And the voices. “Billy…”
“You fucked the whole thing up.”
“Billy, your time is up.”
“Your time… is up.”
I would like to bring back into fashion the idea of writing it into the statutes which people it were that fucked up
“Everyone can do what they want, just remember, don’t break the law. Jefferson County: Hang back for a second, I want to talk to you a little more. Everyone else, I’ll see you next time.”
democracy may not be available in all areas, ask your local TV conglomerate whether democracy is right for you
Seriously
I love how the takeaway from this is “yeah fuck politics amirite” and not “dude it is THERE FOR THE TAKING for anyone who is inspiring enough to actually get people voting for them”*
(*and who feels like overcoming the significant hurdles of the media and the DNC cooperating to do their best to tank their campaign which they will definitely do if you are inspiring enough for people to want to vote for you)
THERE FOR THE TAKING I tell you
Two answers:
It’s a little easier to figure out if there is one answer that is clearly and unequivocally wrong.
25/25/50/75 or something just doesn’t have as neat a mapping of numbers into conceptual categories, for some reason, to me
The little prod with it in his direction is absolutely perfect
If you are attached to whether you’re attracting downvotes or upvotes you are setting yourself for disappointment for no reason. Just say your thing.
Fair point also
Not really directly related, but one of my favorite takes on it is from “Sky Over Kharkiv” by Serhiy Zhadan, some commentary on the day to day, from an ordinary Ukrainian watching his country full of normal people get dumped wholesale into a sustained hot war. Here’s his take on Ukraine’s mentality, as compared with the US’s and Russia’s:
And I’d like to make another point. I was rather skeptical of the current government. I was struck by one particular thing. The elections of 2019 brought a lot of young people to power – not my peers (I’m a far cry from being young) but a bunch of political youngsters who didn’t belong to dozens of parties or hadn’t worked for all kinds of shady cabinets of ministers. “But why do these young people,” I thought, “act like old functionaries from the Kuchma era? Where did their childish urge to make a quick buck and flaunt it come from? Why aren’t they trying to be different?” Thing is, I personally had the chance to do what I still consider rather constructive, useful things with a lot of them – everyone from ministers to mayors and governors. Nonetheless, I’d look toward the Parliament building and ask myself, “Why aren’t you trying to be different?”
Now [in wartime] with the naked eye you can see them trying to be different. Advisers, speakers, ministers, negotiators, officers, mayors, and commanders – these forty-year-old boys and girls whose generation has been dealt the cruel lot of having to stand up for their country. And this applies no less (and possibly even more) to the millions of soldiers, volunteer fighters, and just regular people pitching in, people shedding the swampy legacy of the twentieth century, like mud falling off new, yet well-chosen combat boots. Young Ukrainian men and women – that’s who this war of annihilation is being waged against. And then, in contrast, are the heads of Russia, Belarus, America, and Germany. The first two are old delusional geezers from the past century who look a lot like old Russian armored vehicles, but they’re old. And they’re Russian, which, in itself, does little to recommend a vehicle. Then there are the latter two – they’re cautious office clerks, retired capitulators who aren’t brave enough to admit that they, too, are involved in what’s going on.
Emphasis is mine
(And, I just wanna make it clear that I love that America is supporting Ukraine in the war; I’m not trying to talk any shit about the aid for Ukraine or its genuineness. Just I feel like even now there’s still a disconnect between views of the aid on the US and Ukrainian side and I want to stick up for the Ukraine viewpoint in that)
I’m not trying to say they’re not giving aid. They’re keeping Ukraine alive, and God bless them for it.
The point that I’m making is they have a habit of waiting months or years before they give the type of aid that’s required, and don’t really seem to be making a crash priority about it, in the way they would if Americans were dying by the thousands and cities being destroyed. Zelensky actually specifically said that they didn’t seem to want to give enough aid to “win” particularly, just enough not to lose, and sometimes specific types years after it was the specific type that it was needed (F-16s being an example).
Looking at American politics, I can kind of understand it, in that we have one wing that’s specifically trying to sabotage Ukraine and make sure they lose, and one wing that’s trying to fight to get them the aid that’s needed, and they’re fighting a pitched battle. On the other hand, looking from the Ukrainian side, I can sympathize quite a lot with the viewpoint that fuck all that, IDK what you’re talking about, we’re dying out here can you please just fucking help us.
2019:
Ukraine: We need some fucking Javelins
US: Here’s nothing
2021:
Ukraine: We need some fucking F-16s
US: Here’s some Javelins
2023:
Ukraine: We need some fucking artillery shells
US: Here’s more nothing
2024:
US: Hey we got you some F-16s
That’s exactly my point though - part of my assertion of a big weakness in C# would be that more mainstream languages (python or node) have massive libraries you can draw on with existing code for simple stuff like parsing robots.txt, whereas C# has one that probably seems pretty luxurious if you’re comparing it to nothing, but is well short of what OSS programmers are accustomed to.
