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I don't think this is correct . The name obj gets rebound, but the dictionary being traversed isn't mutated in any way.

Can you explain why---what is it about this style that puts you off?

Does your comment still ring true if you replace "snap" with "flatpak"? (What I'm getting at is: why does it make sense for Canonical to define its own sandboxed application format…

I got sniped by this. Normal jeans are homotopic to a cylinder with a point removed. Leg-sewn jeans are homotopic to a torus with a point removed. Both of these can be deformation …

I know the authors---it was a pleasent surprise to see them on HN this morning! The first two in particular have been working on computer-aided investigations in pure mathematics f…

Are you sure the lockfiles are platform-specific? I spent a long time migrating a project to use poetry. One of the reasons I opted for poetry over others was that the lockfile ret…

That chimes with my experience in the UK. I personally call ( ) "round brackets" to try and be a bit more explicit about which kind of bracket I mean, but I don't think that's a ve…

Bit of a brain dump here. Serre's Trees was pretty relevant to my studies, though left quite a few gaps for the reader to fill in. Meier's Groups, Graphs and Trees is much more acc…

https://www.thinking.withportals.com/ was (is?) the big community for this. I was part of it around the time Valve released their easy map editor (the "perpetual testing initiative…

Don't know if you'd consider them giant, but a former colleague tells me that Pexip uses Gstreamer for video-wrangling. (Hearsay, admittedly)

It's not a problem; it's an intense frustration. It is irritating to be told "here's a new message X" at your desk, only to see and hear the same notification "new message X" on a …