... hit you in the ass on the way to your fully firewalled future. They are 90% there already. This reminds me. We geeks need to find some type of new network outside of the corporate internet. The wingtips have mostly ruined it and turned it into a giant strip mall. However, say for example there was a grassroots nationwide wifi network, the FCC would come along and ban it. That or the wingtips would figure out how to buy it and ruin that, too. Ugh. It's hard to escape the suit weasels.
Yes! I totally got an hour's worth of sales pitch until I was ready to choke the fucker at the Subaru dealership. I went in to buy a new WRX in January. I was like "I just want a super-stock WRX with a stick shift." You'd think I asked the guy to sacrifice a baby for me. They were also horrified when I wouldn't attend some technology "class" they wanted to give me. I'm like "Listen bro, thanks but I write code and build technology for a living. I neither want nor do I need your tech class." The guy was all butthurt about it. Every single "package" they wanted to sell me was around $2k. None of it was worth it. They just wanted to drive up the final price, it was pretty clear. Since I was paying cash, I wasn't in the mindset of "oh well, yeah just roll it into my payments." I wanted the car for the price they advertised, nothing more. That blew their mind. The whole experience sucked balls. I love driving cars (in the right situation) but I sure do hate buying them for the reason you identify - goddamn upselling technology packages from sales weasels. I've also been lectured twice by "green" soccer moms that my car is too powerful and gas-guzzling. Never mind that they both had at least two children and I have none. How's that for "green"?
The press just needs to calm the fuck down. Robots and AI have been around a long ass time. People were making stupid ass predictions in the 1950's about robot-slave helpers, flying cars, jetpacks, decent batteries, etc... Worlds Fair kinda shit, you know? Technology has really marched on... AI can't even create a decent spellchecker yet and people are finding out it's real work and costly sometimes to replace humans even for easy assembly line jobs. Not always, but more than the press would have you believe.
How about a system that's based on individual trust of people? Ie.. If I trust two friends and both of them say that this non-profit 501c is at least trustworthy enough to believe their website, they cryto-sign something to that affect publically? This is similar to PGP/GPG's web-of-trust. Sure, there are still some logistics problems with that, but at least it puts the trust in people not companies.
One big lying corporate wingtip asshole company says that this other big lying corporate group of sons-of-bitches (and regular bitches) is to be trusted! Oh? Really? Guys, I gotta say, the whole premise of crypto-CAs is kinda stupid as long as the asshats corporations are all policing each other. Maybe *they* have some faith in that shit, but as an individual technologist (that hates corporations and corporate personhood) I have to say that the flaws in x509 crypto isn't crypto - it's the source of trust. Don't ask me to trust *ANY* corporation. If you start with that, you start with a flawed design. Fuck those people. We need a better system.
iknowrite? I have that same thought multiple times a day as I see all the utter-shit that people are excited over. Want a phone? No. They are shitty devices with sealed batteries that spy on you. Want a tablet? No, they are crippled little turds that have about 10% of the power of a real desktop due to the lack of a keyboard (duh!). Want a talking assistant? Fuck no. No more than I want a Chinese spy living in my bedroom. Once gaming consoles drop external media and go download only, there won't be a single consumer electronics item I am interested in beyond a flashlight (and I have like 10 of those, already). The world says "Fuck people like you, man." and I say fuck the world, right back. I'll keep the money and invest in real estate.
No, it just sounds like you are the SJW and you want to co-opt the ALCU's mission into something more SJW-like. My original point is that they had the chance, but the ALCU affiliated lawyers in the area didn't want to get involved in either case. In the situation where the cops sprayed mace on everyone, they did, in fact get sued. They settled out of court with a pregnant woman and a girl with asthma who were maced for no reason. Explaining why the ALCU files civil suites doesn't erase that fact that you originally acted like they didn't do anything close to those sorts of things, when, in fact, they absolutely do. After all, I was the one who had to point it out to you, first. Explaining it back to me "your way" doesn't change the facts.