So yeah it’s not a purely fair language-design comparison but it’s a perfectly fair “how easy is it to get stuff done in this language” comparison. And then at a certain point it starts to become not just a convenience but a whole new area of computation (something like numpy or pytorch) that’s simply impossible in C# without a whole research project devoted to it to implement. That said, I’m sure there are areas (esp in heavily business-oriented fields like airline or medical backend or whatnot) where it’s the other way around, of course, and you have C#-specific stuff for that domain that would be real difficult to replicate in some other environment. I’m not trying to say that side doesn’t exist, just saying what’s generally applicable to my experience.
So I’m not like being critical of C# because of language features (it seems perfectly fine and functional; I get what the people are saying who say they get work done every day in it and it seems fine.) But also, I think it’s relevant that it’s missing some big advantages if you’re trying to go beyond the “it doesn’t actively punish you for using it” stage.
Yeah, I get that. I just poked around at it and it’s free of a lot of the taint that I was thinking of; it seems fine. It was a long time ago when I last used it, so maybe it’s changed since then, or I may have been getting some C++ things mixed up with it, and C++ is awful I think we can all agree.
But yeah, in whatever case I wasn’t trying to say it’s not good for building a career on.
I am familiar.
Not saying don’t pay your bills with it; that part sounds great. I was just confused by this guy’s enthusiasm for it, that’s all.
APIs
enterprise environment
business logic
…
Must be why all those tech focused companies, Google and Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, IDK, whatever list you want to put together, rely so heavily on C# for all their core enterprise API functionality. (I actually found a list. I’m not saying that it’s automatically that something being popular means it’s good, but I think if C# had inherent advantages over other more modern solutions then it would be somewhat more heavily represented in top-tier production software systems.)
As far as I can tell, C# doesn’t really have any real advantages over other more modern environments aside from a certain cachet of “enterprise” in some sectors which is often convincing to non-technical people, which I assume is what you’re trying to invoke here. I think it’s missing some strong advantages in those environments that something like Go would provide.
I have looked at enough Node.js code to know I don’t prefer it for most of the projects I’ve been involved in
100% agree, I actually actively don’t like Node for a few different reasons. I mentioned C# not having many advantages in my opinion; Node has some active disadvantages.
With C#, I can go into a large application using good practices and quickly navigate the code and be productive.
I mean I think mostly what you’re saying here is that you’re familiar with it, and it’s suitable for large systems. Which, sure, I get that and it makes sense, but it’s also not the only production language that someone can get familiar with, and at this point I think it’s missing some important features as compared with some of its peers (easy concurrency handling, good portability, and massive availability of libraries being some I could pick out).
Like I say I’m not trying to tell you you’re wrong for using it if you’re happy with how it solves your problems and the codebases you can create in it. I’m just saying that may have less to do with its technical features as compared with other languages and more to do with some other factors instead.
Yeah. That’s what I was saying - it is clearly superior to C++ and probably to Java but those are like the worst two languages in the meta. It’s like hey this is a clear improvement over what we were doing 40 years ago that’s acknowledged by everyone has aged poorly.
Idk man, I’m not trying to be bigoted about it just saying my experience is more pleasant with a few other languages available outside of that grouping.
“We did make C better, but what you’re getting back from us isn’t the better thing.”
🙂
Simple and just works
def fetch_html(self, url):
domain = urllib.parse.urlparse(url).netloc
if domain not in self.robot_parsers:
rp = urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser()
rp.set_url(f'https://{domain}/robots.txt')
rp.read()
self.robot_parsers[domain] = rp
rp = self.robot_parsers[domain]
if not rp.can_fetch(self.user_agent, url):
print(f"Fetching not allowed by robots.txt: {url}")
return None
if self.last_fetch_time:
time_since_last_fetch = time.time() - self.last_fetch_time
if time_since_last_fetch < self.delay:
time.sleep(self.delay - time_since_last_fetch)
headers = {'User-Agent': self.user_agent}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
self.last_fetch_time = time.time()
if response.status_code == 200:
return response.text
else:
print(f"Failed to fetch {url}: {response.status_code}")
return None
Randomly selected something from a project I’m working on that’s simple and just works. Show me less than 300 lines of .NET to do the same, and I would be somewhat surprised.
Yeah
I could maybe see it, if all you know otherwise is C++, and your experience with other languages is trying to make python / go / node / whatever work well on a Windows machine without well-working tooling, and then you finally try C# and it’s like oh shit, it’s not filling up my mouth with feces every time I want to iterate over a dictionary or need memory management, this is a big improvement, I like it
But, VSCode has good support for those other languages now anyway
And, the bigger question, who the fuck are all these people upvoting this
Like what do you guys do all day? Or is this some subtle super sophisticated joke I am not understanding, or do you just like the man’s chin? Or do you just not program and you upvote programming things out of general excitement about the idea of doing programming?
Who in the fuck is this excited about C# of all the things in the world to get excited about?
I’m just baffled in general by it
What on earth is this gibberish
Went on a pretty exotic vacation with my GF at the time, during a period of very intensely overworking myself
Arrived around midnight, slept until about 5-6 PM the next day, had sleepy dinner with her, back to sleep, woke up the next morning at about 9:00 finally all caught up and we started having a wonderful time
Surprisingly enough she was 100% cool with it and we just commenced having fun on the 2nd day instead of the 1st since I seemed like I needed it