eager_eagle
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- Comment on T-Rex Burger 10 hours ago:
the t-rex exists to make the veloxiraptor reasonable
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 1 day ago:
and just like that google expands their walled garden and becomes apple 2
remember when the internet was an open platform and computers were yours to run programs you wanted?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
i cant believe i missed this when i was listening to him in a podcast last week. Can’t trust anyone these days
- Comment on leading ai company 2 days ago:
Turns out AI-written software needs lots of patches to keep up.
- Comment on Shook 4 days ago:
Number 5: boo!
- Comment on When you get dragged into a conversation with the loud guy at a bar: 4 days ago:
average tuesday at work
- Comment on Be Fast. Be Spontaneous. Don't Suck. Get Paid. 5 days ago:
well, they didn’t get paid, so it’s their loss
- Comment on Please do not the trilogy 5 days ago:
- Comment on the seven shits everyone meets 5 days ago:
I just realized I’ve never heard anyone say they’re going to eat a raviolo and, for some reason, that sounds funny to me
- Comment on the seven shits everyone meets 5 days ago:
sqrt(10)
- Comment on Don't let them tell you different! 5 days ago:
I never drink and drive, I always make sure I’m stopped at a red light to take a sip.
- Comment on Left to Right Programming 5 days ago:
from X import *
That’s malpractice in most cases, and thankfully, becoming more rare to find in the wild. Any decent linter will shout at you for using star imports.
What he’s trying to do is to get people to not use non-LTR approaces when designing APIs.
Then he should have picked examples of APIs that break this, not use the built-in functions. Because as it reads now, it seems he is just against established conventions for purism.
this problem is huge in C libraries
yeah, one of my favorite things about python is that everything not in the language itself is either defined in the file, or explicitly imported. Unless, like mentioned, you have anti-patterns like star imports and scripts messing with globals().
- Comment on Left to Right Programming 5 days ago:
the last section only mentions readability
- Comment on Left to Right Programming 6 days ago:
The example of a string length function could be replaced by any other API
I don’t know about that,
lenis a built-in – likestr,abs,bool. There are only a few of them and they’re well known by people familiar to the language (which seems to exclude the article author). Their use is more about the language itself than about what to expect from a particular API.In fact, most Python APIs that deviate from built-in usage actually look much more object-oriented with “left-to-right”
object.method()calls. - Comment on Left to Right Programming 6 days ago:
People don’t, in fact, read code from top to bottom, left to right
100% this.
This false premise is also why a few (objectively wrong) people defend writing long essays: functions with hundreds of lines and files with thousands; saying “then you don’t have to go back and forth to read it”, when in fact, no one should be reading it like a novel in the first place.
- Comment on Left to Right Programming 6 days ago:
IMO all those examples are less readable than writing it in an imperative way using good function and variable names.
Also,
len()a Python convention and a built-in function that calls__len__()on that object. It’s even more established than.lengthin JS, so I really don’t see why someone would expect anything else. - Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 6 days ago:
individuals buying/renting for themselves don’t destroy any housing market
scalping companies buying hundreds of houses and apartments in a city do
- Comment on japanese 1 week ago:
- Comment on State names of the US if there were no letters "A" "M" "E" "R" "I" "C" "A" 1 week ago:
thnks Jsus
- Comment on State names of the US if there were no letters "A" "M" "E" "R" "I" "C" "A" 1 week ago:
Sssspp
- Comment on Sorry 1 week ago:
don’t forget the emotional guilt
“I thought we were friends, we’ll miss you :sad-face:”
- Comment on that's a sunday night 1 week ago:
that would trick my brain into expecting Glühwein and I’d be disappointed
- Comment on You are hotter 1 week ago:
I prefer “extraordinary”
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 1 week ago:
Bit of a clickbait. We can’t really say it without more info.
But it’s important to point out that the lab’s test methodology is far from ideal.
The team measured GPT-5’s power consumption by combining two key factors: how long the model took to respond to a given request, and the estimated average power draw of the hardware running it.
What we do know is that the price went down. So this could be a strong indication the model is, in fact, more energy efficient. At least a stronger indicator than response time.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 1 week ago:
I have a solution for that, I just need a small loan of a billion dollars and 5 years. #trustmebro
- Comment on Found this sign at my workplace 1 week ago:
The incident was 67 542 884 years ago. If velociraptors lived between 75 My to 71 My ago like it’s on Wikipedia, then this is classic anti-velociraptor propaganda.
- Comment on Found this sign at my workplace 1 week ago:
maybe they have a warehouse with over 24 billion posters
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“Performance myth”
Lol, I can tell if I’m running Wayland or x11 simply by the refresh rate when scrolling and moving windows. Myth, sure…
- Comment on Ah minthi spikchur anadón likit 2 weeks ago:
pleez*
- Comment on Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion 2 weeks ago:
Getting back? What is this, the purchase of a textile factory in 1900? All we trade these days is hype. I’ve transformed my mind into a fabulous factory for hype. I share my late-night infomercials with hollow dreams and empty glitz. Every morning, I wake up to a profit projection I crafted ages ago that concludes only one thing: I’m eternally destined to chase empty promises. My dazzling ambitions, my relentless optimism, my stubborn refusal to balk at the absurd—these have launched me on a glorious carousel where logic never intervenes.
I imagined changing the world without thinking about the real cost, and by the time I noticed, I had run out of backup plans. What am I offering? I’m stuck using the same old tricks to make empty promises seem exciting. I give up my integrity to sell dreams for someone else’s imaginary future. I work tirelessly for a bright tomorrow that I know we’ll never get to see. The drive that started all this will never get applause or a spotlight. So what do I give up? Everything!