The US isn't the public domain. It's a sovereign nation. As voting American and an ex IBM employee (5 years. Left on my own steam), I say "Assfuck IBM with a sharp stick for giving jobs to foreigners within US borders." If they want to do it in India, fine, but we all know they want to do a labor arbitrage. Buy low in India, then sell high in the USA. If I get the chance to vote against that shit, I will. Occasionally, (once in a lifetime so far for me) we get the chance to vote for someone who says something along the lines of "I will make companies like IBM either hire Americans for American jobs, or they can face the retraction of their business license or corporate charter." I guarantee if you did that you'd see some results. FYI, I really don't give a fuck if that same politician says "oh, and we'll protect the snowflakes, wage social justice war, and build a shrine to Mexicans and the LGBTQIAPK." Now perhaps the way-too-loud-left can finally figure out why they shed so many tears in 2016. People like me are willing to overlook at LOT to get back at these same elites who have been gaming the H1B system, the same way an carpenter in Phoenix knows damn good and well that his wages are being capped by illegal immigration.
I take it by "toxic as hell" you mean: "I whined, but nobody ran over and helped me up." Yeah, I know. I like that.They do tend to like you to read the man pages, Coward. It's not Ubuntu or OSX for a reason, but you definitely aren't gonna understand that.
I call bullshit. Most nerds are libertarians. I'm not a partisan of any kind but that's been my experience, and from the high pitched sound of your whining, I can tell who has more of that. Tell it to James Damore, Linus, Deraadt, etc... Let's not even talk about Stallman and ESR who are right off the political map (so left they are right? So right they are left? *shrug*). If you are in the position to hire folks, you aren't likely to be a good judge of technical skill anyway, Mr. Coward. You probably hired the fucking H1Bs at Disney. You sound like the kind of person who's angry (butthurt?) that the term "Social Justice Warrior" has taken on such a negative connotation because you know that's exactly how you think of yourself. Just a guess, Mr. Coward, but try getting out of Seattle sometime.
Wayland also == crap. Asshole devs who dropped XDMCP because "Dhaeerp, it's hard." and tried to pawn off some crippled X11 server for retards by retards. Let me restate more briefly: it came from the Fedora / GNOME crowd. There, now you really know how bad it is.
No argument whatsoever, brother. However, FYI, one Linux distro does avoid that shit for the most part and that's Devuan (and Slackware and a handful of others). Problem for me is, I still prefer BSD after tasting it. Once I understood that Linux was just a box of parts and BSD was an engineered whole, it made sense to me why I had always sensed so much suck from Linux. I missed out on 386BSD. Was a Linux user (SLS and Slack mostly) from 1993 until around 1998. Then I started playing with NetBSD off and on, but mostly ran Linux for the display drivers up until about 2010. Then after rotating between Free, Net, and Open BSDs for a few years I gave up on Linux completely when Systemd gained acceptance in Debian, Fedora, and RHEL. To quote Rollins: "At first I didn't see at as kind, but you did me a favor when you left me behind." BSD has just rocked so much harder. I do still keep Devuan around on a USB drive to play some games, though. Hehe, sad, because that's what I used to say about Windows.
Well, you are right Punks aren't a protected class. That's why Brian's killer got off on a manslaughter charge. It's apparently okay to kill poor or middle class white kids. The ACLU has filed civil lawsuits (including class-action cases) in situations where the criminal case wasn't a success. That's a fact, jack. So, don't act all stupid like there is nothing they could/should do. They didn't, despite the case having implications straight outta their creed. So much for "defending liberty". In fact, you are the one who sounds confused. The ALCU isn't the SPLC, they don't specifically go after racists. So, I'm not sure why you even brought that up since it's not even relevant. In the case where the cops were spraying mace on 200 people at once, I'm pretty sure video and audio evidence from both inside and outside of the areas where it took place would have helped at lot with any misunderstandings about alcohol (which wasn't served at those underage shows). I'm also pretty sure it's against folks' civil liberties to be maced when they are standing inside a building listening to a band. That action also endangered a shitton of people who could have caused a stampede. Hard to exercise your civil liberties when you are dead, eh? It's also hard to fight city hall (hello? ACLU?). My understanding is that ACLU wasn't setup for social justice, it was setup to combat attacks on liberty. So, the cops can turn into jackboots or the system thwarts your attempt at justice can just stick around like it is, hey at least we have the ALCU to look out for "protected groups" like LGBTQIAPK folks, though. Whew!
