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onedognight
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  1. The name of the project is a reference to P. G. Wodehouse[0] for those unaware.

    [0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/783

  2. It’s a bit clickbait-y, but the article is short, to the point, and frankly satisfying. If there is such a thing as good clickbait, then this might be it. Impressive work!
  3. This is a great result[0]:

    > we found that there are 17 semantic rules in the core semantics which are not covered by the [ECMAScript Conformance Test Suite]

    > we succeeded to manually write test programs that hit 11 out of 17 behaviors

    > the remaining 6 semantic behaviors are infeasible, that is, they represent flaws in the language standard itself

    [0] https://github.com/kframework/javascript-semantics/blob/mast...

  4. Remember when Russia agreed[0] to defend Ukraine if they gave up their nuclear weapons?

    [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

  5. Username checks out.
  6. The pep didn’t mention considering reusing `async` instead of `lazy`. That would’ve conveyed the same thing to me without a new keyword, and would haven’t been similar to html’s usage `async`.
  7. Yes, but these examples are not zero-sum. There is no net winning for society from gambling zero-sum, whereas there can be from risky startups.
  8. Here’s my solution: clicking four boxes that form the corners of a rectangle will flip them leaving the rest of the board unchanged. Using this move you can find sets of rectangle corners with more white than red and just click them. This will converge to a solution. If you can find a symmetric board where all rectangle corners have equal red and white then this method would fail. I haven’t found one yet.

    EDIT: I found some positions where this technique cannot be directly applied.

  9. It may not be clear from this article, but the Math Academy program in Pasadena Unified has the students in their tract taking the Calculus AP at the end of middle school. It’s a breath of fresh air in a public school system that often leaves the more advanced kids bored.
  10. You have just re-invented XLST.
  11. If the employees are being paid under the table, they would mean the employers were committing an obvious crime opening the employer to extortion. However, if the employees were Using fake social security numbers, then it would give the employers the benefit of the doubt. It also would mean the employees do pay takes, collected by their employers. From what I’ve heard, the latter is most common.
  12. > Shell and Exxon aren't forcing people to burn their product.

    Is this a joke? They are lobbying against the subsidy of alternatives that are better for society. The repeal of subsidies was just successfully achieved in the OBBB. Yet, they continue to get subsidies themselves. Have you noticed the special exemption for oil and gas extraction on your tax forms? It’s in your face.

  13. 1) The ads in my start menu all come from one domain.

    2) One is less than 63.

    3) Profit?

  14. Notably they didn’t sue OpenAI or Google or another entity with a huge war chest.
  15. 40 years ago every car on the road was dirty and now, at least in CA, they are much much cleaner because people complained. The fact that diesels trucks have been exempted from these same regulations is an embarrassment akin to Lee Iacocca telling Nixon that seat belt requirements would put Chrysler out of business.
  16. While you are cleaning your Windows install of CoPilot, here’s the list[0] of packages that Microsoft themselves suggest removing.

    [0] https://github.com/microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-scripts/b...

  17. You need to start with the right base. Here’s a container-first 100%-reproducible from-scratch base to build on.

    [0] https://stagex.tools/

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