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by sevensor 2y ago
> you still can't really rely on it for much And yet, type annotations in Python are a tremendous improvement and they catch a lot of bugs before they ever appear. Even if I could rely on the type system for nothing it would still c
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by sevensor 2y ago
Lack of nulls in toml is a headache. No two yaml libraries agree on what a given yaml text means. Although json is bad at numbers, that’s more easily worked around.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Trailing commas for sure, but I buy the argument that comments would be used to sneak in arbitrary directives and break interoperability. In fact, I’d like to see a less featureful JSON where everything is strings. Trivial parsing, leave in
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by sevensor 2y ago
Is a PEP 750 Template entirely different from a PEP 292 Template? I’m a bit confused about the relationship.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Away with floods! Away with workaday tidal waves!
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by sevensor 2y ago
Ooh, I was in semiconductor manufacturing too! As a junior ion implant engineer, I was looking into yield problems. Some of the tests were flaky and I traced the issue back to one of the transistors not delivering enough current. Great, we
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by sevensor 2y ago
> Taylor et al is not reliable nor are its errors remediable. It should be retracted to avoid harms to public health and scientific discourse It’s a bit late for that! “Fluoride makes you dumb” is now established in the public discourse
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by sevensor 2y ago
Not just middlebrow, old middlebrow. The Good Earth ? The Nine Taylors ? This is every college educated boomer’s aspirational reading list, a mix of books they liked and books they’ll never read.
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by sevensor 2y ago
> it reminds me a lot of the various Trotskyist or other far left sects and personalities I think she never stopped being a child of the Russian Revolution. It was the formative event of her youth.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Yeah, “think for yourself, and if you disagree with me that means you’re doing it wrong” is a heck of a way to run a school of philosophy. It’s no wonder she hates Plato, he’s constantly challenging people in their settled beliefs.
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by sevensor 2y ago
> Is there an internal group who's sole job is to ensure names have conflicting meaning? They must have been responsible for Skype / Skype for business, which must have been responsible for $1B of lost productivity all on its o
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by sevensor 2y ago
My teaching lab was for undergraduates who were etching oxide off of silicon wafers in a big old tub of hf. We’d have them wear a big thick apron and massive gloves; this is not an occasion requiring dexterity, and it’s one with a high pote
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by sevensor 2y ago
Good point. I live in the US and I wouldn’t start with the American civil war. Talk about other people’s history. I’ll trade you the American Civil War for the Franco Prussian War.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I love old Thinkpads for single purpose computers. Install Debian, boot it once a day, or once a week, or once a month. One for all the flacs I had the energy to rip in my 20s, one for wine and dosbox, one for messing around with programmin
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by sevensor 2y ago
Exactly! What makes history relevant is that we are still living in it.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I find the most productive political discussions are about history. Most people don’t know any history at all, so a willingness to discuss the reason we have the Third Amendment, or the lasting effects of King Leopold’s dominion in Africa,
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by sevensor 2y ago
I’m definitely in the frequent glove change camp. And PSA for anyone reading this, latex gloves are worse than useless for protection against HF. But hopefully anybody working with HF already knows that.
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by sevensor 2y ago
You don’t wear gloves when you work with HF? You are banned from my lab. 8 mil nitrile. Always check for cracks and pinholes before use.
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I would make them reread the MSDS.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I TAd a semiconductor fabrication lab class 20-odd years ago. Mostly it was about making sure the students had the absolute fear of God put into them about working with HF, but there was also a bit at the end where you actually got to do a
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by sevensor 2y ago
The best executives to work for are the ones who are able to be as precise at their level of abstraction as I am at mine. There’s a shared understanding at an intermediate level, and we can resolve misunderstandings quickly. And then there
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by sevensor 2y ago
They have a giant furnace that only burns hundreds. As I understand it, they lose money on every query they serve, even if you don’t consider the cost of training.
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by sevensor 2y ago
It’s remarkable that educated people invented the idea that there was a true Greek to go back to, when in ancient times it had been an evolving and fragmented language. Athenians and Spartans didn’t speak the same Greek, nor did Homer and A
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by sevensor 2y ago
Meh. Lazy stereotypes. Imported students can be just as dumb as home grown, US-educated students can be just as smart as foreign, and I think the distribution is about the same everywhere. I think other countries have their own malaise, I’m
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From what I can tell, children of foreign elites are about as serious about education as students born in the US, but they drive luxury cars, live in fancy off campus housing, and find different things to do that aren’t the assigned reading
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by sevensor 2y ago
I live near Big State U. The median student drops that much money on booze over two weeks (or one week if it’s an important holiday like Halloween or Saint Patrick’s day). What I see is that the declining interest in the life of the mind th
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by sevensor 2y ago
My experience is that a 20 year old exe file has a greater chance of running in wine than it would in windows, and a 20 year old Linux executable is going to fail because the shared libraries it depends on are unobtainable
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by sevensor 2y ago
In my experience, arguing co versus contra is a sign you are working with dubious design decisions in the first place. Mostly this is where I punch a hole in the type system and use Any. That way I can find all the bad architectural decisio
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by sevensor 2y ago
Not coincidentally, these are two of my least favorite parts of the standard library. Logging especially makes me grumpy, with its hidden global state and weird action at a distance. It’s far too easy to use logging wrong. And unittest just
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by sevensor 2y ago
You can actually annotate the return type of json.load better than that: JSON = float | bool | int | str | None | list[“JSON”] | dict[str, “JSON”]

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