One of my best friends Brian Deneke died when some football jock ran him over after his buddy lost a fist fight. Brian was not a violent person, but he got picked on a lot by the locals because we had green hair and punk rock tee-shirts. I asked the ACLU to look into two different cases back then. One was when the cops kept raiding the local venues and mass-tear-gassing everyone. In one incident, a pregnant girl and a woman with asthma were severely injured by cops spraying them in the face with fire-extinguisher sized tear-gas guns (they sprayed down over 200 people at once causing a panic). The ALCU didn't care. None of the local ACLU attorneys would represent us. Then, later on when Brian was killed, I asked them to represent his family in a civil suit against the football-player who's "punk bashing" went too far. He was quoted as saying "I'm a ninja in my caddy." to a girl in the car after he ran over and killed Brian. If it was any more of a class/hate story it'd be called "The Outsiders". Did the ACLU care? Nope. It took the perp (Dustin Camp) fucking up for years on probation before he finally saw any real jail time. So fuck the ACLU. They had their chance to help in my life and they refused because it wasn't SJW enough for them and because the people involved were *white*.
No. Linux is not a prize anymore. Never really was. Other *nix are better, IMHO. BSD especially. Linux can SJW itself out of existence for all I care. It stopped being relevant after systemd went mainline.
Who gives a fuck? Linux either encouraged or directly brought us systemd, binary logs, DBUS, GNOME assholes (Pottering foremost among them), Wayland, PulseAudio, and loads of other garbage. It's become the cesspool of the *nix variants and wasn't every really that great to begin with. Is someone impressed that Linux runs Java programs on Android? Fuck that I'm a Unix nerd, and I don't give one single fuck about a phone platform no matter what kind of fanfare it gets. Meanwhile the "masturbating monkeys" (Linus's words) in the BSD crowd have been working circles around Linux for years, in my opinion. They've also done it with a minimum of hype and SJW wrangling. However, to be fair, FreeBSD has a code of conduct, too. Also, there was some SJW bullshit wrangling over a Hitler quote in fortune recently, too. The problem with that kind of crap is that the social justice warriors run off all the people writing the code. They are annoying, preachy, judgmental and generally inhibitory of any technical progress due to their disruptive handwaving over issues nobody but them or their identity group cares about.
I can recommend all of these, except for The Fall of Gondolin. It's not really up to Tolkien's best standard, but still worth reading for fans like me.
Yep. It's like China threatening tariffs. Go for it, assholes. When your trade surplus is 3x, you can't fucking win that way. Same with content. You might think twice about threatening to tax content when the content makers might decide you are just fucking irrelevant and keep the content for themselves and other like minded folks who aren't being greedy dickheads.
Why? Did those things suddenly stop becoming useful? Did people quit listening to FM because a bunch of ignorant children were born? Did remote controls stop using IR? I think I might have finally found the idiot that phone and OS companies keep changing (and often ruining) the products for every new release. It's you, Mr. Coward.
He said it because he's an idiot Python programmer. The type of which I mentioned in one of my bullet points as being someone I'd rather not be associated with by also jumping in the Python cesspool. I like your analogy. However, it's not dramatic enough. I am aware that some tractors can go as fast as 87 MPH. Given that an F1 car is about 230 MPH, that's less than three times faster. More closely mirroring real actual comparisons it would be closer to a Peregrine falcon (240MPH in a dive) being compared to a sea turtle (4-6 MPH) or about (about 1/50th or so, at best) . The ratio in the Mandelbrot benchmark was actually 170x faster which is even worse.
