northisup

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Comment · 12 days ago

So you are saying it _was_ an option and the editor just has bad taste

Comment · 12 days ago

I feel like the guardian shouldn't be messing up the oxford comma like that.

Comment · 1 month ago

Raymond Hettinger has a great talk about how much python's dict has improved over the years. So this is super interesting and will probably just make the builtin dict better eventually.

The lesson of the talk is that if you are idiomatic then you will benefit as the language improves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw4s1QTmPg

Comment · 2 months ago

I always assume an app that uses an installer is hiding something from me.

Comment · 4 months ago

this is just sales slop for their own product.

Comment · 4 months ago

did they, like, not lose a million jobs tho?

Comment · 4 months ago

Duplication is fine, triplication and above is the issue.

Comment · 6 months ago

me waiting for the "the rise of posts analyzing the rise of the em-dash on hacker news" posts

Comment · 7 months ago

It'd be nice if desktop safari was a column.

Comment · 8 months ago

damnit, I just happen to like the look of the thing. now everyone thinks I'm AI for pausing in my thoughts as I write—as if I were human...

Comment · 1 year ago

I mean, have you looked outside lately?

Comment · 1 year ago

because two colors of functions suuuuuuuuuuks to deal with

Comment · 1 year ago

Is this the first AI hallucinated desire path?

Comment · 1 year ago

I highly recommend Macross Plus for further research this topic: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2330912/

Comment · 1 year ago

just to confirm I read this right, "the marathon crater" does not in fact exist, but this works because it seems like it should?