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November 18, 2023

The Changing “Guarantees” Given by Python's Global Interpreter Lock · Stefan-Marr.de

Won't be easy to get rid of the GIL in the Python ecosystem. There are notable differences of behavior between implementations and even versions of the same implementation... Lots of user code will unwillingly depend on a specific set of guarantees.

garnix | Contextual CLIs

Good food for thought to design CLI interfaces.

Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years - IEEE Spectrum
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A bit of history behind what's probably the most widespread local network technology.

GWP-ASan: Sampling-Based Detection of Memory-Safety Bugs in Production - 2311.09394.pdf

Nice approach to also hunt for memory safety issues while software is in production.

Oops! We Automated Bullshit. | Department of Computer Science and Technology

Excellent piece about everything which is wrong in the current industrialization moment of generative AI.