It's a trend though. There is a certain type of youngster that thinks anything "old" sucks. C and Unix count as "old" so they want to poison (systemd) and/or replace them (merge Linux into Windows subsystems) because they don't fit their world view that scripting languages are fast enough for everybody and everything and C & Unix is too hard because "it's old" not because they are simply too lazy or simpleminded to learn them. These ignorant children have got themselves so wrapped around this self-deception that they actually go out into the world and say shit like "Python is comparable to C". Homeboy will probably never come back and read or argue about it because that might disabuse him of his ridiculous ideas.
You can create your own consistency. Do things consistently. If you can't go download 'astyle' and let it format you code more consistently. Why do you need some diktat to do that? Plus, if the only way to get that consistency is to screw the visually impaired (me) then the your cure is worse than the disease. Also you are completely and utterly full of dogshit about it being comparable to C speed. Not only does Python3 gets slapped around like a bitch by PHP (2-3 times slower in most cases than PHP? the shame!) but if you compare it to C then it just get's fully blown completely the fuck out of the water with almost all the results being HUNDREDS or at least dozens of times slower than C. Guess that's why you didn't provide any references to back that little tidbit up. Lastly, I never said that Python coders were friends. I'm mainly implying most of them are clueless children. You seem to fit that mold quite well and prove the point. Hehe, comparable to C.... I'm still trying to catch my breath from that one. Yeah, it's comparable, if you have a BIG fucking coefficient to multiply times before the comparison.
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... hit you in the ass on the way to your fully firewalled future. They are 90% there already. This reminds me. We geeks need to find some type of new network outside of the corporate internet. The wingtips have mostly ruined it and turned it into a giant strip mall. However, say for example there was a grassroots nationwide wifi network, the FCC would come along and ban it. That or the wingtips would figure out how to buy it and ruin that, too. Ugh. It's hard to escape the suit weasels.
That rocks. Good idea, brother.
Yes! I totally got an hour's worth of sales pitch until I was ready to choke the fucker at the Subaru dealership. I went in to buy a new WRX in January. I was like "I just want a super-stock WRX with a stick shift." You'd think I asked the guy to sacrifice a baby for me. They were also horrified when I wouldn't attend some technology "class" they wanted to give me. I'm like "Listen bro, thanks but I write code and build technology for a living. I neither want nor do I need your tech class." The guy was all butthurt about it. Every single "package" they wanted to sell me was around $2k. None of it was worth it. They just wanted to drive up the final price, it was pretty clear. Since I was paying cash, I wasn't in the mindset of "oh well, yeah just roll it into my payments." I wanted the car for the price they advertised, nothing more. That blew their mind. The whole experience sucked balls. I love driving cars (in the right situation) but I sure do hate buying them for the reason you identify - goddamn upselling technology packages from sales weasels. I've also been lectured twice by "green" soccer moms that my car is too powerful and gas-guzzling. Never mind that they both had at least two children and I have none. How's that for "green"?
Hehe, I was just speculating what I could do with the money I'm not spending on stupid gadgets. I haven't actually done it, yet. :-)
The press just needs to calm the fuck down. Robots and AI have been around a long ass time. People were making stupid ass predictions in the 1950's about robot-slave helpers, flying cars, jetpacks, decent batteries, etc... Worlds Fair kinda shit, you know? Technology has really marched on... AI can't even create a decent spellchecker yet and people are finding out it's real work and costly sometimes to replace humans even for easy assembly line jobs. Not always, but more than the press would have you believe.
