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avidamoeba, 11 minutes ago

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avidamoeba, 2 minutes ago

Good LiPo bags work for small batteries. The batteries in most ebikes would burn through those. You can find video tests that show this. For ebike-sized batteries you need an ammo can. Even then if you want to ensure your home doesn’t get poisoned with fumes, it should be in a ventilated area, garage or outside.

avidamoeba, 1 hour ago

Indeed. With that said there are some cultural cases too. I know of several families who did well financially but left years ago because Canada was getting too woke for them. Some went back to Eastern Europe where racism is alright, and others went to Florida. Still these kind of cases are probably the minority. 😄

Personally I do have the grass-is-greener periods now and then but I’m sticking with Canada due to what I think is likely one of the safest places to be in 2050. I’m trying not to think about how drought, heat and extreme weather will affect many other parts of the world. I think we still have a chance to keep this place decent socioeconomically and politically.

avidamoeba, 25 minutes ago

I’m counting on us being close to mostly sane states. When shit begins hitting the fan I think they’ll gain significant control over the US simply because they’ll be much less fucked economically than the South. So I imagine that even if there is some sovereignty dispute or a “takeover” it would be closer to moving to NY or California than moving to Florida or Texas. Of course these are super wild guesses. If the US goes full dictatorship it will be a Southern dictator who could usurp national power for decades… So go Stormy go!

avidamoeba, 6 hours ago

Is this going to be the mule produced by breeding OpenAI with the Bing team?

avidamoeba, 8 hours ago (edited 8 hours ago)

Weird feeling about this. $5-$20 flat fee sounds like a lower price than what I’d imagine donations would bring. I imagine most who would donate would give at least $5-20, and then some would subscribe monthly. The dev team is obviously gonna get funding from Eron for now which would likely be higher today than what they get in donations.

avidamoeba, 3 hours ago (edited 3 hours ago)

Me too, I subbed for monthly.

The one thing I can see FUTO can do is provide capital up front for developers to work which could be recouped over time as more users begin to use and pay for the software. That makes sense and in a competent, not neoliberal economy, the government might have a fund doing something like that. What I’m a bit worried about is that this might not be all Eron’s up to. But again, we’ll take his money when he gives it, so long as the work is open source. And we’ll see where we end up in a few years. 😅

avidamoeba, 11 hours ago

Uses multiple returns… I’m switching to Windows.

avidamoeba, 9 hours ago

Fuck.

avidamoeba, 9 hours ago (edited 14 minutes ago)

Maintainability.

You can’t read a block of code and as quickly and understand its control flow without reading every line, especially in regards to resource cleanup.

For example say you have:

<span style="color:#323232;">...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">if this:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    something
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    or other
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    and many more...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    ...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">else:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    yet another thing 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    and some more
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    ...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">do some cleanup
</span><span style="color:#323232;">return
</span><span style="color:#323232;">...
</span>

Say you aren’t exactly interested in what happens inside each branch. If you can assume that there’s one return at the end of the block, you can see the if and else, you can reason about what values would trigger each branch, you can also see that no matter which branch is executed, the cleanup step will be executed before returning. Straightforward. I don’t have to read all the lines of the branches to ensure the cleanup will be executed. If I can’t assume a single return, I have to read all those lines too to ensure none of them jumps out of the function skipping the cleanup. Not having to think about such cases reduces the amount of reading needed and it makes reasoning about the block simpler. The bigger the blocks, the more the branches, the stronger the effect. You have one less foot-shotgun to think about. The easier you make it for your brain, the fewer mistakes it’s gonna make. For all those days when you haven’t slept enough.

E: Oh also refactoring blocks of code out into functions is trivial when you don’t have multiple returns. Extracting a block with a return in it breaks the parent control flow and requires changes in the implementation.

E2: Shorter blocks do not obviate this argument. They just make things less bad. But they make almost everything less bad. Shorter blocks and single returns make things even better.

avidamoeba, 7 hours ago

• Time Troll

avidamoeba, 4 hours ago (edited 4 hours ago)

Early returns are very similar to gotos. One level of nesting to take care of validation is trivial in comparison. You’re replacing logical clarity for minimal visual clarity. This is true regardless of the size of the function which shows that the size of the function isn’t the determinant. You’re not alone in your opinion, clearly, and I’m not going to convince you it’s a bad practice but I’ll just say what I think about it. 😅 This practice doesn’t make it my team’s codebase.

avidamoeba, 4 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago)

I’m sure you are capable of rewriting that in 3 lines and a single nested scope followed by a single return. In fact in languages that use exceptions you have to use at least one subscope.

