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frezik

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  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • You can get IPv6 addresses. What you can't get, in many cases, is a static IPv6 prefix assignment.

    CGNAT is not fine. Its problems are simply hidden from most people. ISPs have to have more equipment that's less reliable, increases latency, and is potentially a bandwidth bottleneck.

  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • The reason they have no use for a static address is because applications haven't evolved to work that way. Roll back the clock 30 years, do IPv6 seriously so that everyone has static assignments by the time the Y2k problem has come and gone, and you have a very different Internet.

    In fact, many applications, like VoIP and game hosting, have to go through all sorts of hoops to work around NAT.

  • Can anyone confirm accuracy?

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  • No, I'm trying to get people to think. If I laid out my full opinions on this subject (compilers and interpreters aren't that different anymore, even machine code often runs more like bytecode in many ways, "scripting" is a term that hides what's actually going on, etc.), then people get into endless debates. My questions are designed to pick apart assumptions.

    Admittedly, people didn't appreciate when Socrates did this shit, either.

  • Can anyone confirm accuracy?

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  • Hell, they'll probably put that on a resume, and someone will hire them.

  • Can anyone confirm accuracy?

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  • Scripting languages are often considered to be very high level and can commonly run without compilation. Making them great to automate tasks or create a simplified interaction/abstraction layer to a more complex program.

    Then Python is not a scripting language.

    Programming languages usually have much lower level access, and by extension they tend to be more complicated. In exchange for that, you get much more control.

    Would you consider C to be more or less complicated than Perl?

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  • Yeah, once you know all the details, the distinction disappears. The term doesn't clarify understanding.

    If I had to make a distinction, it'd be that scripting languages are meant to be a simple way to serve a specific niche. Things like SQL or Excel formulas. It doesn't apply to Python.

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  • What's the difference between a scripting language and a programming language?

  • Python needs an actual default function

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  • Python: I'm so readable that I'm practically executable pseudo-code

    Also Python: if __name__ == '__main__': . . .

  • Python needs an actual default function

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  • I'd say the term "procedural" itself is an issue. Pretty much any language can be done that way if you choose. IIRC, the creator of Clojure wanted Java to work more that way, and he did it by having a single class full of functions. It's not a natural way to write Java, and that's why he invented Clojure.

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  • Procedural and OOP aren't mutually exclusive terms. Most OOP programs are ultimately procedural in nature. Often, the only difference is that the first argument to the function is to the left the function name and separated by a dot.

  • Plex now want to SELL your personal data

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  • "Hashed emails". Besides the fact that they can match up a hash from one source to a hash from another source to link them to the same person (they never said they'd salt them), emails often have enough predictability to break the hash. Assuming they all end in "@gmail.com", "@outlook.com", or "@yahoo.com" will get you the vast majority of emails out there. Unlike a good password scheme, people don't shove a lot of random data into their email addresses.

  • Python needs an actual default function

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  • The -i option is simply interactive mode. All commands still go through a compiler.

  • Python needs an actual default function

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  • That is not how Python works. There are very few languages that work by executing line-by-line anymore. Unix shell scripts are one of the few holdouts. JavaScript also does it to a certain extent; the browser starts executing line-by-line while a compiler step works in the background. Once the compiler is done, it starts execution of the compiled form right where the line-by-line execution left off. It helps JavaScript be more responsive since it doesn't have to wait for the compiler to finish.

  • Python needs an actual default function

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  • What would make it "object oriented"?

  • Python needs an actual default function

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  • What's the difference between a "scripting" language and a "real" one?

  • Python needs an actual default function

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  • Only took 27 years to make the Java "Hello, world!" kinda sane.

  • They're trying to normalize calling vibe coding a "programming paradigm," don't let them.

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  • There are scripting extensions to SQL that definitely are. There are some features in some SQL servers that make it Turing Complete even without scripting stuff.

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/900055/is-sql-or-even-tsql-turing-complete

    Like HTML5+CSS3 being Turning Complete, it's easy to add features that accidentally make you hit the threshold. Many would argue that it's a sign complexity has run away from you, and I tend to agree.

  • 1000 nits is insane

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  • Have you seen videos or pictures that have dark sections, and there's "banding" where there's a noticeable difference between something black and something very black? Like a sharp border where it's obvious the conversion process from the camera to your screen didn't fully capture a gradient of darkness?

    That's due to the process not being able to handle darker areas compared to very bright areas. It's not enough to have an HDR display; the whole chain before then has to support it, as well. When it's done, not only does it get rid of banding, but finer elements in darker areas can pop out and join the rest of the scene.

  • the beautiful code

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  • Insulting, but also correct. What "knowing" something even means has a long philosophical history.