How about a system that's based on individual trust of people? Ie.. If I trust two friends and both of them say that this non-profit 501c is at least trustworthy enough to believe their website, they cryto-sign something to that affect publically? This is similar to PGP/GPG's web-of-trust. Sure, there are still some logistics problems with that, but at least it puts the trust in people not companies.
One big lying corporate wingtip asshole company says that this other big lying corporate group of sons-of-bitches (and regular bitches) is to be trusted! Oh? Really? Guys, I gotta say, the whole premise of crypto-CAs is kinda stupid as long as the asshats corporations are all policing each other. Maybe *they* have some faith in that shit, but as an individual technologist (that hates corporations and corporate personhood) I have to say that the flaws in x509 crypto isn't crypto - it's the source of trust. Don't ask me to trust *ANY* corporation. If you start with that, you start with a flawed design. Fuck those people. We need a better system.
iknowrite? I have that same thought multiple times a day as I see all the utter-shit that people are excited over. Want a phone? No. They are shitty devices with sealed batteries that spy on you. Want a tablet? No, they are crippled little turds that have about 10% of the power of a real desktop due to the lack of a keyboard (duh!). Want a talking assistant? Fuck no. No more than I want a Chinese spy living in my bedroom. Once gaming consoles drop external media and go download only, there won't be a single consumer electronics item I am interested in beyond a flashlight (and I have like 10 of those, already). The world says "Fuck people like you, man." and I say fuck the world, right back. I'll keep the money and invest in real estate.
No, it just sounds like you are the SJW and you want to co-opt the ALCU's mission into something more SJW-like. My original point is that they had the chance, but the ALCU affiliated lawyers in the area didn't want to get involved in either case. In the situation where the cops sprayed mace on everyone, they did, in fact get sued. They settled out of court with a pregnant woman and a girl with asthma who were maced for no reason. Explaining why the ALCU files civil suites doesn't erase that fact that you originally acted like they didn't do anything close to those sorts of things, when, in fact, they absolutely do. After all, I was the one who had to point it out to you, first. Explaining it back to me "your way" doesn't change the facts.
The US isn't the public domain. It's a sovereign nation. As voting American and an ex IBM employee (5 years. Left on my own steam), I say "Assfuck IBM with a sharp stick for giving jobs to foreigners within US borders." If they want to do it in India, fine, but we all know they want to do a labor arbitrage. Buy low in India, then sell high in the USA. If I get the chance to vote against that shit, I will. Occasionally, (once in a lifetime so far for me) we get the chance to vote for someone who says something along the lines of "I will make companies like IBM either hire Americans for American jobs, or they can face the retraction of their business license or corporate charter." I guarantee if you did that you'd see some results. FYI, I really don't give a fuck if that same politician says "oh, and we'll protect the snowflakes, wage social justice war, and build a shrine to Mexicans and the LGBTQIAPK." Now perhaps the way-too-loud-left can finally figure out why they shed so many tears in 2016. People like me are willing to overlook at LOT to get back at these same elites who have been gaming the H1B system, the same way an carpenter in Phoenix knows damn good and well that his wages are being capped by illegal immigration.
I take it by "toxic as hell" you mean: "I whined, but nobody ran over and helped me up." Yeah, I know. I like that.They do tend to like you to read the man pages, Coward. It's not Ubuntu or OSX for a reason, but you definitely aren't gonna understand that.
I call bullshit. Most nerds are libertarians. I'm not a partisan of any kind but that's been my experience, and from the high pitched sound of your whining, I can tell who has more of that. Tell it to James Damore, Linus, Deraadt, etc... Let's not even talk about Stallman and ESR who are right off the political map (so left they are right? So right they are left? *shrug*). If you are in the position to hire folks, you aren't likely to be a good judge of technical skill anyway, Mr. Coward. You probably hired the fucking H1Bs at Disney. You sound like the kind of person who's angry (butthurt?) that the term "Social Justice Warrior" has taken on such a negative connotation because you know that's exactly how you think of yourself. Just a guess, Mr. Coward, but try getting out of Seattle sometime.
