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QuazarOmega, 4 months ago

If URL then I am Kira

LazaroFilm, 4 months ago

WOW!

fartsparkles, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Python isn’t used for the problem space of speed… Try using PHP for data science visualisation. Need a library to solve a problem? Ruby probably doesn’t have it. Need to write a quick script to transform some data? Better spend more time than doing it manually as you accidentally allocate memory incorrectly in C++. Want to scrape a website for some text? Enjoy tonnes of boilerplate and 30 lines of Java vs the three lines of Python.

Python isn’t about speed, it’s not even about being the best at anything, it’s about being good enough at pretty much any task your average coder needs to pull off in as short a time as possible, all with a single language. Plus, it’s way easier to bounce to another language from Python should you need to (for instance it’s much easier to write a speed-critical component in Go vs the entire application stack in Go - Python has a much lower cognitive load and developers can easily extend or refactor thanks to Pythonic code).

The amount of Python libraries that are actually written in C is huge and Python makes no attempts to suggest it’s more performant than something like C - why do you think Python bindings even exist?

Thinking speed is a ding on Python shows a gross lack of knowledge of Python and its purpose.

rDrDr, 9 months ago

Tearaway Unfolded on PS 4/5.

timidgoat, 9 months ago

To be quite honest I did not read through all the comments to see if this has been suggested already, but Child of Light comes to mind!

kirklennon, 10 months ago

I thought it sounded interesting when it was new but the more I've learned, the more convinced I am that it's completely useless. I've never seen anything done on a blockchain that couldn't be done faster, cheaper, and more securely in a SQL database. Even the not-a-scam applications are ridiculous and fall apart upon examination. Blockchain as a definitive record of ownership? Absolutely not. There's no way to force a person to update a record. Lose your house in a bankruptcy? The sheriff on his way to evict you isn't going to care that you've got some NFT saying you still own the house. Anything involving contracts at all? If a court can't unilaterally update the blockchain record, then the record is unreliable. But if the government can unilaterally update a record, then you're not relying on community consensus and immutability in the first place.

Blockchain isn't useful for anything important, and it's not a logical choice for anything trivial aside from literally just playing with blockchain stuff for the sake of playing with blockchains. I think it's a dead-end technology.

Rhaedas, 10 months ago

For anyone interested in an explanation of dark matter, I have to plug a new-found favorite channel and relevant video: acollierastro. Be careful, you might learn something.