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Python tutorial moment (lemmy.world)
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[–] 89 points 2 years ago (28 children)

How is this funny? 8 Upvotes at current writing???

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  • [–] 164 points 2 years ago (21 children)

    It's kind of funny because it looks like it is nonsense dreamt up by a non-programmer. But it actually works.

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  • [–] 147 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I thought it was poking fun at the tutorial saying instead of learning to code, import a library from someone who knows how to code.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    That's what libraries are for. I'm no security expert and the sensible thing to do is using a library instead of taking a class.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    I’m no security expert and the sensible thing to do is using a library instead of taking a class.

    Counterpoint: "not knowing your libraries" + "blind trust in the maintainer" will give you stuff like this: https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/561/cve-2022-1471-vulnerability-in

    (the thread itself is worth a read. But also very impressive is the list of big players who fell for exactly this mentality)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Impressive and unsurprising. As soon as you start getting complex libraries with multiple dependencies it becomes nearly impossible to review everything. At one time I had an interest in contributing to some AI libraries, but they're a mess as soon as you go looking for points of improvement.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Which is funny because when I first started my CS degree in the late 80s (get off my lawn) we used to make fun of the beginning Java classes because it seems 90% of coding was to import the right library.

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  • [–] 92 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    It's basically import antigravity

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's literally this comic, five years and a research team later.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago 
    from Lemmy import Upvote
from Fediverse import Posts
from ActivityPub import Submit

target_post = 'https://lemmy.ca/post/18691085'
num_votes = 8

post = Posts.open(target_post)

package = Upvote(post, num_votes)

package.Submit(target_post)

    or something

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    My best guess is it's a play at the usual "all you do in python is import libraries without knowing how they work lololol" dig but yeah, I don't find it particularly funny either

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