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by scott_w 4mo ago
Default list/dict arguments is the one that comes to mind. Yes, I know why it happens, no, it’s still bad because it trips up every beginner.
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by scott_w 4mo ago
If it’s so easy then writing a PEP and getting it approved in 6 months will be trivial.
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by scott_w 4mo ago
I understand your words, I don’t understand why you think they’re relevant to the discussion.
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by scott_w 4mo ago
So why did you bring them up…
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by scott_w 4mo ago
JIT in CPython has nothing to do with PyPy or GraalPy: it's its own thing. If they can't get a PEP accepted within 6 months then it's best that the code isn't weighing on the main codebase until an approach can be agreed
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by scott_w 4mo ago
No, it’s a simple request to fully investigate the options before committing a massive piece of work to Python. We’ve seen bad implementations of things land before and now live forever. And frankly, if the team can’t pull together a stro
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by scott_w 4mo ago
Pretty sure there’s a middle ground between “forced sterilisation” and “boil humans to death in 50°C heat,” don’t you?
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by scott_w 4mo ago
I think it’s good to remember that, just 2 years ago, we were having conversations with people convinced LLMs were intelligent and possibly sentient. It’s really good to a) point out that they’re not demonstrating general intelligence and b
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by scott_w 4mo ago
Are they voluntarily participating if they’re being lied to about what they’re participating in? What distinguishes the whole thing from fraud?
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by scott_w 5mo ago
> Not scientific but I enjoy actually going somewhere. Jogging you can get to places in your neighborhood, but cycling I can get to places in my region. You just reminded me of my holiday to Biarritz in April where my wife received a tex
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by scott_w 5mo ago
While I haven't given up driving, the fact that I don't rely on it to commute (granted I work from home rather than cycling) means that when I do drive, my relative frustration is really low. About the only thing that annoys me is
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by scott_w 5mo ago
Except one way isn’t possible because the facts and logic tell you it’s not. Being open minded is good but don’t keep it so open your brain leaks out.
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by scott_w 5mo ago
That’s not what you just claimed. I’ve quoted you below: > Or..they couldn't remain compliant with one of the strictest cloud vendors' policies. Which is it? They can comply or they can’t? Both sides can’t be true at the same t
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by scott_w 5mo ago
Yet their account was restored so clearly GCP themselves disagree with you.
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by scott_w 5mo ago
Probably not for running because it would affect how you run in a way that wouldn’t give you the benefits you’d want above just running the full distance. Probably the only thing I’d recommend for “running slow but getting good benefits” wo
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by scott_w 5mo ago
When the game was released is irrelevant. I assure you that you’d be pretty pissed if you paid £50 for a TV and it stopped working after only three months. You can claim otherwise but I’ll call you a lying bullshitter. > coming across an
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by scott_w 5mo ago
You’re presenting a false dichotomy. There’s the third part which is “foreseen but challenging circumstances.” Also, “stopped car” can be VERY bad in many circumstances. Stopped on lane 2 of a motorway, stopped in running water, stopped in
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by scott_w 5mo ago
I don’t know where you’re from but in the UK, consumer protection law sets requirements that your goods last a reasonable length of time. Under your logic, a TV manufacturer could have their TV self destruct after 3 months and you’d be fine
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by scott_w 5mo ago
Not being able to use a product that was purchased is an “actual problem” that “makes the lives of regular people worse.” This is going to blow your mind, but this kind of stuff is EXACTLY what people elect governments to do.
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by scott_w 5mo ago
To be fair, B2B sales have typically existed in a different world, even for physical goods. Take the Sale of Goods Act in the UK, offering consumer protections. A business simply can’t take advantage of many of its protections as it’s aimed
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by scott_w 5mo ago
No, it’s saying inflation increased from 3.3% to 3.8%, the article is correct.
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by scott_w 5mo ago
Ok, so I’m stating that the persisting of that key must happen before the call to the payment gateway happens and regardless of whether that call succeeds or even completes. Is this something we agree on?
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by scott_w 5mo ago
I’m not disagreeing with that point: I’m just pointing out that the idempotency key must be persisted in your own system before the payment is submitted. Some gateways (Braintree) will let you submit no key and just give you one on reques
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by scott_w 5mo ago
I pointed to Braintree in another comment where this is very much not fine. Also these providers operate at a lower level of the stack than we do, so they have finer control over the process than you or I. Even then, it’s not fine becau
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by scott_w 5mo ago
> The "create payment" operation must be transactional and the communication channel between you and the processor must be idempotent so you don't inadvertently create multiple payments. Yes, I agree. You want to generate
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by scott_w 5mo ago
Not in the payments world. If you’re 99% done but only the bookkeeping failed, then it’s likely that money is changing hands and you need to deal with that fact. Payments are not an atomic infrastructure and you cannot magic that into rea
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by scott_w 5mo ago
That’s because everyone here thinking about payments completely incorrectly. They’re not atomic and your server shouldn’t pretend they are. You need to store the payment state at each relevant step and process it asynchronously. If requests
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by scott_w 6mo ago
Yes but the science is actually achieving that and finding the limits. It used to be thought that 60g carbs/hour was the limit, then 100g, now it’s thought to be 120g. It’s also about the methods of achieving that under stress without
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by scott_w 6mo ago
I didn’t read OP as saying “the community won’t allow” but more “the tooling doesn’t allow” for what they want to do.
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by scott_w 6mo ago
That’s not what I said though, is it?

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