Wayland also == crap. Asshole devs who dropped XDMCP because "Dhaeerp, it's hard." and tried to pawn off some crippled X11 server for retards by retards. Let me restate more briefly: it came from the Fedora / GNOME crowd. There, now you really know how bad it is.
No argument whatsoever, brother. However, FYI, one Linux distro does avoid that shit for the most part and that's Devuan (and Slackware and a handful of others). Problem for me is, I still prefer BSD after tasting it. Once I understood that Linux was just a box of parts and BSD was an engineered whole, it made sense to me why I had always sensed so much suck from Linux. I missed out on 386BSD. Was a Linux user (SLS and Slack mostly) from 1993 until around 1998. Then I started playing with NetBSD off and on, but mostly ran Linux for the display drivers up until about 2010. Then after rotating between Free, Net, and Open BSDs for a few years I gave up on Linux completely when Systemd gained acceptance in Debian, Fedora, and RHEL. To quote Rollins: "At first I didn't see at as kind, but you did me a favor when you left me behind." BSD has just rocked so much harder. I do still keep Devuan around on a USB drive to play some games, though. Hehe, sad, because that's what I used to say about Windows.
Well, you are right Punks aren't a protected class. That's why Brian's killer got off on a manslaughter charge. It's apparently okay to kill poor or middle class white kids. The ACLU has filed civil lawsuits (including class-action cases) in situations where the criminal case wasn't a success. That's a fact, jack. So, don't act all stupid like there is nothing they could/should do. They didn't, despite the case having implications straight outta their creed. So much for "defending liberty". In fact, you are the one who sounds confused. The ALCU isn't the SPLC, they don't specifically go after racists. So, I'm not sure why you even brought that up since it's not even relevant. In the case where the cops were spraying mace on 200 people at once, I'm pretty sure video and audio evidence from both inside and outside of the areas where it took place would have helped at lot with any misunderstandings about alcohol (which wasn't served at those underage shows). I'm also pretty sure it's against folks' civil liberties to be maced when they are standing inside a building listening to a band. That action also endangered a shitton of people who could have caused a stampede. Hard to exercise your civil liberties when you are dead, eh? It's also hard to fight city hall (hello? ACLU?). My understanding is that ACLU wasn't setup for social justice, it was setup to combat attacks on liberty. So, the cops can turn into jackboots or the system thwarts your attempt at justice can just stick around like it is, hey at least we have the ALCU to look out for "protected groups" like LGBTQIAPK folks, though. Whew!
One of my best friends Brian Deneke died when some football jock ran him over after his buddy lost a fist fight. Brian was not a violent person, but he got picked on a lot by the locals because we had green hair and punk rock tee-shirts. I asked the ACLU to look into two different cases back then. One was when the cops kept raiding the local venues and mass-tear-gassing everyone. In one incident, a pregnant girl and a woman with asthma were severely injured by cops spraying them in the face with fire-extinguisher sized tear-gas guns (they sprayed down over 200 people at once causing a panic). The ALCU didn't care. None of the local ACLU attorneys would represent us. Then, later on when Brian was killed, I asked them to represent his family in a civil suit against the football-player who's "punk bashing" went too far. He was quoted as saying "I'm a ninja in my caddy." to a girl in the car after he ran over and killed Brian. If it was any more of a class/hate story it'd be called "The Outsiders". Did the ACLU care? Nope. It took the perp (Dustin Camp) fucking up for years on probation before he finally saw any real jail time. So fuck the ACLU. They had their chance to help in my life and they refused because it wasn't SJW enough for them and because the people involved were *white*.
No. Linux is not a prize anymore. Never really was. Other *nix are better, IMHO. BSD especially. Linux can SJW itself out of existence for all I care. It stopped being relevant after systemd went mainline.
