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- magnioShouldn't public documents by the government use a free and libre font? In fact, the mentioned Public Sans developed by the US federal government seems to be a great option, as it actually distinguishes the lowercase l and the uppercase I, something that, ironically, all suggested sans-serif alternatives fail to do.
- China made its first computer in 1958 and its first 1 megaflop computer in 1973, so yes, their nascence of computer programming preceded the Cultural Revolution, about 10 years after the West.
- For those wanting different colored pills, there are
https://justfuckingusereact.com
- UUIDv4 is much more scattered (i.e., uniformly distributed), which heavily degrades indexing performance in databases.
- npm and pnpm are badly affected as well. Many packages are returning 502 when fetched. Such a bad time...
- > You're absolutely right
Perfect satire. Thank you.
- Same. I switched from Windows to macOS three years ago, and I tried my best to only use cross-platform softwares (or none at all, in many cases where websites suffice). Thanks to Electron many apps work on both Windows and macOS nowadays.
- While the current climate is not comparable, I find the actions and general attitude of the current US government similar to that during the McCarthy era.
Which led me to this very interesting article from 1965: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1965/6/17/the-university-...
In it, the author described the attacks on specific personnels and public villainification of Harvard. More tellingly though, the author wrote the article for students in the 60s, who, growing up a mere decade after, most likely considered the events "an aberration which could not have lasted", and that, "the whole [McCarthy] period has an air of unreality".
Those who did not know history are bound to repeat it. Unfortunately, no amount of textbooks and historical resources seems to be sufficient to impart lessons to subsequent generations, and we are bound to repeat it after a few cycles.
- ARC-AGI is one of the few tests on which human can complete easily while LLMs still struggle. This model scores 45% on ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2, the latter is comparable to Claude Opus 4 and GPT-5 High, behind only Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Grok 4 Thinking, for a model about 0.001% the size of commercial models.
- On Android, long press home button activates Google Assistant that can OCR the current screen and translate immediately. Unironically one of the only two features keeping me on Android until now.
- This "pay up for trade access" is similar to the tributary system of feudal China. Every year, neighboring countries of China like Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam sent envoys to Imperial China, paying gold, women, and exotic products, in return for recognition of their sovereignty (subject to the supreme authority of Chinese emperor), military protection, and access to trade routes within China.
It is interesting to see the resurgence of such imperial practices in modern-day America. I think it worked out quite well for the Tang dynasty, but arguably that was because all East Asian feudal states were authoritarian monarchy back then. A logical next step would be for POTUS to declare himself as the supreme leader of the world, emend educational materials to propound the idea that the US is superior to other tributary states, quell all internal cries of undemocratic practices, and ban books that promote historical knowledge to avoid unnecessary dissent.
- https://www.sonatype.com/blog/pytorch-namespace-dependency-c...
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https://socket.dev/blog/monkey-patched-pypi-packages-steal-s...
https://socket.dev/blog/malicious-pypi-package-targets-disco...
https://socket.dev/blog/typosquatting-on-pypi-malicious-pack...
- Can we get an exception to this? Twitter does not show replies (and many times, the tweet itself) if I am not logged in.
- Like Tiktok?
- How the hell is Nepal more peaceful than China or Bolivia? Last week the country has had extremely violent protests, with widespread vandalism and arson leading to inadvertent murder of political leaders, as well as many prison breakouts.
- Man, I am glad I don't have to work with any developers for whom having to write "className" (which has been in the DOM standard since 2000) over "class" is a deal-breaker.
- My first exposure to the expression problem is the book Crafting Interpreters, Section 5.3.1,[1] which is very similar to the GP comment. The subsection is a short few paragraphs, with one or two tables for illustration, and it was one of the most eureka moments of my programming career. Ever since then, I see this trade-off everywhere, and I get reminded that engineering is all about finding the best trade-off and that the holy-grail of a perfect language or design is a waste of time.
[1]: https://craftinginterpreters.com/representing-code.html#the-...
- Not exactly computer friendly, since filenames cannot contain ":" on Windows.
- From the blog of Anna's Archive (the most authentic shadow library / libgen frontend):
> There is a new entrant: WeLib. They appear to have mirrored most of our collection, and use a fork of our codebase. We have copied some of their user interface improvements, and are grateful for that push. Sadly, we are not seeing them share any new collections, nor share their codebase improvements. Since they haven’t shown commitment to contributing back to the ecosystem, we advise extreme caution. We recommend not using them.