Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
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5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
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Yeah well you're wrong.
Braces help everyone, just like punctuation does. Try and read a Cormack McCarthy novel and the importance of punctuation to denote structure for readability will become immediately apparent.
Using whitespace as a delimiter is just nerds min maxing too far.
Relax, this is clearly a subjective matter.
Lemmy is a niche of a niche. People can't relax around here.
Some people are just so incredibly "AKQCSHUALLY" about certain things. And they don't even see that there's no right or wrong, it's just your use case vs mine. Narrow-minded af.
PEOPLE CAN'T RELAX???
I don’t know, I’ve never found Python structure remotely hard to read
Except when some chucklehead used two character intents. This is why tabs are superior; if you want to be squinty, be squinty. The rest of us get 8 char intents that make the logic easy to see.
A novel by definition isn't a data structure meant for serialisation. Your argument is akin to going up to a mapmaker and telling them do to their job different because van Gogh did it different and look how his art turned out!
Braces in a data structure help nobody but computers. That's why I specified that for HUMAN READABILITY, YAML is superior to JSON, even though they easily translate between each other. Try to read a single-line, optimised for transport JSON vs try to read a neatly formatted YAML document. YAML is inherently closer to how humans perceive data.