Because you are embarrassing yourself and noone has been kind enough to explain: the difference is that JavaScript will let you do: var x = 1 + "foo" and coerce the types, in python that’s an error.
Untyped python lets a name refer to different types over its lifetime (dynamic typing) but will not automatically convert types (which would be weak typing)
Hmm. This would mean, I think, that the utility of a large library is just the removal of the delay between needing some information and having it. But how valuable that is depends on what that delay tends to be - and if you don’t often need information only contained in books in a far off library, that’s not very much.
On our recent trip home we were stood in the check in queue for two whole hours while nothing moved due to some problem with border control. The airline barely said anything about it, and when most other desks had cleared their queues ours had still barely moved. Ugh. But they did tell us that the flight wouldn’t be leaving without us.
It’s not really magic if you’re paying through the nose for it
In my experience it’s 3h…
NYC to LA is 4000km, so a dead straight non stop rail route operating at the current peak of high speed rail (200mph) would still take 12 hours. As soon as you pick a real route and stops and account for that speed being unrealistically expensive you’re looking at over 24h I think.
The annoying thing is that rail infrastructure is also expensive to maintain.
Different names in different places. I grew up calling it Chinese Whispers.
It’s both an adjective and a noun. Most English adjectives can be used as a noun in a pinch, but the connotation may be dodgy.
So would I, and then my partner would roll their eyes hard enough to power cities, and that would inspire me to even higher fits of laughter. (Or they might laugh with me, it’s kind of 50/50)
Y’all need to learn how to write out pronunciations, whether in the international phonetic alphabet or otherwise.
There are already 9 elder scrolls games that are Skyrim*
*counting the Switch and Switch 2 releases separately because that suits my agenda
There are functions without docstrings so probably not significantly.
Telegram or other chat-bot seems like a weird interface for… well, any piece of software, actually.
Music that hasn’t been compressed to hell and back.
If the music is interrupted by anything, then that needs to be:
Most hold systems play a short piece of music where everything outside of 300-3000Hz has been obliterated so it sounds like absolute ass, interrupt it every 30s or so to play the same pointless speech clip, and initiate that clip with some silence and clicks that sound like someone picking up a phone.
paid posts (lol)
I would like to stand up for the real meaning of the word “algorithm” - there’s a sorting algorithm which shows you the most recent posts, for example. Indeed, the default “hot” sort is already a more advanced algorithm which uses votes and time to show you what is likely to be “good” as decided by users. It’s just not driven by AI or subtle data about how you navigate the page.
I actually think Mastodon could use a better algorithm to help old but interesting posts get a chance since I’m not checking it every minute… But how to do it in a way that doesn’t suck is hard. Of course, there’s an easy way to avoid it becoming a dark pattern, which is to keep it fully optional.
I didn’t see a reason to block everyone from lemmy.ml until now.
Well it’s not going to be faster than 6 hour plane though 🤔