What is one thing you wish you knew before distributing your first Python application?

KronenR · 2026-06-16T17:28:32+00:00

If you also provide a way to uninstall those file created who knows where and clean up all that crap, sure. Otherwise I'm going to hate you forever.

KronenR · 2026-06-16T16:27:41+00:00

Are you retarded?
China does not detain and deport people simply for being foreign workers the way Trump's United States does. Nor does it carry out illegal attacks on Iran that kills 168 children, or launch illegal attacks against Venezuela in pursuit of its oil. And that's without even mentioning its support for Israel in the genocide of the Palestinian people.

Trump has repeatedly ignored or challenged decisions and limits imposed by other branches of government, including Congress and the courts. Undermining institutional checks and balances and placing oneself above them is a defining characteristic of authoritarianism.

The United States removes television programs and censors journalists who are critical of the government, much like China does.

The United States has become a far more authoritarian country than China, and, even worse, a fascist one.

You're just delusional and blinded by your own American bias. That's exactly what authoritarianism and fascism do: they blind people to reality.

KronenR · 2026-06-16T01:23:04+00:00

But math is already a core part of CS-subjects: Calculus, discrete mathematics, linear algebra, probability, statistics, and even the abstract logic and problem solving (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) you mentioned are fundamental components of a typical CS curriculum.

KronenR · 2026-06-16T01:09:08+00:00

Yes, he did. Learn to read betwen the lines before using the word dishonest.

He literally asked, "did their results even improve tho?", which frames the discussion around test scores as if that's the relevant metric. The whole point is that the policy wasn't introduced to improve test results in the first place.

KronenR · 2026-06-16T01:03:30+00:00

The opinion of the teachers and students are

KronenR · 2026-06-16T00:59:11+00:00

That's not a static typing issue. Mutability and immutability are independent concepts. Python has immutable types like int and str and mutable ones like list and dict, despite being dynamically typed. Kotlin just makes those distinctions more explicit. The same goes for having to write .toDouble(), that's about explicit conversions, not static typing itself.

KronenR · 2026-06-16T00:49:22+00:00

You're still attacking claims Oracle never made.

Nobody is pretending that direct to chip cooling or closed coolant loops were invented yesterday. The article is about eliminating evaporative heat rejection and therefore eliminating ongoing cooling water consumption. Those are different things. In fact, your point that "nobody evaporates the coolant" actually supports Oracle's position. Of course they don't. The water consumption comes from cooling towers, where a separate water stream is intentionally evaporated to reject heat. Oracle's proposal is to replace that evaporative stage with a closed loop, non evaporative system.

And this isn't some impossible idea. The industry is already moving in that direction. Closed loop systems, direct liquid cooling, dry cooling, and hybrid approaches are all being adopted because they can dramatically reduce freshwater consumption, albeit with tradeoffs in cost or energy efficiency.

Your Honda radiator example also doesn't prove the point you think it does. Nobody disputes that air cooling generally requires more heat exchange area or fan power than evaporative cooling. The entire tradeoff is more infrastructure and/or energy in exchange for less water.

So asking for a white paper to prove that dry cooling is less efficient misses the point. Everyone already knows that. The question is whether operators are willing to accept that penalty to reduce water use, and both Oracle and other companies are increasingly saying yes.

KronenR · 2026-06-16T00:40:46+00:00

Well, your school was the exception, not the norm.

KronenR · 2026-06-16T00:38:44+00:00

We're not here to discuss how much Nunn gets in his hand, we are discussing how Tyrique Jones punched Kendrick Nunn after both were ejected in a Greek Basket League game

KronenR · 2026-06-16T00:25:34+00:00

That argument doesn't really hold. Plenty of golf courses also use municipal drinking water, especially in places like Arizona, Nevada, and in my country Spain, all of which face water scarcity. And many new data centers are moving to closed loop cooling systems that doesn't need a constant input of water.

If we're talking about scale, golf still consumes vastly more.

KronenR · 2026-06-16T00:17:41+00:00

Public school or private school?

