zohch

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by zohch 5y ago
> "Masters degree" is too hard to change. Only if you don't care about the hurt it causes people every day.
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by zohch 5y ago
> Homonyms exist, words have multiple meanings. Homonyms can exist and this can still be tone deaf. > Stop creating problems where there are none. Since when is the consequences of slavery not a problem?
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by zohch 5y ago
> The master/slave duality is certainly an important notion to be worked through in the US. I have never seen a slave branch in Git, have you?
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by zohch 5y ago
It was not coupled with something called slave in git either.
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by zohch 5y ago
Like really, how hard is it to rename a degree, get with the times people, it's 2021.
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by zohch 5y ago
Golang world? I mean they congratulate themselves on not having generics and not having absolute value functions because everyone can just write the function themselves.
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by zohch 5y ago
> This attitude/mindset seems so petty and disappointing. True, but not as disappointing as the attitude of the go language creators and maintainers.
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by zohch 5y ago
To make it faster to pump out go which is maybe > 50 noise with it's poor language features and it's anemic standard library that does not even have abs.
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by zohch 5y ago
Would not mind a link to some examples, but I guess you are right. Though maybe total cost will be higher though I have not calculated so maybe not.
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by zohch 5y ago
The people shouting loudest about how bad everything is are the people who benefit most from things not getting better. So it is hardly surprising that some governments (e.g. US) jump from crisis to crisis.
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by zohch 5y ago
> The current system created artificial scarcity The current system has been responsible for creating actual abundance that has vastly improved the living conditions of the vast majority of people. Scarcity is the default state, not arti
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by zohch 5y ago
I actually really don't get why anyone would buy anything from Amazon unless they have no other choice. Their site is really the worst.
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by zohch 5y ago
> any shared memory or IPC between the workers is up to you. There is this: - https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.shared_mem... - https://docs.python.org/3/library/queue.
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by zohch 5y ago
> I've seen the curve and the pain it's caused, and would never use it for any code that needs to be performant or actively developed on the multi-month or year timescale Typed python is safer and more maintainable than Go. Slo
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by zohch 5y ago
> Which explains why grid-scale hydropower, solar power, wind power, etc. have all failed, new construction has all but ceased, and existing installations are being closed down...? This is news to me, this is not the case where I am, but
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by zohch 5y ago
> Sadly, nuclear fission power that works at scale - both on the technology and social sides - seems to be mostly beyond the capabilities of current human societies. Well yes, because people who benefit from climate change do their utmos
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by zohch 5y ago
> All good qualities, but there's one problem - cost and time to rollout. Well those are only problems because the people who benefit from climate change, like politicians, UN and organizations like extinction rebellion, do not want
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by zohch 5y ago
Why would any government or international organization want to put the brakes on Climate change if it is the single biggest reason to increase their power? Do people think it's coincidental that the people who shriek loudest about clim
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by zohch 5y ago
> In particular, this is not idiomatic python According to this article, I think his case is rather weak. The conclusion does not seem to follow from the premise to me.
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by zohch 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification, I have actually seen this now that I think of it and this indeed is closer to control flow than error flow.
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by zohch 5y ago
Russia does not do anything of consequence without China's consent.
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by zohch 5y ago
> Britain is making rather poor choices lately Not compared to the U.N.
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by zohch 5y ago
To me sending wrong arguments is an error condition, not control flow, see this for more info: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1892...
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by zohch 5y ago
> So China just almost caught up to Europe as far as CO2 emissions per capita goes and is nowhere close to the US whilst putting measures to reverse the trend I said clean environment. Not sure why you are changing the subject, but lets
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by zohch 5y ago
But that would not be for control flow.
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by zohch 5y ago
> Right, but the better way to actually write this is something like Maybe for some cases, but it does not do the exact same thing, see the comment here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29455777/1598080 And if we a
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by zohch 5y ago
TIL, thanks for explaining, indeed would have expected exceptions to be pretty cheap also if I knew this.
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by zohch 5y ago
> I've felt weird using exceptions like that How should they be used instead? Maybe I don't understand what you mean by "idiomatic control flow uses exceptions" - could you give an example. Maybe there is some use of
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by zohch 5y ago
How does china building nuclear imply that they are not ignoring climate change? They could recognize that nuclear is a better source of power than coal, which most people would, and still not give a damn about the environment and/or c
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by zohch 5y ago
> This is unhelpful whataboutery. China isn't directly relevant. It is. Because it is one of the biggest threats to human rights and to a clean environment. If UN can't tackle China, they are feckless, but of course we all know

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