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by bb88 1y ago
I think there's a few in there. But most people aren't going to write code that way. It's good to know, and keep in your head, but if you have to think too hard in the future if a piece of code is correct, it's probabl
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by bb88 1y ago
Having written python professionally for more than a decade, I highly recommend not writing complex one-liners -- unless there's some real benefit to doing so. The more one-liners there are in the code base, the more impenetrable and h
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by bb88 1y ago
It doesn't matter much since pointers are never comparable in python, just values.
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by bb88 1y ago
How does this attract more people to hackernews who come from the python world? If anything, it just shows how toxic people can be on this site.
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by bb88 1y ago
If we do it that way, we have worse problems. if "False": # What do you expect? True or False? print("True") else: print("False") bool() is consistent with how "truth
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by bb88 1y ago
I came here to say that. That was an eye opening intro to Javascript for me.
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by bb88 1y ago
The treasury sells bonds that mature after X years. So I suspect something similar could happen. But further there could be refinement if the radioactive isotopes could interact chemically in ways that gold couldn't. Then they could
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Astronomer launches internal investigation after viral Coldplay video(cnn.com)
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by bb88 1y ago
You're getting the "Delta Price Delta" because you can afford it.
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by bb88 1y ago
I don't get the python hate on here. Pip is fine. It's been fine for at least the last 5 to 10 years.
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by bb88 1y ago
Eh, I just wrote a chrome extension for the first time through AI. If it automates the boring stuff for us, I'm more okay with this than not.
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by bb88 1y ago
Back in the early days of Redhat, rpm's didn't really have good dependency management. Yes there were rpms, yes you could download them, but getting the full dep tree was a PITA. Most people installed the full Linux distro rathe
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by bb88 1y ago
Tata Communications in India was the one that apparently caused the outage.
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by bb88 1y ago
HF also requires a harder test, which is basically gatekeeping, I suppose. And a lot of people stick to FT8/FT4 because they can typically make more QSOs then with phone. You can be an asshole on FT8, but it's harder to do.
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by bb88 1y ago
There has always been a place for emergency management. Just ask Kansas about tornados in the 1960s/70s before the rise of doppler radar. And even after in 2007, there was Greensburg, KS. We can and probably should have arguments abo
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by bb88 1y ago
There's a lot of people that are condescending to others, but they wouldn't see themselves as being an asshole. I see this often in Ham Radio and Electronics. Their responses are curt, sure, but to them they are not outside the n
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by bb88 1y ago
One thing to do is to focus on the negative impacts. Number of children separated from Families. Number of US citizens illegally detained. Number of lawsuits against ICE. Cost of ICE vs each Detainee.
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by bb88 1y ago
Iowa infrastructure was good back in the 1980s. If the sirens went off you knew it's bad, normally because someone actually had to see a tornado on the ground. The aftermath of an F5 can look like a localized nuke went off.
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by bb88 1y ago
FEMA has "Emergency" in the name. Traditionally, it's supposed to come in when the normal rescue infrastructure has failed, due to earthquake, weather, etc. You're not optimizing for cost here. You're optimizing
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by bb88 1y ago
Here's some local and national reporting I found interesting. 1. Kerr county balked at the cost of flood sirens. [0] 2. Kerr county didn't alert all cell phones of the emergency. [1] 3. Kerr county repeatedly asked the State
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by bb88 1y ago
The defendant still has to pay for their defense, even if the charges were frivolous.
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by bb88 1y ago
And there's no punishment for Pam Bondi, she's got a get out jail free card with a Trump pardon.
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by bb88 1y ago
Correction: The developer has not been charged... yet. If you dig into someone's past, you can probably find something, or make it look like there's something. Pay informants. Frame people for other crimes. Etc. When a justice
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by bb88 1y ago
That's a very - wait for it - chilling ... effect on free speech then. /s
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by bb88 1y ago
It's interesting that money has no morals, it's just money. The reality is that the more money you have, the more freedom you have too. The easier it is to pay off officials. The easier it is to escape juris diction. The easier
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by bb88 1y ago
Well... there's no "ICE" button in Waze. /s There's not. But it attempts to thwart the administration's efforts into conducting raids.
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by bb88 1y ago
This is what weaponization of the DoJ looks like. Under Bush 41 they would try to hide it to make it look like they weren't because of political fallout. But now they don't have to hide it anymore. The DoJ is supposed to uphold
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by bb88 1y ago
One way to look at the world is if there's no punishment, there was never any crime. It's pretty clear the US has been doing economic spying for at least more than 3 decades [0]. One famous incident I'm aware of was the CIA
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by bb88 1y ago
The problem with security is that it's all stick based, not carrots. Nobody gets a raise for following good security practices -- just firing, fines, and jail time. Meanwhile "mass paranoia" masquerades as "security b

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