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We have multiple CPython core developers at Facebook, and the Cinder team (among others) are heavily involved in discussions around CPython's direction. There are many pieces of Ci…

Cinder is a fork of CPython, and maintains compatibility with C extensions written for CPython. Which includes a lot of important/popular third-party packages these days.

The big benefit of type hints things like Pydantic (and some things I've written myself) is that it can provide useful runtime information. If you know that property `obj.foo` is h…

I've been on Dvorak full-time since 2008, and even though I generally don't use vim itself for programming, I do still use vim-mode in my editors and IDE. But I gave up on using hj…

If someone signs a bad contract because they refuse to read and understand it, and just signs it anyways, they're still generally bound by the terms of the contract. iOS and Androi…

Presenting a screen/dialog to the user at first login asking for permission to access contact data does not sound like "forcefully harvested". Users rarely understand the consequen…

Your friends can (and almost certainly will) share their contact info (including your name/phone/email) with Facebook , Messenger, or Whatsapp, even if your account is deleted and …

Assuming that the data is just your phone number and name/email, is it not possible that this is just from friends who have allowed Facebook and/or Messenger to share contact info?…

Sanitize, normalize, and distrust. All three cover different use cases.

It's legal negotiation. You sue for the maximum allowable penalty/damages in hopes of settling for something in between the maximum and zero.

I've been a lifelong fan of Calvin & Hobbes, and I have all of the books, but I both don't have the time to revisit them, or when I do, I binge way too much. Is there any way to ge…

Just wait until you get Python 3.9 and can do: >>> a, b = 2, 4 >>> f"{math.gcd(a, b) = }" 'math.gcd(a, b) = 2'

I presume they would claim them with fake/fresh username/email info to get legitimate licenses/keys, then resell those after the fact.

I've been extraordinarily happy with iStat Menus for showing a variety of system info in the menu bar. https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

resell them on various sites for < MSRP

If you can answer the why, then I think physicists around the world would really like to know. We "know" the universe is expanding because we can observe the effects (eg, red shift…

The easy answer is C extensions. PyPy does not support C extensions, and thereby does not support a wide range of native, accelerated libraries. Facebook infra is heavily dependent…

As someone who operates two Nest cameras (one doorbell, one camera, both record audio) in California with clear line of sight towards public areas (sidewalk and street), I would re…

Most laws around street legality center around certification of the chassis, safety equipment, and emissions. Don't run the jet engine during a smog test, and prove that all the ne…

If only we had a government mechanism for holding service providers to higher standards for neutral delivery of services to citizens regardless of economic incentives.

This is where I've become a staunch proponent of type hinting Python code. I've caught more subtle bugs by enabling mypy on new sections of code than by running and debugging in pr…

>For user interfaces this is huge advantage: you can run all your code on the UI thread; but the UI stays responsive while awaiting tasks. ... assuming any other tasks/coroutines r…

Prop 22 is a state amendment, but not all propositions are. Some are referendums from the legislature that just pass/enact/repeal normal laws, and others are just new laws without …

These initiatives amend the state constitution, so they can set any requirements they want. Prop 13 famously added a requirement for 2/3 vote to change it, and this was sustained b…

California ballot propositions have the possibility of amending the state constitution (see Prop 13 [1] as one of the historic examples), and once you're allowing that, anything is…