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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
flynt – string formatting converter. #python
Even though Usenet has changed it’s face over the last, say ten years, the simple idea of exchanging ideas and having discussions among a large number of people by posting articles on a global message-board has pertained. — Usenet is still a strange place
Rewritten in Rust: Modern Alternatives of Command-Line Tools. I bookmarked this a while ago. I’ve tried them all, yet I only find added value in exa and ripgrep.
People had created blogs (many with great content), run them for a while, let them lapse, and eventually they were swallowed by time and entropy. — Blog with Markdown + Git, and degrade gracefully through time
What if Github went down? Better to use your own server and backup your plain text files in a secure place.