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Right. The original commenter already seemed to understand that. It's a new issue because the reference count needs locking, whereas previously it didn't because it was implicitly …

Wow, you typed out their question first try ? What skill! I doubt their attempt failed because they wrote the question poorly. It was probably just the service being flaky.

You're talking about the same thing as the article: why were things not as fast as they could be in free threaded mode? But this comment thread is more of a meta discussion: why wo…

Yes, numpy does release the GIL. But the code in question has multiple numpy calls, called in a loop: sum((np.sin(np.cos(np.sin(np.cos(x + i)))).sum() for i in range(n_loop))) This…

People 100% are asking ChatGPT for all those things.

It's very relevant because it otherwise would have been plausible that they were blaming the pilot to unfairly divert blame away from an entity they had a bias for.

Oh OK thanks, I didn't realise. I just had some fun looking at bowling ball cross sections.

I think you're counting the overall sphere as the volume, but water would leak in through the finger holes so only their actual material counts. I suspect different weight bowling …

Fair enough. We all learn differently. For me, having printed lecture notes meant I could listen (imperfectly!) in lectures rather than focusing on copying. It was a revelation aft…

Taking down the lesson/lecture does relatively little, you can do it on autopilot. If anything, it distracts from listening to the content. When I took computer science at universi…

If you're at (-2, 3, 5), pointing in the (2, 1, -1) direction (as a direction vector), then which is in front of the other from your point of view: the object at (4, 5, -8) or the …

I think their point is that is pretty cheap for such a useful service. The opposite of a bubble price.

Probably the down votes are from people who have no idea what you're going on about, or what it's got to do with an article entirely about the early history of incandescent bulbs.

Are you taking about modern long life bulbs? This article is taking about design choices for original format bulbs over 100 years ago.

> Imagine a calculator program that computes billions of two number multiplications accurately by looking up prior examples This is a poor analogy because: * Multiplying numbers ha…

This analogy doesn't make sense to me. Once I've had a conversation, it may be useful to refer back to it shortly afterwards, but typically the output is some code (or maybe a reci…

Agreed - a Kalman filter is often just a EMA in disguise. I remember using a Kalman filter many years ago and getting confused when a measurement was fairly far from the current es…

These are types of text that are, to some extent, effectively hidden. But I don't think that's what the article is talking about. Word has a feature literally called "hidden text".…

Because, in the 1990s, you would print out your document before giving it to someone else to read. In those times, sometimes you'd want to include text in the document that shows w…

I think I'd need quite a lot of evidence that families weren't the major unit of society. A hunter-gatherer tribe is an extended family, so that only proves the point. If there's m…

They just unzip the Python executable and your source files to a temporary directory and run them from there (although they are a convenient way of doing that). nuitka is a bit bet…

Indeed. It seems the parent comment has accidentally made exactly the opposite point than they intended. The difference between scrawl on a chalk board and a glossy menu with photo…

No. The article suggests using 8 bits (=256 values) to pack 5 trits (=243 values). If you use 16 bits (=65536 values) then you can pack at most 10 whole trits (=59049 values). 11 t…

That's like saying that they should have used assembler but they just weren't capable of it. It's personal insult dressed up as a nonsensical technical argument.