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justmyname··on Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’
One correction. Her surname is Elbakyan.
justmyname··on Real World Haskell
Install nix? Already done. What's the second step?
justmyname··on Everything you need to know about windsocks
Exactly that is mentioned in the article.
justmyname··on The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’ rises from the grave
Caspian sea monster had a static ceiling around 3000m. Just enough for a rebase to Mediterranean Sea.
justmyname··on Discipline Doesn’t Scale
That's a quite unobvious consequence of the software progress. Making software be "a bunch of bricks for creating applications" do come with costs. And the main cost is performance.
justmyname··on I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
Thank you, Niek, for sharing that story. Such cases should be maximally open and transparent for people to learn the real risks.
justmyname··on Handcalcs: Automatically render Latex equations from Python math code
As I see on the demo, it evaluates the expression itself. There is a ton of possibilities to misinterpret the domain of operations involved. Moreover, how should we control the details to which it should unwind the undergoing calculations?

That way of work seems a bit too optimistic to me.

justmyname··on Guide to Python Debugging
Oh, having full ipython during debug investigations is much better than using pure pdb.set_trace(). Thank you.
justmyname··on Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)
Fun fact about fortran: its creator (John Backus) was fond of functional programming, but that was after the fortran creation.
justmyname··on This person does not exist
Guessed 10/10, but that was much harder than 5 years ago.
justmyname··on Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer
I have remembered the order of arguments since I figured out that the second argument is optional. So the link name is of course optional, not the original file's one.