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They spent a huge amount of complexity supporting mailing lists that claim mutated messages came FROM the original sender instead of FROM mailinglist@example.com. Is that use-case …

"never mind" does the same thing, as does "shut up, clanker"

It is interesting that gold was able to retain its value after the industrial revolution. It could have gone the way of aluminum, once twice as valuable as gold, but now used in di…

I am an absolute nobody on the internet, so it didn't get me at all. But the names it did guess were some good bloggers, some which I had yet to follow. So do this even if it has n…

Great! Now make `set` have a stable order and we're done here.

If this gets wide enough use, they could add an optimization for code like this: n = 1000 a = {} for i in range(n): a[i] = str(i) a = frozendict(a) # O(n) operation can be turned t…

A funny thing I realized: immortality is incompatible with spending a nonzero fraction of my life with children. I treasure the time I spend with my kids. I can see that this seaso…

It does yield control. As far as I know, that's "how you're supposed to it". But the example is not great because there is no other task available to switch to, so the event loop g…

1s in other ordinals were misread, but two 1s next to each other were misread wildly more often than anything else. My current theory, which I only hint at in the last paragraph, w…

The last time this hit HN, my hosting provider complained about the traffic, but I've since migrated the blog to GitHub Pages, so I guess that won't be an issue this time.

> Personally, I think np.einsum is one of the rare parts of NumPy that’s actually good. einsum only being able to do multiplication makes it quite limited. If we leaned into the Ei…

From experience, I am skeptical of this hypothesis. Little kids will absolutely recall memories from before they knew how to speak. Just last week, my two-year-old spied the freeze…

In Chapter 21 of the Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis discusses the dangers of interchanging of the various flavors of "my". (Well, a fictional demon monologues about the utility of con…

It even has an xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2128/

How much of this is due to non-technical users simply using phones and tablets instead of laptops and other devices with "desktop" OSes?

Using 12000-year-old stories to support the thesis that oral history is more durable than written history is only logical if we have reason to believe that written history also exi…

I always thought Scala had nice imports [1]: import users.* import users.User import users.{User, UserPreferences} import users.UserPreferences as UPrefs [1] https://docs.scala-lan…

I remember USB drives in the '00s that had a read-only toggle. They were useful for rescuing machines that had a virus. Edit: A quick search reveals that, of course, you can still …

> To this day, key players in security—among them Microsoft and the US National Security Agency—regard Secure Boot as an important, if not essential, foundation of trust in securin…

R does this [1]. It is the sentinel that it uses internally to represent a missing value (i.e. NA) in integer arrays. Integer operations overflow to this value. [1] https://stackov…

The recent advances in LLMs have made me realize how important a signal well written English was to filtering content by quality. If the first few sentences were on topic, syntacti…

I always liked to phrase it as: "Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by incentives." People like Hanlon's razor because it still lets them insult peo…

That seems unlikely. Those numbers only look related in base 10. 1/e is about a third of 1 and 37 is about a third of 100, which is why they look similar in base 10. In base 16, 1/…