zimablue

17 ms·

91.
by zimablue 8y ago
I use sets a lot, sample size of one. I do data science/engineering stuff, sets of columns/sets of keys. I'm very sceptical of your claim that most developers don't use sets.
92.
by zimablue 8y ago
Do you own your ancestors?
93.
by zimablue 8y ago
Great post, sets have nice properties that dictionaries don't have. Making them act similarly seems like a trap
94.
by zimablue 8y ago
In my country tuition is a loan. It's not archaic to say that if parents control your money, they can control your life. Some might not use that, many will. And what do middle-upper class parents control when they have the power to? St
95.
by zimablue 8y ago
I expect society to severely tax and regulate wealth, and also the most harmful methods that the wealthy use to game meritocracy. Eg. for private education - tax the hell out of it, legislate that each next stage somewhat accounts for the l
96.
by zimablue 8y ago
I'm not even American, and for the record I got a couple of K a year at uni which I'd have survive without and never a dime since. Having to live under the control of your parents (which is fundamentally what happens when they hol
97.
by zimablue 8y ago
Because it replaces meritocracy with oligarchy if wealthy parents are required to get a foothold in life.
98.
by zimablue 8y ago
"let go" the notion of individual freedom, and replace it with your parents having control via financing over your life for most of it. Yeah I'll pass. Alternative proposal - vote for parties who will reverse intergenerationa
99.
by zimablue 8y ago
I agree that non-STEM fields are less credible, but the "X% of field X are conservatives" argument seems totally pointless to me. Your political leanings shouldn't matter, otherwise it's not truth-seeking. And most of th
100.
by zimablue 8y ago
Alembic is an amazing db migration tool imo. I only use it in small-scale (80(?) tables, 2 developers), but it's so amazingly hackable by design.
101.
by zimablue 8y ago
Maths on your side != mathematical convention on your side.
102.
by zimablue 8y ago
THanks for a serious reply. The cached function computation argument is an interesting one, which resembles the answer by evanb here https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/86189/why-do... I hadn't se
103.
by zimablue 8y ago
Hey, thanks for trying to reply substantively. You haven't understood what I was saying, which is fair enough because I didn't present it very clearly probably. The line where you start talking about something else is this: "
104.
by zimablue 8y ago
I'm pretty sure that they just copied Fortan, which was written most of a century ago. That's the second time you've ridiculously misrepresented my statements: "anyone disagreeing with you is an idiot" "deep fa
105.
by zimablue 8y ago
I guess, because often you're not arguing in order to convince your opponent, you're arguing to sway the crowd (and sometimes, decide yourself). And I don't think they're idiots, I just think that they're wrong. Not
106.
by zimablue 8y ago
If you're going to give a counterexample, please give it. I thought about my post after I read it and came to this- given Djikstra's (only system which can describe an empty interval and interval with first element without "u
107.
by zimablue 8y ago
Much like turing completeness, you can build systems with any choice that "work", so an argument always has to be from aesthetics, which can include simplicity and "uglyness", but these aren't totally individual (yo
108.
by zimablue 8y ago
Work
109.
by zimablue 8y ago
It's not bikeshedding because: 1) it is pervasive and fairly importsnt 2) it's kind of a deep indication that something is amiss. It's like a language written in 2019 that has default dynamic not lexical binding, not in terms
110.
by zimablue 8y ago
Instead of the weirdly alarmist nature of the article, it would be a more fair point to make that colons are now very overloaded in python syntax.
111.
by zimablue 8y ago
In the void of enforcing a speficic one, you allow people flexibility to do custom things. For instance linters not understanding type specificatins beyond a certain complexity but still using them in your code and some custom decorator to
112.
by zimablue 8y ago
Thanks, I've read arguments both ways and am trying to study logic/logic programming. https://airbladesoftware.com/notes/relational-databases-are-...
113.
by zimablue 8y ago
I relate to this. I think one of the symptoms is not picking up enough detailed understanding of anything because you keep moving around and don't believe in most external knowledge anyway (eg. don't want to learn [beyond a certai
114.
by zimablue 8y ago
>If you own your body => you own your blood => you can do whatever the hell you want with it > If you own your body you own your hands => you can do whatever you want (murder) with them > That argument doesn't stand,
115.
by zimablue 8y ago
Except that in cases like this, the people objecting aren't just "voicing an opinion", they're what amount to keen amateur oppo research/reputation and business destruction operatives. Read the article, they go stra
116.
by zimablue 8y ago
Don't mix identity politics with socialism, it doesn't have a left/right axis. Socialist policies to mitigate economic injustice based on rentier capitalism is a very different argument with a different cross section of suppo
117.
by zimablue 8y ago
It's not drama that people love, it's a group identity based on perceived injustice, gives one like a thrill of self righteousness. If it was drama, it wouldn't be all about the identity politics we'd be reading some gos
118.
by zimablue 8y ago
By your own government you mean US or UK? I have massive issues with UK politics but knowing a few civil servants, they're not (widely) corrupt, and they're not incompetent. In any department, they will normally be the force for g
119.
by zimablue 8y ago
Your statement is just a tiny bit too general and that's where you're missing. "What about their input and output is" => "what type their input/output is" The next question is what does the type of
120.
by zimablue 8y ago
If the dude's kid ends up as king it's not a proper revolution in my book, the French knew how to do it.

More ›