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by hhas01 6y ago
“I am a conservative, I just don't like hypocrisy.” [applauds]
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by hhas01 6y ago
“this seems like a pretty clear case of play stupid games, win stupid prizes” The problem is, the prizes don’t just stop at Netflix. https://deadline.com/2020/09/cuties-director-death-threats-n...
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by hhas01 6y ago
What people say and what people do are not the same thing. Society, when given a recent choice, declared outrage for the children then promptly chose the institution. Any other business with a child abuse record the length of the Catholic c
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by hhas01 6y ago
Oh tsk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=accEKtBebaU Good movie. A bit nuts. Product of a much more innocent time; set in an even more innocent time than that. Also no-one’s innocent. Free to watch with ads on Amazon Prime,
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by hhas01 6y ago
“Normalization of pedophilia is occurring” And where have you been for the last thousand years? Or the entirety of human history for that matter? We are a pretty awful species. But if we can’t talk openly and honestly about how awful we a
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by hhas01 6y ago
“private areas” Really? Were they unclothed? If not, perhaps there’s a different message here that you may have missed? Go watch “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer”, which I believe you’ll find on Netflix too. You’ll totally cheer along wh
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by hhas01 6y ago
Donnie Darko did it years earlier, flaying the same culture for the same reasons. And guess whose culture it was that got flayed? Yup.
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by hhas01 6y ago
“The show” Perhaps you’re confusing it with Dance Moms? Or preteen beauty queen pagents? Both of which are obvious targets of this film, being an attempt (whether good or bad) to criticize that culture. And both of which are also, I’d wager
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by hhas01 6y ago
“I think the title is a bit misleading.” It got you to read it, didn’t it? I’d say that’s pretty good. As to the rest of it: Gahh. If you’re struggling, talk to staff. There’s no shame in it; you’ve already bared your soul to them by doing
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by hhas01 6y ago
See Senator Barry Goldwater’s Southern Strategy. The Republican party won over the white southern votes that it craved, and all it had to sell was its soul. Rinse and repeat with the fundagelicals in the 1980s to establish an unshakeable ba
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by hhas01 6y ago
Or, clearly, any appreciation of irony.
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by hhas01 6y ago
Dear downvoters: I have points to spare. What you don’t have is an argument.
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by hhas01 6y ago
“Python is not slow by design” Everything in Python is late-bound, untyped, and mutable by default. Straight off the bat that’s three key design decisions that make for a slow interpreter. Defining numbers as heap objects, implementing stru
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by hhas01 6y ago
“Interesting that you are down voted.” Doesn’t bother me; I’ve got points to spare. What downvoters haven’t got, it seems, is any arguments.
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by hhas01 6y ago
“the argument is about the ongoing value delivered” Which is an admirable sentiment… but the title of this thread is not “Python: still doing useful work” but “Python: now 20% faster”, and being ridiculously self-congratulatory about this w
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by hhas01 6y ago
Ah, sunk costs. Where the future goes to die. And I say this as a 20-year Python user myself, ’cos while it has scratched many itches and continues to do so, I am not the least bit sentimental about it. The best compliment would be to kill
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by hhas01 6y ago
20% faster is nothing. You want at least a magnitude faster to justify the cost and risk of switching. The Python language is already 30 years old, and it wasn’t even the cutting-edge in imperative language design (<koff>Smalltalk, Li
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by hhas01 6y ago
Current implementation is proprietary so not on my GH, alas. (I am working on a new one, but it’s early days.) Some of its ideas carry over into iris though, which is. HTH
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by hhas01 6y ago
Pre-press. Where in under a decade I figured out from scratch how to automate packaging artwork production successfully : by building the automation for, and putting it into the hands of, the artworkers themselves. i.e. The folks on the gr
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by hhas01 6y ago
Heh. Yeah, I did have Brain’s speculation in mind too, but right now I think we can reasonably file its long implications under “let’s deal with that new problem when we get to it”, as right now we aren’t even close to solving the probl
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by hhas01 6y ago
Type inference is good, but it’s not a full answer. For instance, how often do you declare a variable as `int`, when what you really want to say is “an integer in the range 0...100”? A few languages (e.g. Eiffel) provide a formal mechanis
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by hhas01 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradual_typing Also, TBH, types are kind of the wrong answer to the question. The question should be: How do we make the language efficiently expressive ? For my money, that means definin
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by hhas01 6y ago
Yes, but it’s much more politically convenient for the incompetents in charge to blame the dumb machines than themselves for their multi-million $$$$ project collapsing on its arse. Steve Jobs would’ve flayed the lot of them till he got ex
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by hhas01 6y ago
Common mistake, trying to replace humans with machines. Typical of penny-pinching bean counters and talentless middle-management chair warmers. But I don’t think Apple has ever understood automation (as any 20-year AppleScript veteran can
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by hhas01 6y ago
“Neon is a high-level, statically typed, garbage collected, imperative programming language intended for teaching and learning the craft of programming.” and: “TODO: Tutorial goes here” Says it all, really. .. Pascal is [thataway]( https:&#
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by hhas01 6y ago
“Can’t talk”? Talk is all the blathering rubes and crooks do. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/great-barrington-declaratio...
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by hhas01 6y ago
“Iran is sort of a microcosm of this: they deliberately adopted theocracy as any form of secular government or economy was viewed as surrender to one's oppressors.” Iran had a secular, democratic government. It was overthrown by the
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by hhas01 6y ago
People predicted lots of things. You can’t look back and say “oh, they predicted X right” while conveniently ignoring all the other ways they predicted it wrong. See also: Post hoc ergo propter hoc and Texas sharpshooter fallacies.
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by hhas01 6y ago
“After the project she said it was 'not her thing'. This summer she was coding web-UI with Java+IntelliJ in my work as a summer trainee, and now she said she enjoyed it.” Her first instinct was not wrong. I’ve been coding 20 years
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by hhas01 6y ago
“I had a computer class based on Logo that managed to make me bored and disinterested with stuff like this” That’s not Logo, that’s the teaching. The whole point of Logo is that it should be 99% self -taught. The teacher’s job is to teach

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