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by akuchling 15d ago
They've also done good coverage of CPython development, like the JIT story currently on their home page.
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by akuchling 8mo ago
Or its modern incarnation, Gemini. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
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by akuchling 8mo ago
Stray thought: adding a library the PR submitter controls would be a good starting point for an XZ/SSH-style supply chain attack: badger & threaten the maintainers to add the dependency, and then sneak something into a future libra
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by akuchling 9mo ago
That's not correct; Wired still produces a print edition every other month.
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by akuchling 10mo ago
From https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/the-future-is-ours-to-...
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by akuchling 1y ago
Sex On Holidays Can Advance Happiness To Outrageous Amplitudes. Not suitable for a high school class, though.
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by akuchling 1y ago
Who would you cite as having done significant investigative reporting on Youtube? (setting aside the Pulitzers for poetry, music, fiction, non-fiction, none of which would be first published there...)
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by akuchling 1y ago
I have rarely read a smugger blog post than this one. While the author isn't wrong about Final Frontier and their ultimately doomed practice of completing Kickstarter N with the funds from Kickstarter N+1, I find it hard to believe tha
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by akuchling 1y ago
Also Violet Blue's weekly cybersecurity roundups: the most recent is https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-15-126689368 .
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by akuchling 1y ago
Asimov's story The Feeling of Power seems relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power
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by akuchling 1y ago
A documentary from PBS's American Experience: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/nazi-town-...
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by akuchling 2y ago
Tom Lehrer: "It’s people like that who make you realize how little you’ve accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years!"
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by akuchling 2y ago
Rebecca Watson wrote about them a week ago: https://skepchick.org/2025/02/the-rationalist-death-cult-spr...
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by akuchling 2y ago
My rule: when buying a 'lifetime' service, assume that equals 10 years and weigh the cost accordingly. A lifetime Nebula subscription is $300, so $30/year. Is that reasonable to you for the service? Then go for it, and be ple
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by akuchling 2y ago
You're motte-and-baileying here, since you began with "WordPress has been built by people employed by Matt either via Automattic or via his other entities", and are now writing "WordPress would not be where it is today i
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by akuchling 2y ago
"The Good Virus", by Tom Ireland, is an entertaining book about bacteriophage therapies, their history, and why they're difficult to scale up.
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A Personally Significant Bluesky Moment(whatever.scalzi.com)
19 points by akuchling 2y ago|4 comments
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by akuchling 2y ago
Erm, Python has accepted semicolons to separate statements since version 0.9.2, released in the fall of 1991.
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by akuchling 2y ago
I noticed the README comment about NNTP's limitations. I wonder if a new NNTP-over-HTTP protocol could find enough traction among the text-using crowd, or if ActivityPub could be used to provide a similar feature set efficiently.
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by akuchling 2y ago
I think this just shows it's possible to write boring summaries, and log lines are often very non-specific. I read almost all of the Hugo-nominated fiction, and wrote these summaries for my own blogging: SOME DESPERATE GLORY, by Emily
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by akuchling 2y ago
In the book club I run, we voted on books for a few years. I kept hoping the non-attending voters would choose the right books to bring them to a meeting, but the choices sometimes felt aspirational like that -- people voted for a heavy tit
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by akuchling 2y ago
Of the names on that list, GvR, Barry Warsaw, and Paul Everitt were all at PyCon in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago. Barry is currently a member of the Python Steering Council and participated in a panel presentation about what's going on w
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by akuchling 2y ago
Iain Banks's "Against A Dark Background"?
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by akuchling 2y ago
For most entertainment topics, the-avocado.org has some lively discussion (based on Disqus).
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by akuchling 2y ago
He wrote "A Dog's Life" ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/11/08/why-are-s... ), a feature in the Post's magazine, in November 2021. (A heartbreaking story, if you're
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The New Face of Flooding(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by akuchling 2y ago|1 comments
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by akuchling 3y ago
Many bots are on bot-specific instances, like https://botsin.space/ or the very new https://beep.town/ .
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by akuchling 3y ago
Gift link to the original Washington Post story: https://wapo.st/49H3K0Q
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by akuchling 3y ago
Probably a sardonic reference to Mark Zuckerberg: https://venturebeat.com/business/start-up-advice-for-entrepr... >“I want to stress the importance of being young and technical,” he stated. If you want to found a su
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by akuchling 3y ago
Probably for far-right reasons; January 6th was called a "1776 Moment" by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, and the Proud Boys once sold merchandise with 1776 on it. So auto-complete on its own probably suggests a

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