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!
Comment Re:Cue more spooky woo-woos (Score 1) 183
The New Testament instructs believers to submit to governing authorities and respect the laws of the land, as God establishes these systems for order (Romans 13:1-7, 1 Peter 2:13-14).
Comment Decimation? (Score 2) 148
Decimation? Wow, I thought it would be a lot worse than only eliminating a tenth of the employees!
Comment Re:Scary (Score 1) 35
Just like Mamdani!
Comment Coyote vs Acme Concept (Score 3, Informative) 42
Google says "The New Yorker Piece: Ian Frazier's "Coyote v. Acme" was published on February 26, 1990. It is written as a formal legal brief of product liability claims listing 85 counts against the Acme Company. This specific essay is the recognized inspiration for the upcoming film.
"But, eight years earlier, Joey Green wrote a three-part satirical product liability piece titled "Cliff-Hanger Justice" in the August, September, and October 1982 issues of National Lampoon that also featured Wile E. Coyote suing Acme. While it predated The New Yorker article, the movie itself credits Frazier's 1990 text."
The National Lampoon article is the one that I remember. Very well done. I gave it to my lawyer-brother and he commented that it had the feel of a serious legal brief.
Comment Re:Good grief, do some basic fact-checking (Score 1) 132
Rep. Hank Johnson (D) https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech...
