. The race of a voice actor doesnât matter
. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy
. You donât need to shower everyday
. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans
. Monty Python is very overrated
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Ok, I donât like making generalizations, but letâs play the game:
Dynamically typed programming languages are for babies.
Having depression is not being sad. Having anxiety is not being nervous. Mental health exists and itâs very complex.
We should start trating unhealthy use of social media as an actual addiction, and the platforms should be held accountable for the damage they have and still are causing.
Sometimes older people have actual knowledge and wisdom that is only gained by experiencing life, and younger people shuld learn to shut the fuck up some times and stop pretending they were born knowing everything.
You should have to get a special license to drive something as big as a modern pickup truck.
And you should have to have a justifiable reason to buy and own one.
And there should be restrictions on where they can be driven.
Basically most people shouldnât have pickup trucks.
I would go further. Most cars donât belong in places where people live. They injure and kill people on the regular, the noise pollution causes mental and physical health problems, the light pollution disrupts sleep, the particulate pollution causes cardiovascular disease and dementia, as well as damaging ecosystems, driving adds to obesity and issues related to a sedentary lifestyle, the physical space they take leads to sprawl and ecosystem destruction, and the sprawl also bankrupts cities and towns. As well, driving in traffic just plain sucks as an activity, and makes people angry and miserable.
Oh yeah. Cars are bad on like every metric.
Socially they isolate people. You donât interact with anyone when youâre driving except to get angry. The micro interactions you have on the train matter. Seeing people that arenât just like you, also annoyed that the train is delayed, or just having a nice time with their kids, matters. More than makes up for when other people are annoying.
Economically they hurt. Itâs much harder to just pop into an interesting looking shop when youâre cruising along at 40mph. All the space dedicated to parking could be used for other stuff- housing, commerce, communal space, whatever.
They make spaces less safe. Other than the direct impact (no pun intended) of people getting hit by cars, or crashing into stuff, a space that has steady foot traffic is generally safer. If everyone was in their car instead, youâd probably be alone on foot with no one to help if something happened.
Theyâre bad for the environment. Air pollution, micro plastics, whatever.
Drunk driving is way more dangerous than drunk âriding the trainâ.
The more non-car options are built out, the better it will be for people who need to drive for whatever reason.
Cars culture is trash and if we ever escape from it, itâs going to take years.
Going to disagree with your second point. In the UK at least, thereâs a lot of friendly âno, after youâ type activity. If the road narrows due to an overhead railway bridge or parked cars etc. generally speaking one or both will pull over, flash their lights to signal the other one can go first, and get a friendly wave of thanks when they pass. Letting people in at junctions isnât uncommon either, though tends to be more the exception than the rule.
There is anger too of course, but usually only aimed at people who arenât following the rules of the road, have done something stupid/dangerous, or are hesitating for far too long.
Love how the bed of the truck is basically the same size (if not smaller) as well so really you canât use the excuse of needing the bigger truck for hauling stuff.
Where i live 9/10 they dont even have a hitch installed.
The only reason Americans started buying pick up trucks on mass is because of Tarifs put on Japanese car manufacturers in the 1970s and pick up trucks had no taxes on them suddenly became one of the cheapest and more affordable cars in the United States. Rick Wolf explained this somewhere I canât remember where exactly.
There were also reduced fuel economy requirements for trucks and off-road vehicles, which contributed to the rise of SUVs.
It was on Volkswagen Transporter pick ups in the 1960s, in response to German taxes on imported US chicken.
Actually, full sized pick ups are not liable to light truck tariffs, but they have no market outside of the US.
Id love a pickupâŚbut it would be impractical, expensive to buy and run, the back space is basically useless cause even if you do put a cover on, the locks are crap. So I wonât be getting a pick up truck. Plus, where I live, it would go missing.
Come to India. Seems like your dreamland.
Iâd love to move to India again. I just donât know how I could get a job there. I donât have any fancy degrees.
Instead of trucks, this should be based on vehicle dimensions. All vehicles around the size of modern pickup trucks.
Its even worse in SEA. Some countries like Nam have these small dick pick-up driving shitheads but what they donât have is Americaâs huge roads and streets.
People on Lemmy arenât ânormalâ people and shouldnât use their personal views as the norm.
but weâre on Lemmy đ¤
Probably shouldnât assume that guyâs personal view is the norm.
Well now Iâm just confused.
Can we share the first hill?
