idea: the .= operator

so for example instead of writing:
messages[0]["text"] = messages[0]["text"].replace("foo", "bar")
you can just do:
messages[0]["text"] .= replace("foo", "bar")

(actually i submitted this to python-ideas in 2018 and it didnt get far, probably for the best)

@happyborg i do find that most of the time i reflexively have the thought "i wish i used llms so the llm could do this," it's because i want to avoid the absolutely trivial amount of mental effort involved in, like, bringing up the documentation for how regexes work in vim

@MaddieM4 *deep sigh*

@sil haha I hope you had one for me

You mean they delete your comments in their communities if you bring real life into play lol

@aphyr Doesn’t sound very knowledgeable. Hmm

@PhoenixSerenity Yeah, it's the same old annoying shit I'm sure we've both heard all of our lives. Tiresome.

Sources and records: 11+ NSA and US Cyber Command personnel died by suicide over the 12 months to September, prompting White House and Congressional questions (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-10/more-suicides-at-spy-cyber-agencies-scrutinized-by-congress
http://www.techmeme.com/261110/p54#a261110p54

Safe travels.

@neil Candidly, up to this point, I was shocked that they'd gone this long without some tone-deaf incident against LLM dissent. They outlasted KDE! Well, I suppose I can stop holding my breath now.

@liaizon Not sure what the prospects will be for upstreaming. LibreOffice's maintainers prefer a shared VCL base adapted per platform, while this strips out the VCL UI and builds a new, simplified one directly in GTK4 and libadwaita, so it doesn't fit their architecture well. In any event, I'll put the code in a repo once it's cleaned up.

I mean, what do you expect from an explicitly (m)arxist-(l)eninist instance. Their entire religion is "west bad, russia and china literally the best" and censoring any wrongthink. And yet there you are implying Russia is behind a bad thing. Of course they'd take action against you.

Imo fediverse projects really need to federate instance rules. Just include them in the instance actor (if they aren't already) like you'd do with a community, then use them if available.

Der Name von Roger Federer besteht zu 50 Prozent aus "er".
So wie bei Werner Herzog.
Auch Lady Gaga kommt auf 50% "ga".
Bei Zsa Zsa Gabor sind es sogar 54.5% "zsa".
Giorgio Armani dagegen kommt nur auf 46.2% "gio".

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/117591862633409327

This episode of Dreaming Against the Machine featuring a discussion between @adambecker.bsky.social and @molly0xfff is superb.

@luka @keepandroidopen maybe installing SuperfreeZ from FDroid and blocking/freezing play services at boot would stop this for people unable to replace the os or mess with adb to degoogle

It would mean certain google things won't work but that's a small price to pay

TIL Kate Bush wrote, and sang, a song called Pi. All about the maths constant, with a major part of the lyrics being the decimal expansion of pi.

How had I missed this?

#Mathematics

Average number of corners per pizza slice