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by rusk 3y ago
Please engage with the substance of my comment rather than just further iterating the argument that’s in your head. It is equally frustrating whether tabs or spaces. Who on earth is counting spaces?
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by rusk 3y ago
The key difference you are outlining here is form vs function. The latter example is perfectly reasonable because you are adding actual “content” and restructuring around that. I don’t think any reasonable person could object to that - codi
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by rusk 3y ago
I’d love to have a little blue squiggly intellisense underline every time code lense thinks I should have done it differently.
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by rusk 3y ago
And everybody throughout the lifecycle of the code using such tools
485.
by rusk 3y ago
I always remind my business stakeholders of this. Really helps calm things down and helps them develop perspective.
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by rusk 3y ago
One of my pet peeves is when I go to the trouble of lining up my indents, usually for some good reason like improving clarity or readability and some busybody comes along and flattens it all for no good reason other than pandering to th
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by rusk 3y ago
I have a promotional minions Christmas special I got in some “12 days of Christmas” promotion over 10 years ago. It pops up everywhere an apple device accesses my movie library. It’s actually a good comfort marker that indicates I’ve everyt
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by rusk 3y ago
I wonder can it do “   ” (3x &nbsp;)? EDIT apparently not
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by rusk 3y ago
“They were so busy trying to figure out if they could, they forgot to ask themselves if they should ”
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by rusk 3y ago
> the first computer to ship with only USB ports I remember presenting this in a project as an undergraduate and I was challenged by the lecturer that it would be highly unusual for a consumer device to ship without RS232 and I could onl
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by rusk 3y ago
> Latency might be okay. Nope. Not for real-time gaming which is the topic at hand. Certainly not at scale. Certainly not at the kind of volume of events that gaming produces.
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by rusk 3y ago
Bitcoin is an interesting exception to the above. Issue is latency.
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by rusk 3y ago
Personally I prefer ‘python -m json.tool’ I resent the insular tone of jq. If I’m going to be processing the data in any way I’d prefer to make the leap into a familiar environment rather than kid myself I’m querying the doc like SQL
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by rusk 3y ago
No I’m just trying to add substance to the discussion. I like Ruby but I wouldn’t use it for the things I use Python for.
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by rusk 3y ago
You can use ‘case _’ in that case … it’s not a big deal to opt into this default behaviour.
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by rusk 3y ago
It’s not the touch screen that’s the issue. It’s the autocorrect. And it’s not an imaginary comparison I used to have “t9” on my phone 20 years ago that was better than what maybe any phone now has. I’m pretty certain iphone was better once
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by rusk 3y ago
> else is invoked if the list is empty. for / else should do that too …
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by rusk 3y ago
Skinner was never "debunked" - as I said, behavioral methods are still used extensively and effectively. However in a historical context behaviorism was the dominant theory for a good 50 years or so. The adage about "every pr
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by rusk 3y ago
In Python you can terminate a for loop with else, which will be run whenever the loop runs to the end without breaking
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by rusk 3y ago
Commodore 128 included one because it was cheaper than resolving the architectural issues that bugged the z80 on their CP/M cart :)
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by rusk 3y ago
> Chomsky has lately started to look like he is quite wrong Such is the march of science. It's okay to be wrong as long as you were falsifiable to begin with.
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by rusk 3y ago
Behaviorism was the dominant psychological theory of the 20th century. Specifically it tried to downplay introspection, and personal experience and reduce behavior to learned "reflexes". This was debunked quite a while ago, 1970s
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by rusk 3y ago
> "something I don't like and/or don't understand" In particular "something I have no need for but lots of other people do but I don't care about them"
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by rusk 3y ago
That was google "Buzz" - a very simple XMPP based chat app, that it really wouldn't have hurt to hold on to. Last I heard it was merged into hangouts yeah, but hopefully it should still work with standalone XMPP clients ...
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by rusk 3y ago
Typing on iPhone is just such a bad joke.
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by rusk 3y ago
Looking forward to the day I have a little stage in my living room where little androids act out scenes from Shakespeare, Beckett. Ha I bet Beckett never saw that one coming.
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by rusk 3y ago
> i.e. the type of art that you see in museums, etc.) Nope. I mean the visual art we see all around us. If it’s trivial to generate it’ll be everywhere and nobody will value it. It will become a annoyance to people - so what fills that s
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by rusk 3y ago
> I always find it funny when 'art' is used as short form I think, given the context being an generative AI for images it should be fairly obvious what I’m talking about. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before they do it fo
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by rusk 3y ago
My guess is this will devalue art overall. That is indeed momentous it’s been a corner stone of modern culture for about 500 years. What does a world without art look like. Does a new form of “art” evolve that makes use of these seemingly o
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by rusk 3y ago
> without permission or attribution even

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