Rather than banning that just tax the shit out of people who have multiple homes
Iâd even be willing to let someone have their lake/hunting cabin/whatever and not tax too much but people are greedy and weâre far past that point. Once you start accumulating 5-10 homes, taking them off the market for other buyers, the taxes should increase exponentially.
We cAn tax them 1 home for every excess home and donate that home to a homeless person
You could just build housing with the revenue from taxing it
We donât have a lack of housing. We have a distribution problem. We canât just build infinitely, we need to redistribute.
The Welsh did that (or just some Welsh councils?), pretty sure it was very popular among the people actually living in the area.
What is your problem with static typing
Iâm not super fond of dynamic typing either. I like untyped or uni-typed languages like âeverything is an arrayâ (APL) or âeverything is an integerâ (Forth, assembly).
Iâm of the same opinion as Chuck Moore who once observed, âStrong typing merely creates errors so that they can be detected.â In my experience, the amount of complexity added by these systems is staggering. To such a degree that they cause more errors than they prevent. More types, more opportunities to use them incorrectly, after all.
I also prefer the âbuild the program while itâs runningâ workflow, which is inhibited by static typing.
One time I found a C++ library where everything was of a single type, the âuntypeâ essentially. It removed all type safety, in other words, to allow pure binary access to all data. I mean, thereâs an occasion now and then when one needs that sort of thing, but I found in every case it was just a headache. Now I know thereâs two people like that, haha.
Well, I donât agree with you, but I respect a hot take about coding when I see one. My own a-little-less-spicy-than-yours take is that OOP is overated.
12 hour time is an inferior standard, and we should be on 24 hour time so developers donât ever default to 12 hour time. Way too many instances of mission critical things getting swapped on am/pm by mistake. That is never a problem with 24h time.
Iâve been trying to move over to 24 hour time. I swear switching from Fahrenheit to Celsius was easier.
Really? Thatâs really surprising to me. Iâm from Denmark where we use 24h time a lot so Iâm used to it, but except for edge cases itâs easy to switch between them. Using Fahrenheit however is a struggle. I have to convert it every time, I have no idea about the temperature until I see it in celsius really. I guess it comes down to me having been exposed to both clock formats but only really on temperature unit.
My guess is Iâd do better if every clock I owned was on 24-hour time. Thatâs how I did the Celsius switch, every device (except my car, which I havenât been able to figure out how to change) I set to Celsius.
I live in a household that is divided between Celsius (me) and Fahrenheit (wife). I wish I could switch every device, but I have to pick my battles. So I expose myself as much as possible and recite the following
30 is hot 20 is nice 10 is cool 0 is ice
Fortunately my wife is both gracious and adventurous in this regard, and is cool with having most of our stuff on Celsius. I switched before we were married, and sheâs slowly learning by virtue of everything being on Celsius except her phone.
Edit: Also, this may be helpful, I came up with a heuristic early on to approximate Fahrenheit values to help me learn.
I memorized every 10 (and eventually every 5) and then approached from the nearest memorized point using 2°F per 1°C instead of 1.8.
For example, if something said 22°C, Iâd start at 20°C=68°F and work my way up, adding 4, to get to 72°F. Since the actual value is 71.6°F, thatâs close enough.
If you forget a 10 or a 5 itâs easy to recalculate them if you know another, because itâs 9°F per 5°C. So if 20 is 68, and 30 is 86, then 25 is 77.
(Obviously you could also do the full conversion but that takes me more time.)
Ooo I like that. Thanks!
Celsius makes more sense for everything but normal to hot temps. 100 being about as hot as is tolerable. 75 being perfect 50 being tolerable cold.
How does that make sense, itâs just arbitrary numbers. I can give you arbitrary numbers for celsius too: 30 being hot but tolerable, 20 being perfect, 10 being cold but tolerable.
I used math tricks at first. But honestly, just switching even one clock like your watch or phone makes it pretty easy over time.
1pm is easy to remember as itâs 13, a prime number
7x2 = 14(00)
3x5= 15(00)
4x4 =16(00)
5pm is 17, also a prime.
6x3 = 18(00)
7pm is also a prime, 19(00).
20, 21, 22, 23, and 00 also have math tricks, but you can also just remember that after 8pm, you have less than four hours till midnight :)
I find it easier to just add/subtract 12, the problem is that I sometimes accidentally add/subtract 10.
Yeah, I knew about that trick, but for me, it was easier to just break down 16 into its smaller components. Or remember that 19 was a prime, which belonged to 7. After a bit of time (heh), it all just started to meld for me. Nothing like immersion-based learning!
