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Surveillance won't stop and the warrants won't start. Now what?

An opportunistic politician would be wise to draft a bill around surveillance transparency and go to all of the people voting against Section 702 here for support (solid arm twist that backs them into a PR corner).

They should have done base64 encryption before the crc32. noobs

I have used Python as my main language since the late 90s and it has been over the last decade and half been getting more unserious.

It would be nice if cpython opened up a bit, pluggable GC and JIT would go along way towards reducing this manufactured drama.

It wasn't cool to see PyPy or Stackless getting sidelined.


This isn't really a substantive comment, and to at least one extent it's trivially falsifiable (15 years is before Python 3 became usable, so that alone is a "serious" change in the language).

> pluggable GC and JIT would go along way

One of the points mentioned in the linked discussion is explicitly about ensuring that the JIT design enables multiple implementations.


Python 2 to 3 transition was also unserious.

The flippant attitude of cpythons wrt the standard library is also unfortunate.

Please with your substantive comment comment.


It seems to have been serious enough; I don't think Python would have succeeded as a language if they hadn't done Python 3.

> Please with your substantive comment comment.

I think binning things as drama isn't substantive, particularly when noting about the linked conversation seems dramatic. I also think they're actually talking about the thing you want (pluggable JIT), so the objection seems incongruous.


> I don't think Python would have succeeded as a language if they hadn't done Python 3.

I assumed Python 2 was pretty much ubiquitous and that the world wasn't adopting Python 3 very quickly for a long time, but I do wonder if the applications I was working with a decade and a half ago (ArcGIS, Blender, Civ4, lots of Red Hat system tools, etc.) biased that viewpoint.


That's debatable. We can't go back in history, but if it were not for ML/data science, I believe python 3 would have killed python. At that time web dev / CLI utilities were major use cases, and that was the time golang became mainstream.

Data science, and then ofc DL being done through python just when python 3 was kinda usable (around 3.3/3.4) was a struck of luck timing-wise.


And rightly so, he defeated them, think of what he could have done in the inside!


What limits the length of the lever? The agricultural lever is already crazy long, the manufacturing lever, same. We could be doing the same with less, not more with the same.

When do we stop?


> The agricultural lever is already crazy long

Depends on where in the world you're looking. In India, something like 50% of the population works in agriculture. At the scale of India's population that's a significant fraction of the population of the planet, it's more than twice the population of the entire US.


No written rules is fascism.


A strong enough type system can catch permission problems.


The solution there would be a capabilities based OS, however adoption hasn't been great on that regard.


I'd love to see CHERI (for the room) and Wasm take off, no time like the present.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Hardware_Enhanced_R...

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/


If only the US department of health had a bold vision on how to solve this.


When someone demands you go to Epstein Island you swim if you have to.

This is the same guy that is testing autonomous murder drones in Ukraine to make his next billion.

So much let them eat cake energy with this guy.


You're not serious, are you? Who is being "murdered" in Ukraine? Do those people have any right, or any business to be there? Whose country is Ukraine anyway?


In the phrase "murder drones", murder describes the the drone itself. It doesn't make a qualitative statement about the murder itself. A murder drone is a type of drone that operates autonomously, without an active operator, like an autonomous landmine. You have over indexed on the word.


Everyone trained on Anna's Archive.


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