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Re:Lesser known parts of Python standard library – Trickster Dev on Thursday September 05, 2024 @04:59AM (#41454849)
Actually it is

  from __future__ import braces
You can remove paywalls on nytimes website by disabling javascript.
Re:Reorient GitHub Pull Requests Around Changesets on Saturday September 30, 2023 @05:42PM (#37720154)
I believe sapling uses https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack under the hood for stacked PR.
Re: on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:06PM (#37694151)
Re:PID Control Challenges on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:38AM (#37657273)
That was well explained ! Really interested if you can go into more detail about multi-stage ranking, compact posting lists and stuff.
Re:0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt on Friday September 22, 2023 @04:32PM (#37617373)
Related recent episode of Darknet Diaries about the Predator spyware: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/137/.
Re:A Conversation with Renaissance Technologies CEO Peter Brown on Thursday September 14, 2023 @06:13AM (#37507029)
And for those interested, another podcast with Nick Patterson, who is mentioned at the beginning of this one: https://robohub.org/talking-machines-ai-safety-and-the-legac...
Re:Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995) on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @04:34AM (#36783517)
This episode of corecursive https://corecursive.com/json-vs-xml-douglas-crockford/ makes a nice presentation about the landscape at the time and why it was called javascript.
Yes from 1986 to 1996-99. It is legal since then.

Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiffrement#En_France (in french)

Re:Microsoft will have to buy OpenAI in 2023 on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:57AM (#34309006)
I believe OpenAI is for profit since 2019 now. See https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprof...