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Doesn’t seem to work, just unclicks whatever I click.

Is the word archive used in place of achieve? I’m not sure if there is a terminology issue that I don’t understand in this post…

Yeah? I saw a homeless guy shit into the storm drain the other day. I’ll send you the picture… since it’s so culturally important

By that measure, the benches on my local sidewalks are of cultural importance.

You can spew ads and shit wherever they’ll let you, doesn’t enrich the environment by default.

I get what you mean, but I’m still unconvinced of Reddit as a meaningful platform.

The only people I’ve ever known who actually thought Reddit ever really mattered was people in the HN sphere. Anecdata, but still. In terms of value per minute spent, it’s the same tier of slop as TikTok or Instagram, and I think most ordinary people hold that same view.

Complete assclown behavior throughout. It would be one thing if this had been going for for a month or two, maybe a quarter or two… but ten years?! They’re clearly fucking you over out of either malice and/or incompetence, and by allowing it to go on, you’re politely enabling them to do this bad behavior to someone else’s business.

If you feed stray dogs, you end up with a neighborhood full of dogshit everywhere you step. Bill them; if they don’t pay, talk to an attorney.

I would argue that’s a driver to my point. How many people are never going to visit the source website when Llama can give me a detailed summary of what I need in a few hundred milliseconds? I would consider that in the same category of forgotten. I could’ve been more clear in my other comment.

Most people visit the same half dozen websites over and over anyways. Websites are eventually going to be an artifact of an old medium as we move to like cybernetics and AR glasses and brain implants and whatever else. All that stuff in websites will be forgotten

All posts not fellating Rust are eventually flagged here. It’s not really a neutral venue for more academic conversations about PLT.

I mostly discuss politics. I’ve talked about some technology stuff on there too, but it’s easily 95% politics.

Bluesky is riddled with pornography, even with the strictest settings enabled. I genuinely don’t feel comfortable scrolling any of the curated feeds in a public place except for my direct “Following” only feed.

Not sure how big of a priority this is for the team that runs it, but I would probably use it 20x more if it was ran competently.

In the context of taxes and tax enforcement, I have no choice but to assume you are being intentionally obtuse as to what I mean by “fair share”

Realistically? Taxes and tax enforcement. That’s really the only consistent and persistent way to change the incentives of the world’s economies. In most developed economies, the ultra wealthy are able to avoid paying their fair share, and the same goes for large corporations as well.

Without fairness, there’s really no easy way to talk about strategy.

Remember: every comment on here is implicitly directed to dang, and every link is implicitly approved of by dang.

This is really his website at this point. The rules are mainly just his tools for shaping the content of discussions and submissions to his liking.

A decade ago it was different. I mean, he was still way overbearing and biased, but I don’t think it really had the same power-steering effect on the shapes of discussions as it does today. Over time, this is where we’ve come to.

In as few words as possible, JIRA, Agile, shareholders.

Most programmers don’t really seem to understand that programming isn’t really their job. It’s an illusion. Their job is to create value to the shareholders. That’s not really that much fun, and once the joy of writing and reading code is slowly squeezed away from their position is when those with sanity still intact start thinking “Man, I ought to get the fuck up out of here and find a real job or something.” The really lucky ones are outdoorsy folks that can afford to do the homesteading thing, or are willing to forego the immense compensation that tech work so often allures them with.

Just my two cents. I was blessed to retire in my thirties, so I could be entirely out of touch, though I hear many things.

Hard to get more perverse than “kids should have access to sexually explicit material at all times in any medium.

If that sounds fucked up when I say it like that, consider what assumptions you’re making, because that’s literally YOUR argument here.

Insightful!

No, just a daily brief from section leaders.

I’m sure there’s slack plugins for what you’re suggesting, though. Not sure how useful it’d be since most big ticket items would be in the brief each day and the smaller ephemeral stuff gets resolved with slack messages or chats.

Further proof to me that slack + a daily digest for each department is the perfect medium for professional communications inside technical organization.

Well if you’d bother to read it, you’d discover this is about tail calls in C, not in Python. It has nothing to do with tail recursion in Python. Guido has explicitly said that Python will never have it.

I mean, I see where you’re coming from. In a direct democracy system like HN or Reddit, this is indeed a problem.

I was approaching the topic with a smidge of nuance and perhaps that was not clear, and I’m sorry.

Identity is definitely an issue in modern political culture, but I don’t know if PG can solve it anymore than you and I can. I think people just need to recognize and appreciate conjunctive nuances in their own opinions. Politics is identity AND culture AND religion etc etc. that’s my contention anyways.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply yourself!

For what it’s worth it wasn’t me that flagged your reply.

All I’m saying is that politics is as intertwined with technology news as much as economics or religion or pop culture or anything else, and imho should be considered as equally valid sidebar conversations as the others.

If we can’t talk about things that make people uncomfortable, sicko people will take control of those very things and we will all suffer down the road. Better to just bite the bullet and let it all hang out.

This is astronomically incorrect it’s basically an info hazard.

A market crash like that would result in extremely broad layoffs, major global supply chain instabilities, and a cataclysmic knock on effect of capital losses into nearly every walk of life on earth.

Not to mention, as many already have, the federal govt would undoubtedly bail out the worst actors and leave the poor to fend for themselves.

Just yesterday the Treasury Department announced they aren’t going to enforce a money laundering law. You think they’re going to New Deal a major crash’s now? No way.

Not the person you’re respond to, but Rust is never going to have a REPL and is likely to never compile very quickly. For a lot of numerical and scientific use cases that’s a fundamentally restraining factor. WRT performance, you’re ofc correct but that’s not always as paramount as it may seem if you need to tweak the data dozens or hundreds or thousands of time. In that case, having to wait more than say 5 seconds or so is prohibitively annoying.

I think something in between Zig and Rust will emerge someday as a sort of optimal compromise between compile speed, safety, and programmability wrt memory and performance tradeoffs.

Ah, you’re correct. My comment was mainly meant as a tongue in cheek remark to point out that this definition of tailcall is wholly separate from Python function objects and merely an implementation detail.

This does NOT mean Python will get Tail Call Optimization, as Guido cannot be shown The Light, and has decided.

Oh so three customers could be thousands of people if it was a factory that was closed or something like that.

It makes sense to prioritize repairing the biggest dollar signs first, I suppose.

Three unlucky people in Wyoming without power :/

Billions is technically also millions… not the parent commenter, just thought I’d be a nit

I’ve got 70-80mb pirated books, I think because of the illustrations. Guess it depends on the book.