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shoulderchipper commented on A Python-based programming language for high-performance computational genomics nature.com/articles/s4158... · Posted by u/wh1teknight

tenaciousDaniel · 4 years ago

Noob question. What does it mean to say that a language is "python-based"? Python is itself a language. Does it mean the parser/compiler is written in Python?

shoulderchipper · 4 years ago

> Seq is a Python-compatible language, and the vast majority of Python programs should work without any modifications

https://github.com/seq-lang/seq

shoulderchipper commented on What they don’t tell you when you translate your app ericwbailey.design/writin... · Posted by u/flowerbeater

travisjungroth · 4 years ago

I think the issue is many translation databases just hold the English text and then all the translations. So the entry is “Open ticket” and then you just drop in the translation anywhere that phrase shows up. But sometimes “open” is a verb, sometimes a noun.

The actual identifier should be something like “Open a ticket (imperative, button)” and then that phrase has translations, including the English “Open ticket”.

shoulderchipper · 4 years ago

>The actual identifier should be something like “Open a ticket (imperative, button)”

Or even better: "ui.ticket.actions.open" — trying to shoehorn linguistic categories into translation files is a painful experience, but dumb specific IDs work great and make untranslated captions apparent.

shoulderchipper commented on Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major languages in 2021 notes.eatonphil.com/parse... · Posted by u/eatonphil

muuglay · 4 years ago

It seems strange that in an effort to solve a common problem that 80% of the success stories opt to not use the automation. Perhaps, there is ground for another toolkit

shoulderchipper · 4 years ago

Building an AST is an easy task once you've figured out your grammar and error recovery mechanism, but these are essentially a kind of language-specific design work that can not be automated.

shoulderchipper commented on An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology appleprivacyletter.com/... · Posted by u/nomoretime

donkeyd · 4 years ago

I recently listened to a Darknet Diaries episode on messaging app Kik. This app is apparently being used by many people to trade child pornography. In this episode, there was some criticism expressed on how Kik doesn't scan all the images on their platform for child pornography.

I would really like to hear from people who sign this open letter, how they think about this. Should the internet be a free for all place without moderation? Where are the boundaries for moderation (if it has to exist), one-on-one versus group chat, public versus private chat?

To quote this open letter: “Apple is opening the door to broader abuses”. Wouldn't not doing anything open a different door to broader abuse?

Edit: I would really love an actual answer, since responses until now have been "but muh privacy". You can't plead for unlimited privacy and ignore the impact of said privacy. If you want unlimited privacy, at least have the balls to admit that this will allow free trade of CSAM, but also revenge porn, snuff-films and other things like it.

shoulderchipper · 4 years ago

> Should the internet be a free for all place without moderation?

The better question would be: do you want an arbitrary person (like me) to decide whether you have a right to send an arbitrary pack of bytes?

Neither "society" nor "voters" nor "corporations" make these decisions. It is always an arbitrary person who does. Should one person surrender his agency into the hands of another?