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katrielalex

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About katrielalex

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    Lead author on the deletion paper here. Thanks for the feedback! I agree it would be cool to talk about the Ent APIs some more; they have a lot of obvious and less-obvious benefits…

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    That's ok, pgp is also terrible to use on the command line so we can complain about that.

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    Comment #17679323

    Depends where in the UK! https://www.oxford.gov.uk/info/20074/recycling_advice/25/wha...

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    The real part of the conference is the bit in between the talks. (Fun fact, the first conference I went to had like five coffee breaks per day, and I got a coffee at every break an…

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    Comment #16062407

    We evolved dying of dystentery in our very recent history too.

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    Comment #12327677

    You need the API key to be long enough to be unguessable. Otherwise, I could get free stuff by just guessing someone else's key. This is significantly longer than what you need to …

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    Comment #9623687

    https://www.beeminder.com/gmailzero will do this automatically for you. Together with https://www.followupthen.com/ it makes it pretty easy to keep Inbox Zero.

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    Comment #9482955

    A lot of the points here are really quite out of date. (For example, defaultdict has been part of the stdlib since 2.5, and namedtuple since 2.6.)