frollogaston

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by frollogaston 1mo ago
A lot of them are also about nulls and == vs ===, which are weird, but they're weird in many langs. Like Python has the whole == vs `is`. You just learn the convention and use it. Same with typecasts.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
A lot of those are stuff I'd never do like `Test.prototype = null;`. Some are legit footguns, but they rarely get in your way. Python has weird file imports (no relative ones either), broken package management, historical differences b
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
There are reasons all those Py libraries with C code didn't just do it in SWIG.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
There are certainly weird things about it, but they're all things you can ignore especially in modern times, whereas in Python you're constantly dealing with it head-on.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
The imports/packages situation is terrible in general. This was basically broken until uv, and uv is still not the default. And it's weird how you import files. They're dot-separated packages that resemble file structure but
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
Python's strength is that it's easy to make C libs work in it. That's also why CPython is de facto the only Python implementation and stuff like PyPy never took off.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
JS is a lot less weird than Python. And Python is what I started with and continue to use half the time. The article missed the most common one, __name__ == "__main__" like wtf
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
It takes at least 5 seconds, which is slow for this use case
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
So they have a cool club for yachting but ruin it with geeky digital tokens
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
https://ballotpedia.org/Elected_officials_suspended_or_banne... The example I remembered was Jim Banks suspended for saying "The title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man" in reference to a trans
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
Yeah, the reality is you never break even. It's only a thing if the two options are similar pricing.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
Hey, I bought this VW Golf before Hitler invaded Poland
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
It's fair. But I'm not going to visit Twitter anymore because the website is laggy and glitchy, even with an account.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
A lot of kinds of speech became allowed that weren't before. Old Twitter had banned several politicians including US Congress members for their views, sometimes for things like misgendering someone. Also banned NY Post.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
Same, nitter never worked for me.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
NUC is good too. Having x86 is surprisingly important in Linux.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
This is why my wife's iPhone 6 is still better in real life usage than the latest flagship Android phone. Playing high-end 3D game vs not screwing up the group chat.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
Guess cause it'll still do local builds and stuff, and probably do a lot more of those if the agents are spamming builds and it's something like Swift or Rust that takes a lot to compile
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
Also "will it run Minecraft with shaders"
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
I don't really care about gaming, but there's a PC I got for free a while back with a 2060ti that overheats if I don't peg the fans at 100% and keep the case open. Would be nice if that holds on.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
The $750 Amazon special M4 Air was also insanely good.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
Wait, their website only shows preorders for M6 or M5 Pro, and they have nothing about the M4. So do they currently have zero Mac minis in stock?
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
That too, it's either Mac mini or Rpi if you care about power, and the Rpi is very limited.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
Uh idk, I have a desktop and laptop that are both base. The laptop is an M4 Air which is overall faster than M1 Pro, especially single-core where it's even faster than M3 Max.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
I've never done a test. That means 1. you know it's a test 2. you get like 5 back-and-forths or 5 minutes 3. you have a human subject to compare to. But pretty sure I'd pass anyway, as the judge or subject.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
Keyword is pro. Non-pro chips drive fewer screens unless you use DisplayLink. Which I did at some point, it's a hack but ok for lighter usage.
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
It's like, you pay laptop prices for laptop performance but without laptop portability or desktop modularity. This only sorta made sense back when Apple had no "prosumer" desktop offering unless you wanted a cheap used Mac Pr
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
Because it's not exactly a server, more like a home PC / dev machine that I also remote into. Usually SSHing but sometimes VNC which is annoying in Linux. And the Mac mini is pretty fast. Yes a Linux box would win in terms of mult
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
No iTerm2, weird shortcuts, random issues in video calls?, also not really cheap to get a laptop that reliably works with Linux and has decent battery life
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by frollogaston 2mo ago
Honestly the screens become more of a liability than an asset to me past 2 (including the laptop screen). I've tried. Even if I'm knee deep in work and have like 4 servers I'm monitoring, my eyes are only going to look at one

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