It's about time that it got fixed... This was really a language defect.
Indeed it's a very good new type of maps in many cases. Again a good illustration that nowadays memory layout is often more important than algorithmic complexity.
This essay is fairly US centric but since other countries used the US surveillance apparatus as a blueprint for their own it's widely applicable. It's 25 years of failures and constitutional hazard, maybe it's time to finally respect the right to privacy? Or are our governments too hooked to controlling the population and hunting dissent?
Interesting internal insights. We'll see what comes to pass but things are internally not as bright as they are marketed.
Of course unsurprising. Still it's important to get the proofs out.
Looks like an interesting tool to expose git repositories read-only on the web.
You think async/await works in the same way across languages? Think again! There are several choices of implementation behind it. You better know which choices your particular runtime did, otherwise you will get surprises. It also means it's harder to reuse language from a given runtime and carry it over somewhere else.
Of course I recommend reading the full paper, but this short summary gives a good idea of the content.
Interesting approach. When friction to subscription is a good way to really build community.
Interesting way to deal with deprecation in Python. Indeed sometimes it doesn't hurt to keep the not so ideal old name... but you want to push user code to know they miss an opportunity in readability by using the old name.
There's a lot of important metadata in HTML pages nowadays... and there could be more than proposed here.
Looks like the drama continues. I wonder where this will land.
Still need to understand atomics and memory barrier? This is a neat primer.
Shows some insights into the kerfuffle around the Navier-Stokes recent resolution. The behavior of OpenAI in this affair is ludicrous. In my opinion this is showing research malpractice... Why care about the scientific method when you have a shot at good PR?
The argument presented is maybe a bit too mechanical for my taste. That said there's indeed something to be said about the decline in literacy and its consequences on our societies.
It's is badly conducted research for PR purpose? Who would have expected anything different? I wish we'd fund real science instead...
Good point. The metaphors we use have obviously some limits. In the case of the "sinking ship" when used for software it doesn't quite work as there's no bottom...
Interesting exploration of how static and dynamic dispatchs work behind the scene in Rust. The chosen tradeoffs are different than in C++ and that's something to keep in mind.
Too often people mistake the algorithmic complexity theory for the real performances you would get. This can't be further from the truth. The memory layout trumps all. As usual you need to measure.
A reminder that web frontend work isn't as easy as it sounds. It brings quite some caveats and his difficult to do well. Otherwise you wonder why things stutter or render badly.
Comparison of two concurrency models. This is a light read which shows quite well the differences.