alsimoneau @ alsimoneau @lemmy.ca

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I'm a scientist that has been coding almost exclusively in Python for the past decade and I strongly disagree.

Python is great at being the glue that holds everything together, and everything crunchy part of the program is being handled by a library anyways.

I code with two terminals, one for iPython and one for vim. And you don't need anything else. The beauty of Python is that it's not a language that is so full of boilerplate that you need an IDE to type it for you to be remotely productive.

Overall, Python is a language made to be used by people that need to make something that just works and don't need to spend years learning programming paradigms and industry practices. Fortran and C are so unwieldy in comparison and everything more modern lacks the expansive and diverse libraries of Python.

My point is you use UTC to plan international meetings but keep timezones for day to day stuff. Better yet with computers meeting planning software takes timezones into account.

When I do a when2meet with my colleagues everyone fills it in their local time and it's fine, and then the calendar event is timezone aware as well so it's completely a non issue.

Just use UTC then.

I'll keep that in mind! Thanks!

I liked the early game, but my interest fizzled out by the time I got to the large city out west.

I've never finished Witcher 3, bit I did like it. Still waiting on a good discount to try cyberpunk.

I can't think of a large open world game I liked. Skyrim, RDR2, the new Assassin's Creeds, Biomutant, Horizon Zero Dawn, GTA5. I feel like they sacrifice the story to fill a world with so many random side quests that it seems like I'll never be able to finish it. I miss games that I could complete in less than 25 hours of playtime.

Yeah, but the cost of low latency is thousands of satellites that burn up in the atmosphere, need to be continuously launched, are a catastrophe for optical and radio astronomy and crowd LEO, reducing available space and increasing collision risk. All for a barely scalable system.

It's not worth it. If you want low latency get a cable run or talk to a ground based antenna.

A geosynchronous satellite makes much more sense for those use cases.

The issue with starlink is the choice to be in LEO instead of using geosats. It lowers the latency but it makes the whole project completely unsustainable.

By that logic, you should fully spell out the month. FEB29 has no confusion. If you use the number then use the ISO standard.

I've been using Manjaro for about 7 years at this point. I've had issues maybe 5 times, and nothing I couldn't fix.

We do a lot of launches from the equator, but to reach some orbits it's cheaper to launch elsewhere. Geopolitics also plays a role.

I know you're joking but it's extremely useful in medical imaging techniques and for earth observation.

It can break if you disable telemetry.

Dark modes often messes with colors to make stuff more readable. It's nice for most cases but can mess up colormaps.

I always recommend mint. There are a lot of small convenience features that remove friction points for new users and because it's based on the very popular Ubuntu there are a lot of documentation out there.

I personally feel like I have to fight Windows more and more to have it behave like I want it to. You still spend time to configure your Linux of choice, but it doesn't feel adversary.

Yes. See Sennheiser versus Beats.

In my (admittedly limited) experience, mercurial is much more intuitive than git. I really dislike that git branches are only tags on the heads and completely ephemeral. It favours creating a single clean history instead of preserving what actually happened.