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The difference is that most/all sugars are not inherently harmful, and we believe that they can be consumed safely at reasonable doses. A bit of glucose or fructose won't kill you,…

What rewrite? Switching to python3 is a quick (almost entirely automated) process. It's really not a big problem.

How dedicated to keep it going so long! Maintenance this long-term is a time-sucking activity.

Very impressive stuff. We should see more and more of this sort of assistive technology, to alleviate and improve on the manual labour of programming. This isn't a language issue, …

That's a different field entirely. Just because some American hospitals have trouble organising medical ethics reviews, does not mean that European or even American CompSci researc…

Good work, Daniel. A laboriously-gathered overview of current practice, and discussion of how to determine whether uses of illegally-obtained data are justified.

Brilliant spot! I hadn't read that in the local papers - there was simply criticism of the 'boxy' design. I live right by that station, and used it for the first time this weekend …

Why should it bundle the kitchen sink - I wouldn't expect all codecs to come with their own container format! You can put it in Ogg or use its own more-limited native metadata hand…

It's good for the library to be robust, but four code cleanliness issues (not triggerable remotely) hardly counts as news in the world of vulnerabilities! Keep them coming, I'm gla…

It is possible already - you can do `command 2>&4` to separate the output from one command in a pipeline into its own stream, then do `command2 <&4` to pull from the further down t…

I agree, Cassandra is doing here exactly what I (as a user) would expect. When using a DB like C*, you always have to ask yourself, "does this update happen before or after this on…

Not much! Just a few bytes for each packet. Running a NAT service requires a big table of all the active connections, ie. it's stateful - IPv6 with no NAT needs no per-connection s…

If Thomas has enough time to finish it (bearing in mind the hundreds of hours it will take to bring it to production quality) - and if he has time to maintain it over the years - a…

In no so many words, the article is pointing out that O(n) + O(1) is not necessarily quicker than O(n) + O(n): both add to O(n) (since only the highest-order factor matters), and t…

Insertion into an array list at a uniformly-distributed location is always O(n): you can't avoid moving half the list. Appending is amortized O(1).

Indeed, I clicked on the link because I thought, "That's interesting, I wonder what a Q-tip is". Then I found it was just another name for a cotton bud, and was disappointed: I'm s…

Actually, the patch was announced before the details of the bug: I subscribe to the libpng mailing list, and got about a day's notice to ship the patch out before the CVE and assoc…

Nice, but I'm still waiting for 64-bit integer arithmetic! For our use case, what I like about this is that we can continue to use emscripten and the technology will come to us, ra…

So basically, lots of big publishers are really upset that they don't know where their traffic is coming from. They were previously uncategorised because clicking on links from the…

Why post a link to that here? systemd is not perfect, but it's a well-designed and competent piece of work that makes things better for users, developers, and admins. It's been ado…

I have to say, without knowing any people involved with Apache, hindering projects from moving to git for any reason is hard to fathom. Why _wouldn't_ a new project use git? In the…