I mean, if you treat your inbox as a to-do list, that’s not that far-fetched

Wow you’re insane. “I know, I’ll discredit the woman who just pointed out that it’s hard to get credit in her field as a woman ”

Weird how he’s helping the far right in both cases.

• complying with Erdogan
• refusing to block fascists

Python is just glorified shell scripting

Absolutely not, python is an actual programming language with sane error handling and arbitrarily nestable data structures.

I don’t like the indentation crap

Don’t be so superficial. When learning something, go with the flow and try to work with the design choices, not against them.

Python simply writes a bit differently: you do e.g. more function definitions and list comprehensions.

Not only is there a UInt8Array, there’s also a bunch of others: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/TypedArray#typedarray_objects

Great point, but this part of the quote is still dumb as rocks:

Coding is just kind of like the language that we talk to computers. It’s not necessarily the skill in and of itself. The skill in and of itself is like, how do I innovate? How do I go build something that’s interesting for my end users to use?

Sure, if you have a big workforce hand-coding UI, you might replace some of them by better tools. But things like that are a fraction of a fraction of the responsibilities developers have

Yeah, the motivation here is “please panic-buy our GPUs/please panic-buy into our cloud GPU infrastructure ”

Negative rings are a horrible proprietary liability.

That’s been clear from their inception, and this changes nothing.

Huh, I really like code like that. Having a multi-step process split up into sections like that is amazing to reason about actual dependencies of the individual sections. Granted, that only applies if the individual steps are kinda independently meaningful

To adapt your example to what I mean:

Baz do_stuff(int count, boolean cond) {
	Foo part1 = function1(count);
	Bar part2 = function2(cond);
	return function3(part1, part2);
}

This allows you to immediately see that part1 and part2 are independently calculated, and what goes into calculating them.

There are several benefits, e.g.:

1. if there is a problem, you can more easily narrow down where it is (e.g. if part2 calculates as expected and part1 doesn’t, the problem is probably in function1, not function2 or function3). If you have to understand the whole do_stuff before you can effectively debug it, you waste time.
2. if the function needs to be optimized, you know immediately that function1 and function 2 can probably run in parallel, and even if you don’t want to do that, the slow part will show up in a flame graph.

Doesn’t apply to the author here, so I don’t understand why you brought it up?

They accepted one that adds gender neutral pronouns in more than one place instead lol

We could maybe give people like her a glimpse into the sheer defiance that nature has against all attempts to fit into tiny categorical boxes.

It’s not just the topics that she doesn’t understand (especially the intersection of gender with endocrinology and neurology), but everything.

If you are a biologist and think you have found a rule that applies to some part of biology, you will feel deeply uncomfortable until the inevitable exceptions start cropping up that tell you that while the theory is still statistically sound, it’s not unnaturally strict and therefore plausible.

Obviously trans people exist and are valid. Thinking otherwise would be ignoring mountains of biological patterns and data that tell us that every binary in biology isn’t actually clean-cut.

Yeah, everyone is the hero in their own story, so from their perspective, they surely feel like they know things until they meet an actual biologist challenging them.

TERFs invoke half-remembered high-school level biology as if it was mathematical fact. In actual biological reality, nothing is binary or absolute. I don’t need a PhD in computational biology to know that, but if surely helps.

How about being a compassionate human being who tries to understand the conversation partner’s fears without bowing down to misinformation? If that’s not enough for them because they see debunking their bunk as personal attack, I don’t think anyone from outside of their cult is an acceptable conversation partner for them.

That’s the last three words of the article. The author didn’t miss the connection either.

I always wonder when people repeat something from the article or ask a question that’s answered in the article: did you not read it or did you just want to start a discussion about this connection and are somehow constrained in the number of words you can write per day?

Yup, that’s what makes it good

There’s various textures tofu comes in

• coarse tofu is like a more spongy, less fatty feta. Not great, but it exists to be pressed, marinated, and fried, which can make it amazing
• silk tofu is very tender, texture is something between jello and pudding. Great as cubes in soup.
• you can but deep fried tofu, which is great

There’s probably more

Testing superscript syntax: 10^-9

10^-9^

I usually write “POSIXy shell” but I thought that was clear from context this time.

The problem is that exit statuses !=0 aren’t treated as error by default (with a way to turn that off for individual expressions). Instead you have to set multiple settings and avoid certain constructs in bash/ZSH/…

Everything that works like a modern programming language by default is fine of course

Yeah, and that’s just one of many many things to consider.