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by wink 4y ago
Not 100% sure what's meant in this specific example but as someone who did advent of code a lot, there are truly benefits of an untyped python dictionary over anything in Rust or Java or C++. You can just put None next to your integers
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by wink 4y ago
I've written a lot of python in my life (but most of the time not as my main day-to-day language) so whenever I had to try something small in a REPL I do paste. I guess it would work to highlight a piece of code and run it externally w
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by wink 4y ago
Interestingly my main quality of life improvement when writing Rust is being able to leave the brackets around the test in an if statement empty (vs C/C++/PHP_), I don't care about the square brackets for the body as much.
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by wink 4y ago
Nice, I only managed to do 20 (of the same goal, 25 languages) in 2019: https://f5n.org/blog/2019/advent-of-code-2019/ > Tactic: Do translation more than optimization This rings especially true - "you
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by wink 4y ago
See my other comment, we started a Python 2 project in late 2013 (Python 3.0 was released in 2008) because of all the dependencies we wanted to use were not ported (yet, no clue if they ever were).
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by wink 4y ago
I mean, in the most basic sense you could always have non-ASCII chars in your filenames on a webserver, which could be part of a URL then.
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by wink 4y ago
Not the one you replied to, but we were doing things mostly without strings (audio processing, stuff with bits) and python 2 worked perfectly fine. We had started this project as late as 2013 because the important libraries had not been por
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by wink 4y ago
"Most companies". I've never even heard of such a thing.
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by wink 4y ago
As someone who would describe himself as not an excessive drinker but also far from abstinent these numbers are quite interesting. > On average, the number of days on which they drank fell from 4.3 days per week before the challenge to 3
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by wink 4y ago
Anecdata and all but my food allergies as a kid were a lot more severe than after puberty. On the other hand I'm pretty sure I could eat a few things as a toddler that I couldn't anymore in/after elementary school. It's
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by wink 4y ago
I'm still looking for a good alternative term than "use case" without resorting to a whole sentence trying to ask what the person needs solving or how the thing is going to be used. Doubly so in German.
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by wink 4y ago
Oh yes, so much this. The nice thing is that it's not unique to tech, I notice to many terms which are colloquially used only slightly wrong than by professionals when talking about my wife's work (in that case it's usually a
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by wink 4y ago
Non-native speaker here and I've always taken "learnings" as just a notch more formal and business speak than lessons, but I've mostly filed it under personal preference for the native speakers who used it. Not completel
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by wink 4y ago
If by learn you mean rote-memorize some syntax. I doubt most people who have never touched it will manage to use or even understand enough about pointers and arrays and stuff in a single day. Get some stuff to compile maybe, yeah.
885.
by wink 4y ago
+1 for "Deep C Secrets" - excellent book. I don't use C enough to judge if it has stood up to the test of time, but I loved reading it.
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by wink 4y ago
The most fascinating bit for me is that people actually used any of the social features of Google Reader. I just read my feeds and interacted with nobody, and that wasn't too uncommon in my circles.
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by wink 4y ago
As of a few months ago, self-hosted FreshRSS + FeedMe on Android.
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by wink 4y ago
> establishes societal expectations of a relatively even playing field I want to agree with you, but disregarding the clear thing - is it really optimal (and not only locally optimal) to not have any means (not per se financial) to not h
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by wink 4y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you in general but we do have long lines in countries where the TSA is not involved ;)
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by wink 4y ago
AFAICT Schufa is not like a US credit score. It's just OK/NOT OK, or a list of "infractions". Which means if you always paid your stuff on time, a virtual +1 is the same as a +1000, and the visible result will just be &q
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by wink 4y ago
> Each user could take part in many social circles. This inherently limits reach and therefore reduces the burden of misinformation, abuse, and moderation. Why would I limit myself here in any way? I think that's a terrible idea. B
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by wink 4y ago
I also was an early tester (not adopter) of Atom and I kinda hated it right from the start, but it's been a while and I could never really put my finger on it. I think it always somehow felt sluggish (I'm talking trying out severa
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by wink 4y ago
As a German proficient in English that name just makes my head hurt, no matter how the real pronunciation is. Maybe I'll go with a combination of Jorge and rojo (in Spanish) out of spite... Also, missed opportunity, Codeberg folks. Why
894.
by wink 4y ago
Do you really think 100% of hairdressers LIKE to make smalltalk for 8h per day? Probably rehashing some news event with 4 different people? I like to talk to people I'm friends with, so far that has not included any of my hairdressers,
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by wink 4y ago
I tend to agree with your assessment, but I see a key difference is that computers are simply versatile and you can make them do everything you want (skills in configuring/coding notwithstanding) but even big leaps seem so much easier
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by wink 4y ago
I'd say I've been an early Discord user (not a huge fan, but a seasoned user nevertheless) and I don't get what fundamental difference to slack there would be. Except that the longer I use Slack the less I hate it and it&#x27
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by wink 4y ago
I don't know how old you are or how close the generations run in your family but this is so far off my reality I've had to reread this. I'm close to 40 and my parents got the first computer just because they had a company and
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by wink 4y ago
We have one conference room at work with a display that's inside the table and there are no instructions to be found how to get it to go up. Turns out you actually have to connect something via HDMI (or whatever) and it will automatica
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by wink 4y ago
Interesting how you'd infer that a simple user shell (remote) would tick all the boxes I'd associate with running a VM. Root access, networking (between the VMs), works offline, can (doesn't have to) use GUI programs.
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by wink 4y ago
I'm not taking any side here but I don't think your comparison holds. Portal is as much a story-driven game as it is about the mechanics. I know very few people who played Portal after they finished it, except maybe replaying it.

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