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Notices by Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com), page 42
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Reading some CppCon slides. It strikes me that C++'s slogan can be: "when it's more important to be fast than safe".
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The way tolerance dies in society is not so much about the initial group of intolerants. They usually are annoying but too small to have enough of an effect. But then a reaction movement pops up, fighting intolerance with intolerance of their own. People outside of the initial group of intolerants start to notice them and identify with them based on their common dislike of the reaction movement. The same thing happens with the reaction movement. Polarization becomes bigger and bigger.
You who think you're the hero of tolerance by fighting intolerance with intolerance, you will not be its savior but its executioner.
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I can't help but notice that people who love to bang on about the Paradox of Tolerance fail to notice that Western society already avoids it by means of principled use of generally applicable rules enforced through arbiters with carefully selected powers. In other words Rule of Law.
There is no infinite tolerance for the intolerant. There are however carefully considered ruled to prevent e.g. freedom of speech to be arbitrarily constraint by the intolerant (paradoxically in the name of tolerance.
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@bob It's not like hosting a video site is impossible without the scale of Google. If they manage to leave a gap big enough for a competitor to become big in one undoubtedly will.
I just hope it will be one from a country with less of a puritarian culture.
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Oh dear, Sessions is on his way out. He's being played by Kate McKinnon on SNL.
Remember the last few people she famously played? Hillary lost. Spicer "quit".
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Ah, Google is in a spat over demonetizing video's again.
At some level I understand their problem: advertisers don't want to be put next to video's that generate bad publicity.
However from what I understand demonetization also affects the ability to link to Patreon and the likes. That's completely inconsistent with wanting to protect advertisers from placement next to controversial video's and entirely consistent with ham fisted censoring.
Oh, and removing monetization because people curse? Stop being the world's fscking nanny Google.
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@olistik Didn't look at it. For my current project Django is a given requirement and in the past I've only used Pylons on a different project. But I'll have a look.
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After working with Django for a bit I'm finding myself thinking that it's a typical framework: great for when you need what it provides, a giant pain when you need to work outside the box.
For larger applications I think I still prefer Pylons, even though I haven't worked with it for something like 4 years. It's way more work up front and therefore not suitable for smaller projects with tight deadlines but it has a LOT less cruft to deal with (i.e. SQLAlchemy as ORM vs the crappy old Django thing, Mako as default vs crappy Django template language, better Jinja2 support[1] in Pylons).
[1] To be fair to Django, the biggest problem here is one of documentation: not being clear about how you can use Jinja2 for your own templates without losing the admin even though this appears to be possible.
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@lnxw37a2 @lnxw48a1 @cbowdon @normandy The main issue with Python 3 seems to be that it's slightly more complicated to get stuff running from it since not all distro's package Python stuff for version 3 as well.
For example Centos 7 has mod_wsgi and mysql-connector only for Python 2. Meaning you need to install through pip. It's not impossible, but it's enough of a bother that people who aren't invested in moving stuff to Python 3 will often default to Python 2.
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Gosh, it will be bloody nice in 2020 when Python 3 is finally the default on all systems and Python 2 is rightly considered ancient shit.
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http://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained/
It's interesting to see how many people are hostile to this article because it doesn't use mathematical formula's to explain something.
Meanwhile in the real world there are plenty of otherwise clever people who don't learn by reading mathematical formula's.
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@gameragodzilla Oh yeah, that lot is hardly any better.
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@gameragodzilla In other words politicians are still politicians. :P
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Ah, good, HLA DNS got unb0rked again.
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@gameragodzilla Usually that question can be answered by looking at two aspects: 1) to what extend does the act enable view of naughty bits by a third party and 2) to what extend is there physical contact with sensitive zones. Since the answers in this case are: not terribly well and pretty good respectively I could imagine it being actual practice.
But then, I'm about as far from a lesbian as you can go without fancying other men.
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Yeah, wrong reason for stored procedures. IMHO the main reasons for stored procedures are triggers and stuff that needs to do a bunch of queries (e.g. getting data from a bunch of similar tables in different schemas, what would otherwise take a load of db/app roundtrips).
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@maiyannah Err, what's the security angle here?
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@maiyannah Gotta disagree here. For example JSON binary storage and automatic compression of long strings are bloody convenient.
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@maiyannah True experts don't roll their own crypto unless they have a bloody good reason and even if so get their shit audited.
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So if I understand correctly the current political news cycle is about Trump firing away at NFL players who kneel rather than stand during the national anthem?
US politics just keeps getting more ridiculous.
Verius
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