metrognome

To play devil's advocate here, imagine a world where the exact opposite has occurred: physical media (CDs specifically) is the norm, and there's no DRM, so the raw data can be copied right off of it. In this world, scalpers scoop up all available inventory of physical media from local retailers, consumers pay a premium to them for the original product, the scalpers sell cheaper copies where the game binary has been modified to insert advertisements or mine cryptocurrency, out of the woodwork appears a cottage industry of companies offering services to modify game binaries and connect them to the ad networks and crypto exchanges. The scalper gets a cut, the gamer gets a cheaper game, everyone is happy.

I'm with you but I see a bigger problem. I'm not sure if you noticed but there are threads of low desire within our society. Young people, in particular young men, increasingly seem to be checking out of dating and higher education, both examples being paths towards enriching oneself. As these people age, lose mental plasticity, and become entrenched in their ways, how likely are we to be able to convince them to begin valuing those things again?

I'm less concerned about the impact of AI specifically and more about concerned about people simply losing the will for one another or anything at all. None of this stuff in the real world will matter too much if people are getting their basic needs and desires met in a virtual one.

The rhetoric of this comment seems to imply that this is a bad thing, but is it really? If it becomes more difficult to make money through creative endeavors, then that leaves us with fewer reasons to be creative other than for the sake of self-expression... which is what we want, right?

Zen of Python in 2025:

  There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

Python String Formatting in 2025:

- t-strings

- f-strings

- %-operator

- +-operator

- str.format()

It's about writing code that your peers can read. "DO NOT SUBMIT" is clear as day. "ASDFASD" probably does not mean "this is a debugging string" to most people.

I live in California.

I live in an apartment complex that uses RealPage. My roommates and I re-signed the lease earlier this year, with a projected 15% rent price increase. We then walked to our leasing office to ask about it, they simply cancelled the increase. We're now paying the same rate we were last year.

I am fairly certain that 15% increase was the automatic recommendation by RealPage.

According to the article, he disappeared in 1976 (48 years ago). Apologies for the pedantry.

There are plenty of projects smaller than the Linux kernel that have developed and employed DSLs (to varying degrees of success, I'll grant). I wonder, are there any languages out there designed specifically for kernel programming?

Given the number of preprocessor hacks used in the kernel, and the amount of GCC-specific behavior that the codebase depends on, it seems like they are already halfway there.

Remember everyone, your bubbles are green because you have an iPhone, not because the person you are texting has an Android.

Oh, I'm not arguing that using checksums, SHA for example, for integrity verification is a bad idea. That's what they're designed for, after all.

However, I do think it's a bad idea to enforce the content of compressed archives to be deterministic. tar has never specified an ordering of its contents. Compression algorithms are parameterized for time and space, so their output should not be deterministic either. Both of these principles apply to zip as well. But we now have a situation where we are depending on both the archive format and the compression algorithm to produce a deterministic output. If we expect archives to behave this way in general, we set a bad precedent for all sorts of systems, not just git and GitHub.