why does your dad look the same age as his mom

nah, that’s code that does something slightly different every time you run it. that’s a different beast.

ah sweet, code that does something slightly different every time i compile it

Because to a certain extent Python is duck typed. Python has no concept of interfaces, unless you count the abc module combined with manual isinstance() checks, which I’ve never seen anyone do in production. In order to be passed to some function that expects a “file-like object”, it just has to have methods named read(), seek(), and possibly isatty(). The Python philosophy, at least as I see it, is “as long as it has methods named walk() and quack(), it’s close enough to a duck for me to treat it as one”.

Duck typing is distinct from weak type systems, though.

For the last time, Python is not weakly typed. It is dynamically typed. The statement 5 + "hello" results in a type error. Bash is weakly typed, and that same addition results in 5hello

Huh. Neat feature.

^{(i’m gonna do something evil)}

Sounds like you’d really like Nix.

The second one isn’t valid syntax in any programming language I’m familiar with. What does it do?

why would you call it anything other than the ternary operator

Zoophiles are disgusting, sure, but I think we were all happier not being reminded that they exist

I’m sure the trans people whose lives are now in danger will sleep much better tonight knowing that the blood of those Palestinian children who are going to continue dying because Donald Trump has promised not to even try for a ceasefire isn’t on your hands, because you didn’t vote for Kamala Harris.

I hope you’re fucking happy.

…either an empty string, a single character, or the same sequence of characters repeated more than once?

You know what? I’m gonna Sonarr and Jellyfin even harder

Reddit-style angle-bracket-exclamation-point spoiler tags do not work on desktop Lemmy or, to my knowledge, any mobile app besides Sync. Lemmy spoiler tags work a little differently:

:::spoiler Text next to the arrow
Text inside the spoiler

which can be multiple lines
* and can contain *formatting*
* and other such niceties
:::

which produces this

I do so love it when leftists who have never interacted with me beyond reading a single comment tell me what I believe

FFmpeg has FFV1 which is lossless

So, none of the above, but you’re still not going to vote?

mmmm no that’s a perfectly reasonable thing to judge people for

1. There are two choices in the United States 2024 election. No third party stands a ghost of a chance of winning. No, not even if the 30,000 people you can reach on Lemmy all vote for Timothy Greenparty.
2. A Trump victory in 2024 would not only be just as bad if not worse for the citizens of Gaza than Harris would, but also pose an existential threat to a large number of vulnerable Americans (trans people, immigrants, women seeking abortions).
3. Given the margins of victory in 2016 and 2020, Kamala might not win if leftists don’t vote for her.
4. Snoozing fascism for four years is better than inviting it through the door now, and buys us time to build our defenses for when it comes back.

I’d like to focus my counterargument. Which of these statements do you disagree with?

Do you actually think socialists are so dumb that they never thought of these arguments?

Based on my conversations with other self-proclaimed anarcho-communists in this very same thread, and that exchange mirroring the experience of every other anarcho-communist I’ve talked to on Lemmy apart from you, yeah, I kinda did.

But that’s besides the point. What I want is to be left alone. I want to get on with my life without someone demanding to know whether I believe Israel should exist or not, because both sides in that conflict are committing war crimes and the idea of reading seventeen Wikipedia pages about the historical conflict of those two countries so that I can choose which side to support and more effectively defend myself in Internet arguments I never asked to have doesn’t really appeal. I want to be able to not fully commit to being vegan quite yet without someone helpfully telling me I’m a murderer. I want to look at memes without somehow getting into a discussion about economic systems. Most of all I want to be able to want that without being called a fascist.

The ideas leftists present are good ideas. But I would like there to be a space I can go every now and again where I don’t have to think about them.