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Counterpoint: I've used `object.__setattr__` pretty often when setting values in the `__post_init__` of frozen dataclasses

Love this. Years ago I hand-wired a CPU that natively executes Brainfuck code: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q8G2fWprwyo Might have to test some of these :)

Curious, why the flag?

Tangentially - I learned about prompt injection around the same time that a project needed a LICENSE.txt. The goal was to require an AI to tell an unprompted joke when someone aske…

I spent the past few weeks working on arguably. It uses your function signatures and docstrings to create a CLI. I built it to have the most common features of other libraries (and…

Impressive how this completely ignores the effect that oil already has in terms of human cost.

>cells are created in a sort of tree structure I just realized this is why they’re called stem cells. Neat.

There’s a major visibility difference between a nuclear bomb and gene editing.

Sean’s a cool guy, lots of cool projects on his channel worth a watch.

Don’t be too quick to discount it. That’s a massive market.

Consumers generally don’t care about these terms until it affects them personally. Additionally, in the author’s case, I can’t name one alternative to the type of service provided …

The classic opsec-germs tradeoff

I use clickjacking as a “feature” on a website I operate, http://vlograd.io I had no choice, at least on mobile. On mobile browsers, audio contexts start out as muted. They can onl…

Definitely a somewhat shady thing to do. To play devil’s advocate, though, I would argue that inflating your follow numbers is less “evil” than building a machine that takes in use…

Back when I started using social media, the founder of the site wanted to be everyone’s friend.

What do you mean? Go has generics. Kind of. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...

This is beautiful.

I’m curious about the key points you call out.

Micropayments! /s

SCIgen should be close enough. Nobody really reads the whitepaper, anyways. https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/

I never had music on my iPhone (only Spotify) until 2014, when Apple had its U2 album debacle. I used the removal tool, but it failed for one song: "Raised By Wolves". To this day …

It seems that any words with a curse in the middle automatically get ~41% toxic. Scunthorpe must be a toxic place.

It almost seems impossible to use the internet for even a day without having some usage information leaked to Google.

What was the first?

To be fair, there were references in the actual document (which were omitted from the Gizmodo reproduction)