nickwitha_k (he/him)

It’s actually more of an issue of artificial supply and demand caused by a monopoly that controls ticket sales, secondary market, and venues. They’re also very hostile to performing artists, using their monopoly to force them to play more expensive venues and charge higher prices or risk blacklisting at virtually every major venue. It’s the kind of shit that anti-trust laws were created to prevent but, there has been little to no enforcement for near a half of a century.

(with lasers): “How about now?”

Yeah. I’d go with something like USB over D-Sub (both for practicality and the word play). It’s a nice sturdy connector and would be easy to service, etc due to the large pin size.

I do think that USB would not be a good choice, considering how frequently they’ve been implicated in malicious actions. I mean, USB as the bus would be fine, but, it should use a more esoteric connector.

That’s just called Update Tuesday.

Everyone’s brains are different. For some SSRIs might work. For others, SNRIs. While there are claims of cocaine and prostitutes being helpful for some, that’s not really scientifically proven and there the significant health and imprisonment risks. There is, however, strong evidence for certain psychedelics.

TL;DR - Drugs might be helpful for some.

Money doesn’t buy happiness but it can help someone who is struggling to meet their basic needs not get stuck in a depressive state. Plus, it can be used in exchange for goods and services that show efficacy against depression.

That is a very solid point. If user-defined types are NOT explicitly defined as compatible (supposing language support), they should not be.

In your example, if it were, say a banking system, allowing both types to be considered equivalent is just asking for customer data leaks.

Typing and function call syntax limitations are exactly why I hate JS.

That’s actually ok with me.

Personally, now that I have a machine capable of running the toolchains, I want to explore hardware accelerated compilation. Not all steps can be done in parallel but I bet a lot before linking can.

In an abstract sense, they do mean the same things but, in a technical sense, the one most relevant to programming, they do not.

The standard Python bool type is a subclass of the integer type. This means that it is stored as either 4 bytes (int32) or 8 bytes (int64).

The numpy.bool_ type is something closer to a native C boolean and is stored in 1 byte.

So, memory-wise, one could store a numpy.bool_ in a Python bool but that now leaves 3-7 extra bytes that are unused in the variable. This introduces not just unnecessary memory usage but potential space for malicious data injection or extraction. Now, if one tries to store a Python bool in a numpy.bool_, if the interpreter or OS don’t throw an error and kill the process, you now have a buffer overflow/illegal memory access problem.

What about converting on the fly? Well, that can be done but will come at a performance cost as every function that can accept a numpy.bool_ now has to perform additional type checking, validation, and conversion on every single function call. That adds up quick when processing data on scales where numpy is called for.

Data typing is important. If two types do not have the same in-memory representation but you treat them like they do, you’re inviting a lot of potential bugs and security vulnerabilities to save a few characters.

ETA: The WONTFIX is absolutely the correct response here. This would allow devs to shoot themselves in the foot for no real gain, eliminating the benefit of things like mypy. Type safety is your friend and will keep you from making simple mistakes.

They are two different data types with potentially different in-memory representations.

I was just being a bit punny :) “bull” being short for “bullshit”. I didn’t really have an opinion.

That’s bull and you know it.

I dunno. I could be quite happy having brain children or as a copy of a consciousness at a given point in time.

Pretty sure that this is unconstitutional. States do not have the right to set foreign policy, which this clearly is.

Yeah. 500ms for ssh feels like an eternity.

The first one isn’t necessary. Just need to tax the wealthy and ensure that companies cannot exploit immigrant labor to increase profits. Immigration isn’t the problem, the companies are.