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Re:Tiny C Compiler on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @08:55PM (#23622604)
The author is incredible:

> On 31 December 2009 he claimed the world record for calculations of pi, having calculated it to nearly 2.7 trillion places in 90 days. Slashdot wrote: "While the improvement may seem small, it is an outstanding achievement because only a single desktop PC, costing less than US$3,000, was used—instead of a multi-million dollar supercomputer as in the previous records."[10][11] On 2 August 2010 this record was eclipsed by Shigeru Kondo who computed 5 trillion digits, although this was done using a server-class machine running dual Intel Xeon processors, equipped with 96 GB of RAM.

Re:Trump suspends H1B, H4 visas till year end on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:51PM (#23607861)
It doesn't apply to transfers since the visa has already been issued.
Re:Hot-swapping Python 3 code on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:53AM (#23515439)
How is this different from using Python Watchdog?

https://pythonhosted.org/watchdog/