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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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also I just realized that Brazil did NOT make a programming language entirely in Spanish and call it "Si" and that my professor was making a joke about C... god damn it

this post is probably too nieche but I feel like Lemmy is nerdy enough that enough people will get it lol

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I hate on it mainly for its lack of static typing.
I tried building a HomeAssistant add-on in python, and it was not a good experience. Idk what IDE python devs usually use but VSCode did not provide much assistance.

[–] cooligula@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

You can in fact statically type in Python. For example, defining variables:

six: int = 6
hello_world: str = "Hello World!"

Or defining functions:

def foo(x: int) -> int:
    return x**2

If you only want to use static Python, you can use the mypy static checker:

# Install mypy if you don’t have it
pip install mypy

# Run the checker on the file (e.g., example.py)
mypy example.py
[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's just a fancy way of commenting on the intended types, no static typing though.

Python will happily execute:

six: int = 6
six = "Hello World!"
[–] cooligula@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

But mypy will not accept it :)

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