If you are vegan playing mind games then bravo, this might be quite effective.
If you are vegan playing mind games then bravo, this might be quite effective.
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I’m not triggered by any of this. I’m not sure why my thinking the question is inane would count as “being triggered”.
Upvotes does not necessarily mean people agree with OP’s stance.
It should mean they think it’s a useful/interesting question and I think it very much is not. It’s just someone whining that it doesn’t look like something they’re used to and a bunch of very patient people generously leading them through the very basics of the language that’s well covered in many introductory tutorials - as such it makes it all a waste of time and worthy of being buried.
The more time I spend on Lemmy the more depressed I am about its potential.
Stupid, wrong-headed comments get solid upvotes if they also hint at some popular sentiment. I even see comments that are literally unreadable nonsense get solidly upvoted, either by bots or by people who just like the vibe they feel from scanning it and don’t care that it’s gobbledygook. Some content makes me wonder if half of Lemmy is just LLMs barfing back and forth at each other.
Then this post is heavily upvoted, even though it’s nothing more than “the syntax isn’t the same as the other language(s) I have seen, waaaaa!”. Is it just people like to see Go criticized? Because there are actual real issues that could be discussed.
What? We’re burning more fossil fuels than ever and the earth feedback loops seem to be kicking off. Just because we’re also expanding use of less destructive energy sources doesn’t mean we’re curbing output. Making things worse slightly less quickly isn’t making things better.
But use type annotations everywhere and make sure your code is always checker clean (with checkin or PR CI hooks). And don’t turn off any lint checks through laziness, e.g. docstring checks. Even for a solo dev it’s always worth having everything typed, checker clean, and docstrings (even if they only effectively say “this thing really is what you’d assume”). It all saves time and effort in the long and even medium term.
I’ve worked on serious large scale Python projects and frankly it’s been very pleasant and productive, but only with the above conditions.
1g prerolls are actually the only round-number metric sale I see.
Well, it’s not modal by default. It is if you want it to be.
they were actively trying to fly to the light
I can’t see how that could make sense. They’d all just fly straight up at the moon. You can see them all flying in circles around lights.
Really I always thought, and I don’t assume it was my original thought, that they probably were used to keeping the moon at a fixed relative position and they did the same with artificial light.
This is the first time I’ve heard any suggestion of being attracted directly towards the light. How would that make sense? They’d just fly straight at the moon on a clear night.
Was that not the common understanding? That’s what I always assumed was happening - I think I was told as much as a small child.
I suppose it’s confirmed by spatial analysis now.
Ubuntu Mono
since it was in beta and I heard the designer from Dalton Maag — the typeface design studio commissioned to design it — give a talk about how excited he was to be able to create a comprehensive, carefully thought out, and truly free/libre font.
I’ve never seen another one that I prefer the look of, and now it’s imprinted in my brain. People love to crap on Shuttleworth / Canonical / Ubuntu, but there are a lot of great things they’ve contributed over the years.
Still climbing that learning curve after decades now, and the payoffs keep building.
It’s a real programmers’ environment. One you code to grow and mold to your needs.
The biggest irony is it's often told by vim fanboys, who apparently don't realize a very comprehensive emulator of vim it is one of the editors Emacs offers. But mostly it seems to be told by people who don't even know what Emacs is, they just know they're meant to disapprove of it.
I'd call that an IDE, but also one that makes using a non-IDE editor superfluous.
Emacs includes vim though. So what would it need to include to have a good text editor of vim isn't it?
I am just regurgitating one of my favorite Perl jokes for a laugh. Though for me the joke contains some truth. Most of the Perl code I've ever seen is pretty impenetrable for non-Perl programmers. I quite literally have returned to my own Perl efforts after just a couple of weeks and had some trouble working out what the code is doing (in ways I do not experience with other languages).
When Python was trying to unseat Perl, that in my view was reason alone to prefer it: I didn't know Python but I could read Python. Though at that point Perl had the benefit of loads of libraries and ubiquity, and Python hadn't got there yet. But it was enough to have me cheering for Python's success at the expense of Perl. I get that Perl has many virtues, but they're nullified by the ugliness and relative inaccessibility of its code in my eyes.
I really hate the magic side-effect variables where you do a pattern match or something and then various obtusely named variables have meaningful values with relation to the last match. To me that's just flat out bad coding, and it's built into the language.
The above was my second-favorite Perl joke. My favorite being:
Perl is the vise-grips* of programming languages. It's a tool that can do most jobs, and it's the wrong tool for all of them.
*BrEng: mole-grips
Yes, as long as you just type annotation and checker-clean code.
Asyncio programming is a delight, context-based constructs can make sophisticated code safe, robust, and clear. Anything mildly popular you want to interface with probably has a library… There are major advantages to swimming in the mainstream.
Yes it may have grubby and suboptimal corners, but in the real world, making things happen, problems are easy to avoid usually.
Perl is a write-only language.
I naively thought it I may as well take a job using Go, as learning a new language is broadening, and some people like it, so lets find out first hand… I knew it was a questionable choice, looking at how Go adoption tailed off a while ago.
Turns out I hate Go. Sure it’s better than C but that’s a very low bar, and C was never a good alternative choice for the use cases I’m encountering. I’m probably suffering from a codebase of bad Go, but holy shit it’s painful. So much silent propagation of errors up the stack so you never know where the origin of the error was. So very much boilerplate to expand simple activities into long unreadable functions. Various Go problems I’ve hit can be ameliorated if you “don’t do it like that”, but in the real world people “do it like that” all the time.
I’m really starting to feel like there are a lot of people in the company I’ve joined who like to keep their world obtuse and convoluted for job security.