@futurebird maybe make the interface that you send messages to a mastodon bot account, and then you can use mastodon's moderation tools

@futurebird that complexity only comes in if you have to deal with spam and abuse, and that only becomes an issue once the thing already has traction so you can just not worry about it initially

@xgranade either you're shipping a python library, in which case you can just ship a source package, or you're already using something like pyinstaller and building for every OS cross architecture, no?

@xgranade how does wasm help here? wouldn't you have to ship a different wasm runtime for every architecture/OS

if there's a hell edward teller is definitely down there but von neumann is probably there too

this applies the same to mortgages before 2008 and to nuclear weapons

this is neat, someone verified the space-saving algorithm in why3 https://toccata.gitlabpages.inria.fr/toccata/gallery/space_saving.fr.html

@chris__martin there were so man coup attempts, generals being assasinated, etc in imperial japan. the simplest explanation for why japan ended up in WWII was more and more risk taking over time caused by the threat of some young officer killing the generals if they didn't

@xgranade why is this a problem?

@chris__martin if kids are going to read Orwell they should read Homage to Catalonia first

@whitequark it's not a coincidence that the first typewriters were made by remington

@whitequark industrial manufacturing was originally developed for making rifles

@chris__martin you can also write quickcheck tests in any unit testing library if you write your own generators, but the value in quickcheck is that it helps you with the generators

@chris__martin if I write my own sampler