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by weberc2 7y ago
Right, they could have paid a nontrivial cost (asking devs to use b-strings, print_function, etc) but didn't by fiat, choosing instead to pay a greater cost during the migration in addition to the nontrivial cost. My comment expresses
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by weberc2 7y ago
> One of the biggest early hurdles in our porting effort was how to overcome the string literals type mismatch between Python 2 and 3. In Python 2, a '' string literal is a sequence of bytes. In Python 3, a '' string
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by weberc2 7y ago
I don’t know why this is downvoted; this is exactly correct. These were the stereotypes I was referring to, employed without irony.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Perhaps, but your rationale (“it’s not meaningful if jobs pay half of what they used to”) supports my interpretation (“not the whole story”), not your thesis (“WRONG story”). Correct me if I missed something; haven’t had my coffee yet.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Are you arguing that things are better or worse than they used to be? And in either case how does it relate to my comment. Genuinely can’t tell.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I didn’t take your position to be one of ideology (although your position certainly isn’t based on science); I’m pointing out that you responded to the parent’s concerns about meeting everyone’s needs (I.e., “running an economy”) with some
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by weberc2 7y ago
You’re right that this one metric doesn’t tell the whole story, but no metric does and they aren’t meant to. Of course you need to look at other metrics besides employment to understand how well your society is doing.
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by weberc2 7y ago
> so long as the worker's basic needs are met. So just the one teeny tiny detail of meeting everyone’s basic needs then?
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by weberc2 7y ago
> Instead of economic or physical barriers, we have hordes toxic personalities that try to gatekeep people. It's not all sunshine and roses. I’m skeptical that these are uniquely tech problems; I suspect they occur in relatively eve
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by weberc2 7y ago
We have prosperous people today and while many of them are engaged in some form of philanthropy, we still have lots of poverty and other social ills. So “compassion” alone seems like a weak guarantee.
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by weberc2 7y ago
The OP mentioned companies play a kingmaker role by owning the platforms on which elections are won and lost. The implication is that they can directly and disproportionately influence the government, such that the government is their too
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by weberc2 7y ago
Oh, that’s great news. Thanks for setting me straight. There are so few unambiguous wins when it comes to environmentalism.
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by weberc2 7y ago
> The federal effort, called the National Program for the Safe Use of Treated Sewage Water for Afforestation is going a long way towards achieving the country’s commendable ambitions voiced in the 1992 UN Rio conference on climate change
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by weberc2 7y ago
> Every excretion flushed in the city of Chicago ends up as fertilizer on midwest farms. Mostly soybeans, IIRC. Is this meaningfully true? My understanding is that the wastewater is treated and emptied into the Chicago river where it flo
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by weberc2 7y ago
You should check out the Literal type in Python. It provides for some of the stupider things in libraries, like return types that vary based on the value of an input parameter, as in Python’s open() method, which might return a text stream
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by weberc2 7y ago
I'd definitely subscribe if you blogged about your efforts.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Genuine question: why should we put solar panels on our roofs versus investing in a solar coop or buying solar power directly? I would think the latter options would be more cost-effective/efficient (it's more efficient to service
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by weberc2 7y ago
> - My "daily driver" is still a large Dodge Ram - though I rarely ever drive it and certainly not daily, but occasionally I need it. It's an '09 so I've had it for quite a while. I want to replace it with someth
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by weberc2 7y ago
I've been looking into Carbon offsets. The chief criticism against them seems to be "they're just paying for your sins; they don't actually reduce the carbon", but as far as I can tell, that's not a valid criti
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by weberc2 7y ago
For me in Uptown, the Wrigleyville traffic doesn't seem too bad as long as I don't need to be _in_ Wrigleyville itself. The worst part is the Red Line--seems like game times seem to coincide with rush hour such that everyone needs
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by weberc2 7y ago
What are the Tweets in question. artnet.com keeps paraphrasing and quoting other tweets, but I can't find the actual Tweets that threaten to bomb art/cultural sites. Can someone please link me to them? EDIT: Why am I downvoted? Th
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by weberc2 7y ago
I think it would be particularly interesting to compare idiomatic Rust and C code. For example, given C's lack of generics, I would expect Rust to have a number of wins, including better inlining opportunities for polymorphic functions
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by weberc2 7y ago
What is the ceiling for how good (i.e., "close to generating idiomatic Rust") it could get? Given the differing semantics, it seems like it should be nearly impossible to generate anything close to idiomatic Rust, but I know very
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by weberc2 7y ago
I don't make claims that SV is one way or another, nor do I dismiss anything, but the skeptical response to your proposal is that hers is just another data point, and our media systems only select for data points that support certain n
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by weberc2 7y ago
I see this all the time with build systems for various languages and projects (as well as for other classes of tools, frameworks, etc). Most of the time you don’t need the more complex tool. Ride out the simpler tool for as long as you can,
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by weberc2 7y ago
Oh no, did my previous comments read as an exhaustive list of issues with C?
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by weberc2 7y ago
I'm not missing anything, I'm responding to a specific claim--that libraries allow C to compensate for missing language features. This is patently false irrespective of the merits of the features in question. That said, I think yo
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by weberc2 7y ago
Man that's really rough. I've been playing BF1 on XBox and there aren't any significant cheating issues that I've seen.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Could you refer me to a good/standards-compliant library for typesafe generic lists, hashmaps, pattern matching, closures, etc?
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by weberc2 7y ago
I don’t think you implied otherwise, but people say some crazy things on this site, so I wanted to be perfectly clear.

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