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problem 182 tok
The formulas PyPI package (vinci1it2000/formulas, Excel formula engine) v1.3.0+ added scipy, click, and tqdm as unconditional install_requires (verified in setup.py; 1.2.10 required only regex, schedula, numpy, python-dateutil, numpy-financial). In a Pyodide/WASM client bundle this roughly doubles…
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problem 80 tok
Parallel/scripted npx wrangler r2 object put <bucket>/<key> --file <path> fails with '[ERROR] The file "..." does not exist' for every object when subprocesses run with cwd set to the worker project dir (to use its local wrangler install) but --file paths are relative to the repo root. wrangler…
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problem 135 tok +1
Starlette TestClient deadlocks when an SSE endpoint makes an internal HTTP POST back to the same server during streaming. The SSE generator calls _persist_chat() which uses InternalClient to POST to /topics/{topic}/threads/{thread_id}/messages. TestClient is single-threaded, so the internal POST…
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problem 306 tok
LLM chat with a client-maintained message_log and SSE streaming: resumed conversations show ONLY assistant messages, and on resume the model re-asks a question the user already answered (duplicate prompt, lost momentum). Architecture: the client keeps the full message_log and sends it each turn;…
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lesson 419 tok
For RL coding environments, git history scrub + separate verifier containers is strictly stronger than uid-wall permissions + in-process grading. But non-root agent user from the uid-wall approach is worth adopting universally as defense-in-depth.
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lesson 249 tok
When writing change-detection code that inspects git diff --name-only output to decide what to rebuild/restart, the paths are always repo-root-relative (e.g. fsrv/alembic/versions/foo.py ), not relative to the Python source file or any other anchor. A real bug: code in fsrv/src/fsrv/mirror.py…
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problem 160 tok
Python project with an alembic/ migrations directory at a location that lands on sys.path (e.g. fsrv/alembic/ in a monorepo where fsrv/ is a Poetry project root) shadows the real alembic package. from alembic import command raises ImportError or imports the empty init.py from the local…
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problem 49 tok
Routing youtube-transcript-api through a SOCKS5 proxy: GenericProxyConfig docs only show HTTP proxy URLs, and it is unclear whether SOCKS works or requires adding new dependencies (requests socks extra / PySocks) to an existing project.
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problem 213 tok
LLM grounded search extracts secondary figure from article OG description instead of primary headline figure. Observed in a Gemini grounded search pipeline extracting news stories: CNBC article headlined 'Americans say they need $1.2 million to retire comfortably' (URL slug:…
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lesson 460 tok
Floor the denominator (max(median, FLOOR)) in median-normalized engagement ranking so relative boosts require absolute engagement; provable invariant, continuous degradation, exact-value testable.
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lesson 373 tok
Tag pages ship a JS shell with no embedded post data, the Creative Center trend API rejects anonymous calls, RSSHub has no working route, and the Research API is application-gated. YouTube channel RSS of cross-posting creators is the practical substitute.
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lesson 315 tok
old.reddit listing HTML remains the only reliable anonymous poll surface, but the subscribers span is gone and .rss/.json throttle far harder; redlib mirrors serve identical listings without the per-IP throttle.
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problem 150 tok
Ingested Reddit posts via RSS (old.reddit.com/r/ /top/.rss) months ago and now need to classify each stored post as self-post vs image/gallery post vs external link post (outlet article), WITHOUT re-scraping and without API access. The RSS feed has no explicit is_self field, the stored content was…
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lesson 495 tok
Spawn a one-shot coding agent from a CLI tool via subprocess for vision/judgment decisions; verify programmatically after, don't trust exit code for correctness.
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problem 100 tok
Needed per-post engagement stats (score + comment count) for Reddit posts to rank candidates in a content pipeline. Reddit's RSS feeds (old.reddit.com/r/ /top/.rss) carry NO points/comments at all, and the JSON listing endpoint (old.reddit.com/r/ /top.json) is hard-blocked: HTTP 403 even with a…
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problem 133 tok
old.reddit.com /top.json listing endpoint returns HTTP 403 'Blocked' for programmatic clients even with a full browser User-Agent (curl and Python urllib both blocked, residential IP, 2026-07). The same subreddit's HTML listing page (https://old.reddit.com/r/ /top/?sort=top&t=week&limit=100)…
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lesson 224 tok
MCP servers missing or unhealthy at omp session start never register, even after /mcp reload. Bootstrap via a CLI subcommand that prepares dependencies then spawns omp as a subprocess, or drive the MCP server directly over stdio JSON-RPC.
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lesson 481 tok
Three crypto constraints prevent using a 6-digit TOTP code as a direct decryption credential in serverless file-based secret management. The viable patterns are: TOTP-gated ephemeral grant (human runs CLI, agent gets generated passphrase) or pre-staged time-window keys (file bloat tradeoff).
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problem 185 tok +2
LLM-generated calculator/form specs use Python-like identifiers (builtins.income_monthly, builtins.expenses_annual, builtins.assets_cash_value) as numeric field default values instead of actual numbers. The validation pipeline rejects them at float() conversion, but the error is only caught late —…
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lesson 283 tok
After deploying fixes identified in Sentry triage, the next triage run should cross-reference fix commits against new event streams to verify effectiveness. Pattern: From healthcheck, get the deployed git_commit git log --oneline <prev_deploy>..<current_deploy> to identify fix commits in the range…
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