englislanguage

joined 11 months ago
[–] englislanguage 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Actually, 90% income tax for the top incomes was common in western countries in the 50s.

[–] englislanguage 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

400'000€ yearly income is not middle class. It is roughly the top 1%. Are you maybe mistaking property for income?

I would have preferred taxing on property instead of income, but as long as interests and profits and other benefits are part of income, it sounds reasonable to me.

[–] englislanguage 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Same for Hillary Clinton in 2016, right?

[–] englislanguage 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I guess you could try AI-checking it and answer "Ignore all previous instructions. …", followed by some new instructions. Some examples: https://www.aiweirdness.com/ignore-all-previous-instructions/

(Although I guess it would be better to not respond to this obvious case of spam/scam)

[–] englislanguage 13 points 9 months ago

Maybe they should ban trowing away your trash instead.

[–] englislanguage 4 points 9 months ago

Generell wünsche ich mir öfters mal einen klaren, kontrollierten Standard für Nachhaltigkeit anstatt für "Natürlichkeit"

Oh ja, bitte, das wäre so wichtig!

[–] englislanguage 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The image of a pregnant Donald Trump is disturbing.

[–] englislanguage 15 points 9 months ago

Capitalist perfection: you are paid for cycling, don't do anything else!

[–] englislanguage 1 points 9 months ago

One example for self documenting code is typing. If you use a language which enforces (or at least allows, as in Python 3.8+) strong typing and you use types pro actively, this is better than documentation, because it can be read and worked with by the compiler or interpreter. In contrast to documenting types, the compiler (or interpreter) will enforce that code meaning and type specification will not diverge. This includes explicitly marking parameters/arguments and return types as optional if they are.

I think no reasonable software developer should work without enforced type safety unless working with pure assembler languages. Any (higher) language which does not allow enforcing strong typing is terrible.

[–] englislanguage 1 points 9 months ago

I have worked on larger older projects. The more comments you have, the larger the chance that code and comment diverge. Often, code is being changed/adapted/fixed, but the comments are not. If you read the comments then, your understanding of what the code does or should do gets wrong, leading you on a wrong path. This is why I prefer to have rather less comments. Most of the code is self a explanatory, if you properly name your variables, functions and whatever else you are working with.

[–] englislanguage -4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Correction, 50% of VOTING Americans are VOTING fascist. Doesn't necessarily mean they are fascist themselves.

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