PhilipTheBucket @ PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

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it's actually better for stallions to carry a bit more weight

It is clear that this horse knows what he's doing. Just give him oats and fillies and let him run around and do his thing. Humans are fuckin' weird.

IDK, I just have never really had this become a serious issue for me. I get what you mean, some actions are a little bit of a pain in the neck because people are often sloppy about typing, but literally the only time I can remember it being an issue at all has been when numpy is involved and so I have to figure out if something is a native Python thing or a numpy-fied custom structure.

I mean there's just not that many types. Generally something is a list, a number, a map, or a string, and it's pretty obvious which. Maybe there are OOP domain things where a lot of variables are objects of some kind of class (sort of more of a C++ type of program structure), and so it starts to become really critical to have strong type tools, I'm just saying I haven't really encountered too much trouble with it. I'm not saying it's imaginary, you may be right in your experience, I'm just saying I've worked on projects way bigger than a few hundred lines and never really had too much of an issue with it in practice in my experience.

Hm... yeah, maybe so. They linked to taz, they quoted a random member of Masch, and they cited some other cases, but yeah maybe it would have been good to have an actual legal expert weighing in on how realistic it is that this will mean anything significant.

That's not really clear in actuality. Different people have different opinions on what might be the results, and a few of them are quoted in the article stating their takes on it. The fact that the reality isn't clear yet isn't exactly the article's fault.

The headline isn't clear. The article goes into quite a lot of detail (the situation is much more complex, and the headline is probably a pretty misleading summary) and is perfectly clear.

Plus I felt python was too new and would skip a lot of core programming skills id just like to know. Im not super interested in doing it the new way with all the helpers, or I wont feel like I learned anything.

Okay, you definitely want to learn C then. C# and C++ both add a ton of helpers. C# has a massive runtime environment that's opaque and a little bit weird, and C++ has a massive compile-time environment that's opaque and very weird. It's sort of pick your poison. If you learn C and get skilled with it, you'll be well set up for understanding what is actually going on and having strong fundamentals that will set you up well for whatever higher-level language you want to learn in the future.

Put another way: C# will hide just as many of the fundamentals and hardcore details from you as python will, it'll just do it in a weird and counterintuitive fashion that will make it more confusing and with more weird C#-specific details.

I'd eventually like to learn unity as well so i decided on c#

I would actually just cut out the middleman and start with the Unity editor then. It actually might be a really good introduction to the nature of programming in general without throwing a bunch of extra nonsense at you, and in a really motivating format.

I do have the .net sdk and it seems to try to compile a simple program, it just throws errors even on an example program that shouldn't have any. Im sure its something dumb.

What's the program and what's the error? I'm happy to help if something jumps out at me. I'm voicing my opinion otherwise on what might be better ways to attack this all in general, but I'm sure me or people here can help sort out the issues if you really want to take this approach and you're just getting stuck on something simple.

C# represents about 12% of the jobs out there.

https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-programming-languages/

It's not unpopular, but it's definitely not "massively" popular anymore. Different languages have different strengths and weaknesses, but C# has a few more weaknesses than most. In my opinion. Yes, there's nothing wrong with learning any particular language you want to learn (and I'm a little surprised to see C++ has fallen significantly lower than C#, sure, fair enough). I'm just struggling to see an upside for learning it in the modern day (and now knowing more about what this person's goal is I feel even more strongly that C# is the wrong answer for them. In my opinion.)

You can do strict typing in python if you want it, it's very highly recommended if you're doing a big project.

I get what you're saying, people have been arrested after using Tor when that's not true of Mullvad. My point is that the domains are just not the same. It's like saying "body armor isn't as good as just wearing a baseball hat" because a higher percentage of people get shot wearing body armor than while wearing a baseball hat.

Yeah. I am hopeful that he'll run into resistance from the rank and file he is trying to depend on to get this stuff done. The California National Guard is already pissed about LA, and now he's asking for support and cooperation from the same force that watched his supporters beat the fuck out of the Capitol Police like a medieval siege not that long ago and then him give them hearty congratulations for it.

