I kind of expected a lot of this; I remember the sendmail 4 book from back in the day when O’Reilly had that, DNS and BIND, and Perl as the entirety of its corpus.

Unsolicited “good morning message” - is that what it’s called now?

They are. Arrested doesn’t even imply “charged”; it’s a threatening tactic, but the pilice and the cps know nothing will get very far in court.

I’m primarily transfixed, not by the example in your comment, but that you don’t voice the “th” in “with”.

It won’t (using your example explicitly) but in general what you’ve discovered is that:

1. Variables hold values
2. Some of those values are references to shared mutable objects.

Lists fall into the second category. There are ways to copy lists if you want distinct behaviour.

list2 = list1[:]

will perform a “shallow copy”. If you have a list of lists, however, the nested lists are still shared references. There is copy.deepcopy available to make a complete clone of something (including all its nested members).

Snowcrash.

Yeah, a more modern take on mutexes (as boxes for values) and support for structured concurrency would be fabulous. Those are somewhat orthogonal to the goal of being able to write straight-line code without function colouring. Long ago, eventlet provided something like this [although it had smoe subtle and deep bugs that took a long time to track down].

Potentially, a major stumbling-block would be providing machinery so that interleaved FFI & python calls can cooperate (if that’s determined as being in-scope, which it ultimately should be).

The writer is not wrong about the awful ergonomics of having to deal with async. Project Loom took a long time to land but it really demonstrates how to do this kind of thing right.

I’m surprised their response wasn’t, “you’re all on the side of predators; it’s as simple as that”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/29/peter-kyle-nigel-farage-extreme-pornographers-online-safety-bill

You’ve managed to pivot from idiot to twat. Take a breather.

“…the barrel.” Apples don’t come in bunches, but at the time the saying was coined they were carted around like that. (Also it only took one, not a few.)

(I suppose the modern version is “one nazi spoils the bar.”)

Even the standard formulation of newtonian dynamics admits nondeterminism. (This requires a non-Lipschitz setup to work; and in any case it doesn’t describe the world we live in. Also it’s a mathematical description, not the real thing.)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mnnje4wlro

“One of the officers was taken to hospital with injuries to her back and has since been discharged, while the other officer received medical treatment at the scene after being struck on the back of his legs.”

If you’re going to take direct action, then you do so and if the police turn up you get arrested and go through the system; that’s kind of the traditional “British way” of doing direct action - it’s still pretty polite. So the six arrested here sound like right arseholes, Samuel Corner not the least (see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20l0vzpn1mo). Having said that, I can’t read “assaulted people with sledgehammers” without conjuring up images of life-threatening and life-changing injuries. So I think that whilst he’s a knob, this sounds like a scuffle rather than the picture that immediately springs to mind. I guess there’ll be more detail in November.

That being said: that was a year ago. The recent prohibition immediately followed someone spray-painting some planes, and that’s the thing in the public mind. I think most people associate that sort of thing with chucking soup over the frame of a painting - there’s not been a direct line drawn in the media between the burglary last August and the recent activities. I don’t think there’s been a claim of further assaults by P.A. or that it’s their general MO. Certainly the thing that hit the press recently appeared to be “victimless” in that regard (we’d have heard about it otherwise).

So the public outrage is at the outlawing of an organisation that probably summons a mental image of the Campbell Soup brigade rather than a kneecapping; that and some well-publicised awkward policing is what is behind the protests. I don’t think that anyone protesting this would be anything but appalled at thuggery.

There appears to be something of a rebrand to “Yvette Cooper”.

I’m not quite sure why you fetishise a bit-for-bit over semantic equivalence. Doesn’t it turn “it works on my machine” into "it works on my machine as long as it has this sha: … "?

Yes. Any normal person would be in it for the Gwent.

Concessions, or sinecures?

I am no messenger.

But I do bring you a message:

the message - of death!

If the claim is that his obnoxious behaviour is nothing to do with his drug habit, I’m prepared to accept that.

Now you mention it, the Mars thing was - and continues to be - another unscientific pipedream. The examples I gave were all plainly stupid and/or disgusting at the time.