Recent comments in /f/MechanicalKeyboards

CommitteeNo6533 t1_jcmiyca wrote

So do you memorize dozens of macros to use it fully? Do you ever forget things like long L to get ';' ?

Edit: I see you've pretty much already answered in other comments! Interesting, I love the look, but just can't. I don't want to press multiple keys to type a character!

Otherwise I'd only use boards like this, they look awesome

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sesame_dukes0j t1_jcmftka wrote

It really wouldn't. There's a huge number of python engineers working in academia who think python is as widely used outside of academia as it is within academia.

The reality is it's pretty much exclusively used in academia. In two decades working in this industry I have never even seen a line of python code in my life except for a few blog posts here with sample code and there and even that is extremely rare.

Outside of academia, the best reaction you can hope for is "it must be good, so many other people use it!" but there a lot of people feel the same way about python as a vaccine scientist feels about homeopathy.

I personally think the world would be a better place if python disappeared tomorrow. I've seen articles saying it's 50x slower than other languages. If that's even remotely true - holy shit why would anyone use it for that reason alone? Also the whitespace rules are bullshit. And duck typing is bullshit. It uses garbage collection which is terrible. I could go on.

Many of the flaws in python also exist in other languages, but all of those other languages have other redeeming qualities (e.g. JavaScript is fast and runs everywhere). Python has zero redeeming qualities.

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laffeybunn t1_jcm856i wrote

Yeah. Thanks for explaining my message because I'm so over this meme and this trend that explaining my comment is gonna give me an aneurysm.

It's not even funny man.

The ONLY 65%.that has come even remotely close to grabbing my attention since the DELTA is the new $400-$500 Retro 66

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