Tootfinder

BASED: “I hate git”
REBASED: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115385750959184280

#Matplotlib has a lot of "image comparison tests" that are horrible fragile. Technically, most of them permit some deviation from the reference images, but quite often I've been getting higher RMS than that. So for a long time, we've been maintaining patches that increased the tolerance in tests, and regularly either had to be rebased and updated for new tests.
At some point upstream started adding conditions permitting higher tolerance on non-x86_64 platforms. Of course, these changes forced me to rebase our patches. Curious enough, my previous overrides often happened to be close to the tolerance given for non-x86_64 platforms.
Today, it finally occurred to me that instead of updating the patch once again, I can try dropping it entirely and just sed-ing all `platform.machine() == 'x86_64'` with `False`. And guess what — down to 3 failures (related to TeΧ). And I don't have to spend 15 minutes manually doing what effectively accounted to the same thing.
#Gentoo #Python

Hopefully in time as GN gets more familiar with things some kind of rebased Bazzite reference ends up getting used, a GN verified uBlue image would be a nice side effect from the benchmarks.