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>They can pick right up from where they left off after they figure out how to dig Wash out of the ground.

The animated show is set between the original series and the movie, presumably because of Wash's character.


It’s sad that Ron Glass is no longer with us and can’t reprise his role as Shepherd Book.

I liked him in Barney Miller, so he and I go way back...

Oh man, Barney Miller, Night Court, WKRP,... golden age of US TV dramedy.

I recently tried watching the new Night Court reboot.

Didn’t really interest me.


> In several Gallup measurements over the next three decades, including the most recent in 2019, the large majority of Black Americans have said the use of Black vs. African American doesn't matter to them.

Not caring is not acceptance. The term is literally racist both and origin. Unfortunately they were denied being called simply Americans due to historical reasons. African American is sadly also a misnomer given that there’s barely any connection to Africa for the people generally referred to as “black”.

Notice how everyone else is called by nationality or origin.


Black is absolutely accepted as an accepted adjective. Especially with the capital-b, Black is used to refer to the unique Black culture and heritage in the United States. Black history is one where people were taken from their nations or places of origin, transported to a foreign land, and put in bondage. As you say in your own comment, many black or African-American people (whichever label you prefer) have little connection to Africa; it wouldn't make sense to them to refer to them by nationality or origin, when Black culture is its own thing.

Don't get it twisted: I agree that the history of African-Americans in the US is one marred by slavery, segregation, racism, and the constant struggle to attain and retain equality. But out of that came something unique that many black people celebrate to this day.



Gitlab started in 2011. Which, granted, is still after 2007.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gitlab


A developer wrote a paper in 2020 about how to make Python substantially (5x) faster.

Microsoft then funded a 'Fast CPython' team that included Guido, to realize that goal. They disbanded the team in June.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-311-faster-cpyt...


That is a common misconception.

> Next, we've got more than just two tables. The quote/paraphrase doesn't make it clear, but we've got two tables per thing. That means Accounts have an "account_thing" and an "account_data" table, Subreddits have a "subreddit_thing" and "subreddit_data" table, etc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/z9sm8/comment/...


And the important lesson from that the k/v-like aspect of it. That the "schema" is horizontal (is that a thing?) and not column-based. But I actually only read it on their blog IIRC and never even got the full details - that there's still a third ID column. Thanks for the link.


"insufficient data for meaningful answer", one might say.


Small in terms of team size, not impact.

SQLite is developed by 3 people. They don't accept outside contributions.


It should (also) serve as a reminder that OpSec is important.


Maybe a reminder to also not sell heavy drugs to children or to order murder for hire?


When did he sell heavy drugs to children?

When did he sell drugs?


Leaving out ‘When did he pay to have someone killed’ from your question is disingenuous, because he directly did that.

He facilitated drug sales. If you setup ‘clucks brick and mortar Silk Road’ you’d be just as guilty.

I don’t think that was ever rosses ethical objective though, I’m pretty sure he felt that drugs should be less illegal and safe. I’m under the impression that Silk Road had rules on what could be sold, and that post SR markets do allow those things, but I could be wrong.


Allegedly. The charge that he paid to have someone killed was never brought into court and never ruled on. Federal agents had access to the site at that point and could have posed the chat. Not really provable one way or the other.

Not defending him, but clarifying that it's not proven "he directly did that"


There are search engines that sell api access to their index. Pretty sure Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex all do.

Blekko also did, 10 years ago. When they still existed.


I think Brave Search does too?


We do: brave.com/api


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