Racket v8.0 is out. #racket

Neovim and Rust. #vim #rust

OpenBSD on a Laptop. #unix

• Easy Rust
• A Gentle Introduction To Rust

Do You Write Code With Your Mouse?

You might be tempted to use the correlation to reduce the set of predictors, but as Charles Dickens shows us, this requires domain knowledge

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. – Mr Micawber, in David Copperfield

Even though income and expenditure are highly correlated, neither one separately will do anywhere near as well as the pair in predicting who ends up happy and who ends up in debtor’s prison. — Co-linearity

Browser fuzzing at Mozilla.

Python behind the scenes #8: how Python integers work. #python

Given what I just said, we Haskellers have a lot of hubris. Each time you say “if it compiles it works,” a thunk dies and collapses into a blackhole. We’ve got plenty of messes in Haskell that don’t sufficiently protect us from ourselves. The compiler can only do as good a job as our coding standards and our libraries allow. — Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 2

POSIX Threads Programming. #unix