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by Cpoll 7y ago
You don't need to cast the generator, you can do: next(itertools.islice(my_generator, n, n+1)) With that said... > In theory a "sufficiently smart language" should have a feature to understand that `thing[3]` can be transl
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I think the context matters. In this case, 'not doing this' doesn't mean making a mistake, it means ignoring a company-wide imperative, being insubordinate, hubristic, etc. I acknowledge that it's probably a joke anyway.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I suspect a frozen pizza factory machine is too large and sophisticated for this market. You can't fit it into a McDonalds-sized space.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
Thanks for this comment! I realized I was missing something when I got a reply (with my post being at the same depth as the one I couldn't reply to).
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> Theory I want to reply to wickedsickeune below, "Gravity is also a theory," but I think the thread's hit max-depth. The word "theory" in the context of Deterrence_(penology) is not the same as the word "th
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by Cpoll 7y ago
What part of the parent post is movie-like? I may be too cynical, but I don't see a difference between "the same job as brand influencers" and "spread (dis)information"
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by Cpoll 7y ago
Really, I always looked at it the other way around: Docker makes devs take responsibility for their dependencies, they can't say "well, it works on my machine." Add one of the many decent Docker analysis tools and you even ha
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I think equating "I disagree" with "people shouldn't read this" is problematic for a forum that wants to encourage discourse.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/325/
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by Cpoll 7y ago
Anecdotally, I've seen (2) companies fail because they refused investment money. The usual avenues of failure are: - You have a few major clients monopolizing your time, and you can't afford additional resources to break out of th
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> dogmatic ignorance What a fantastic phrase and way of putting it, thank you.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> HTTP/API endpoint checks and alerts Do you manually configure these in the web UI? I wasn't able to find an API or repo sync for these last time I looked, and it doesn't seem feasible to manually make sets of synthetics
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by Cpoll 7y ago
It's trivial to test: put a stopper in the tub before you take your shower, and see how close you were to a bath.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I hear a lot of claims that 960 eliminates opening theory, but is that really the case? I have no experience in the format, but I imagined that patterns would emerge (and Chess players are already good at spotting transpositions), and peopl
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by Cpoll 7y ago
That probably means that the screen is clear enough to read in most ambient light (since they're talking about an always-on display), but won't keep you awake or distract people in a movie theatre.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
Search in the UI is my particular bane. Sometimes it works great (searching for EC2 instances). Sometimes you need to construct restricted search queries (slightly aided by a slow dropdown auto-complete) that look like `Name: Begins With: &
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by Cpoll 7y ago
Serious question: Can this sort of (non-physically threatening) speech cross the line into harassment? I haven't seen the posts, so I can't evaluate them. And I imagine the Judge's position (as a public figure?) may factor in
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by Cpoll 7y ago
It's in his saved addresses because he saved them. Any explanation involving some mysterious cross-contamination across Google's various data repositories (as if everything is in one giant database) doesn't pass the smell tes
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> I imagine this is how windows gets bloated with candy crush saga Who knows, it's possible the Windows team just watched a lot of people install Candy Crush, and decided it would be a good addition to Minesweeper/Solitaire&#x2
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I called bullshit on this too, a college course (50-100hrs~) teaches enough to identify and fix the more egregious mistakes his art makes.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
But that's not a contradiction. He wants you to be explicit with using the language, but if we speak the same language, the standard bits can be concise. So it's ok to say #(25 % %) because we both speak the same language and we k
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by Cpoll 7y ago
Baba is You came to mind for me as well, as a game with incredibly simple graphics that still looks _really_ good. I think a big part of that is the consistency of the design. The high-contrast simple design also facilitates the gameplay. T
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> It's a major theme of the novel that they all already have the things they claim to need. But that still fits the message. They needed to learn that they have what they're looking for. (which isn't to say I have any op
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> This is a silly artefact left over from when there were no real player accounts and everything was just drop-in-drop-out. Doesn't sound that weird to me. It's sensible to iron out the core gameplay and make sure the game&#x27
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I'm in agreement with you about Typescript, but JS has other deficiencies that contribute to typing issues. Anecdotally, I'm frequently enough bitten by type issues in JavaScript, but I can't recall very many in Python. Certa
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by Cpoll 7y ago
> Programming in the large without type safety is a fool’s errand. Programming in the large without tests is a fool's errand. Type systems don't guarantee correctness.
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by Cpoll 7y ago
Amusingly, the alien and astronaut would be referring to the same thing when they say 'Base 3'
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by Cpoll 7y ago
To quote myself: > Sometimes 'multiple playstyles' is a design decision That's Deus Ex. But it doesn't have to be Doom. A game forcing you to change tacks doesn't mean the same thing as it giving you options. And
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by Cpoll 7y ago
I think the suspension idea fails here, because in the case of run-and-gun vs. cautious, a player that prefers one style will always prefer that style, whereas a driver will sometimes want comfort and sometimes want performance. > So i
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by Cpoll 7y ago
Do you know what this exercise is called?

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