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My point is that it does work. I tested with Python 2.7 and Python 3.6+.

I developed that tweak for Python 2.7 and I am running in production with Python 3.6. I tested with later Python versions, too. Do you have some pointers about arenas always using …

I discovered a similar trick few years ago: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35660899/reduce-memory-f... The idea is to tweak when `mmap` or `malloc` are used by the Python inte…

Chessbrah is also a very fun channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/chessbrah

Evangelical Christian, creationist, he believes the Bible literally (whatever that means, given translations and necessary interpretations). We recently engaged in various conversa…

Because underwater there is less oxygen, less light and nice fine muddy floors.

I have a friend who believes that Earth is 6000 years old, therefore dinosaurs lived alongside men and went extinct in the Medieval times (by some crazy global-scale dinosaurs hunt…

To watch Netflix for instance.

What's up with those latency numbers? Seem huge to me.

It should be "positive" numbers. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hardy-RamanujanNumber.html

Actually, one could argue that something is "artistic" if it has the unique property that nobody at all finds it "artistic"... I recommend the works by Arthur Danto ( https://en.wi…

Actually, "cogito ergo sum" comes from "Discourse on the Method".

Best commentary of the match, by Jerry! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0QdI0rVoHA&feature=em-upload...

Yeah, I would agree that head , as it is, looks like a mistake. Instead of: head :: [a] -> a I would code it as: head :: [a] -> Maybe a returning Nothing for empty lists. Same appl…

Can you share your experience? How did you get started contracting in the UK? Did you contact a head-hunter or do you find your own contracts? How?

Actually, tornado's test uses Mongo, which makes the test quite uncomparable to others using MySQL! https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

I need a suggestion from your collective wisdom. Few months ago I founded a startup with 4 other people. We all come from different professional background, but we have the same ag…

IPython has this feature baked in the magic %ed command [1]. [1]: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/config/editors.html

No. But their "Hey Jude" diagram is worth a watch! https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/examples/flowchart_software

My eyes just exploded! ;-)

Corruption in Italy is hardwired in the behavior of people and their approach to life. It's enough to live in Italy for a long enough time to understand how people reason and why c…

Don't be so naive! Scientists are not bound by some force of Nature to tell the truth. The accusation is exactly that they didn't tell all they knew about the earthquake, but they …

This is bullshit, let me tell you. Corruption is everywhere in Italy: North AND South. Public sector AND Private sector. I am Italian, from the North, I lived in Milan for years an…

This is way more complex than it might appear. Italian speakers can watch this movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rROgB5QMgHs&feature=playe... It shows a telephone conversation …