simias

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by simias 6y ago
I find that advanced Python is quite hard to read. Well, I find that advanced dynamically typed languages tend to be hard to read in general, because you can never be sure what type your inputs and outputs are and what values they can take.
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by simias 6y ago
Such a tiresome and self-defeating mindset. If the EU does nothing it's useless, if it does something it's just corruption. Of course politics and lobbying will play a role when we're talking about hundreds of billions of eur
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by simias 6y ago
It's not like we're starting from scratch though, we already have companies and people with ample experience in this field. Not to say that it's not a huge bar to clear or that I don't expect massive delays but I think i
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by simias 6y ago
I don't know much about the state of the art in image recognition but does it really seem plausible? The picture of him holding the beer is not super high quality, he has a different expression, a slightly different haircut and he appe
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by simias 6y ago
Yeah, I do find the realism troubling at times. I think it's a bit obscene when kids teabag each other in some middle-east inspired CoD map when a few thousand kilometers from where they're playing people wearing similar garbs kil
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by simias 6y ago
It's definitely worse in American media but I think this bias exists even in Europe, just to a slightly lesser extent. Also, even though we're not quite as prude this side of the Atlantic ocean, we still have to abide by American
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by simias 6y ago
I doubt there's any kind of direct link between video games and people becoming violent, but I do think it reflects poorly on our societies that we seem to be fine with young kids shoot each other in the face with realistic weapons in
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by simias 6y ago
It depends to what you compare it to I guess, I think Qt fares pretty well once you get over the original learning curve for instance. But these days it seems that the standard is web-based interfaces and honestly whatever scaling problem t
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by simias 6y ago
I think any attempt at defining a strict subset of a language is going to face some pushback like yours, but I do agree that while I agree with most choices this one seems strange. Rolling your own containers is boring and error-prone and w
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by simias 6y ago
I often wonder how future generations are going to view the past. For us we can only really see footage and pictures a little over a century in the past (and exponentially more as we near the present) but 2000 years from now, should humanit
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by simias 6y ago
Maybe we should bring back the "guest books" of the early internet, where you're expected to leave positive feedback if you want to. I'm not sure that general purpose reviews/forums are the right way to address this
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by simias 6y ago
I'm the same as you and I did use to work in an office setting. I'd just go outside and walk around the building. Sometimes I'd walk for an hour aimlessly around the city, just talking to myself like a lunatic.
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by simias 6y ago
It's something that as a French person associate a lot with the USA, although the cultural influence of America is so great that it's been borrowed by many other cultures as a "hip" thing to do. Everything is uh-may-zin
764.
by simias 6y ago
I considered it but it's a little too small for my taste.
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by simias 6y ago
Oh I like colors too, don't get me wrong, I just think I'd be willing to compromise for the comfort of using an e-ink display. And you don't have to drop all highlighting altogether: you still gave greyscale, underlining, fon
766.
by simias 6y ago
I think I could deal with monochrome for coding. But these monitors are still way too expensive for me, if they retailed for less than ~1k$ I'd consider it.
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by simias 6y ago
You answered jgilias better than I could, I feel exactly the same way. Async is deceptively simple in my opinion, because while it looks arguably even simpler than an explicit state machine, it makes your program flow nonlinear and I find
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by simias 6y ago
I feel like it's overstated. Take people's postures in front of a computer: it's often terrible. Bad posture, bad keyboard usage, non ergonomic hardware etc... Yet we survive. Sure, it can create problems after years of const
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by simias 6y ago
Frankly I think you're reading what you want to read here. I get that those are hot button issues for many people but here I really think it's just a small joke because, as you point out, obviously the distribution of fossils has
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by simias 6y ago
I think it's like using an app for language learning. If you think 10 minutes of Duolingo every day is going to make you fluent in Chinese you're deluding yourself, but it doesn't mean that it can't be a good entry point
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by simias 6y ago
>Threads, obviously, accomplish the same thing, and arguably more easily. But threads have a performance problem when they must interact heavily. Cross-thread communication is expensive. I didn't know that cross "async" co
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by simias 6y ago
Ah that's a good point, it's true that the borrow checker can sometimes get in the way for event-driven architectures and async IO borrows. That being said I can't shake the feeling that going for something like Tokio in such
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by simias 6y ago
I don't really get these modern async APIs. In languages like Javascript I thought they only made sense because JS interpreters are (historically) single-threaded, so you really have no choice but async to express some concepts. Fine.
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by simias 6y ago
That implies a very good "smart" highlighter that has in-depth knowledge of the language, something I don't like to rely upon because it's not always available and/or working properly.
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by simias 6y ago
I seem to be in the minority but I really dislike this type of sugar. I find that it always makes code harder to read because you can't disambiguate what the code is doing without some heavy context, and changes to the class can profou
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by simias 6y ago
"Weak"? What a strange adjective to use for such a situation.
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by simias 6y ago
I don't think the audiophile comparison makes really sense here (and I like to mock audiophiles more than most) simply because display technology still has a long way to go before it reaches the level of audio when it comes to "ba
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by simias 6y ago
I tried Ruby over 10 years ago and while I really enjoyed the language itself (vastly more than, say, Python for instance) I was completely put off by the insanely poor performance of the interpreter. I remember trying to get it to run on a
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by simias 6y ago
I would add "build a toy regex engine" to the list. A couple of years ago I implemented a toy regex engine from scratch (building NFAs then turning them into DFAs). I thought it was an enlightening experience because it showed me
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by simias 6y ago
>And clearly upvote/downvote system didn't happen by an accident, it's there for a reason. This system has been corrupted on websites like reddit to become a "like" system, but outside of very divisive political

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