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juliobiason, 1 day ago to random

My cynical view of Python:

Python is going to die. Not today, not tomorrow, but it will not be a lasting language like C, C++ or Java.

The main issue is that Python is, right now, the front-end of C/C++: You want to generate statistics about something: Python has the libraries! -- but these libraries are in C++. Do you want to handle IA: Python has the libraries! -- but these libraries are also in C++.

If, sometime, the C++ committee wakes up and decide to clean up their act and make the language syntax simpler, Python would die.

"Oh, C++ will never be user friendly." Look at Java, compare its version 2 (e.g. Java 1.2) to the current language: It is astonishingly easier to use modern Java compared to the old ones. And that took something like 10 years.

It just takes someone wanting to create a library that it is really pretty and easy to read in C++ to completely obliterate Python.

juliobiason, 1 day ago to random

If you have no idea what's going on in Brazil, I'll translate this headline for non-Portuguese speakers:

State government plans to create four provisional cities to receive families that lost their houses

I'd like to emphasize "Provisional cities".

The number of people who lost their houses is so high that the government is creating cities just for those.

CitIES, plural.

chris__martin, 3 days ago to random

We have been reading Why We Drive together and giving it a sort of MST3k treatment, it is so bad it's making me disagree with a lot of its thesis that I previously agreed with
https://open.substack.com/pub/thestore/p/men-and-machines?r=27q3sd&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

haskman, 8 days ago to stackoverflow

#Stackoverflow is dead. What is the alternative?

nil, 13 days ago to random

I believe this makes me owner #2 of the #t3x programming language formal definition. My first inclination is to write a lisp for the tcode machine but given the author I feel this has already happened? Chapter 6 is very cool to see the variants of asm for each instruction for z80 8086 and ARMv6.

johncarlosbaez, 22 days ago (edited 22 days ago) to random

Lately I've been obsessed by Paul McCartney's song Jet. Pop music critics focus on lyrics because they're writers and they understand words better than music. So there's a lot of talk about what the lyrics mean in this song - though they're essentially nonsense designed to sound great - and not nearly enough about the startlingly abstract descending melodic line that's the centerpiece. You'll hear it in the first phrase:

I can almost remember their funny faces

and then, in a more elaborated form, in the second:

That time you told them you were going to be marrying soon

If you try to sing these lines getting the melody and rhythm exactly right, I think you'll find it hard! Or maybe I'm just bad at singing... but I don't think so - I think they're rather slippery. And so he put this melody in several extremely catchy frames:

1. Starting the song, a repeated ominous 4-note theme. This should remind you of the phrase "band on the run" from the title song of this album.

2. A recurring bump-and-grind thing on rhythm guitar, which anchors the whole piece. This is actually reminiscent of a reggae rhythm, since it plays the 3rd and 4th beats while leaving the 1st and 2nd silent.

3. Most obviously, the shouted chorus of "Jet!" The whole band sings this, and its intense while still sounding cheery. They do it 3 times before the main lyrics come in with that descending melody. From then on, the first 2 of the 3 are followed by an insanely catchy "woo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo". This instantly grabs everyone.

4. A chorus with a different type of melody:

Ah Mater want Jet to always love me
Ah Mater want Jet to always love me
Ah Mater, much later

(1/2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwRXxtwcJus

brood, 1 month ago to random

download everything. that service is going to die. be your own librarian.

jensorensen, 1 month ago to food

Latest comic on microplastics and PFAS getting into food. Yum!

#food #cartoon #environment #pollution #pfas #farming #gardening

Binder, 1 month ago to random

They hired someone who came from $goog. Again. Time for us to abandon all our working processes to try to adopt $goog’s processes. Again.

hugoestr, 1 month ago to random

It is time to read math again

mcc, 1 month ago to random

2008, me: I love the idea of cryptocurrency

BITCOIN: The word "cryptocurrency" now means "financial scams based on inefficient write-only ledgers"

2018, me: I love the idea of the metaverse

FACEBOOK: The word "metaverse" now means "proprietary 3D chat programs with no soul"

2022, me: I love the idea of procedurally generated content

OPENAI: From now on people will associate that only with big corporations plagiarizing small artists and turning their work into ugly content slurry

categulario, 1 month ago to random Spanish

hoy mis hermanos y yo estuvimos haciendo un poco de albañilería y ahora tengo una necesidad imperiosa de comprar una coca de 3 litros, un kilo de tortillas y tener una mochila de Dora la exploradora

Binder, 1 month ago to random

$AWS Product or Pokémon would be a challenging quiz

sarahtaber, 2 months ago to random

Y'all know what day it is 🍀

In the US, St. Patrick's Day is strongly tied to the event that led so many Irish people to emigrate here: the famine of 1847.

Food systems & supply chains make history.

baldur, 2 months ago to random

Putting together the blog post collection has meant trying to find old links in the Wayback Machine

One was this one by the legendary Kathy Sierra in 2004. It’s both inspiring and depressing, because we all know what happened in the intervening two decades

“A Computer Book Author’s Manifesto” https://web.archive.org/web/20120118171954/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/ksmanifesto.html

hugoestr, 2 months ago to random

A thanks to the gcc developers, whose free software compiler gave access to C to this poor student in the 1990s.

A thanks to DJ Delorie who wrote DJGPP, the DOS port of gcc, which was how I could access gcc.

Your work changed my life for the better. I wouldn't have been able to learn and practice programming without your software. So grateful

StillIRise1963, 2 months ago to random

You could never have told me when I was young that later in life, I'd like waking up at 7am. I used to be a night person.

hugoestr, 2 months ago to random

Imagine if all the money and effort going to train LLM was used for developing better solar technology and to create tools that were more energy efficient #Imagine

StillIRise1963, 3 months ago to random

The man who runs the DOJ is FUCKED UP.

StillIRise1963, 3 months ago to random

Just so you know where we are and understand that they're ALL fucking fascists and they're GOING FOR IT.

"In a stunning reversal, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-K.Y.) is urging the Senate G.O.P. caucus to vote against the bipartisan border security and foreign defense aid package. It comes after spending weeks helping a bipartisan group of senators craft it, and just hours after he spoke in favor of the legislation."

https://www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconnell-trump-border-bill/

hugoestr, 3 months ago to random

#FreeWriting

Retro computing is alluring because it comes with the technical optimism of the 80 and 90s.

Going back to that technical empowerment, creativity and possibilities of that era is a good thing. We need that in our world

fulanigirl, 3 months ago to politics

#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon The second part of the ThoughtExperiement asked you all to assume Trump was a distraction and to indicate what you thought the underlying root complaint is for the MAGAs. I asked Europeans not to reply, because their underlying causes of right wing discontent are different from ours AND because they are more willing to critically look at systems than Americans are. I wanted to hear from the people who live here. 1/7

SallyStrange, 3 months ago to climate

An article I'm not going to link to: "The way humans evolved may be stopping us from solving climate change"

No doubt it's got some observations from psychology about humans' tendency towards short-term thinking and planning. That may be true, but what's really stopping us from solving climate change is rich and powerful people who simply refuse to do so and instead devote ridiculous amounts of energy and money towards stopping anyone who tries.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #propaganda