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Seems to be the smallest Go release yet (at least since 1.4). I wonder how the binary size was reduced in the recent two versions? 1.21 63MB 1.20 95MB 1.19 142MB 1.18 135MB 1.17 12…

None of these improvements seem Mac-specific. Does Chrome on other OSs have these?

> no longer need to perform the slow git fetch Nice. Rust Cargo is also trialling out something similar.

> where every column just has a single formula Sounds like tables in Excel?

Highlights for me: - tabs in File Explorer - faster and more accurate search Still not sure why tabs in File Explorer took so long... but happy that its finally here.

Location: South Africa Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C#, Python (NumPy and friends), some JS, Go Skills: finance, statistics, applied maths Résumé/CV: on reque…

Location: South Africa Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C#, Python (NumPy and friends), JS Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X-LFxgiO4Q62bsp0VDf0fHuD5ts…

Most likely referring to "Reflections on Trusting Trust" [0]; i.e. when the compiler is itself the attack vector. [0]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref.…

Zed seems to be the successor of Github/Atom's abandoned Xray project [0]. "Responsive", Rust, CRDTs. [0] https://github.com/atom-archive/xray

Most likely because Arabs did not invent the numbering system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370553

> "self-modifying test" I've also heard them referred to as "approval tests". https://approvaltests.com/

Is the random matrix generation section in here up to date? The official numpy docs [0] seem to indicate that `randn` is legacy, and that `randint` is deprecated. [0] https://numpy…

I believe numpy.random uses PCG by default. https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/random/index.html

Download size and speed matters. Disk space matters especially if you're working with relatively expensive SSDs. Of course, how much of a problem this is depends on which country y…

Azure (DevOps) Pipelines use YAML. Not sure if that counts?