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New comment by uranusjr in "Cool URIs can be ugly (2023)"

uranusjr — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 07:13:28 +0000

In the OG RFC 2396, each _path segment_ can specify parameters similar to query parameters, but using a semicolon to separate them to the main segment value instead of question mark. This has effects e.g. when calculating relative URLs. This is now obsolete, but many URL-parsing libraries have an API for that for compatibility.

New comment by uranusjr in "How Japan Airlines crew led 367 passengers to safety from a burning plane"

uranusjr — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:50:37 +0000

This happened just last year IIRC in Korea. Nothing was in serious danger (except maybe some travel schedules). A comment already described the mechanism and why that’s not really a thing to worry about.

New comment by uranusjr in "Bad NEWS, Emacs"

uranusjr — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 23:09:54 +0000

Because merging into main better exposes the proposal to a more diverse crowd and attracts needed feedback. Especially when you’re managing multiple proposed features, it’s not viable for a mass of users to check out and test those from their individual branches. Without merging fast, you can only gather opinions from people actively reviewing patches, which are a far more minority group and likely to be biased.

New comment by uranusjr in "Pythonicity: Composition vs. Inheritance"

uranusjr — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 05:50:49 +0000

Forwarding itself is trivial, just ~5 lines in __getattr__. The difficulty comes when you need to type check the thing. Fixing that would require some special treatment on the type system side and not really doable with a third party library.

New comment by uranusjr in "YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster"

uranusjr — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 02:14:41 +0000

They offer educational content. From limited consumption I would not rate it as high quality. More like acceptable I guess.

New comment by uranusjr in "Do You Need to Shower Every Day?"

uranusjr — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:24:26 +0000

> The few people who do need it every day can probably work it out for themselves.

People are much less sensitive to their own body odor than you may assume. Please default to taking a shower before you go to public places unless you have very concrete evidence otherwise.

New comment by uranusjr in "Metric Time"

uranusjr — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 05:53:25 +0000

I don’t know the exact history, but the rest of the metric system is designed with a base unit and decimal derivatives. Assuming we want to keep the day length consistent (I can’t imagine a system being practically useful otherwise), we’d have decidays, centidays, etc. and not have hours, minutes, and seconds in the system at all. A system with days, decidays (2.4 hours), millidays (1.44 minutes), and microdays (0.0864 seconds) doesn’t seem bad to me at all, I’m sure people would come up with a good name for 10 microdays for daily use (0.864 seconds).

New comment by uranusjr in "Chinese Netizen Fined over 1M Yuan for Using VPN"

uranusjr — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 20:06:05 +0000

I think the parent’s logic is the other way around: the rule of law isn’t overwhelmingly relevant in China, so it’s no surprise the VPN law isn’t enforced. You may want to contend if China has the rule of law, but that’s the premise in the parent message, not the conclusion, so you need to use something else to raise objections toward it.

New comment by uranusjr in "'Couple,' 'Few,' and 'Several'"

uranusjr — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 05:50:39 +0000

I’m pretty sure they started put as the exact numbers and were just shortened eventually for convenience. This kind of compound word shortening happens all the time in all languages, it’s just Korean happens to have it for numbers, not particularly related to the numeric system as suggested.

New comment by uranusjr in "I got robbed of my first kernel contribution"

uranusjr — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:01:51 +0000

I have this done to me a lot and honestly don’t feel a thing. People don’t really care about other people’s coding styles anyway (except they all suck); the thing got done, everyone got credit. I guess everyone feels differently.

Python Developers Survey 2022 Results

uranusjr — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:51:00 +0000

Article URL: https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-developers-survey-2022/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37677479

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by uranusjr in "Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann denies using vibrating sex toy to cheat"

uranusjr — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:06:43 +0000

Side note, but do you mean it reeks of a witch hunt? (Just making sure.)

New comment by uranusjr in "When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed (2012)"

uranusjr — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 19:51:14 +0000

I’m really unsure about the Chinese milk scandal analogy. While the Vioxx incident is definitely terrible on its own and may indicate the US government and merchants do not take enough responsibility, the comparison to the melamine is awkward at best; one is a new drug with possible negative health implications (for whatever reason), while the other is a food product with an already illegal additive. It’s not particularly useful to compare the reactions toward the two.

New comment by uranusjr in "French was the official language of England from 1066 till 1362"

uranusjr — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 06:36:09 +0000

I believe it’s more like half of the Japanese gairaigo (Chinese excluded) come from English, not half of the entirety of Japanese.

New comment by uranusjr in "We use TypeScript not based on preference, but because we want to make money"

uranusjr — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 00:38:04 +0000

Welcome to the Python community, where type highlighting is a first class syntax feature, but actually checking it is optional (unlike the TypeScript compiler), and you get people complaining their favourite languages is polluted by ugly stuff they don’t ever use (presumably) hurting readability. You can’t please everybody.

New comment by uranusjr in "The Relativity of Wrong (1989)"

uranusjr — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:36:40 +0000

I’m glad he decided to invent an English Literature correspondent to pick on, and also the 1990s was a better society than one that votes to poison a disliked person.

New comment by uranusjr in "Show HN: I built a Python web framework"

uranusjr — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 02:39:08 +0000

Technically the string return type is just a shorthand, IIRC render_template returns a Response object that sets Content-Type and other things appropriately. But yeah it’s pretty trivial to create an HTML formatting library and use it with Flask. (I think there’s already libraries for the tag syntax, you just need to hook it into Flask, or literally any Python web framework really.)

New comment by uranusjr in "Math.Round opens the browser print dialog (2019)"

uranusjr — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 01:17:55 +0000

I used to mainly develop in C++ and implicit this was so frustrating. Nowadays it’s mostly Python and the explicit self is simply not an issue. (I also worked on Objective-C code at some point and that’s also fine.) Why any designer of a new language would think implicit self/this is a good idea is so beyond me.

New comment by uranusjr in "Why isn't chess popular in Japan?"

uranusjr — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:48:29 +0000

There are multiple factors and I’m not sure what the exact cause is either. The relative difficulty to build a playable bot is one. A Go game being relatively long and taxing may be another. Go also traditionally has a reputation of being a game for bureaucrats and intellectuals, while Shogi being a more people’s game. The obvious parallel between the battlefield also makes Shogi more popular among samurais, who yakuzas draw a lot of inspiration from.

In general I think the two are of comparable popularity in Japan, but I wouldn’t be surprised if real yakuza people do like and play Shogi much more than Go.

New comment by uranusjr in "ERNIE, China's ChatGPT, cracks under pressure"

uranusjr — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:36:48 +0000

> ERNIE’s opinions are surprising, to say the least. It believes the best American president is Richard Nixon

To an American. Nixon was the first ever president to visit the Communist China. He’s so obviously the best US president from China’s perspective, if you ask a random Chinese on the street the answer would most likely be him, with Carter being a distant second (during whom the US officially recognised the PPC government).