring my songs, I create different scenes, different patterns and then pick blocks on the arranger views. Let’s pretend one of my groups is a drum group. I’d take that original drum group, rename it chorus drums, duplicate it, mute the hi hats for example, rename that second group and name it verse drums.

The problem is, when I mute the hi hat on that “Verse drums” it would also mute it on my “Chorus drums”. How can I fix this ?

Can somebody please help me ?

So I have 2 characters, we'll call them A and B.

A is the main protagonist and has a 3 part story, each part separated by a major characters death. In the third part, they meet B.

B has a 2 part story, the parts separated by meeting A.

If each of A's parts are roughly equal in length, I want to avoid filler, and character B's first part is shorter than character A's first two parts, then how can I introduce character B without it feeling abrupt, or have character B be introduced early on but avoid filler and have A and B balanced?

Is this possible?

Thank you in advance. I'm only 15 and I'm not a great writer.

Hello all,

I'm relatively new to quantum mechanics and am conducting some research realted to quantum mechanics involving this topics at my university. I'm currently a math major and mildly unfamiliar with these topics, so do any of you recommend a good place to start?

Are there any examples of this in the MCU? I can see an argument being made about Thanos and perhaps even Zemo but after so many movies and shows, I can’t remember the fine details of every plot.

Potential spoilers in this thread.

Edit: Whoever reported me as suicidal for me saying Luke Cage was boring, I hope your life gets better.

This was prompted by a recent /r/financialindependence thread wherein the OP was discussing intentionally structuring their AGI in order to take advantage of reduced cost healthcare available to people with low AGI through the healthcare.gov marketplace. Essentially, the plan was to decrease their take-home pay as much as possible through methods like 401k/IRA withholding, with the end result being that their take-home pay is little enough to qualify for some extra subsidies.

While the majority of people in the subreddit were supportive, there were a fair amount of people who felt that this strategy was unethical because only those with low assets (not just low income) "need" subsidies. I was a little surprised at this backlash because in my mind, this strategy is no different than reducing your taxable income by putting money in a retirement account, or deductions for things like charity or mortgage interest. The bottom line for government benefits is that they all eventually come down to a monetary cost/value for the government. Is it different to reduce your income to save on taxes versus reducing your income to...save on other government fees like healthcare premiums? It just seems like a logical inconsistency to me, couched in the fact that in one case you use the word "tax" and in the other case you use the word "premium".

The supposition seems to be that it's wrong and/or unethical to not pay the maximum taxes you can, but that logic doesn't seem to hold when applied to other programs. That same logic can also be drawn out well into the absurd - IE, why not just donate all the money you can to the government, even if you don't legally owe it. So where's the line?

I do acknowledge that the laws governing who is eligible for benefits are not perfect, and I'm not necessarily against altering them. However, "the laws are bad and should be changed" seems a bit like a strawman in regards to whether you should be working within them as-is. As it stands, many benefits are based on AGI (something fairly easy to manipulate), and not something like total assets. However, if it makes sense to asset test these benefits (for example, not allowing people with substantial assets to use ACA subsidies), then doesn't it make sense to also prevent those with substantial assets from getting other tax breaks? For instance, not allowing someone with "too much" money in the bank to benefit from charity write-offs? That seems like a slippery slope, but one I'm open to

Her ult is not fun.

Don't get me wrong about it tho, the ult is very very strong, but everything in her kit screams that it was made with different one in mind. It's also never mediocre, it's either insanely broken or barely useful, but never in between.

You can't even compare it to how fun it is to dunk with Voli or throw people at other people with Sett, or Viego being on another level to anyone.

Change her ult back to the original sewing one, please.

I work on a small CPU benchmark, and one of the methods tests a single-thread performance.
Everything works as intended except monitoring. The problem is, that when I use
Thread.BeginThreadAffinity();
SetThreadAffinityMask(GetCurrentThread(), new IntPtr(intptrVal));
inside of the method, it sets all program to that thread and monitoring just stalls due to the heavy load on that thread, and all interface is not responding.
A similar behavior you can see in AIDA64, but it's far from ideal and monitoring skips temperature/voltage/load readings because the UI is not responsive.
Is there a way to assign only a particular method to the thread and let the rest of the code use any threads?

You will do literally anything to look good for New Years Eve 3 weeks from now.

Here, your willpower is so high but the chances of you sustaining the results you get are slim to none

Once you are back into your regular diet & exercise routine, you haven’t built the appropriate habits to sustain those results!

You aren't meant to do habitual things through willpower;

in fact if it's habitual there should be no willpower.

This is how you build a solid habit:

You structure your life so you can develop the habits that, once instilled, take no thought or effort.

