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Arrow's impossibility theorem has been so worn-out by pretentious youtubers that it is hard to take it seriously anymore.

It is great when programming languages offer robust ways to cleanup resources.

At the core of async programming is the idea that you move all I/O to a central main loop that might look something like this: def main(): while True: events = perform_blocking_io() handle_events(events) While the general structure is…

Unix time is the number of seconds that have elapsed since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC).

I do most of my work in terminals, using a multitude of small, composable command line tools.

When Wayland arrived on the scene some time around 2013, it promised increased security: in X11, any client can monitor the inputs and outputs of other clients.

Technically, dynamic range refers to the ratio between the brightest and darkest absolute luminance that can be displayed.

You know the situation: Dialogue in a movie is barely audible, so you turn the volume all the way up.

A couple of days ago I tried to access the excellent Arch Wiki and was greeted with this text instead (emphasis mine): You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies

I recently tried to figure out income taxes and came across one of those absurd piecewise-defined tax curves.