empthought

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by empthought 10mo ago
The other poster said “The result is that the Python language is pulled in many different directions, and with each release gets increasingly bloated and strays further from its foundations.” Which is directly contradictory to your (more co
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by empthought 10mo ago
None of what you say about Python is true. It’s not even plausible. The Python language hasn’t even had any significant syntax changes for four versions now; versions 3.11-3.14 are basically all internals optimizations. Why would you write
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by empthought 10mo ago
Self-hosting a database server is not particularly hard or scary for an engineer. Hiring and replacing engineers who can and want to manage database servers can be hard or scary for employers.
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by empthought 10mo ago
It turns out that anecdotes don't constitute data. If the place you went to high school is considered "city" by the census definition, then I guarantee the majority of pickup trucks in the area were obnoxious luxury goods tha
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by empthought 10mo ago
In the cities and suburbs—-where the vast majority of trucks are garaged—-they are generally an obnoxious luxury good. Which is why new pickup truck models are so often not fit-for-purpose as a working truck of any kind. Like an EV F-150.
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by empthought 10mo ago
Less than 20% of Americans live in most of the (very large) country. The rest live in cities and suburbs.
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by empthought 10mo ago
Answering that question well is what makes the system good!
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by empthought 10mo ago
A good system, i. e. one that got it right from the start, is one that is cost-effective to change. (“Will” has little to do with it.)
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by empthought 11mo ago
Wait til you hear about NodeJS not supporting parallel threads until version 12...
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by empthought 1y ago
No it doesn’t. The first paragraph talks about objectification, not exploitation. They are different concepts. I spent years of my life studying this.
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by empthought 1y ago
That isn't exploitation. If you read that entire article, the concept of "exploitation" doesn't occur once.
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by empthought 1y ago
Precisely how do you define "exploitative?" In the commercial context of movies and advertising, every depiction of anything is "exploitative," in that it is leveraging the depiction to make money for the movie financier
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by empthought 1y ago
Slime molds aren’t fungus, though…
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by empthought 1y ago
> for a web-focused scripting language it makes sense to default to mutable strings Why do you say that? I would say the opposite.
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by empthought 1y ago
The logical replication of the transaction log is basically a stream of data change events, so the difference between those senses isn’t very big.
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by empthought 1y ago
Emacs steps through code and jumps around symbol references, though.
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by empthought 1y ago
You just turned your leader into an engineer, is all.
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by empthought 1y ago
You’re probably wrong about this but will never admit it. This is because you have an ideological commitment and are backing into the answer that is orthodox to this commitment, rather than any real rationale or spirit of inquiry.
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by empthought 1y ago
> but the world as a whole is not a better place because Facebook and Lockheed and the US CIA exist. You've cherry-picked a few bogeymen. What about Norman Borlaug, Bell Laboratories, the Gates Foundation, Margaret Sanger and the Wo
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by empthought 2y ago
No, your assertion is factually untrue. You have to reach back to a point where no one living today was in any position to make any kind of policy, and still you bring in a bunch of irrelevant material instead of anything resembling stati
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by empthought 2y ago
Flying drones isn’t particularly demanding in terms of strength.
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by empthought 2y ago
You really scooted away from the fact that yes, since drug overdose deaths have been tracked, more people have been killed by drug overdoses than by the US government in combat. You brought in a bunch of irrelevant data to hide the fact tha
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by empthought 2y ago
Why would you say something so obviously false? A half-million people in the USA have died of drug overdoses in the last five years alone.
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by empthought 2y ago
> That's the thing that's being treated as FALSE. That UNKNOWN. Not the value of NULL itself. No, it's being treated as UNKNOWN, and the semantics of SELECT...WHERE only returns rows where the value of the condition is TRU
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by empthought 2y ago
If by “popular” you mean “number of unique users” then almost certainly not.
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by empthought 2y ago
> It's the language with the highest ratio of (useful work / LOC), so it's the least verbose language. That's not even close to true. Even setting aside APL and its descendants, even setting aside Perl, any of the fun
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by empthought 2y ago
> Why would anyone be paying people to hype Ruby? What could possibly be the end goal? Hiring increasingly disinterested junior devs.
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by empthought 2y ago
No matter how many times I choose "Show less like this" on furry manga art in the algorithmic feed, I still see it show up. :(
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by empthought 2y ago
Is this the same set of people that still mandates masks for all PyCon participants?
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by empthought 2y ago
It’s literally described by Hippocrates but OK.

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