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the -i command line option is very useful not only from script raising exception, it will give you bac a shell after the script is executed

for example

  python3 -i -c "from math import *"
  >>> sqrt(2)
  1.4142135623730951

one big problem with pickle is that deserialization might fail if the object serialized evolve

no https://query.wikidata.org ?

linear algebra looks seems easy because the majority of promblems are non linear problems and as such untractable except when you approximate them to linear problems

same here

Of my understanding, tkinter is not in python packages because it needs an WM to run correctly

The graph is that bad. the scales start at 80 and 70 which make random noise looks like significant information.

I believe that I understood the code tagged as follow

> (But don't be alarmed if this looks confusing - we could probably fit everyone on the planet who understands this code today into a small meeting room.)

and the follow up reading confirm what I believed about this code

should I be worried about myself ?

As far as I know, the general consensus is that Stephen Wolfram is smart, but most what is write is crap especially in this book.

an interesting measure would be the processor cache miss

it is used to called tau and will be enable as math.tau in python 3.6.

I don't know what is wrong at facebook, but I have zero image

GPL explicitly cover the library case, a linked library must be relased under GPL too.

Actually, even if it's a license violation only copyright owner (so wordpress contributors) can enforce it.

From my point of view, which is biased relatively to the HN target audience because I'm not so much interested in the startup things, reddit is overall superior to HN, either concerning the posts or the comment thread. concerning the technological news feed, my best source of content is definitely https://lobste.rs/

except that facebook can make ad for malware independently of flaw in facebook code

I was confused with their acceptable ad policy. You looks right, adblock plus seemps open source since ever

since when adblock plus is open source ?

memory safety imply that if you do something bad you will be stopped (with "invalid memory" issues for example), not that it is illegal to write something bad

> This tries to imply that having a VM is a bad thing.

What net value add a VM (appart something more to handle) ?

> Should this suggest that Java doesn't have trings?

as long as you stick with basic multilingual plane you can consider that java strings are ok

> It is questionable whether this is good or not. There are a lot of good concurrency libs for the JVM.

Concurrency in the JVM is hard to have right

Nim is interesting, but in my opinion, it wants to kill to much bird in one shoot.

I have hard time to understand what you mean (begining at if we could refactor ...) can you give examples ?

I did not have such problem with firefox.

why not an ipython notebook ?

They mention that it's super fast without index. Is there a win with index ?

it is not mathemical strategies but just bare visualisation

"Google users don’t block search ads because they are useful."

Nice joke Larry Page !

I go back to my uBlock origin ad safe browser

knowing the previous game of a player is not such an advantage at least in go

There are european pro, which are kind of sponsored by a chinese company. (Fan Hui rank is a chinese professional rank however)