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Radomir Dopieralski

#nobot #robots #python #micropython #vim #pygame #circuitpython #gamedev #electronics

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2024-08-01 19:06:10

You can judge the quality of any fictional utopia by how it treats the children, the disabled, and those who don't want to fit in it. Most just pretend they don't exist, like Star Trek. The more honest ones hint at some ways of eliminating them. There are some ambitious ones that tolerate them. The best ones make them integral to the whole thing.

2024-07-31 20:50:59

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@npub18yv…xxyn It's so sad to see the very companies that made the life of game archivists and emulator authors a hell now exploiting the very work that they made (and keep making) so unnecessarily hard.

2024-06-17 14:31:32

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@npub1836…8jp6 lynx?

2024-04-22 13:38:57

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@npub15pp…4jdw not again

2024-04-12 21:45:32

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@npub1836…8jp6 They are financially independent. They invested all the money they got from Google in a fund that now earns enough for them to operate indefinitely, even with the salary their CEO gets.

2024-03-21 18:58:52

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@npub1sr9…9e0c @npub1t9p…ulv3 Jak by się im nie podobało, to by się z tym tak nie obnosili. Więc może nie zgadzają się ze wszystkim, ale jednak pasuje im wystarczająco, żeby się pod tym podpisać.
Z drugiej strony mi na przykład jest wstyd się przyznawać skąd jestem, mimo, że nie uczestniczę w tym już od jakiegoś czasu.

2024-03-12 20:17:20

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@npub1dm5…5sqe but still no AI, just imagine what would be possible now!

2024-03-12 20:04:54

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@npub1dm5…5sqe Never forget https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_means_dodgy_numbers_and_dangerous_designs/

2023-12-14 17:01:22

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@npub1836…8jp6 JIT stands for "Just In Time" and means "just in time compilation", which means the code is being compiled as it runs, usually with different code paths getting their own optimized compilations, so they can be super fast for the most common case. PyPy does that, and it manages to be faster than then equivalent code written in C or C++ for some cases this way.
For "dependencies" I'm still not sure if you mean subclassing, imports, or something else? Do you have an example?

2023-12-14 16:42:35

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@npub1836…8jp6 PyPy has JIT, cPython doesn't (although the there is some work on adding a partial jit-like mechanism). But even cPython always compiled the files into bytecode (those are the .pyc files you can find that it caches on the disk if it has write access).
And going back to "circular dependencies", I don't even know what you mean. You can have circular imports – the module being imported will just not be fully initialized until it finishes... initializing. Or do you mean pip deps?

2023-12-14 16:29:51

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@npub1836…8jp6 Simple. Nobody uses a python interpreter. We use python code that is compiled into bytecode and runs in a virtual machine.

2023-10-21 21:34:14

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@npub1rh0…sjsf To be frank, I don't see how *talking* about punching them leads to any more violence than them talking about killing "undesirables" does, and it does have the positive effect of poeple thinking twice before they spout such nonsense publicly, and normalize it. And yes, you are very welcome to block me.

2023-09-14 11:06:12

I find it very funny how job requirements list things like familiarity with version control systems and knowledge of algorithms, while in my experience running programming workshop the best predictor of a beginner programmer performance is their ability to type on the keyboard. I've seen people bending over backwards using copy-paste and auto-completion and all sort of, frankly ingenious, tricks to avoid having to type the name of a variable, because finding the letters on the keys takes longer.

2023-08-14 15:23:56

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@npub1836…8jp6 I didn't define "elite". I just noted that learning things inevitably creates an elite group. But of course there are other ways elites can form: inherited wealth, connections, tradition, lineage, access to tools, etc. – human group dynamics are such that pretty much any feature can be significant in this way. However, while you can fight with nepotism or rituals, getting rid of skill differences is much harder.

2023-08-14 15:08:36

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@npub1836…8jp6 I mean any skill that requires practice, any knowledge that needs learning inevitably creates a group of "elite" people who have that skill or knowledge, distinguished from all other who didn't expend that effort (because they didn't want to, or because they didn't have access to it). The only way around it is to force everyone to learn the same skills and knowledge – that's what the public education system is attempting to do, with mixed results. And you can only do it to some degree.

2023-08-14 14:56:06

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@npub1836…8jp6 You mean, like, mobs?

2023-08-07 16:16:18

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@npub17ge…hgsu food-safe and recyclable