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Daishiman commented on Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024)   sgt.hootr.club/molten-mat... · Posted by u/Vedor
benrutter · a day ago
I'm a python developer, and a big fan of the features with gradual typing etc. This article really highlights for me though, how python has very much changed from the language it was even 5 years ago.

Initially, the celebrated feature of python was that it allowed easy and fast development for newcomers. There was a joke a long the lines, "I learned python, it was a great weekend".

As much as I like python's type system (and wouldn't want to see them ever go way!), part of me wonders if moving into a world where hello-world can look like this, is a world where python is no longer the "lean in a weekend" language:

     from typing import Annotated
     import typer
     
     app = typer.Typer()
     
     @app.command()
     def main(
          name: Annotated[str, typer.Option("--name", "-n")],
     ) -> None:
         """Prints out 'HELLO {name}!!' (name upper cased) to the console"""
         print(f"HELLO {name:upper}!!")
     
     if __name__ == "__name__":
         app()
(obviously the example is silly, and I know this is a lot more than you need to do, hopefully you get my point though!)

Daishiman · a day ago
All due respect but Typer looks like the kind of library that you want to use after your CLI has enough args that you wouldn't be able to get away with the sort of "Hello World" simplicity that you pine for.

Nobody's stopping you from manually parsing a couple of arguments. I still do it all the time and it's OK. If anything the magic of gradual typing is that you get to use it as necessity arises.

Daishiman commented on Greater Israel: Theology as Cartography – Cartography as Catastrophe   blogs.timesofisrael.com/g... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen
idiomat9000 · 6 days ago
Hamass is a direct spawn of the muslim brotherhood which spawned due to hitlers propaganda in the 2nd worldwar. The idea that shaped the organisation are ancient and literally where there before israel was founded as save haven for the jews escaping europe and the middle east .
Daishiman · 5 days ago
You have absolutely no idea of what you're talking about. This isn't a plain ahistorical take, just hysterical blabbermouthing.
Daishiman commented on Greater Israel: Theology as Cartography – Cartography as Catastrophe   blogs.timesofisrael.com/g... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen
Daishiman · 6 days ago
This is such a tremendously biased and ignorant e reading of history it blows my mind.

Hamas is a modern creation that has nothing to do with Gaza. Gaza was a refugee camp for the displaced Palestinianas, many who came from towns torched by Jewish paramilitary forces.

To talk about Islam legitimizing attacking nonbelievers is as bigoted a statement as characterizing Judaism by the insane beliefs of the half million settlers who constantly bulldoze Palestinian towns (and act which the West refuses to call it what it is: terrorism and ethnic cleansing).

For the Palestinians and the southern Lebanese who have also been bombed by Israel, or the innocent people who die every day in Gaza, Israel is the “permanent hostile neighbor”. Hamas and Hezbollah didn’t come out of the ether.

Daishiman commented on     · Posted by u/mhga
stormking · 13 days ago
"Gaza officials" === Hamas
Daishiman · 13 days ago
The only reason the “Gaza officials” line is added is so that people like you, who for some reason distrust Hamas’ stats but implicitly trust whatever the IDF says, can spread unfounded doubt about the stats.

Every independent aid group that has been on Gaza has said that the official figures of Gaza are undercounting.

Daishiman commented on Geneva makes public transport temporarily free to combat pollution spike   reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/kristjank
Daishiman · 14 days ago
Ozone pollution due to smog is local.
Daishiman commented on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite   futurism.com/white-house-... · Posted by u/42lux
lrvick · 21 days ago
Eroded public trust in government is however a good thing. Our biggest mistake as a supposedly free country was trusting centralized entities to forever act in accordance with the will of the majority.

As a society we need to stop asking for permission to fix potholes. Just go fix them and dare them to fine you for it which would be catnip for journalists to call more attention to the dysfunctional government.

NASA should crowdfund the weather satellites, with tax deductible donations, like right now. I would support them staying in the sky.

Daishiman · 20 days ago
Spoken like someone who has never lived in a country with limited state capacity.
Daishiman commented on Israel is reportedly storing Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft servers   engadget.com/big-tech/isr... · Posted by u/donohoe
nelox · 20 days ago
Engadget frames Israel’s surveillance of Palestinian telecommunications as extraordinary, but such practices are common in national security contexts. The U.S. National Security Agency, for example, collects vast amounts of metadata and content under laws like FISA and EO 12333. Surveillance of hostile entities is standard policy in many democracies. See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-f...

Israel faces real and ongoing threats from groups such as Hamas, which has a record of carrying out attacks on civilians and is officially designated a terrorist organisation by the U.S., EU and others (https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/terrorism-and-illici...). Monitoring communications within the territories controlled by such entities is a rational, defensive measure.

As for storage on Microsoft servers, Israel, like many governments, uses U.S.-based cloud services with strict contracts and data protections. The U.S. government itself stores classified data on Microsoft Azure through its government cloud services (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/government/). The implication that Microsoft’s involvement is unusual or illicit is misleading.

Criticism of Israeli policy should account for its security context. The article omits this.

Daishiman · 20 days ago
> Criticism of Israeli policy should account for its security context. The article omits this.

The context of being an occupying power also factors into this too?

Daishiman commented on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite   futurism.com/white-house-... · Posted by u/42lux
lrvick · 21 days ago
We will do a 180 and start walking the other way in 3 years. And then 4 years after that will be back here again. As is tradition.

America never dies, it just walks in circles aimlessly while others march ahead in a mostly straight line laughing at us.

Daishiman · 21 days ago
You are drastically underestimating how incompetent this government is compared to all others that preceded it and how deep the loss of expertise hits. You do not recover from lost bureaucratic competence for decades.
Daishiman commented on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite   futurism.com/white-house-... · Posted by u/42lux
Daishiman · 22 days ago
It is _wild_ seeing how the US is deliberately reducing state capacity in every area that would result in improvements to everyone, even the capitalist class it would be supposedly benefiting.

The American Dream looks more and more like being a temperate, humid petrostate.

Daishiman commented on Brazil's Supreme Court Places Bolsonaro Under House Arrest   nytimes.com/2025/08/04/wo... · Posted by u/matheusmoreira
matheusmoreira · 22 days ago
The part where the current president's former lawyer is one of the "impartial" judge-kings involved in the case.

"We defeated Bolsonarism!" -- Barroso, one of the judge-kings.

Is further proof necessary?

Daishiman · 22 days ago
Yeah, you'll need more than that because the results of the investigations so far are pretty coherent with Bolsonaro's beliefs in democracy as well as all the people who surrounded him.

u/Daishiman

KarmaCake day7596August 3, 2009View Original