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This post was actually partly inspired by a HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426666 .

Their model of scripts and mindlessness is only one of many possible explanations of the behavior they're seeing. And I don't even know where to start with the sending letters to r…

If someone on my team or in my company proposed to break most of our python code for no substantial reason, unless they were pretty junior I would count that as a real red flag aga…

I'm very ready to believe your description of the state of python is true but I've been out of the loop on python for a while. I'm interested in more details. Can you expand or poi…

It's a diphthong though. Same as the difference between George (roughly dzo:rdz) and Geörge (roughly dze:ordz).

> I think blaming DEI hires for problems is mostly people who don't like the idea of hiring based on race/gender/etc. and who also realize that if you do that hard enough, you're b…

There seemed to me to be a clear shift in focus from CrowdStrike to Microsoft somewhere along the way, maybe a little while after George Kurz' message. I was wondering if it was ei…

How much of a politician's time is taken up by making public statements of the type this kind of legislation covers? At least for someone in power, surely only a small part. If we …

It makes a lot of sense to not care about a slight amount of drift. But that already exists: that's what TAI is. Why make UTC into another TAI just slightly offset? Why not just sw…

I implemented a slight variation of this a while back which worked as described up to 11110xxx but then a prefix byte of 11111xxx meant a payload of 64*2^xxx bits. So 11111000 is f…

This is a fine introduction to automata-based regexps but the framing of comparing "good" automata with "bad" perl-style is misguided. Automata and perl-style regexps are different…

Future + Germany = Hitler Plant + Germany = Beer Flower + Germany = Hitler (Harsh!)

Some interesting finds. Future + Time = Present (with a gift icon) Present + Present = Gift (So it's using the words not the concepts) Paradox + Snowman = Yeti (Makes sense) Arnold…

Babbage's analytical engine used a form of microcode ~100 years earlier. Complex operations such as multiplication and division were implemented by lower-level instructions encoded…

This is an intricate API that is likely to require an intricate implementation just to be correct. But correctness won't be enough, the JEP requires the JIT to implement some compl…

Author her. I didn't run benchmarks. I'm suspicious of micro-benchmarks and I don't have a context where I can try it against realistic data. Also, I just enjoy the maths of it eve…

I came across iranian classical music by accident years ago and keep coming back to it in a way I don't even with western classical music (I'm european). It's beautiful, highly ski…

Could you not just do sum(byteVals) + sum(intVals) + 128 * len(intVals)?

It's possible to be both unfairly targeted by a superpower and commit sexual assault, one doesn't cancel out the other. I'm not saying he did, I don't know how any of us could know…

They're not ridiculous taxes, they more or less match the immediate cost to society of private car ownership: maintaining the road networks, health care for people involved in acci…

Implied sarcasm and irony is a troll's game. Not to imply that the poster is a troll, I have no reason to think that, but that's why I never assume sarcasm if it's not explicitly s…