24hr time is based. 1600 > 4PM.
Alphebetizing by the âTheâ should be a criminal act.
Looking at you, Google Play Library.
Agree, as a further measure It should be criminal to name stuff with âtheâ to begin with.
This seemingly simple thing enrages me on a daily basis.
How difficult can it fucking be to write some damn code to omit âtheâ from sorting if it is the first word of a title? JFC
If âtheâ appears first, then âignoreâ must surely be a thing, right??
Fans of The The in absolute shambles.
We should organize libraries not by name, or even the Dewey decimal system, but simply by title length. Fiction, non fiction, jounrla articles, doesnât matter. Itâs all just in one stupid long list, shortest title to longest title.
Summer is a crappy season, fall is superior.
Winter totally trumps other seasons. Itâs just so cozy.
I tell people Iâm weird because I like winter.
Iâm a spring bitch cuz itâs the furthest from winter
But where I live, winter is BRUTAL
I suppose its very telling what a personâs favorite season is by where they live or were raised.
Scandi, canadian ? Or worse đ??
Is there worse than Canada? Hahaha
I suppose Russia, since I wouldnât count Antarctica as only science bois live there.
I like spring because its not exhaustingly warm, and I like being outside in rain anyway.
allergies
Imagine not being able to go outside because of plant cum (pollen), couldnât be me.
spoiler
/s hay fever and allergies suck.
Fucking trees and their cum eveywhere
Im camping on your hill.
Agreed, the sea is still warm too. In spring the sea is still freezing.
The best season is the short window in spring where itâs warm out but the bugs arenât out yet.
There needs to be a mandatory parenting training course if youâre expecting a child.
Religion needs to be taken out of the government completely
I like this in theory. But I know in practice some idiots will always manage to get their hands on the curriculum.
Me too but itâd turn into eugenics so quickly.
I was fucking baffled walking out of the hospital with my baby. No training, no proof of education, no tests. Walking out with the nurse in tow asking them "yeah are you sure i donât need to like sign something?
I agree with sentiment, but as stated thatâs just eugenics with extra steps. By controlling the cost, availability and/or accessibility of the course, you control who can have children. Also how are you going to enforce this policy, forced abortions?
Better imo to make childrearing a part of the school curriculum with a highly encouraged refresher course later on. That achieves the same end without risking peoples liberties.
In the UK we almost have this in something called NCT (National Childbirth Tr. ⌠ust).
Itâs not compulsory and most only do it for their first but youâre kinda so shit scared that most tend to do it.
The knowledge is good but getting a close network of 5 other couples having a baby within a month of each other is invaluableâŚfor the mums, the dadâs are shit at keeping in touch typically lol
I sometimes tell my kids about things I was taught, and survival habits I picked up in the âdad qualification programâ. I based the idea of the program on a brief description of air force officer survival training in the book The Hatchet, and a generous dose of imagination. The kids have never questioned it.
I disagree about religion. It should be subordinated to the government. That should stop them from promoting reactionary rethoric. (Assuming the government is half decent in the first place. Otherwise thereâs not much difference.)
Honestly good points overall, but I will die on the other egg hill
Complete protection? Certainly not, but melanin does provide some protection from UV radiation. Still important to wear sunscreen because if a melanated individual where to get skin cancer it usually has a higher mortality rate because theyâre often caught late.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2671032/
Yep, however my friends and family who have darker skin tend to believe that it makes them immune to it, which isnât the case, if anything they can get away with using sunscreen with lower fps and/or reapply less often, but everyone should protect their skin regardless.
Can confirm i am a melanated individual who doesnât use sunblock as often as i should (but im also never outside LMFAO)
But yes youâre absolutely correct but I just wanted to clarify that we should be using sunblock but nevertheless itâs still not as much of a risk to us
Not shower every day depends very much on the situation.
In summer there are certain coworkers who most fuckingly definitely should shower every day unless Iâm allowed more wfh.
I think âshower before you start stinkingâ is a decent rule to live by
Along with âitâs sometimes hard to detect your own stinkâ
And weâre back to every day
If I do not have or cannot easily get root access to a computer, I donât really own it.
Same for phones. But thatâs the norm unfortunately
A phone is a computer. A smartwatch is a computer. The computers running a carâs infotainment and engine control systems are computers.
Python sucks.
Not only is it extremely inefficient, it is also a pain in the ass to work with if you have to use APIs that heavily rely on dynamic type wrapping and donât provide stubs. Static analysis via Pylance is not possible then and youâre basically poking around in the dark, increasing the difficulty enourmously to get to know such an API. Even worse if there isnât even a halfway decent documentation.
