Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Bloplang Pull Request #48592: Add zip method to iterators ​​​

This is a proposal to add the zip method to iterators. This would allow you to join two iterators together, alternating between results from both. E.g. tens.zip(hundreds) would give [10, 100, 20, 200, 30].... This has been the most requested feature on our wishlist for seven months, and my initial implementation here provides a 12% speed up on the test_cases/thousands_of_types.blop. 👍 532 👎 12 🚀 226 👀 114 😕 3

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I've never heard of "zip" before. Googling it, it seems to be a compression algorithm? Not sure what this has to do with iterators. I suggest naming it interleave instead. 👍 23 👎 34

zip seems to be pretty widely accepted. For example, Rust and Python call it zip. 👍 27 😕 1

yeah i've never head of zip before. interleave is too long tho, how about weave 👍 54 👎 27

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This for loop could be better expressed as a map. 😕 1

How about spritz? In the idiolect of English spoken by my Discord server, spritz is very commonly used to refer to mixing things together. EDIT If you're going to laugh react, please leave a comment explaining why. 👍 5 😆 143

wtf is a spritz 👎 5 😕 26

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Please don't leave "+1" comments. They pollute the thread and send useless emails. Use the react feature to add thumbs ups to the pull request if you want to express your approval. 👍 118 👎 4

who else is here from reddit? 👎 122 😆 16 😕 33

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That's a bug with your Linux distribution’s zip command, which has nothing to do with Bloplang. Open a thread on the Fedora forums to discuss that, although they'll probably tell you that Fedora 32 is EOL. 👍 66

Okay, so we have 17 votes in favour of zip, 12 for weave, 5 for spritz, and somehow only 2 for interleave. Oh, and 1 each for sprinkle, intersperse_at_least_two_iterators_with_each_other, and sum. I'm beginning to suspect botting. 👍 7 😕 12

Hey read bean - this pull request is out of sync with main. Could you rebase on top of the twelve thousand commits that have occurred since you opened this? Thanks! 👍 63 🚀 2

:gale: whats stoping this from being merged? can we get an eta 👍 12 😕 2

It's mostly a debate on the name to use. I'm not sure why people aren't voting for interleave. I've provided numerous arguments as to why it's the obvious option, and I've even linked a conversation with ChatGPT 4-o proving that it makes the most sense. Sigh. 👍 2 😕 70 😆 11

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One of my favorite orgs that doesn't get enough attention is glia, which maintains a GitHub org filled with open source medical devices such as this stethoscope or this otoscope. All their projects are all licensed under the TAPR Open Hardware License. This is in addition to their actual sending of doctors and medical staff to war zones and underprivileged areas.

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Wie is er in het bezit van het boekenweek geschenk "De Krater" van Gerwin van der Werf?

Bij enkele exemplaren in mijn directe omgeving, is het met drukken mis gegaan op pagina 27, waardoor er woorden en zelfs een zinsdeel weggevallen zijn.

Wie heeft een exemplaar waar wél alles leesbaar is op pagina 27?

#dtv #boekenweek #boeken

Re Microsoft win 10 machines.

Don't believe Microsoft

"because they can’t be upgraded to a supported OS there will not be the normal secondary market for those buying new hardware. This means there’s no boon for charities or other good causes, and instead this is a recycling or landfill choice.

This is criminal.

Recycle to Linux.

#SilentSunday

@misty same with techcrunch. an old boss of mine (cofounder of an unrelated company) had a login to the CMS and he could just post whatever he wanted

I really wish it were wider knowledge that most of the content on Forbes.com is basically unreviewed blogging that didn't go through an editorial process. I still see a lot of people trust random posts they see there because they believe it's a business publication with actual reporters and editors. *Some* of the content is but a lot sure isn’t!

I don't blame individuals for not knowing, but I definitely think a lot of people'd be able to judge stuff better if they did.

If you're wondering, Dutch law does also prohibit slavery, buuuuuut, they do encourage "voluntary prison labor", where they pay less than a euro per hour.

This is a good research paper, in English, explaining some ins and outs of "voluntary prison labor" in the Netherlands:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20319525241260877

Also if you're curious, here's the state news paper issue that declared the abolition of slavery in Suriname and how much they compensate slave owners as well as that the Surinamese people that were freed were to be put under "special supervision" for a period of 10 years where they were forced to sign "employment contracts" that forbid them from leaving their plantation prisons:
https://coleccion.aw/show/?BNADIGBUKIKOSTBARE0198

alt text of the proclamation

Also side note: the thing about researching slavery is that you have to keep in mind that the abolition of the "slave trade" only meant that you couldn't import slaves anymore.

You could still move to a colony on stolen land and own slaves there for like an additional 100 years after they banned slavery in the Netherlands proper. It wasn't until 1914 that slavery was banned on all Dutch "territory".

Anyway, setting that tone that even after slavery, the King still declared that we could do a little more slavery, but this time, there's an actual employment contract, and I couldn't find anything that said prison labor was illegal ever, anywhere, until like 4 years ago.

Here's that recent change in 2021 saying you can't force labor anymore:
https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0043990/2021-12-01

Here's a blog post by the same author of the research article above:
https://criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/prisoners-pay-and-options-for-work/

From everything I can tell, you are strongly encouraged to work while in prison, and if you don't, it can factor negatively on your behavior report, which could be used as justification to deny you privileges in the prison, or be factored into your actual release. It is only slightly better than the USA but still is pretty awful.

Anyway, that long research rant over, slavery is still of concern in both the US and NL. We just call it "penal labor" now and in NL it's "optional" (no it isn't) and "paid" (no it isn't).

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