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Cheaper than fixing bugs due to illegal key access.

Cheaper than get() masking bugs in your code or dict generation.

But yes let's prematurely optimise for speed in a slow-by-default language by writing bug prone non-idiomatic code. OK.

Do you get all your info exclusively from Wired headlines without reading articles?

Or you know, test if the key exists before using it. The key could exist and be None, representing a legitimate None at that key. Or the key might not exist and asking for it is a bug.

Use a defaultdict if you must have all keys optional. Using get() everywhere is buggy because it masks illegal key use.

I made lots of cash undoing the Indian outsourcing mess.

Ive also been deep in AI. Not only is AI inadequate for well engineered software, I think treating programming as a language translation task between spec and code boring. They're even worse for research, rabbit holes and bad lines of reasoning.

Im amazed people don't see how much smoke and mirrors even the frontier models and harnesses are using to mask the fact that they're reasonable sounding bullshit machines.

That sounds like my childhood and teen years. It feels so far away culturally. I miss the sub culture and counter culture.

Have you considered it isn't?

Save your "you're holding it wrong" if you're not going to suggest how to hold it.

Cult speak escape hatches are intellectually lazy.

Not really. I have the above and my partner has pots/mcas. They're nothing alike.

This is all true. My ADHD is hugely related to and impacted by diet. I also get headaches, brain fog, and all of the above if I eat gluten.

Bodies are fun.

A hellscape.

Yes the whole bootcamp ring was a con job. Shame on them.

Not sure if the "Made in England" Dr Martens are Solovair made but they're the brand you want. Solovair continue to make good boots after DM moved production and whatnot to crap factories and methods.

Four MONTHS?!

Most of the dolts I interviewed in the UK had a 6 week bootcamp behind them and called themselves "JavaScript Experts". No joke.

I hope Hurd has its day. Maybe in 100 years or something.

Programming language evolution has always been the pursuit of abstractions that enable expressiveness and simplicity.

Your comment boils down to "I'm smart", which in the end, isn't terribly smart.

Having simplicity and expressiveness as a goal, and a general direction of achieving things through lazy means is at the heart of mathematics and engineering.

Celebrate laziness and a want for simplicity. True simplicity is hard, but worth going after even where it threatens the notion that you're the smartest person in the room.