Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 85
Go to Venus instead. Float 50 km above the surface. Space radiation would be one problem that you wouldn't have.
Submission + - Apple News pushed 84 negative headlines about GOP, 0 positive (foxnews.com)
RoccamOccam writes: Ahead of midterms, Apple News, which comes preinstalled on every iPhone in America, did not promote a single story that positively framed a Republican priority, according to the study. During that same period, Apple News promoted more than 80 stories that negatively framed the issues Republicans care about, according to the Media Research Center (MRC).
Comment Re: Never will (Score 1) 131
This guy tests out Gridcaft (an AI-cloned version of Excel, written in Rust): https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Does something with pivot tables.
Seems impressive, but it doesn't do Excel macros.
Submission + - Hundreds of ballots found at homeless center before LA election (nypost.com)
RoccamOccam writes: Hundreds of ballots were found piled in an open hallway at a Skid Row homeless shelter where more than 1,100 voters are registered, a California Post investigation found.
The ballots were spotted at The Midnight Mission, a downtown LA homeless shelter offering meals and mail services, where 1,160 voters are registered.
The Post authenticated a photo of the ballots and independently confirmed the scene during a visit to the shelter on October 13.
The discovery comes four months after the California Post exposed 7,600 voter registrations linked to homeless shelters and service providers across Los Angeles, including facilities that don’t offer a single bed.
The ballots were spotted at The Midnight Mission, a downtown LA homeless shelter offering meals and mail services, where 1,160 voters are registered.
The Post authenticated a photo of the ballots and independently confirmed the scene during a visit to the shelter on October 13.
The discovery comes four months after the California Post exposed 7,600 voter registrations linked to homeless shelters and service providers across Los Angeles, including facilities that don’t offer a single bed.
Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 147
I'm guessing you meant proprietary.
propitiatory
intended to reconcile or appease
“sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture”
Comment Re:Wicked Witch of the West (Score 1) 55
Oh, crap. Totally failed to read earlier comments.
Comment Wicked Witch of the West (Score 1) 55
They don't mention that at the age of three she played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz!
Comment Re: As someone who likes Rust (Score 2) 76
Not that you claim this, but others might infer that this would make C safe in the same way that Rust is. It wouldn't come close.
Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 30
From the summary:
The proposed Rust implementation will use zlib-rs, which is "heavily tested and used by the Firefox, uv, and Cargo" projects and "faster than zlib and zlib-ng on many platforms".... This small change would have an impact: the zlib compression algorithm is "widely used by Python packaging", meaning that (almost) "every pip install in Python 3.16 will be sped up" if the proposal is accepted.
[emphasis mine]
Comment Re:You need this for an emergency (Score -1, Troll) 196
Leftists tried to succeed at AM talk shows. Miserable failure. They found that a format that depends on callers doesn't work for them. They depend on unquestioned propaganda, which explains the whole shout-down-conservative-speakers-on-campus playbook.
Submission + - Rust for CPython (python.org)
RoccamOccam writes: “No one said ‘don’t do this’ last year”. After testing the waters at PyCon US 2025, David Hewitt returned to the Python Language Summit asking what Python core developers want from Rust, along with proposed timelines, phases, and success criteria for how the Rust for CPython project might proceed and become a permanent fixture within the CPython project.
The Rust for CPython team has selected the zlib module as the first module to be given an optional Rust implementation because they “wanted to achieve a significant improvement” with a “small scope”. The proposed Rust implementation will use zlib-rs, which is “heavily tested and used by the Firefox, uv, and Cargo” projects and “faster than zlib and zlib-ng on many platforms”.
The Rust for CPython team has selected the zlib module as the first module to be given an optional Rust implementation because they “wanted to achieve a significant improvement” with a “small scope”. The proposed Rust implementation will use zlib-rs, which is “heavily tested and used by the Firefox, uv, and Cargo” projects and “faster than zlib and zlib-ng on many platforms”.
Comment Re:21st century (Score 1) 65
I believe Resolver One (introduced in 2008, discontinued in 2012) had this feature.
Comment Re:The old Twitter is gone forever (Score 1) 111
Reality has a center-left bias.
Well, no. “The facts of life are conservative.” -- Margaret Thatcher
Comment The collision (Score 0) 12
Two sit just 620 light-years apart near the galaxy's center and are expected to merge within a few hundred million years
!remindme
Comment Re:matrix (Score 1) 56
Try to influence the environment just by wanting it to change. If it is a dream you likely can do it. E.g. add or remove an object from a scene just by willing it.
Wait - most people don't have telekinesis like I do? This changes everything!