Notice that in my example I didn’t even broach the example with error conditions, cause it’s trivial to write cleanly either way. Instead I talked about returns inside business logic. You can’t unfuck that. 🐞

avidamoeba, 4 hours ago (edited 3 hours ago)

I never said longer functions are not less clear. I said my argument is valid irrespective of the length of the function which shows that the problems I claim multiple returns bring are independent of function length. 😊

Any validation you can write with a few early returns you can write with an equivalent conditional/s followed by a single nested block under it, followed by a single return. The reader is free to leave if the validation fails nearly the same, they have to glance that the scope ends at the end of the function. Looks at conditional - that’s validation, looks at the nested block - everything here runs only after validation, looks after the block - a return. As I mentioned in another comment, validation is a trivial case to do either way. Returns inside business logic past validation is where the problematic bugs of this class show up which requires more thorough reading to avoid.

If you gave me a PR with early returns only during validation, I probably won’t ask you to rewrite it. If I see them further down, it’s not going in.

avidamoeba, 3 hours ago

Again, if you can write it with conditionals and returns, you can write it with equivalent number of conditionals and a single nested scope. No further scopes are needed. The conditional will even look nearly identically.

avidamoeba, 54 minutes ago (edited 32 minutes ago)

I don’t think it’s worse, I think it’s equivalent. Also I don’t like the risk of resource leaks which is inherent to multi-returns beyond input validation. And that’s true beyond C because memory isn’t the only resource that can be leaked.

It’s not about how readable the branches are, it’s about having to read all of them to ensure you understand the control flow so that you don’t leak. Length of functions is a red herring. You want me to read the contents of short blocks to ensure the control flow is correct. I don’t want to read the contents of those blocks, other than the conditional and loop statements. Reading short blocks is better than reading long blocks. Reading just the control flow lines is better than reading short blocks.

avidamoeba, 12 hours ago

Jerboa. Because it works alright, it’s open source and it’s the Lemmy team’s app.

avidamoeba, 11 hours ago

Read the article. 😊 I mean, it’s even in the one sentence summary.

avidamoeba, 11 hours ago

I don’t see this mentioned often, but ebikes just feel good to ride. People are hesitant until they try them. Once they try them, it’s over. Especially if it’s a nice torque-assist ebike they tried.

avidamoeba, 10 hours ago (edited 9 hours ago)

Time to install a front hub. Small geared like the Bafang G311 for lightweight or Grin All-Axle for the same reliability as the rest of your bike. 😁

I run a rear G310 with 11sp drivetrain but to be honest if I knew everything I do now when I designed the build, I’d have left my drivetrain intact and used a front hub instead. It’s way easier to do, fewer compromises and it could even end up lighter.

avidamoeba, 10 hours ago

I guess you’re right that cheap cadence sensored ebikes might not feel that great, especially to people used to nice pushbikes.

avidamoeba, 16 hours ago

What we really need is more BBAs.

Also look at the Other/Unspecified numbers:

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/19abbb4d-3b4c-4ffc-8ecd-dfdf94598247.png

avidamoeba, 16 hours ago

Wind turbans.

avidamoeba, 16 hours ago

The AfD > 20% 😷

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/d3d52164-24f6-4ba7-8b96-ca09621bbe9a.png

avidamoeba, 12 hours ago (edited 3 hours ago)

Oh I’m aware, am part of the industry. I think the disparately higher compensation relative to the rest of the economy has given us a false idea we’re paid fairly (perhaps even unfairly high) for what we produce. Which I have definitely felt myself. In fact I’ve felt very strange of the disparities within the industry itself. However that’s completely the wrong way to look at it. There’s no magical upper number that our labor deserves. Everything is determined by what people pay and how much they buy. (I’m not saying that’s the only way it should be) So if the revenues and profits are sky high, and we know labor makes most of it happen, then our labor is simply worth that much more. Given that someone will collect the difference, we may as well get a larger share of it. The sooner we recognize that, the sooner we’ll get even higher compensation which will be much more beneficial for people in the wider economy than a much smaller proportion of the exec class getting wealthier. But that can’t happen without unions. We mistake the temporary labor shortage for stable and strong negotiation leverage.