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Isn't this a job ad for the United Kingdom (YC1215)?

This feels like a corporate plug with extremely minimal engineering discussion, and which mostly just boasts platform features.

I wouldn't even say this really counts as significant industry news.

There isn't, by design. You write _some_ black-box implementation locally which outputs a textual solution you drop into the browser (at least, this is how it was in 2015 when AoC started).

I can't recommend this enough. I had to miss out on last year's challenges, but planning on participating this year; it's a great way to keep your brain nimble if you feel like you're in a rut.

Honest question: is there any need to poll the touchpad more often than the screen's refresh rate (usually 144Hz or below as of this post)?

That's not a hobby -- that's a job that requires you to shill out to brands while being as loud and obnoxious as possible...

A hobby isn't usually about being popular, it's just something you like doing on your spare time. I'm fairly sure nobody on here who codes in their spare time does it to get laid, but because it's just an interesting way to fill out spare time to them.

While I don't want to downplay his role in mobilizing the community, it's hardly single-handed. Implementing ext/sodium was a group effort by dozens of developers, reviewers, and testers.

While I've found that Haskell's laziness can often be worked around with appropriately-implemented memoization, it's an absolute PITA for anything that requires frequent hops into the IO monad (unsurprisingly). Historically, this has been a bottleneck for me that's prevented me from using Haskell in any major projects.

A Haskell port of a logging library I'd originally written in Python ended up being almost 2 orders of magnitude slower than CPython 3, and almost 3 orders of magnitude slower than PyPy3.

PyPy3 resulted in performance similar to a barely-optimized C port.

As interesting as SIGINT against terrorist networks sounds, I assume most of this is classified -- since the cells are already known to operate smaller, and likely more difficult-to-intercept networks than nations, they'd probably adapt fairly quickly if it were revealed how they're being eavesdropped on.

Progress has to begin somewhere. In another 10 years, this kind of lithography will likely have evolved into something much more viable.

Speaking as a non-American, this is partially-valid point, and a very frustrating one.

While the only people who can affect the decision are Americans (members of congress won't, and fundamentally shouldn't listen to calls and emails sent by foreign nationals), this is an issue that affects much of the internet-using world by virtue of such a large volume of international internet traffic going through lines on US soil.

In this case, it would make sense for there to be a framework whereby international citizens can provide input, but I doubt there's a way to do this without setting a precedent which could seriously compromise the integrity of their federal decision-making bodies (any further).