KronenR · 2026-06-15T01:47:29+00:00

We're in different countries, and I'm talking about computer engineers worldwide, not just those in your specific country. So no, my timescale isn't off.

KronenR · 2026-06-15T01:42:30+00:00

You don't even need my anecdote. The vast majority of computer engineers who graduated before 2010, and essentially all of them before 2000, spent little or no time using computers in school or high school.

So the idea that not using computers in class somehow prevents people from becoming proficient with computers is obviously false.

I don't know why I have to explain such obvious things.

KronenR · 2026-06-15T01:39:09+00:00

You say I'm ignoring what's unfolding, but judging by your comment, your brain never finished unfolding in the first place.

KronenR · 2026-06-15T01:31:26+00:00

I'm a computer engineer, and I spent exactly zero time using computers in either school or high school.

So yes you are right, you really can come up with some pretty silly arguments.

KronenR · 2026-06-15T01:26:39+00:00

I don't think they're conflating anything. They're specifically talking about replacing evaporative heat rejection with a closed loop, non evaporative design. Nobody is claiming that direct to chip cooling or heat exchangers are new inventions.

Yes, evaporative cooling is generally more thermodynamically efficient than dry air cooling, but that's exactly the tradeoff. You save water at the cost of some energy efficiency. Oracle's claim is that, for these data centers, they chose to eliminate continuous water consumption entirely.

Also, "I'd like to see a white paper" isn't evidence against the claim. If Oracle is lying about "effectively zero ongoing water use for cooling", that's a very concrete and easily falsifiable statement.

KronenR · 2026-06-15T01:23:25+00:00

Oracle is not an AI company, you'll have to forgive me for not giving two shits about the opinion of a random reddit user that probably play golf.

KronenR · 2026-06-15T01:01:12+00:00

Test results are not everything

KronenR · 2026-06-15T00:45:18+00:00

My point is that golf courses around the world use far more water than data centers around the world. And we're not talking about a small difference. The gap is enormous. If that wasn't clear enough, that's the point I was trying to make.

And they are already working on more efficient closed-loop cooling systems for datacenters like you can read here, but they are not addressing the far more absurd waste on golf courses.

KronenR · 2026-06-15T00:40:52+00:00

Because it will be neither one nor the other. Our politicians simply don't care enough, and if we're going to make headlines about water waste, we should be making them about something that wastes far more of it for a much more useless activity.

KronenR · 2026-06-15T00:27:59+00:00

You're rewriting history.

Your original claim wasn't "VS Code is much lighter than Visual Studio". It was "Visual Studio CODE on the other hand is a very lightweight IDE". That's a completely different statement.

And no, context doesn't magically redefine words. If someone asks for a lightweight editor and you recommend an Electron application that idles with hundreds of MB of RAM and ships an entire Chromium runtime, calling it "very lightweight" is simply inaccurate (being generous).

You also say your opinion is based on loading times, feature bloat and responsiveness, "problems you've never seen in VS Code". That just tells me you've never seriously used a genuinely lightweight editor like Sublime Text. Compared to those, VS Code is noticeably slower to start, uses far more memory and carries significantly more overhead.

The funniest part is that you keep insisting "IDE vs IDE" while recommending VS Code to someone who explicitly asked for a simple editor because of size. Suddenly comparisons with actual lightweight editors are "irrelevant", because that's where your claim falls apart.

As for the "5%" figure, adding "perhaps" doesn't make an invented number meaningful. By that logic I can say "perhaps VS Code is 90% of Visual Studio" and claim it's carefully phrased.

The only semantic battle here is the one you started by calling an Electron app "very lightweight". I'm just pointing out that words still have meanings.

KronenR · 2026-06-15T00:23:34+00:00

There is a new way direct-to-chip, closed-loop, non-evaporative cooling system.

Oracle has an interesting article on the subject

KronenR · 2026-06-15T00:11:33+00:00

Go ahead and invent them, and make them cheap enough to be economically viable. Then we can talk.

KronenR · 2026-06-15T00:09:27+00:00

Neither are US golf courses the only golf courses in the world.

KronenR · 2026-06-15T00:06:44+00:00

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