I thought you were referring to Monty Python like op did and I thought: what the heck is he talking about?
Agreed. I donât understand the people who claim itâs easier to work with, or better for prototyping.
Automatic typing exists. Type casting exists and is even handled automatically in some scenarios. Languages like java and C# can manage memory for you, and have the same portability and runtime requirement as python.
Prototyping in python and then moving to another language later makes no sense to me at all.
I absolutely hate the package management in it. I canât tell you how many times Iâve found a cool python project, downloaded it from GitHub then tried to install requirements. And it turns into a huge nightmare of trying to find compatible packages. Itâll be like you need wheel v3.1.0 so I try to install that,.then itâs like no you canât do that because itâs not compatible with numpy v79.84.1 that you have installed. So then you search and try to find which version is compatible, then install they go to install wheel again,.and itâs like no you need pandas,.so you install pandas but it like sorry Iâm not compatible with the version of numpy you installed.
Iâm a newb still but was put off by having to use âCondaâ to manage a ton of virtual Python environments ultra-specific to the applications they were designed for. Blegh!
I literally almost failed a uni course bc how shitty python packaging is. And well, maybe I am lazy, but the horrors of daring to get fucking deps were too much.
Just use Julia ffs. đđ
What always pissed me off is the indentation/codeblock style. Most languages you can write in notepad and be fine, if you donât use a proper editor in python, youâre going to spend time hunting down indent issues.
thank you.
I really donât get how so many people find Python âergonomic.â kwargs and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race. they break type hinting and intellisense, and thereâs all kinds of proxy class shenanigans that all the libraries use. matplotlib is a horrible experience because thereâs just a kitchen sink of options, and itâs hard to dynamically update plots. if there were a TypeScript-like dialect of Python I wouldnât have problems, but Pythonâs type hinting is absolutely wretched.
I really want Julia to succeed.
Comparing Python to c++ seems disingenuous, Python is not a replacement for c++, it should be compared to bash, PHP or maybe R. Donât get mad that a hammer is not a good screwdriver.
I suppose youâre referring to the article Iâve linked. As I see it: If an increasing amount of applications world are running with Python, then energy and time consumption are important aspects. Not only cost wise but especially since weâre grilling our planet. Therefore, comparing with more efficient languages is indeed meaningful.
Surprised to see Java that high tho. I have been using it for uni stuff and itâs not bad.
Feels overly complex on some areas (gradle??) and I am not a fan of OOP but still relatively good.
Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad.
The word Data was originally a plural word, and should be again, for all time
Data is plural of datum, which also corresponds to the English word date. When Gregorian calender was introduced in Europe, for decades dates were the only things written in Indian style numerals.
datus/data means âgivenâ, as in the metaphysical sense of the word, since the word started being used for statistics in a period where measurements were considered an objective observation of material reality, which was in fact considered âgivenâ and not interpreted.
and because of that its not âdata is beautifulâ itâs âdata are beautifulâ
Seconded on Monty Python - he should feel terrible about that travesty.
Also a shower per day minimum for everyone is necessary and thatâs the hill Iâm dying on. Clean your stinky arse up.
I just shower because I like it. A more important factor in personal hygiene is if you wash your hands or not. I see so many people who piss and shit and then just run their hands under water quickly itâs fucking gross.
I used to think that as well. But what if it turned out that over-showering was actually the thing that makes you stinky?
Everyone needs a bidet. Literally clean yo stinky ass up!
âSeconded on Monty Python - he should feel terrible about that travesty.â
Monty Python is for insane British âpeopleâ who think drag is the height of comedy.
âAlso a shower per day minimum for everyone is necessary and thatâs the hill Iâm dying on. Clean your stinky arse up.â
Not even true. Daily showers are entirely performative. Iâll have you know there are many people in your life who donât take showers every day and you donât even realize.
Except data usually refers to a single set of data, so it is both plural and singular.
A set of multiple things is a plural, friend. A set of dishes, a set of clothes, a set of knives, a set of tools. THESE tools, THESE clothes, THESE knives, THESE data.
Isnât data uncountable in english?
âYour opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad.â
How? I didnât even say it was bad just not as good as people say it is. Itâs ok but it can only be random for so long. Once youâve seen one episode youâve seen them all. Monty Python is no different to those old asdfmovie videos.
Sir, these are not Big Bang theory episodes.
There shouldnât be borders.
