I try to contribute to things getting better, sometimes through polite rational skepticism.
Disagreeing with your comment ≠ supporting the opposite side, I support rationality.
Let’s discuss to refine the arguments that make things better sustainably.
Always happy to question our beliefs.
It’s also important to note that you might come out ahead in learning those abstract concepts using a harder language.
I agree that you will learn more abstract concepts with more low level languages, but they are often not necessary. See Scala, beautiful language, lot’s of fancy subtle computer science concepts, and a plummeting popularity since its main popularizer, Apache Spark, implemented a Python API.
Development environment is a mess, but given its popularity, it’s not difficult to find an up to date tutorial. Then it is the easiest I think, you will be able to try programming basics and get a minimum viable product (small web app, small analytics…) easlier than with any other language.
Some people think that because Python is the easiest language to learn, it’s going to be easy to learn programming with Python. But learning programming is still very hard, so many abstract concepts to grasp. Python just makes it a tiny less hard, almost insignificantly now that we can use an LLM to learn the syntax faster than than ever.
I’m glad that there’s no micro transactions nor loot boxes.
Not even to spend good times with friends?
How do you agree on a meeting time with a group of people who all live in different places of your country?
That’s a good idea! Instead of discrete timezones, let’s have continuous timezones!
Or with creating Microsoft offices in their cities, like they did with Munich.
Are you one of those rare developers who spend most of their day actually coding?
Absolutely insane how much quicker it is too do stuff with vim motions than ctrl-shift-arrows and the like
Those tasks are a very small part of work time, so most people don’t feel the need to optimize it.
Is that from the Microsoft engineer or did he start from this observation?
Seems very far from being enough to make the majority push for a change of regime as we could wish for.
What’s disturbing is that those soldier salaries are providing state money and purpose to Russian regions that never saw it before, so there lives are actually getting better thanks to the war. As opposed to the common belief here that Russians are suffering from war related restrictions, the majority is not, only privileged Moscow people may have their life impacted by international sanctions. Source: https://www.newsdirectory3.com/the-majority-of-russians-have-never-had-it-so-good/
I had no idea that Tumblr was active again? I thought all Tumblr posts from the past 5 years were just recycled old stuff.
Isn’t it enough to remove any connection to any personal identifier before sending it? LLM training doesn’t care about your email, it cares about a certain quality of question/answer pairs, and reddit has a lot of those.
git checkout -b fix/her
what could have been
Why don’t you love who I am?
Gosh, the money to join the USB-C standard should go into RHS instead!