As you begin to see results, you become more motivated

Unconsciously, you begin to set up the circumstances that allow you even greater progress.

After a while you won't even need to think about your new, improved habits.

Once you've been waking up at 6am to get to the gym by 7am, for about 3 months, you won't wonder if you can do it.

You won't think about when you might do it.

You won't remind yourself why you should do it.

You'll just do it.

To everyone else, it will look like you've got willpower.

& the best part… You’ll sustain your results for life!

I want to divide my free time into active hobby pursuing and passive media consumption, because if I don‘t I just end up consuming media and slacking off on my hobbies.

I do not want to cut off media completely since I get a lot of food for thought from certain youtubers and podcasts. But I need to limit myself so that I actually start implementing my plans into real life and don‘t spend all my time on making plans.

So I came up with two (maybe three?) solutions. I‘m not completely satisfied with either of them that‘s why I‘m asking you guys if any of you have some ideas on how to optimize these solutions or even a whole nother solution I haven‘t seen yet.

Ok so here are my solutions:

Solution 1 I split my free time in half every day.

That would probably result in 3 hours for hobbies and 3 hours for media consumption. (I sleep approximately 8 hours a day and work another 7-8 hours. If I substract another 2 hours for getting up, eating and getting ready for bed again I‘m left with about 6 hours of free time.)

Problem with this solution: I don‘t think 3 hours a day are enough for my hobbies. I want to draw daily for at least 30-40 minutes. I wanna spend at least 60 minutes on learning french. I wanna play one game of chess every or every second day which is approximately another 60 minutes. I also want to practice playing cuatro (venezuelan instrument), practice dancing and download some new music from time to time. And on top of that I do a 20 minute workout every second day, which will increase to about an hour or more soon.

Solution 2 I switch every day between active hobby pursuing and passive media consuming.

Problem with this solution: This could hinder my progression in hobbies like language learning or drawing which you should do every day to advance steadily.

Solution 3 To reduce the time spent on hobbies I‘d cycle my hobbies in time frames of 1 or 3 months. I‘d combine this with solution 1 because then 3 hours would be enough I think.

Problem with this solution: This would definitely hinder my progression in most of my hobbies since I‘ll probably have forgotten everything I learned by the time I cycle back to a hobby.

Conclusion I think the smartest thing would be going with solution 2 and doing the hobbies that should be done daily like language learning and drawing every day.

But as I said, if any of you guys see anything I missed please tell me. Thanks in advance.

Like i was wanting to do a cover of a song, I have a drummer and guitarist's but not a synthesist or anyone who knows how to dabble with a synth. So i was thinking of collabing with someone, but i have no idea pf how to bring about the subject to someone's attention properly.

TL;DR Do you structure your jounal? If yes: How?
What medium do you use for journaling (program/real life journal)?

Hi

I plan on finally starting journaling again. But this time with a more structured approach, because what kept me from it were the days I just had nothing on my mind to write. If I have sort of a form to fill out each evening and the writing part is optional I think I could motivate myself more easily to do it.

The points of which I thought:

• A tasks fulfilled: x/y (this includes X-cards/daily habits I try to build)
• B tasks fulfilled: x/y
• Tasks I did not fulfil and why (I have no space for explanations on my X cards, this would be a way to find out what let's me fail)
• C tasks fulfilled and other notable things I did this day ( a space for: I watched that movie and spent 1hr on reddit)
• any intelligent thoughts/ideas to note for the future?
• optional remembered dreams
• optional general journaling

Do you structure your journal and/or have recurrent themes you journal about that I could add?

The second question is the way of journaling/platform. I can't use a paper notebook for safety reasons and have days where I am not home in the evening, so I am stuck with basically two options:

1. Use an online storage/sync service. Do you know any good/trustworthy ones?
2. Carry my Laptop with me. Would be the most convenient way but bust my idea of running home in the morning (unless I find a way to run with the laptop...)

Either way I need a good journaling program bonus if there are some statistical features.

I´m currently searching out for a book that explains in detail all there is to know about the correct methods and practices in order to research, condense , structure and present in a coherent and meaningful way contents for a printed publication.

Any help is appreciated.

I'm currently learning C#, and I want to begin on a project to make a bot that checks a particular web page hourly, exports a list (or stores?) and then compares similar occurrences between hourly pulls.

My questions are general as I understand this is above my head, and I will need to break down modules and understand how to make each one.

As far as I see it, the program needs the following :

• A way of reading text data off of a page, displayed in html plainly visible in the page source
• A way of exporting this as a list with multiple columns
• A way of comparing lists retroactively
• A way of repeating this process as new data is introduced
• and finally a method of cleaning output to highlight drastic changes or reoccurances

My basic questions, as far as I understand the structure, are; Would exporting to Excel be my best option? I wouldn't have to worry about much formatting because of how much can be set up with excel, and I could do a new page hourly, contained within daily files? If this was the case, could I then open and compare excel files after they are created, or is this best done within one program?

