BitSound

BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

I think !shortstories@literature.cafe would be a good place for it. The community sidebar says your own stories are welcome. You might want to add that you're specifically looking for feedback

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

mapcomplete has integration with this site:

https://mangrove.reviews/

I've also seen this project:

https://lib.reviews/

BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

Sorry, I should clarify I mean first chronologically, not in importance. As in, "here were the warning signs". Also I'll concede that this won't be first chronologically either, it'll be Guido stepping down as BDFL, and then the Tim Peters thing, then things like this.

To be fair, the comment had been moderated for like 4 days, and was only restored recently after people noticed. Hopefully somebody realized that it wasn't a good look.

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

He's not being run out of the project... yet. This is not a good direction, though. This comes across as the first link that'll show up in a github gist of "What happened to Python?" in a few years. Hopefully not and it's all just an automod mixup, but after the Tim Peters btfo, I know what I'd put my money on.

BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

Thanks, yeah. There weren't any immediately nearby, but I'll try searching farther out.

BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

Makes sense. I thought it was odd, because all of the clones I've seen use different names that clearly differentiate them, like Shattered Pixel Dungeon. I would say using the exact same title is confusing and maybe a little unethical, but if Watabou doesn't care, then there's probably not much that can/should be done.

BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

I'm pretty meh on the arguments there. It would be different, but we'd adapt. And we'd fix a lot bunch of problems.

BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

The difference is that you're not changing how time is kept. Countries can change their timezone offsets right now to screwy things like +12:45 and it changes how time is recorded and stored. If we switch to UTC, a country can just declare their official hours are shifting and nobody has to fundamentally change how clocks work.

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

IMO people would figure it out and life would go on. Yes, lots of people would have the calendar date advance in the middle of the day but that's fine, we'd get used to it. People wouldn't work 9-5 jobs, but we'd come up with different terminology.

I don't really see the argument about people waking up at different times. Yeah, some people would wake up at 02:00 and some at 16:00, but when someone says they wake up at 02:00, there's 0 confusion about when that is. You'd have to know when someone is awake to do an international call, but you have to do that anyways.

BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

At this point if I feel like getting fancy with Pandas, I'd reach for Polars first. My experience with it so far has been great

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

For a direct replacement, you might want to consider enums, for something like

 rust

    
enum Strategy {
    Foo,
    Bar,
}

That's going to be a lot more ergonomic than shuffling trait objects around, you can do stuff like:

 rust

    
fn execute(strategy: Strategy) {
    match strategy {
        Strategy::Foo => { ... }
        Strategy::Bar => { ... }
}

If you have known set of strategy that isn't extensible, enums are good. If you want the ability for third party code to add new strategies, the boxed trait object approach works. Consider also the simplest approach of just having functions like this:

 rust

    
fn execute_foo() { ... }
fn execute_bar() { ... }

Sometimes, Rust encourages not trying to be too clever, like having get vs get_mut and not trying to abstract over the mutability.

BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

Oh also, it was kind of strange how little he mentioned AI. I like how he wrote that the AI wasn't trusted to be a Swordholder because it was "too logical". Completely missed the boat on ChatGPT. "Write a play in which Harry Potter pressed the button to destroy humanity, and then act it out" or something like that would be all it takes.

It was also strange that hundreds of years in the future, humans are still doing hard manual labor. Where are the robots?

BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

IMO Hacker News handles this better. Threads/comments are rarely deleted, they're mostly minimized and you have to log in to expand them

BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

Thank you 😀 It was good working together

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BitSound @lemmy.world 2y ago

Use Tor for everything. Search for "disposable email", find a service that you can use in Tor. Sign up through Tor using that disposable email address for any service that you want to post to. Be aware that some services try to deny access to Tor and/or disposable email addresses. Try a different service or a different disposable email provider if you encounter that.

You should define your threat model. Longer essays can probably be deanonymized with stylometry. The above will probably work fine up to maybe the NSA taking an interest in the origins of the essay. You can probably post something to the Fediverse and reputation-wash it to a larger audience by saying "look at this link that i have no affiliation with", but it's more likely that someone would figure out that it's you. You can use the Tor method to post on Reddit, but many subreddits will have automods that delete posts from new/low karma users.