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Too late to edit, but the situation with İ is more complicated, and I got the mapping wrong for this specific casefold implementation. What I should have said is that in the case o…

There’s some interesting information in there. Unfortunately the person or LLM writing this got pretty confused right in the introduction already. > “Suppose […] they type straße a…

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> There are 349 million people in the US, so the number of arsonists is 0.0001% of the general population. The number of firefighters that are arsonists (100/65,795) is 0.0015%, so…

Author here. Our aim isn’t to try and line up with the calendar that was in use at the time, 2026 years ago. Instead, the aim (for 28times) is to implement the rules of the prolept…

I’m working on a time series management & analysis tool. The goal is to provide simple ways to work with time series data, including an API and visualisation. https://28times.com

> “If you run this on a big repository, it will take quite a lot of time because `git log -n1` takes a long time. I think this is the fastest way to get the most recent commit time…

With 3, especially if the animals outnumber humans, you’d first want to do some research into animal psychology to see whether red or blue has an edge for animals.

There’s a moral benefit to choosing blue if you think there’s a chance that the end result will be split 50-50 and you’ll be the deciding vote between a blue majority and a red maj…

If you’re using a model, it’s your responsibility to make sure the probability actually is that small. Realistically, you do that by not giving the model access to any of your bloo…

That’s not something I wanted to imply. It can also stand for "the fine article". Is there a better shorthand for "the article linked at top of the page" / "the original article"?

I use stars to try and protect myself from dependency confusion attacks. For example, let’s say I want to run some piece of software that I’ve heard about, and let’s say I trust th…

Does NO_COLOR=1 mean that all ANSI formatting should be disabled? Including bold text, italic text, and so on? It seems that different software handles that question in different w…

Joining on a list (as in function two()) is no more memory intensive than joining on a generator expression (function one()). This is surprising at first. Raymond Hettinger has a v…