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"voluntary" can also be pretty meaningless depending on the context. In the UK, if the police suspects you of shenanigans, they'll politely invite you for an "voluntary interview".

Of course you can decide to not go, it's voluntary, right? Yes, you can. Your choice. And when you reject their kind offer they'll come and arrest you so you can attend the interview.

> Some animals are ready to go as soon as they are born

That trade has an extreme genetic advantage when other animals see you as their succulent mains on the a la carte exotic wildlife menu.

I can see from voting that this comment is highly controversial. It's actively being downvoted. Make of that what you like.

Yep, let alone life critical systems. You don't fuck with them just because.

> 17x strike policy for accounts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”

Yep. You can engage in sexually trafficking people 16 times with a warning. 17th is just too much dude.

What sort of a deranged psychopath comes up with these rules?

Brings back memories but I can't say they are good. It was so limited that it was mostly frustration.

It's the reverse of the Cloaca Maxima, the Roman empire sewage system. Facebook is where unprocessed sewage is fed back to the people, straight into their hands.

Before JS had promises, JS code was plagued with the callback pyramid of doom. You needed an advanced masters degree in masochism to endure that. I don't think Python devs would have liked that.

Yep. It's ironic that reddit itself cured my reddit addiction.

No, he's referring to politics.

Far-right politics[a] encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, radical anti-communism, ethnonationalism, and nativism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics

Totally my feeling too.

The formula seems to be: dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, infuriating country dividing content, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, infuriating country dividing content, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine ...

> I really don't think Python was close to dying

It absolutely was. What saved it was:

1. The data science / AI crowd that was gathering momentum any many only used Python 3.

2. No popular alternative. Perl got python as an alternative.

Python was also a good, simple language and had a good healthy culture. But it's nothing sort of a miracle that it survived that biblical software calamity.

I learned Perl back in the day. It was fun and powerful.

But I think the package management and culture killed it for me. People took pride is writing obnoxiously messy code. Package dependency hell. Gung ho borderline toxic RTFM culture.

I use FreeCAD and it's pretty good. But I think it's impossible to learn by trial and error.

MangoJelly has done an amazing job in churning out high quality tutorials for FreeCAD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yh_S31R9g&list=PLWuyJLVUNt...

(this is just one playlist, there's a lot more on his channel).

I worked in a factory one summer when I was a teenager. It was a totally brain dead work, but the morale was good. The workers weren't unhappy.

I'm concerned that the new role of "manager of agents" (as google puts it) will be a soul destroying brain dead work and the morale won't be good.

Worst thing that happened to programming, eh? Have you tried running a 2 year old javascript/node project that transpiles and gulps it's three billion dependencies into something alien - if it works. Which it won't because it hasn't been updated for 2 years.

Webapp doesn't work for me (current version Firefox):

  Uncaught TypeError: loading.showModal is not a function
    <anonymous> https://2earth.pyscriptapps.com/celtic-knot/  latest/:20
  latest:20:17
    <anonymous> https://2earth.pyscriptapps.com/celtic-knot/    latest/:20

and

  Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: IDBFactory.open: The operation is insecure
    <anonymous> index.js:65
    Xe index.js:63
    Ye sync.js:8
    engine pyodide.js:95
    get interpreters.js:36
    promise callback*get/< interpreters.js:34
    xn loader.js:66
    promise callback*xn loader.js:66
    Kn script-handler.js:91
    or custom.js:99
    define custom.js:266
    <anonymous> core.js:307
    promise callback\* core.js:182

core-Dwn9Kajy.js:1

Very useful. Does anything similar exists for Firefox?

Not to mention the cool handbrake turn when you're a teenager.

> when our main or only way of detecting whether communication succeeded is through understanding or lack thereof

That's not even a good test, due to miscommunication. Both parties might think it succeeded, but then much later on you find out the truth (maybe).

> but tonal information can be parsed without lexical understanding

Parsed perhaps, but it's so context sensitive that it's not useful, save for extremities. The same tone of voice can have so many meanings based on what's actually being said and yet another if you add context.

That's very easy and very wrong. Let's say you have a 100 page book. Page 1 contains fundamental knowledge that allows you to understand the rest of it. If you skip page 1 then you won't understand the other 99.

How much of the book will you understand if you only read page 1?

Very interesting idea. I remember reading that in visual spoken communications, only 20% is the actual words. The rest is tone of voice, body language, context, emphasis, expressions, ... all that stuff.

I don't know if 20% is correct, but I feel it's very close to it. I also think a lot of internet arguments happen as a direct result of miscommunication. Emojis are great, but they get abused to the point that HN filters them out. Perhaps allow readers to toggle if they want to see emojis or not?

Bad landing page.

Back in the day, SSL didn't exists. When it came into existence, it was quite an expensive novelty.

It became a generic name that everyone knew for encrypted HTTP connections. It still is a generic name for that, even though the underlying protocol changed name to TLS.

Unfair. Oracle excels at some things, like extortion, blackmailing and litigation.

People understand exactly, hence the fuss. Someone finally yelled loud enough that the emperor has no clothes. People are shocked.

It isn't a handbag. It isn't a shoulder bag. It doesn't look good. I won't be fashionable. It isn't a open question. It's a sock.

Spot on! It's exactly how you sell a $200 t-shirt. You put it next to a $900 t-shirt.

My friend went to see the doctor. A very attractive nurse took his blood pressure, which turned out to be off the charts. She goes out, comes back 5 minutes later and repeats, same results. Goes out and 10 minutes later and old bearded doctor comes in and repeats the tests.

Doctor ends up telling him that he was hoping it was just the attractive nurse, but no. He'd be starting medication today.

You're missing the bigger picture. Vendor lock in.