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by sevensor 1y ago
Committing in advance. I pay for a gym membership with group classes. You have to book your attendance in advance. I make a habit of doing it the night before. In the morning I get up at five to go to the class I booked the night before. If
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by sevensor 1y ago
It’s an interesting thought, and it would explain a lot, if middle management and individual contributors were much better aligned with corporate success than the executives. If whatever game they’re playing isn’t won by driving the company
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by sevensor 1y ago
What amazes me about this phenomenon and so many others is just how long the executive class are willing to stick with a counterproductive trend. RTO, open offices, development methodologies that disempower the developers, devops without pe
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by sevensor 1y ago
Frs was everywhere for a minute, and it seems like it’s been completely forgotten. Perfect for the application, basically the intended purpose.
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by sevensor 1y ago
For reading, I enjoyed fe, which was very clear: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36239175
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by sevensor 1y ago
Is that the OS from the people who make Excel?
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by sevensor 1y ago
Just from reading the text itself. I’m well familiar with the D&D troll, but Tolkien’s trolls are just big ruffians covered in mutton grease.
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by sevensor 1y ago
I thought the trolls were perfect. Big, unkempt, medium drunk. They should be a great deal bigger than Bilbo.
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by sevensor 1y ago
It’s great that astral are doing what they do, but it’s important to hedge against their success. We must maintain ecosystem fragmentation, or Astral becomes a choke point where a bad actor can seize the entire Python community and extract
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by sevensor 1y ago
I admire the approach they’re taking to dependencies. Use whatever you like to build the interpreter, and build whatever you like on top, but pinch things in the right place so that you can build an interpreter up from next to nothing
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by sevensor 1y ago
Excel single-handedly redeems Microsoft from being a pure drain on human existence, but I can’t see what the point of the company is beyond that. Enterprise something something maybe. And declining literacy makes Powerpoint unfortunately i
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by sevensor 1y ago
Love the White Mountains, but I wouldn’t drink the water unfiltered like this guy, unless I was truly desperate. People I know have picked up giardia and hep A. Neither of which is any fun.
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by sevensor 1y ago
What’s missing in this discussion is the neighbor. This isn’t just about CPS, it’s about there being someone in the neighborhood twisted enough to call down state authority on the parents for no particularly good reason. Most people don’t
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by sevensor 1y ago
There is some truly execrable Python code out there, but it’s there because the barrier to entry is so low. Especially back in the day, Java had so many guardrails that the really bad Java code came from intermediate programmers pushing up
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by sevensor 1y ago
Where do they all come from? Where do they all belong?
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by sevensor 1y ago
I wish they had reasonable service through Pittsburgh to points west. The Pittsburgh station is sadly neglected.
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by sevensor 1y ago
My least favorite thing about the current generation of laptops. Even fully powered off, they sometimes wake up and run their batteries down to 0. I do not understand why this behavior is allowed for a computer that’s not plugged in to main
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by sevensor 1y ago
I must have been unclear. C is faster. The Python program would be faster if I reimplemented it in C. However, Python makes it so much easier to transform the problem into a linear form that it’s a bigger win to use Python than to continue
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by sevensor 1y ago
I hope it’s not spoiling the punchline for anyone, but I really appreciated the conclusion. All that effort to speed up a benchmark, and no effect on a real program at all. I always worry about this when I’m profiling. It’s a lot of fun to
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by sevensor 1y ago
I maintain a program written in Python that is faster than the program written in C that it replaces. The C version can do a lot more operations, but it amounts to enumerating 2^N alternatives when you could enumerate N alternatives instead
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by sevensor 1y ago
That’s a really cool idea!
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by sevensor 1y ago
> It's impossible to avoid signalling You can take that one step further. What kind of signal does “I can afford to go to University and not worry about credentials” send? I’d argue that’s realistic only for people who are willing t
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by sevensor 1y ago
Aside from how slow and user hostile it is compared to a text editor, my biggest complaint about vs code is the load it puts on the login node. You get 40 people each running multiple vs code servers and it brings the poor computer to its k
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by sevensor 1y ago
Kitty is great; I want to see it succeed in pushing terminal emulators forward into the current millennium. However, I can’t use kitty at work, and I absolutely live inside of tmux. The server is where all the action is, and when I get disc
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by sevensor 1y ago
> an educated populace Wherever someone attacks public education or free libraries, you know where they stand on government by the people.
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by sevensor 1y ago
Agreed; I think there’s a problem with self-describing data as a concept. It just begs for implementation defined weirdness.
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Your other option is to comply with the spec, emit a string, and expect the receiver to deal with that at validation time rather than parse time.
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by sevensor 1y ago
RFC 8259 is a good read and I wish more people would make the effort. I really don’t mean to bash JSON here. It was a great idea and it continues to be a great idea, especially if you are using javascript. However, the passage you quote ill
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by sevensor 1y ago
That’s my point, though! I’ve run into popular JSON libraries that will emit all of those! 9007199254740993 is problematic because it’s not representable as a 64 bit float. Python’s JSON library is happy to write it, even though you need
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by sevensor 1y ago
My complaint about JSON is that it’s not minimal enough. The receiver always has to validate anyway, so what has syntax typing done for us? Different implementations of JSON disagree about what constitutes a valid value. For instance, is

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