I guess what I'm asking is, is it best to use Excel as a tool to handle data formatting and storage, and then write around that?

Any help, thoughts, or previous projects would be greatly appreciated. Furiously googling to see who has done something similar. Thank you!

So I'm thinking about how to structure a circle of schools of magic, using pairs of opposed characteristics.

The table below shows the circle, with those schools on opposite sides opposed to each other and with adjacent schools being aligned.

Each cell shows the school's Name, an example of its (type) of magic, and an example of a creature that might exemplify that school.

One last thing, this magic system isn't trying to assign inherent good or evil to any particular school. However, 'decay' makes that difficult!

What do you think?

Do the opposing schools make sense? Are there better or different examples of opposed schools? Is it missing entire schools or styles of magic? Does the arrangement of the schools make sense?

I (21M) have never had a “real” job and I’ve been a freelancer for awhile. I like to be my own boss and have locational freedom, but only recently I’ve become a little down feeling like I can never enjoy myself and like I always have to be working.

It’s hard because I can’t have structure like working 9-5 and having set hours for work and free time. I make enough money to support myself and build a small savings, but there’s this feeling that if I play a video game or watch Netflix that I’m gonna be a failure, that I should be working hard and all the time to increase my clients and income etc.

I guess it ties back to not being fully where I want to be, I guess. In terms of income and exposure. Although I do make enough to get by, I don’t think I’ll be more successful by constantly working and not having time to myself.

I also work off hours. I have some days where I go out on a hike midday on a Monday, but I’m up until 3 am working in the quiet of the night. I like the lifestyle but I’m learning to enjoy doing these things and not feeling like I’m going to fail cause I’m not at my desk on a Monday morning :/

How do you structure your work / life as a freelancer?

Illenium is incredibly deliberate in structuring his music/album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgCpQVCpeV4

His ascend tour was the first EDM live show that I went to, and I've listened to this set so many goddamn times. When you listen to the first few minutes of this set, you realize that he created a melodic consistency across all of his songs. He gives you a taste of what's to come. He puts "Crashing, Gorgeous, Hold On, Broken Ones, All Together", and then leads into the song "Blood". He knows how to fluctuate human emotions - he goes from an ethereal, calm sound to a teeth clenching, angsty build up that culminates into an amalgamation of the two: the explosion of emotion.

He uses the first drop of "Blood" (the song has 3x drops, and the first one is the drop that is most emotionally excruciating because of its mangling of synthetic sounds). After the drop, you think he's going to go into the second verse of Blood, but the intense drums allows him to carry the momentum into another fan favorite (Gold) that keeps the emotions scrunched in place. He is holding the tension for the eventual release that will feel incredibly liberating, because Illenium has crafted the set in a way where you are emotionally frustrated due to the compressed emotions of the scratchy, chaotic, electronic sounds. (This is not to say that Illenium is the first to do this - just an observation and personal experience)

Then he incorporates another song (Crawl Outta Love) that also fits perfectly with the melodic structure of Blood. At 2:18 he brings you back to the celestial feeling that you had at the beginning of the set, and the visual is incredibly symbolic of what is to come. He shows you a ball of fire, which is symbolic of the incredible pressure that he has put onto your heart and mind. He compressed all the chaotic thoughts and feelings that you had within with his music and shows you what he has done. His music helped you gather the unconscious, repressed pieces that you were/weren't aware of. You can't see anything except the fireball, which is what he is telling you to focus on.

The build up of Crawl Outta Love with the melody of the final drop of Blood finally ends in an explosion of emotion, shattering the compressed ball of angst and emotion, allowing the pain and struggle from your life experiences to pour out of your body through your movements. The staccato of the music and the vocal chops pound on your

Hello, so I'd like to start with the fact i used to be a Trap/drill producer but am changing genres over to Drum and Bass because of the the expanded freedom, all the new skills such as sound design in serum, an overall better community, and most importantly it is so much fun.

Anyways, I've always been having a problem structuring the part after a drop and cant seem to get it right, here is my newest project, an XXXTENTACION remix. Producer / listener, any feedback is super appreciated.

https://puu.sh/F8V8l.mp3

Thanks :)

I have SE 2020 on iOS 14.5.1 and Fugu14, I observe a throttling problem even after disabling the Find My Network setting. At first it had an effect, but then the problem still comes back. I have the option to downgrade to iOS 14.4 because I have TouchID and I have no problems with SEP. But I would like to stay on newer firmware. Do you have any recommendations?