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by mjw1007 4y ago
The rationale was here. https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/85067#issuecomment-... It seems a bit vague: « Exposing this attribute would help with introspection, making it possible to write efficient fun
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That fails the "panics in debug mode in the right places" requirement: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
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Here are some things that they could do better: - the domain in the curlbashware URL could be less shady than sh.rustup.rs - the "rustup is an official Rust project" claim on https://rustup.rs/ could be a link to
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That's not quite the right thing either, alas, because sometimes there's text that's legimately supposed to be "small print" where it's OK if it's hard to read. In practice setting it high tends to go wron
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As someone with poor vision, I don't want "make everything bigger", and I don't want "make all the text bigger", I want "make the small text bigger". (Or, ideally, "make small text and fiddly dia
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by mjw1007 5y ago
Repeating a letter indicating an abbreviated word is an oldfashioned way of pluralising it. For example, 'pp' to represent 'pages'.
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? in PostgreSQL is available for use as a user-defined operator. I suppose they made that decision a long time ago.
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Right, better control of the index type can help you say what you mean, and help the typechecker catch more mistakes. If I have an array representing a single-byte lookup table, it would be nice if I could say that the array's type is
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by mjw1007 5y ago
The history of PostgreSQL's SERIALIZABLE isolation level implementation is one example of this going well. As far as I remember, the story went something like this, about ten years ago: - organisation employing a PostgreSQL developer a
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It takes 15s on my workstation and 5 minutes on a fileserver with about 17 million files (on a mix of fast and slow disks, and too old a kernel for io_uring). Database sizes are 30MB and 200MB respectively.
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ATPV would not have changed the constitution (and did not require a supermajority).
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It's not about splitting the vote in that way; Debian's system is robust to that. It's about the 3:1 supermajority requirement that was needed for Option 1 and Option 2. It turns out that their rules for dealing with this wor
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I don't think it's about infighting. Debian's constitution says the Debian Developers may vote to publish "position statements about issues of the day", and some developers want to use those for the sort of politica
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It's remarkably strange that someone who appears to be blogging semi-professionally thinks it's reasonable to publish an article of this sort without a date attached. Maybe Verilog doesn't change much, but statements like &qu
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There's a big difference between "we are the only people who sell hardware using these chips" and "we are the only people who have access to hardware using these chips".
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Right, I'm surprised to be reading justifications that amount to "it's been deployed for several years now, so we think it's OK", rather than "here's a report from a researcher who's tested how it beh
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It would be nice if the title mentioned which country's senate it's talking about (particularly as the title is made up for HN rather than taken from the source page).
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Looking at https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-594-removing-dead-batteries... someone did volunteer to maintain cgi and cgitb. But nonetheless those modules remained listed in the PEP.
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The cgi module didn't actually contain the Python standard library's CGI support. That's in wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler, and isn't going away. What the cgi module did contain was some occasionally-useful support for work
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If only there was some kind of foundation with a revenue of $177 million last year which had an interest in Linux's success.
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Certainly. They were also optimising for positive reviews in newspapers and magazines, which were also typically based on a short period of use. I don't remember seeing this one on the usual lists of forms of market failure, but it&#x2
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That description should also supply a warning about a difficulty that UX designers, and Apple in particular, have struggled with over the years: they're going to a great deal of effort to optimise their designs for the first hour of us
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The explanation in the article is: « So you don’t have to keep version numbers in your head, we’ve put more emphasis on yes and no iconography for browser capabilities » But as far as I can tell all they've done is put a tick there if
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The relevant feedback issue appears to be this one: https://github.com/mdn/MDN-feedback/issues/20
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GitHub Issues Migration is coming soon(discuss.python.org)
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I think PyPI is mostly served via Fastly. https://dustingram.com/articles/2021/04/14/powering-the-pyth...
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One of the motivating examples for exceptions, at the time when they were beginning to appear in mainstream languages like Ada, was to allow people to write arithmetic expressions using familiar notation, while still having a place to put a
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Right. And no switching the chipset to a different supplier requiring entirely different drivers between the XYZ1001 and the XYZ1001a, either. If I ruled the world I'd do it via trademark law: if you don't follow my set of sensibl
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« Data loss occured with a Korean and US brand, but it will turn into a whole "thing" if I name them so please forgive me. »
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The list of language server protocol extensions it uses is interesting: https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/blob/master/d... I'm pleased to see they're filing issues upstream about t

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