I'm not saying it won't work as he keeps trying (and as ICE gets staffed up and better funded), but I'm glad he's a moron, that's all I'm saying.

Compare the amount of arrest of Mullvad users versus Tor users

Okay. There are half a million total account numbers on Mullvad over the entire lifetime of the service. Tor has about 1.8 million daily users. That's part of why I trust Tor a lot more, is that it's been actively used for flagrantly illegal activities for long enough and by enough people to have developed an understanding of what the risks are (and it becomes news if someone gets busted.) Ring me up the next time a major drug ring is keeping its whole operation secure behind Mullvad, and the cops are helpless because they raided it and found no logs and so they had to pursue some other kind of operation to take down the ring.

I really would not recommend specializing in C# at this point in computing history. You can do what you want obviously, but Python is much more likely to be what you want. C++ or Java might be okay if you want a job and are okay with a little bit dated / not ideal languages, or you could learn one of the proliferation of niche backend Linuxy languages, but C# has most of the drawbacks of C++ and Java without having even their relative level of popularity.

IDK what issue you're having with VSCode, but I think installing the .NET SDK and then using dotnet by hand from the command line, to test the install, might be a good precursor to getting it working in VSCode. But IDK why you would endeavor to do this in the first place.

Yeah. It feels like the issue is that really solving it is hard work (you can feel, with the proliferation of Linux/Windows runtimes that get downloaded behind the scenes for Steam, how much effort they're continuously putting into releasing new runtimes that make slight adjustments for particular issues), and organizations like Ubuntu are always tempted into these kind of "we'll just set up a simple system that means we don't have to work on it because it'll be solved" approaches.

Honestly I think Linus is being a little over simplistic about how easy it would be to create ABI compatibility in userland. In the kernel it's realistic, but in userland it would be hopeless. But he's not wrong that the current situation, however it arrived, is pretty crappy from a POV of wanting to ship something to people outside of the distro's package management, and IMO none of the solutions that have come along since then are effective at solving the problem.

When did he discuss OnePackage or any other packaging project?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons

Look at the chart. You literally pulled "probably in the top 5" completely out of nowhere, and you've now admitted that while saying this stuff you had no real idea in mind how many nuclear-armed states there are in the world.

I have no interest in continuing a back-and-forth with you or opening up new lines of argument to bicker about. You've stated your case, congratulations. Read more. Study.

States tend to get the leaders that they deserve. Plenty of Israelis hate Netanyahu and what he's doing, but also, plenty more of them (a majority) do not.

See also Trump. 😢

I dunno dude. I'll take "there are some research papers about theoretical attacks, speculation that similar techniques were used by law enforcement when after great effort they were able to take down a bunch of sites that were literally some of their highest priorities at the time because they were openly and flagrantly committing felonies in the open for years, and some vulnerabilities fixed in 2014 that might have been related" over "they would have to send a subpoena" any day.

more likely in the top 5

They definitely are not.

I think you don't actually have knowledge about this stuff and are just kind of spinning out theories... I mean, it's fine, I am not particularly expert and am just kind of speculating also according to my lack of knowledge. But some of the stuff you are saying is just objectively immediately visible as not true, and it makes me question your judgement about broader and more subjective conclusions.

Yes, Israel bad, nukes bad, crazy people running countries in the Mideast and getting away with mass murder is bad. We should stop having nukes, at some point; if global warming doesn't get us, something someday is going to be wrong and it's going to be real real bad.

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Just to be clear, I haven't used "thermonuclear" in any other of my responses in this post, and was only doing so in this single instance to respond directly to your text here (emphasis mine):

I think that’s true, functionally speaking, of basically any thermonuclear-armed state.

Yeah, because not every nuclear-armed state could effectively end the world if they got in an existential armed conflict. I think every thermonuclear state could (and likely would). That's what I meant by that.

Not much to add to the rest of it, but I said it in the precise way I did for a precise reason.