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I may consider using HOCON [0] if I see any traction, bust after writing a lot of YAML and even making my own YAML-driven tools, I feel its shortcomings are overstated. I got bit b…

I've written a fair bit of PySpark code and Polars's syntax feels fairly similar, but it also offers a limited SQL dialect.

Anything besides ads, GCP, and Apps in that bucket?

Perl's actually excellent at processing unstructured data, and it had a strong foothold in bioinformatics for a time. I don't think the decision was as obvious as it looks.

That's a very rosy view of humans. The average person gets older, not wiser; they see the consequences of their actions and find someone else to blame. Real social and cultural cha…

CGP Grey doesn't explore what happens after death is defeated. I can't imagine how it can lead to anything but a stagnated society, with prejudices and inequalities enshrined forev…

De minimis is a longstanding defense in copyright law. If you are copying very little from very many works, as is the case when you turn multiple petabytes into a few gigabytes of …

Early Lego games made great use of intonation and miming for their gags and storytelling. For example, this is their version of the famous "I am your father" scene: https://www.you…

There is a lot of wishful thinking that goes into galaxy brain code. It assumes you know with almost complete certainty what rules are bound to change and where extension will be n…

Aircraft carriers don't have the large cannons of a dreadnought. An armored car that served as launchpad and command center for drones could be drastically lighter, faster, cheaper…

There was a fair bit of moral panic, funnily enough, around D&D recently, specifically the representation of "evil" humanoid races and how they mirrored real-life racism https://ww…

Is it just a moral panic? Because these kids, who are bright enough to build their games and virtual worlds in Roblox's arcane tools, are spending hundreds of hours to create conte…

You should also be compensated for the time you spend on-call (which means you can't take on other commitments you otherwise might.) Anything less and it's outright exploitation. "…

Most messy problems can't be solved by neat solutions. Without tariffs, countries will be incentivized to use lax emission control as a competitive advantage.

That's not true. It's fantastic for ransomware and scams in general.

Nope. The world didn't keep a control group for smallpox, even in the most distant villages. We simply eradicated it.

Even though we talk about "the" vaccine, there isn't only one; there are half a dozen different vaccines being administered world-wide, using different methods of production. We're…

Funny, but it suggests the market hasn't learned anything from 2008.

People keep talking about patients going to the doctor for frivolous reasons, but what I see is that it is much more common for patients to ignore symptoms or take some over-the-co…

I think there is a lot of good to talk about, with just a little creativity: hundreds of thousands of jobs in a green economy, cleaner cities, ending the dependence on oil from aut…

Many of the innovators in medieval Europe and Soviet Russia were seen with suspicion, when not outright persecuted. Innovation, beyond safe incremental productivity improvements, r…