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Ehm, stop the snakes boarding the plane(!). I know it's Python and it's supposed to be all snakes and games, but for someone who suffers from ophidiophobia (fe
by melx 4y ago
Ehm, stop the snakes boarding the plane(!).
I know it's Python and it's supposed to be all snakes and games, but for someone who suffers from ophidiophobia (fear of snakes) when I see one unexpectedly my whole day is ruined (that's it: I see snakes everywhere attacking me).
I've been programming in Python for 20 years (the current logo is from 2006..), and while snake pictures included in articles about Python programming are rare, they trigger that fear in me (and possibly other folks).
No problems with cartoon snakes etc.
- heywhatupboys 4y agobusiness idea: an extension that uses image and text recognition to pre-load sites and tell the user if the will encounter "x"!
- exikyut 4y agopossible con: you'll instantly have all the Vogons from Big Education and Big Porn-Is-Evil lumbering after you, and they will catch you and eat your spirit for dinner.
- npsomaratna 4y agoCompletely agree. Articles on Python should only have photos of John Cleese (and maybe Graham Chapman).
- exikyut 4y agoTwo genuine questions (potential TW?): - What's your opinion of doing a stint as a snake handler at a zoo or wildlife park? I believe there are smaller snakes that tend to be a bit bitey but don't hurt very much and are completely non-venomous, and it's apparently part of the job to get used to them quickly (ie, it's the norm to rapidly reach the point of going "ok this isn't the end of the world" - basically the pins-and-needles equivalent of sticking one's arm in a tank full of daddy-long-legs spiders). - What would you think of having designated "see a snake" days or times of day, where you reroute your adblocker to load pictures of snakes in ad frames at specific times? Going for an exposure therapy vibe, but where you control the parameters, and you start off very easy (eg, one specific day of week, time window of 1 minute, you know exactly when it'll happen to begin with lol). Asking entirely out of "what happens to the black box if we push this button", coming from someone who has annoying random triggers that I'm trying to get to the bottom of too.
- shanebellone 4y agoThis approach worked for me. I had an irrational fear of eating out after getting blown up in a dining facility in Afghanistan. It took me a couple years of uncomfortable meals to finally realize I could eat without people dying. The mind is a weird thing.
- jvanderbot 4y agoWow, the world is sometimes a very a dark place. I'm sorry you had to go through that.
- melx 4y agoThis might work... however I can't see myself doing these things, for reasons that I have no time nor intention. Where I live (UK) the snakes are rare things in the wild, so I really have no desire to fight my fear of them. Simply put, they don't exist in my day-to-day living and that's good. Except when I go to read random post about programming language...
- dncornholio 4y agoSorry your day is ruined but don't you think that's a bit too much to expect from a 'silly' blogpost like this?
- jvanderbot 4y agoI don't want to rip on GP, I think they were more sharing a quirk than calling to action. But I have a mental model of "shared cost" that I wish more people had: if the cost for me to grin an bear it is less than the sum of the costs of everyone else changing, it's probably not worth changing. Obviously there are extreme nonlinearities involved in these costs. Very bad things for a few individuals are worth lots of small changes for a majority.
- TheRealPomax 4y agoGood news: it's an AI generated image, it's not real on multiple levels. Although in other good news, I'm current reimplementing the whole thing in JS so the python parts are getting rewritten soon and the image of a fake snake on a fake plane will have to go, too.