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@izaya aren't the entries out of order? I'd like to read the story when it's fleshed out more...or maybe you already have more?

@izaya Sounds cool. Thanks!

Do you plan to sell your writing or is it a hobby?

@izaya I probably will eventually. I'm borderline obsessed with the show. The recent civilian-crewed commercial rocket launches have had me thinking about our possible futures as a space-faring civilization. Stories like The Expanse and Planetes provide some framework to compare against, even if they're friction.

also, some not so subtle. she turns to ice in that same episode when Holden tries to build some rapport with her. Really, a whole lot of Drummer's actions look different if you factor in she might be secretly in love with Nagata. I think I might actually read the books now to see if that's explored more deeply. That or take up writing a fanfic 😆

There's some subtle acting by Cara Gee in The Expanse that I didn't pick up on before, probably because I didn't know she was a lesbian (or bi, or whatever), but it seems like she may have liked Naomi as more than just a friend. Like, that scene in S3E12 where Naomi embraces Holden and Drummer turns away...I think that might be the first time it's confirmed visually for her that they're "together".

@finlaydag33k besides that well-commented code is straight-up uncommon @DeveloperMemes

@finlaydag33k yeah, the really helpful comments tend to be things like "this method is required by PEP-XXX" or "this weird syntax should be retained because it was micro-benchmarked as faster than the obvious ... and this code runs several times in our server (see [repo])", things that the machine couldn't figure out because it isn't determined just by looking at the code. Probably the smartest thing a machine could do at this point is ask the human, "hey, why would you do this weird thing, human? Leave a comment, maybe?"
@DeveloperMemes

@aexiruch hmm. yeah, I can see that. I became "serious" as a Python programmer when Py 3 had already been around for a few years, but Python 2 being the default everywhere I went was definitely a head-scratcher. Communication about the changes and getting key training resources, tools, and packages on board is essential for avoiding the kinds of fractures we've seen (and even still see, in some quarters). From the outside, it seems that wasn't well appreciated given how packages like numpy didn't support Py 3 for like 3 years and projects like https://github.com/brettcannon/caniusepython3 had to be made @lmedinar

@aexiruch I think it's difficult to do in any case. I've heard the story that there weren't enough good things in earlier Python 3 releases and there were too many breaking changes at once. For me though, at least on the surface level, they were good changes: the bytes/str split alone was welcome and necessary -- I didn't even realize how forked my mental model was with strings until I had to really *think* about string encoding.
@lmedinar

@EpicKitty is that a ring light? are you a Twitch streamer or something?

@niconiconi okay... don't quit your day job 😄

@meeper I'd be interested.

Parsing definitely does have some undesirable costs--for programs I design, I try to avoid XML in message traffic for that reason, preferring JSON or something ad-hoc if I don't need the extensibility in the message format.

Some of the overhead though I think comes from redundancy in the opening and closing tags? I vaguely remember an article which discussed alternatives that were considered like </> for closing tags, omitting the element name), but I think that was decided against so that errors could be understood more readily.

@izaya a quick web search doesn't turn up anything. you customized anything?

@meeper

what's the beef with XML? As far as I know there isn't a general data format with schema support as comprehensive as XML, besides the ability to combine data types from disparate data models.

@izaya no kidding? I actually just delayed installing #Linux 5.14. Not that I have a proper GPU on this box.