Iâd one up that and say there shouldnât be countries. The concept makes no sense. US propaganda always tries to make China and Russia out to be the âenemyâ meanwhile when its Trump doing bad things, the world also says its the US causing problems. All of the sudden, what one or two bad people do somehow means the whole country is at fault. If we took out all the bad people and chucked them out, we could all just be people. No nations, no nothingâjust people.
Who sets laws and enforces them? But otherwise totally in favour of returning to monke
There are many, many systems of governance out there and plenty of democratic systems are wildly different from the âliberal democracyâ weâre familiar with. Cheran in Mexico is an interesting example, five minute documentary.
Nationalism also works the other way. The wins of the privileged are framed as âWEâRE winning!!â. Big companies exploit you more and profit? Itâs spun as The Economy is going well. GDP went up. That sounds good for you, doesnât it?
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Stop using timezones? So every day would actually be two weekdays because at some random point in time it would switch date during the day. Letâs meet next Monday wouldnât even specify a single day anymore in most countries. And there is no real benefit to stop using timezones, just downsides. Yes youâd know which time it is anywhere but you still wouldnât know of they are awake or not and have to either look it up or remember it - the same you have to do now.
No. Letâs go for the craziest option. Continuous time zones! Your clock changes a bit every mile east or west you go.
ISO dates, 100%.
Time zonesâŚI could see arguing to rework them, but abolish them? How would that even work?
Typically people propose switching everything to UTC.
The read this doesnât work is because humans are still bound by a diurnal cycle and you wonât have everyone wake up at 0800, since for some people thatâs the time in the middle of when the sun sets and rises.
So you still need to communicate to people across space where the sun is or will be for you at a time in the future, or otherwise relate where in your wake cycle youâll be.
Tied to this is legal jurisdictions. Within a legal jurisdiction itâs important for regulatory events to be synchronized. For things like bank hours, school hours, government office hours, things like âno loud noises when people tend to be sleepingâ, âteenagers old enough to have a job arenât allowed to work late on school nightsâ, and what specifically constitutes âafter hours or weekend laborâ for the purposes of overtime and labor regulation you need your definition to be consistent across the jurisdiction. Depending on where you are in relation to Greenwich a typical workday can start at 1900 Friday night/morning, and extend until 0300 Saturday morning/afternoon. Your âweekendâ would start when you woke up around 1800 Saturday evening/morning.
Right now we solve this problem by deciding on a consistent set of numbers for where the sun is across some area that inevitably lines up with legal jurisdiction. Then we use a lookup table to translate our conception of where the sun is to where it is elsewhere.
Without timezones you instead need to use the same type of lookup table to find the position of the sun at the time and place of interest, and then try to infer what the situation would be.
We have UTC now, and people inevitably already use it where it makes sense. Itâs just usually easier to have many clocks that follow similar rules than it is to have one clock thatâs interpreted many different ways.
We could use UTC.
You can use UTC, right now. Nothingâs stopping you.
Check this out. Iâm a business with at least one office in every US state. You want to know when my New York office opens so you can come by. Instead of seeing âOffices are open 9 AM to 5 PMâ You now need to check every office⌠by state⌠by city? Time zones would be helpful even if we all used GMT, so that you could easily determine which time zone a business is in to set a reasonable time to be open.
DST can fuck off though.
Thatâs a pretty specific use though. A case like this only makes sense because we all somehow decided 9AM - 5PM is a standard business time, when society could benefit from having different business/services open at different times.
That was an example of a situation where time zones make sense. Any time it is important where the sun is in the sky, the time that it occurs will differ depending on where you are in the world. When is lunch break? When do backups run? When can you see the eclipse? If we werenât in an interconnected world, it wouldnât matter much but we need some convention to communicate information that is dependent on where the sun is, as that very often dictates human activity.
It seems like a universal time makes sense but I canât think of a way to get around the fact that activity will vary according to timezones anyway.
What about RFC 3339? Itâs technically different.
Good point! We should only use date formats that are allowed by both standards! https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
The way they are and divide them in half so that the western side of the current time zone gets the same-ish amount of light as the eastern side of the time zone
By springing ahead permanently, right? Rightâ˝
As a British person I agree with your second point. Everyone should use Greenwich Mean Time which is obviously the correct time. Even if it means that noon is in the middle of the night for some people.
I want the most anti-British option. I know! Weâre going to do away with clocks entirely. We wake up when we wake up. We work when we work. We forget counting the days. Forget the calendar entirely. Live forever in an eternal now.