Who gives a fuck? Linux either encouraged or directly brought us systemd, binary logs, DBUS, GNOME assholes (Pottering foremost among them), Wayland, PulseAudio, and loads of other garbage. It's become the cesspool of the *nix variants and wasn't every really that great to begin with. Is someone impressed that Linux runs Java programs on Android? Fuck that I'm a Unix nerd, and I don't give one single fuck about a phone platform no matter what kind of fanfare it gets. Meanwhile the "masturbating monkeys" (Linus's words) in the BSD crowd have been working circles around Linux for years, in my opinion. They've also done it with a minimum of hype and SJW wrangling. However, to be fair, FreeBSD has a code of conduct, too. Also, there was some SJW bullshit wrangling over a Hitler quote in fortune recently, too. The problem with that kind of crap is that the social justice warriors run off all the people writing the code. They are annoying, preachy, judgmental and generally inhibitory of any technical progress due to their disruptive handwaving over issues nobody but them or their identity group cares about.
You can't even say what it's about? Fuck that. I suggest you go view a goatse wallpaper.
* The Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence
* Lyonesse by Jack Vance
* The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
* The Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
* The Fall of Gondolin by JRR Tolkien
I can recommend all of these, except for The Fall of Gondolin. It's not really up to Tolkien's best standard, but still worth reading for fans like me.
I identify as a reptile. Haven't you heard of LGBTQR?
Yep. It's like China threatening tariffs. Go for it, assholes. When your trade surplus is 3x, you can't fucking win that way. Same with content. You might think twice about threatening to tax content when the content makers might decide you are just fucking irrelevant and keep the content for themselves and other like minded folks who aren't being greedy dickheads.
Why? Did those things suddenly stop becoming useful? Did people quit listening to FM because a bunch of ignorant children were born? Did remote controls stop using IR? I think I might have finally found the idiot that phone and OS companies keep changing (and often ruining) the products for every new release. It's you, Mr. Coward.
He said it because he's an idiot Python programmer. The type of which I mentioned in one of my bullet points as being someone I'd rather not be associated with by also jumping in the Python cesspool. I like your analogy. However, it's not dramatic enough. I am aware that some tractors can go as fast as 87 MPH. Given that an F1 car is about 230 MPH, that's less than three times faster. More closely mirroring real actual comparisons it would be closer to a Peregrine falcon (240MPH in a dive) being compared to a sea turtle (4-6 MPH) or about (about 1/50th or so, at best) . The ratio in the Mandelbrot benchmark was actually 170x faster which is even worse.
It's a trend though. There is a certain type of youngster that thinks anything "old" sucks. C and Unix count as "old" so they want to poison (systemd) and/or replace them (merge Linux into Windows subsystems) because they don't fit their world view that scripting languages are fast enough for everybody and everything and C & Unix is too hard because "it's old" not because they are simply too lazy or simpleminded to learn them. These ignorant children have got themselves so wrapped around this self-deception that they actually go out into the world and say shit like "Python is comparable to C". Homeboy will probably never come back and read or argue about it because that might disabuse him of his ridiculous ideas.
You can create your own consistency. Do things consistently. If you can't go download 'astyle' and let it format you code more consistently. Why do you need some diktat to do that? Plus, if the only way to get that consistency is to screw the visually impaired (me) then the your cure is worse than the disease. Also you are completely and utterly full of dogshit about it being comparable to C speed. Not only does Python3 gets slapped around like a bitch by PHP (2-3 times slower in most cases than PHP? the shame!) but if you compare it to C then it just get's fully blown completely the fuck out of the water with almost all the results being HUNDREDS or at least dozens of times slower than C. Guess that's why you didn't provide any references to back that little tidbit up. Lastly, I never said that Python coders were friends. I'm mainly implying most of them are clueless children. You seem to fit that mold quite well and prove the point. Hehe, comparable to C.... I'm still trying to catch my breath from that one. Yeah, it's comparable, if you have a BIG fucking coefficient to multiply times before the comparison.