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Do they honestly expect me to believe that there wasn't a more appropriate way to abbreviate "cumulative maximum" than cummax? Imagine the headaches the inventor of the world's first Python powered sexbot will suffer when they realise that the method name cummin has already been taken.

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[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

fr, "cummax()"? a more sensible API designer would call it "goon()"

[–] Umechan@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

From what little I know about the devs, I expect they already created a function called goon() as an abbreviation of something mundane like "generate one-tenth of number" and just divides a number by 10.

[–] dadarobot@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago
[–] RION@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago

☝️🤓 cummax is a distinct kink subculture!

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'll defend this. No amount of funny connotations would get me to rename an otherwise perfectly good function name. And not out of a childish desire for mischief like you lot, just out of general principle.

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Seriously, I will never rename a thing just because it has a little cum on it.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'M DELETING YOU, DADDY!😭👋

██]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] 10% complete.....

████]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] 35% complete....

███████]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] 60% complete....

███████████] 99% complete.....

🚫ERROR!🚫 💯True💯 Daddies are irreplaceable 💖I could never delete you Daddy!💖 Send this to ten other 👪Daddies👪 who give you 💦cummies💦 Or never get called ☁️squishy☁️ again❌❌😬😬❌❌ If you get 0 Back: no cummies for you 🚫🚫👿 3 back: you're squishy☁️💦 5 back: you're daddy's kitten😽👼💦 10+ back: Daddy😛😛💕💕💦👅👅

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

Is this hornypasta?

[–] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you think that's bad, you should see how much cum functions numpy has.

[–] Umechan@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can't help but read numpy as numpty unless it's capitalised as NumPy. Why is Python such an unserious language? The 16-18 year olds I learned PHP and SQL with 20+ years ago, always sremoveded when one of the teachers talked about "queries" or the website's "backend". The instructors would have probably had a stroke if they had to teach them about cum functions.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

sremoveded

Hexbear hasn't solved the Sremovedhorpe problem? smdh

We're Sremovedhorpe maximalists here

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's the removed string?

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

the N word in what I quoted, C word in the rest of the comment

[–] Umechan@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Standard Python is guilty of this too. Who the fuck abbreviates "standard deviation" as std? At least Python's inventor has the excuse that he's Dutch.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Python programmers when you make a symbol name longer than 5 characters

maddened

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

item = obj.get_item()

long long mv_NEW_API_ItemGetter_st = *IMPL_obj_ref->NEW_itemGetter_st()

Don't get me started on c++ name mangling

[–] CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago
#include <cstd.h>

using namespace std;
[–] an_engel_on_earth@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

use polars, its much faster. Unfortunately it still has the cum methods but theres an underscore in the middle if that makes it better.

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Definitively makes it worse.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

cumprod

what Isn'treal uses to try to get the semen in time

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I regret to inform you that pandas is based on R and R had the names first

Technically (according to the docs) it was originally proposed in 1988

[–] Umechan@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're still responsible for adopting the functions without renaming them.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You never rename a function, no matter how bad it is lol. There's been a multi-year fight on the Python Forums about re.match being confusing since it anchors the expression to the start of the string while some other languages use match to search the whole string.

I propose that they deprecate cumsum and instead provide an alternative spelling sumcum since that will group it with the other sum functions in the language server autocomplete options

[–] meler@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Umechan@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Matlab? Is that the scientific socialist alternative to matplotLIB ?

And don't call them cumtrapz. Regardless of their unusual and risky sexual behaviour, you know very well that they all have names.

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

Always thought matlab was closed source and paid for

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

Oh god I'm Cumulative Minimum!