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PolarKraken@programming.devto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•This will be *really* funny, until you remember 99% of current super hyped AI stuff is running on PythonEnglish3·3 days agoOne tremendous strength of Python no one has mentioned is its vast ecosystem of high quality packages. It’s not just the language features that speed up development, that ecosystem makes a huge difference.
Another (far more subjective) advantage is readability - when written according to Python’s (actually quite opinionated!) style guidelines and general software engineering best practices, Python is also extremely readable, which really facilitates teamwork. My software shop has transitioned to using Python for most things these days for that reason, away from JS, after seeing my work and code reviews, FWIW.
I’m not some wizardly dev, to be clear, but I’m this shop’s first senior dev specializing in Python. I write deliberately clean and readable Python and folks are really enjoying it - enough to voluntarily switch.
Performance is always listed as a Python drawback, and it’s not untrue, it’s just so overblown as a problem. It basically never causes me issues. Crucially, saving dev time is almost always the better choice compared to saving compute cycles. And I’d take that farther and say anyone junior enough to be wondering about Python and performance…is almost certainly working on tasks that Python is well suited to - better suited, than most other languages.
(Hopefully this was not too controversial, but I accept the risk of a flame war, as is tradition lol)
Edit: clarity
PolarKraken@programming.devto Linux@programming.dev•Linux isn't (just) better, it's also more FUN!English3·12 days agoLOL
PolarKraken@programming.devto Linux@programming.dev•Linux isn't (just) better, it's also more FUN!English3·14 days agoBoy have I got news for you…
PolarKraken@programming.devto Programming@programming.dev•There are Copilot ads in the dotnet docsEnglish4·15 days agoUtterly tone deaf, some of these guys, it’s amazing. Had a new CEO open a meeting shortly after he started with a story about visiting an apiary (bee farm) with his family. His unironic takeaway which he shared with us, somehow missing the poignant relevance of what he was saying - “It turns out the drones just don’t do very much”.
It was like he intended an ice breaker with a personal anecdote, and it started out fine, but he couldn’t help but just tell literally all of us how he really feels. Amazing.
PolarKraken@programming.devto World News@lemmy.world•The Link between Cannabis and Psychosis in Teens Is RealEnglish4·16 days agoI like my genes pure, unmodified whatsoever - just the way they arise from the primordial soup.
'twas told to me that in many ways they refuse to cooperate with our system of taxonomy at large, too freaky to ever be properly pinned down
PolarKraken@programming.devto Linux@programming.dev•End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?English3·17 days agoFWIW I boot Bazzite in desktop mode with two 27" displays and have been very happy. Mixed use, not nearly as much gaming as it’s really intended for most of the time, and occasionally patchy experience but (un-)usually great. So many quality of life little doodads.
For instance, the screens brighten and dim effortlessly with my scroll wheel on a widget in the taskbar, just by default. Discovered it by accident lol, what else don’t I know?!
It’s excellent. Folks should use it.
PolarKraken@programming.devto Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 monthsEnglish1·18 days agoWhoops 😅
PolarKraken@programming.devto Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 monthsEnglish3·18 days agoNah, this seems like a big deal. Not necessarily “imminent doom for Twitter” big, but still. Social media platforms live and die on network effects, and none (that I’m aware of) has ever successfully “forced” their own viability without having naturally strong network effects.
Network effects work in favor of signups and engagement of course, but they work on the downswing too, they can accelerate abandonment and replacement.
PolarKraken@programming.devto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•I think the motherboard is enough?English17·1 month agoYes, this one has tasted blood before. You can tell by the way that it is.
PolarKraken@programming.devto Programming@programming.dev•Introducing OnlyNv: Your one-stop solution for managing environment variables.English6·1 month agoWhat do you do instead for dynamic values that are needed at runtime and inappropriate to check in to version control?
For OP - Bazzite works a little differently as an immutable OS. Basically only a small handful of directories are editable, and the immutable nature is intended to help provide stability, particularly for users who don’t want to tinker as much (at least that’s my understanding).
Here’s their documentation on auto mounting drives. You’ll probably want the link titled “KDE Partition Manager Guide” under GUI Methods.
But you can edit
/etc/fstab
as suggested here, and I’ve done it that way. Just need to mount it under/var/mnt/
and disregard locations recommended by guides that pertain to other distros.Edit: just saw someone else posted the same link, whoops!