Why shouldn’t the payment processors get a say in the payments they process? Illegal or not, why should they be forced to process payments that facilitate things against their beliefs?

Because they hold an effective monopoly over the payment process.

Imagining your death. :P

But seriously, it's perfectly sensible when remember that i is just the mathematical representation of "left turn", just like -1 is the mathematical representation of "go backwards"-- and as we know, two left turns sends you backwards. So think about this triangle in the following way:

Imagine you are a snail, starting at the origin. Now imagine that you walk forward 1 step along the horizontal line. Then you turn 90° to the left to start walking along the vertical line, but then, because you need to walk i steps along this line you take another 90° turn to the left, which means that you are now walking backwards and you end up back at the origin. How far away from the origin are you? Zero steps.

+1 actually a shower thought

Thank you, my human language parser is not fully operational at the moment so I actually appreciated this summary!

This is definitely not jank.

I for one like to keep things simple and just express everything directly in units of the number of periods of the radiation emitted by the ground state hyperfine levels of Cesium-133.

Is it worse than Clojure?

Okay, fair enough, you got me: I wrote his name on a piece of paper and was standing on it when I wrote that comment in order to absorb his authority. You win this Internet argument.

I was definitely not standing on the authority of Elliott, merely making use of his words and crediting him for it, so you are simply wrong.

On the contrary, quoting is exactly the act of borrowing another's idea, but doing the courtesy of giving credit to the person from whom you borrowed it.

Good writers borrow, great writers steal. -T.S. Elliot

I'm confused... was that wall of text supposed to have sold me on something?

You want to turn my 300 lines of clear, readable and concise logic into 1,000 lines of English paragraphs that break up the functions of my code into yet smaller pieces of code devoid of context?

If a function has 300 lines without a lot of supporting documentation then I doubt that it is "clear, readable and concise" anyway.

Now I have to dig through that book, ignoring all the shit I’ve read hundreds of times because it doesn’t compile into anything, just to debug an off-by-1 error in a loop buried in a paragraph explaining the original developers diatribe on why we’re looping over that range?

I have never found it hard at all to skip past comments that are not relevant because my code editor helpfully colors them differently from the rest of the code, making it easy. Does your editor not do the same?

(Also, by now you should be especially good at skipping past it, given that you have apparently "read [it] hundreds of times" instead of skipping past it, for some reason.)

This is the sort of academic crap that sounds good but in practice is just terrible for anything other than small projects that are intended specifically to teach.

It depends on what you are doing. If you are implementing relatively simple logic like a REST API handler, then it is probably overkill. If you are implementing a relatively advanced algorithm, then having a running narrative of what is going can be extremely helpful.

It's not immediately obvious to me where the examples are.

If you have not already read through it, there is a ton of useful information about Python's data model in the user manual; it is my go-to resource when I want to do weird stuff with metaclasses and the like.

Furthermore, you might find it interesting to peruse the C code that is generated by Cython, because it gives you a concrete view of the kinds of steps that Python has to go through from a C perspective to work within its data model. (Cython is a bit faster than Python because it does not have to interpret bytecode, but unless you use special directives it still has to e.g. do general attribute lookups whenever you interact with a Python value, even if the value is an integer, and maintain reference counts.)

Finally, you might also get a lot out of skimming through the CPython bytecode instructions, as this has a lot of interesting details about how the bytecode interpreter works in practice.

I think that you may have missed the reference.

One should be wary about voting for the Alligators Eating Peoples' Faces party...

Maybe this is finally a good use for depleted uranium?

Ugh, I really hate it when people make comics like this that make it seem like solving our problems would be so simple. In the real world, where things are a lot messier, you need the blade to be at least several times higher for it to work properly!

Yes, because of all the daemons.