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by _coldfire 10y ago
>new type annotation stuff xrange is now range? >multiple ways to handle string formatting This is a problem? As for sanity: bytes/unicode integer division chained exceptions os.scandir performance I'm keen for 4 when it com
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by _coldfire 10y ago
Reduce is easy to fix also, but that ignores the entire reasoning for it being removed and only serves to highlight the massive chasm between 2 and 3. The clean break of 3 and the sanity it brings to the language is undeniable.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
Exactly. Didn't make it far through that thread, but what is the proposed alternative? It's a bizarre, kneejerk reaction by a few people that ultimately may harm an entire language still in its formative years.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
It's human nature to resist change. Making a clean break and avoiding backwards compatibility was the smart move, it annoyed many, but I look around and see some languages truly suffering from such things years down the track. Python3
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by _coldfire 10y ago
Who exactly is going to pay for this? The govt or ISP/consumer? And if as another comment suggested, what happens if there's a concerted effort of spamming the system? How much data are they actually willing to hold? People aren&#
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by _coldfire 10y ago
> If you are in tech, maybe something more physical, cooking, woodworking,etc. Second this. Spend vast amounts of time in front of a screen, woodworking provides much stress relief, even when you screw things up.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
>Subjective Straight up. apt-get /pip /equivalents are all astonishingly efficient methods of installing programs. Have seen many non-tech inclined people change their mind quickly once being exposed to it. Perhaps we should be
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by _coldfire 10y ago
I have suspicions that most world leaders are aware of the work done on the various geo-engineering mitigation strategies and are willing to risk it. Such a terrible prospect to consider but that hasn't stopped scientists and engineers
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by _coldfire 10y ago
It's never been a better time to be a human. It's never been a worse time to be any other species on earth.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
Stylised fonts are harder to read but make content easier to remember, it's not a huge leap to assume drawn diagrams like these are similar. Comic Sans is good for you. https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/font.h
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by _coldfire 10y ago
On what sort of timescale? I doubt it would be a viable option in our lifetime, yet someone has to take first steps. Few hundred years from now people may appreciate the foresight.