Because to a certain extent Python is duck typed. Python has no concept of interfaces, unless you count the abc module combined with manual isinstance() checks, which I’ve never seen anyone do in production. In order to be passed to some function that expects a “file-like object”, it just has to have methods named read(), seek(), and possibly isatty(). The Python philosophy, at least as I see it, is “as long as it has methods named walk() and quack(), it’s close enough to a duck for me to treat it as one”.

Duck typing is distinct from weak type systems, though.

For the last time, Python is not weakly typed. It is dynamically typed. The statement 5 + "hello" results in a type error. Bash is weakly typed, and that same addition results in 5hello

i can at least take solace in the fact that brain dead lemmings are 100% bark and 0% bite

I can’t see through the paywall either, but if it’s like any of the hundreds of other articles that have been written on this topic, the answer is probably TikTok

can somebody please remind me why i still have a lemmy account?

by that logic, every citizen of the united states is a fascist, because they could have been mobilizing and weren’t

Elon Musk tweeted “Imagine a new all-powerful woke AI”

i’m honestly not sure which belief is more brain-dead: that anything that is woke is bad, or that all-powerful AI is a credible threat

And “right wing” as defined by someone who calls anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders a fascist…

I’m not sure about Click’nLoad or Debrid, but aria2 does all the other things you just listed.

oh there are plenty such. kget, aria2, uget, and motrix off the top of my head. but people use jdownloader for the same reason they use windows – it’s what they know.

Tell me more

^{(i’m gonna do something evil)}

Sounds like you’d really like Nix.

Bold of you to assume this will actually stop anything.

It’s like the Nigerian prince scam emails with inentionally bad grammar. They don’t want to waste their time with people who don’t fall for obvious scams, so they craft their email so that anyone with half a brain will reject it. And they still get millions of responses.

so like the autopilot in Elite Dangerous. will it get you there? sure. will it get you there fast? …not exactly.

WHEN YOU CAN’T AFFORD STREAMING ON AN NFL PLAYER SALARY, PRICES ARE TOO DAMN HIGH

does the rest of gen z not know how to torrent? i thought everyone did

ohhh nooooo, who could possibly have seen this coming

not like that repo was getting constantly vandalized as people realized it contained copyrighted code that the winamp owners didn’t have the rights to which the project managers were halfheartedly playing whack-a-mole with

For god’s sake – people who don’t hear their own voice in their own head are “just moving from one impulse to another”? People require an inner monologue, as opposed to seeing things in their imagination or what have you, in order to be capable of conscious thought? Are we seriously at the point where we’re saying “anyone who doesn’t experience the world the same way I do is no better than an animal”?

read the responses the AIs give and ask yourself that again.

with the most recent call last, but the actual exception at the top