The stupidest thing was discovering that `os.path.exists` can accept integers, and treats them as file descriptors, meaning `os.path.exists(0)` is true, and anything that coerces to 0 is also true for example the Boolean value false
Yesterday was quite unusual for me, I spent a whole day on one thing, writing python. It was also mostly quite pleasant.
I’ve reached half a day fighting $REDACTED_INTERNAL_CICD and can stomach no more. On to something else
Huh, replicateM (where "M" once meant "Monad") now operates on Applicative. I can see how that happened, the API is being preserved (it's still in Control.Monad). I guess it's like map and fmap not being the same. #haskell
New blog post: Lanzarote
https://jmtd.net/log/lanzarote/
A stream-of-conciousness blog post to get back into the habit, discussing our holiday to Lanzarote, Autistic Burnout, the UK special needs education system, Pandoc parsers, the AI control problem and the issue of copyright and LLMs. #software #debian
https://jmtd.net/log/lanzarote/
A stream-of-conciousness blog post to get back into the habit, discussing our holiday to Lanzarote, Autistic Burnout, the UK special needs education system, Pandoc parsers, the AI control problem and the issue of copyright and LLMs. #software #debian
New blog post: FOSDEM 2026 talk recording available
https://jmtd.net/log/fosdem/2026/video/
The video recording and slides for my FOSDEM 2026 talk (Java Memory Management in Containers) are available. I hope to write a proper postmortem blog post soon. #containers #java
https://jmtd.net/log/fosdem/2026/video/
The video recording and slides for my FOSDEM 2026 talk (Java Memory Management in Containers) are available. I hope to write a proper postmortem blog post soon. #containers #java
Goldman Sachs launches AI-free index
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/20/ai-goldman-sachs-stocks-index
Goldman Sachs has launched an S&P ex-AI index, SPXXAI, which that lets you invest in the S&P 500 benchmark index minus all things AI.
This product is proof of the demand among investors for a way to hedge their exposure to the AI trade.
@rivets I thought I did too ;) At some point I want to look at making blog posts first-class Fediverse objects
https://jmtd.net/log/lanzarote A stream-of-conciousness blog post to get back into the habit, discussing our holiday to Lanzarote, Autistic Burnout, the UK special needs education system, Pandoc parsers, the AI control problem and the issue of copyright and LLMs.
My primary reason for working on a moinmoin reader for pandoc has gone away (change of strategy for migrating Debian’s wiki) but I’ve kept working on it anyway.
@textfiles hi, random Q, I think you have a one-page site with a fanfare ending “internet!!!!” But I can’t remember what it is. Can you tell me please?
@pndc yes. To be clear that was an extrapolation of my argument to not fix known issues; I don’t feel it should be done!