robjwells

I'd reconsider that if I was doing more than the odd bug fix on the project. I still like Python, and started using type hints early, but there's enough added friction to make me question using them in the future.

I imagine on big projects the benefit is clearer.

Comment · 1 year ago

Worst of both worlds is right. I came back to a Python project with a couple of critical but untyped dependencies recently after writing mostly Rust, and to clear up a large number of these (particularly “type is partially unknown”) I had the choice between lots of purely type-checking ceremony (`typing.cast`) or going without.

Comment · 1 year ago

This is an excerpt (starting part-way through) of this article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/07/election-tru...

Comment · 2 years ago

Comparing Jagan and Burnham to (respectively) Trotsky and Stalin is extremely strange. Jagan was perceived as a threat to British interests in Guyana, Burnham was deemed acceptable if unreliable.

Britain sent warships and 700 troops to oust Jagan in 1953, suspending the constitution, and later worked (with the US) to ensure Jagan could not reach the top job again. To be clear, Jagan’s PPP had won 75% of the seats in a democratic election.

An AP report on declassified MI5 documents about the 1953 coup: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/26/mi5-files-coup...

A good summary of the post-'53 machinations by historian Mark Curtis: https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-sooner-we-get-these-peopl...

Comment · 2 years ago

One of the revelations over the course of this saga was that WordPress.org != WordPress Foundation. It's under the personal control of Matt Mullenweg.

Comment · 2 years ago

As an example of the latter, Pimoroni offer an NVMe “base” that would avoid this problem and leave the PoE header free: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/nvme-base?variant=4121958...

Comment · 2 years ago

Archive link for Ben Blum’s article: https://archive.ph/kn1Eb

The two scientists who conducted “The BBC Prison Study” in the early 2000s wrote about the revelations in the Zimbardo archive material here: https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/time-change-story

Thibault Le Texier, whose book History of a Lie brought this information to light, wrote a summary paper in the American Psychologist: https://letexier.org/IMG/pdf/LeTexier_Debunking-the-SPE_Amer...

Comment · 2 years ago

Note this “disclaimer” in the guide:

> In recent years, development efforts in the OpenVMM project have primarily focused on OpenHCL (AKA: OpenVMM as a paravisor).

> As a result, not a lot of "polish" has gone into making the experience of running OpenVMM in traditional host contexts particularly "pleasant".

> This lack of polish manifests in several ways, including but not limited to: […]

> • No API or feature-set stability guarantees whatsoever.

https://github.com/microsoft/openvmm/blob/main/Guide/src/use...

Comment · 2 years ago

> [This post] (and many others) have done a much better job than I could, explaining from a reader’s perspective why Fandom is bad place to host a wiki,

The linked post (at j3s.sh) appears blank to me, so if others have the same problem here’s an archive link: https://archive.ph/kwt1b