zahlman

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by zahlman 2mo ago
I generally agree with the message, but "inequality gap" seems redundant.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> But I am sick of this attitude that it's my responsibility for a malware report to be taken seriously. It takes no effort to make the claim, and considerable effort to act upon it. Why should they believe you, a priori?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> many beginners don’t use nice IDEs Starting with 3.13, even the REPL is a sufficiently nice IDE to avoid any careless indentation errors from poor formatting (as opposed to ones caused by actually not understanding how many levels of i
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by zahlman 2mo ago
They didn't fix nearly enough, and then everyone complained about too much being fixed, and acted like twelve years wasn't enough time to adapt.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> Where it gets most nasty is that whitespace that looks the same (in your editor) might not be equal and will cause you pain. First off, what editor could I end up using in 2026 that makes this a realistic problem? Even the most basic e
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> and then you'll have to deal with all of its weirdness: significant whitespace By "weirdness" here you apparently mean not having to worry about matching up curly braces, and getting what you want automatically just for
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by zahlman 2mo ago
I was surprised TFA didn't mention this, or seemingly know about it.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Because Python lets you get as far as it does without formally learning everything, but is also expected to suit a huge variety of use cases, it ends up with lots of hidden details that are irrelevant to most users. The most direct way to f
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by zahlman 2mo ago
… I take it back. It would be nice if, just once, we could have a thread about interesting esoteric Python behaviours without people taking it as an invitation to dump their laundry list of things they personally don't (or do, for that
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Distinguishing object equality from object identity is not even remotely comparable to having implicit, unintuitive casts everywhere.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> that everyone hits and is also annoying after I don't know why you think it should be so common, because mutating a parameter with a default value doesn't make a lot of sense in the first place. But also it's one of the
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> The article missed the most common one, __name__ == "__main__" like wtf It makes perfect sense, but also is not an example of what TFA is about. In fact the entire point of having that `if` check is that `__name__` is not a
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by zahlman 2mo ago
More accurately, there are people here who don't hate the guy with a burning passion, and find the rhetoric of those who do really, really obnoxious. Especially the persecution complex and the dark hinting.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> Old Reddit is posts from before something like 2009 No, it works for the entire post database. If you have a login and go to the main old.reddit.com page you'll see current posts. Edit: Er, that's how it used to be. Looks lik
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by zahlman 2mo ago
I don't mean to discourage you, and it's great that you've gotten that support; but I don't understand what purpose this serves. I had understood that Nitter exists exactly because of the forces that would make X leaders
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by zahlman 2mo ago
It is, but Ellipsis is just an ordinary pre-defined constant (with the same value).
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> the install link is copy and paste obfuscated base64 This doesn't make it malware, as likely as it is that malware would hide itself like that. base64 encoding avoids issues with quoting and escaping in the terminal, and is an e
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> There's zero excuse, none. How about the general lack of awareness of "open platforms", or of any given one of your objections to X? Most people are not in the HN bubble.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284392 (with my comment), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250370 . Nice to see it get attention this time.
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How to write the perfect function (for humans who still write code) [video](youtube.com)
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by zahlman 2mo ago
The interesting problems don't have a closed feedback loop. You don't know what the requirements are until you try something yourself and decide that isn't it.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> I spent that time building, learning, and trying to get better. Looking back now, much of it feels like time spent getting better at a problem that has already been solved. > And so I have come to a harsher conclusion: I wasted a lo
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by zahlman 2mo ago
This seems heavy on claims and light on evidence and calculations.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
One of the reasons people like TUIs is because the text is always just right there.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> reads the text of your focused window every few seconds through the Accessibility API > It writes plain markdown Where are the formatting decisions coming from?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> No one's going to care whether AGI is defined as sentient when it creates cheap fusion energy. No one's going to care after being converted into paperclips, either.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Okay, but the same could have been said about ELIZA.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Depending on the engine, perhaps. But this still releases CO2. This is not about supply limitations.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
I mean, 64-bit computing at most doubles memory requirements, and there have been many other things motivating a doubling since the days of 32-bit computing. (And even more so since the days of 16-bit computing. For example: high-resoluti

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