infrastructure that looks like sci fi 1/ liquid natural gas tanker

Retrying a failed request is a great way to make a service robust. Retrying a failed request is also a great way to make the entire service fail. Distributed systems are hard.

Fuck it NOR-way

Great LWN summary (as usual) of PEP 703: CPython without a global interpreter lock The work Sam has put into nogil remains absolutely astounding to me. lwn.net/SubscriberLink…

some people who make programming easier (who am I missing?)

This is mind blowing, A rubix cube that you solve inside Postgres - crunchydata.com/developers/pla… h/t Elizabeth Garrett Christensen and David Christensen

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It is official! In 2024, Plone CMS is coming to Brasília! #plone Plone Conference 2025 #oss

The "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since it was created in July of 2003. At present, 0% of the phrases in the original article (seen below) remain.

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Best feature of Python 3.13: typing "exit" will exit in the new REPL (as oppose to printing "Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit"). 😉

You’re going to be looking at things you are not qualified to evaluate line by line. You are not going to understand them. But do you understand how many people let that be the end of their inquisition? Just look around anyway. Read the thing you’ve never read before. And “can’t”

So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career. Along with Maciej Wołczyk we've been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recenlty, something unexpected happened.

We need a Lobster restaurant chain free from capitalism and owned by the dictatorship of the proletariat. We could call it… Red Lobster

You say Carmina I say Carmana You say Burina I say Burana Carmina, Carmana Burina, Burana Let's Carl the whole thing Orff

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At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens. A thread about my favorite story from running OMCB....

How did I not know these work in GitHub😍