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But Python is strongly typed. If you say x=2, type(x) will say “int”.

It does suffer from an excessive overloading of operators (“a” times 6 shouldn’t work). But that’s neither here nor there.

If Python wasn’t strongly typed, it wouldn’t be conceptually possible to move it towards explicit typing as the current push is.

Now, it’s not statically typed. You don’t get to assign values and interpretations to memory addresses. This is what “performant” people usually defend. But _that_ has nothing to do with typing assuming semantic roles in codebases.


This is the case in my marriage, but not in my parents’. They are musicians, artists, perform together and/or take active stakes in each other’s careers. They weren’t sexual as I was growing up (I’m not giving intimate details here) but they had this whole other source of cohesion. A much greater one indeed — I have fond sexual memories but my parents have dozens of live albums at cool venues.

Then, maybe all of this anomie is a disease of affluence. The other thing that united my parents was that, well, they had to fight for survival and for the means if giving us kids a decent childhood experience. Maybe that alone works like continuous shared trauma, us-two-against-the-world.


> Charlie Hunter

One of these men are not like the others.


I hadn't heard of Charlie Hunter before, but he appears to be quite talented. Apparently, he's known for playing custom guitars with 7 or 8 strings, with simultaneous guitar and a bass parts. This is the first video I pulled up on YouTube: https://youtu.be/La2gmwSQJo0?t=83 Check out the fret arrangement on his guitar.


How is PUUUUU pronounced?


Now don't quote me on this but I think you pronounce it:

Ffs Microsoft get your shit together, windows may be dead to you but there a over a million running systems that you bought your way into. So sit up straight in your chair and get through that decade long backlog...


>How is PUUUUU pronounced?

Like Booo but more firmly ;)


I use Python to generate DPLL and likewise with MiniZinc. It’s no different from SQL: there’s something of an impedance mismatch that’s already felt in eg Sympy.


I judge laureates by their published Nobel lectures.

There’s a footnote in Heckman’s that pretty much renders Duflo’s work invalid.


Elaborate please?


We pretty much did binary search to find my lithium levels. The lethal concentration of lithium is very close to the therapeutic range, but we couldn’t afford to spend long on low doses (since you have to take blood tests to assess effective dosages.)


If you keep a good diary you can limit the blood tests to 1-2 times per year and assess therapeutic effect using self-reporting.


My dad used to take warfarin too and keep a very steady diet of dark leafy greens (his poison of choice he wouldn’t give up). There are meds now that are less dependent on food, your grandviejo may want to ask about.


Or dentist.


I’m paid to manage a penguin farm.

Weak penguins need additional feeding. Thin penguins are just thin.

But there’s no objective criteria to tell weak from thin. And I have a budget.

Now, my penguins happen to have owners. But they don’t pay for their penguin, they pay into the penguin system.


That is extremely cool. Poetry.

What does it mean?


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