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It's loading untrusted python different from loading untrusted dll/so? Unless your use some dedicated sandbox, I think they're equally insecure. I guess a bigger problem with nativ…

I don't understand the question about empty values. A row with there empty values is just: ,, And yeah, dealing with separators is annoying, but pretty much every reader supports q…

Also, in general, people are quick to insult others online. Somehow it's easier to degrade someone online than I'm person, and there's less incentive to look for the common ground.…

Just like in 1939, ...wait. Maybe blaming social media for fascism is a step too far. But I'm interested to hear what you have to say about that. Why did social media enable fascis…

I think you're confused about the difference between [x]*4 and [x for _ in range (4)]. It's not, at any point, a difference between something being a value or reference. The first …

>That's the complaint, that [[]]*4 is not shorthand for list comprehensions and that it's something entirely different. Well, of course. It's a shorthand for duplicating the list e…

It's syntax sugar. I use it all the time, but of course it could always be respected by, i don't know, a for loop. It also makes writing duck typed code easier, as X 3 will work fo…

I like how it looks, and I appreciate the effort that went into it, but other than using it to export a table in just a right format that you will then embed into your assembler di…

Musicians put their music on Spotify out of their own will. If they don't like it they can withdraw. Unless they sold the rights to a music label, but that's also their decision.

Can you explain your idea? Your algorithm is correct by definition, but doing this naively would be very slow (even for 32bit number). At this point it would be much faster to just…

The common joke/fact in the nix community is the nix "triad": nix the language, nix the operating system, and nix the package manager. Sometimes it gets confusing, but usually cont…

Agreed. I've tried to write a json-nix converter (because I wanted to try configuring my system in jsonnet) and it's absolutely not easy, or obvious how to do this.

As a NixOs lover and user, nix-the-language is my least loved feature of the ecosystem. But at a user is not a big problem because I only write configurations for myself, and it's …

I never got the hate for Makefiles. Granted I mostly use them for simple projects, but compiling C project takes just a few lines of code (compile .c to .o, .o to executable, optio…

Well it's used by both because it's pretty useful in attack-like situations.

Honest question, what's wrong with Thunderbird? I never used Outlook, and I use Thunderbird daily so I wonder what I miss [1]. It also picked up development a bit and got some nice…

>People were pissed 18 years ago when the Office ribbon was implemented Wow, now I feel old more than any "movie X was released Y years ago" factoid could make me feel.

I am exclusively Google office user, but... Out of the top of my head: * Google docs are uglier than Microsoft word documents. This matters when I prepare an offer that I want to s…

As a long time Linux user, I think problems are partially technical. For example: * A lot of software used by them is certainly Windows only (they will have to find alternatives, c…

I usually see this only in tourist traps, where the EUR/USD price is 120% or more of the "local" price.

As a non-native speaker I appreciate comments like GP, because they let me improve my English and speak better. It's not pedantic if the "shamer" is obviously right (I've consulted…

I think you give too much agency to 4chan. It's just a imageboard - an internet forum - that happened to have some subforums related to alt-right. Maybe it had (has) a bad influenc…

I also only use a separate account for open source work for my employer. There are multiple benefits: * My employer has no say in my private account. They can't force my to change …

Not the OP, but I program professionally in Python for the past 5 years and i have never set a breakpoint. Assuming they don't work in lambdas (sounds like a tooling issue), is thi…

I think Reddit used to be a niche site for hackers [1], hobbyists and enthusiasts. Now it's a mainstream site where regular people browse news and memes. Maybe Reddit alienated it …