I’m sceptical about this idea but, to give it full credit, it’s a custom piece of hardware that would presumably be more accurate than previous software-only attempts. Maybe it will actually work this time, idk, although I still don’t really see the point.
Matches the name of episode 152[1] the Wikipedia article cites for the info. Seems the classification of seasons and even the season's episode order on Wikipedia differs from the one in the Youtube title.
> This is a Python specific problem caused by everything being boxed
I would say it is part python being highly dynamic and part C++ being full of undefined behavior.
A c++ compiler will only optimize member access if it can prove that the member isn't overwritten in the same thread. Compatible pointers, opaque method calls, ... the list of reasons why that optimization can fail is near endless, C even added the restrict keyword because just having write access to two pointers of compatible types can force the compiler to reload values constantly. In python anything is a function call to some unknown code and any function could get access to any variable on the stack (manipulating python stack frames is fun).
Then there is the fun thing the C++ compiler gets up to with varibles that are modified by different threads, while(!done) turning into while(true) because you didn't tell the compiler that done needs to be threadsafe is always fun.
What is going on here is not, that an attribute might be changed concurrently and the interpreter can't optimize the access. That is also a consideration. But the major issue is that an attribute doesn't really refer to a single thing at all, but instead means whatever object is returned by a function call that implements a string lookup. __getattr__ is not an implementation detail of the language, but something that an object can implement how it wants to, just like __len__ or __gt__. It's part of the object behaviour, not part of the static interface. This is a fundamental design goal of the Python language.
And what do you do with that information? Refuse to fork after you detect more than one thread running? I haven’t seen any code that gracefully handles the unable-to-fork scenario. When people write fork-based code, especially in Python, they always expect forking to succeed.
> "don't let kids use a computer until they're 18"
Ideally you would lock them up in a padded room until then. There is a significant amount of shared real world space that isn't supervised and doesn't require any age verification to enter either.
Notably, explicitly adult spaces like bars and porn shops are not among them, and a significant amount of virtual space would also not require age verification for the same reason.
Rules vary. In Britain it was completely normal for say 15-year old me to be in a bar - it was illegal to buy booze but not a problem to be there. But when I travelled to Austin aged 19 I couldn't meet adult members of my team in the hotel bar because I wasn't old enough even though by then I was legal to drink, to marry, to go to war and so on in my own country.
A little while after that, back in the UK, I drove my young cousin to the seaside. I didn't carry ID - I don't drink and you're not required to carry ID to drive here† so it was never necessary back then, but she did, so I try to buy her booze, they demand ID, I do not have any ID so I can't buy it even though I'm old enough to drink. So, she just orders her own booze, she's under age but they don't ask because she's pretty.
† The law here says police are allowed to ask to see a driving license if you're in charge of a vehicle on a public road, but, since you aren't required to carry it they can require you to attend a police station and show documents within a few days. In practice in 2026 police have network access and so they can very easily go from "Jim Smith, NW1A 4DQ" to a photo and confirmation that you're licensed to drive a bus or whatever if you are co-operative.
Given that nobody else banned it we can now blame Microsoft for taking down the only decent online community. Now we are stuck on hackernews and its ilk.
Decent communities that strive for a high standard of conversation like r/credibledefense/ will immediately ban you for posting such nonsense.
Go look and tell me that's not one of the best curated communities on the internet, despite specifically covering incredibly controversial topics. HN is good but doesn't even come close.
The rules they enforce on normal posts are so strict that they have to create daily "mega" threads with less stringend rules just to keep the sub on life support. A+ moderation, clearly a healthy and well managed community.
On life support with those "mega" threads getting 1000+ comments a day?
The split works very well, the megathreads mostly stick to tracking rapidly developing situations in which separate threads would just be spammy and unnecessarily fragment the conversation
Modern versions of standard C aren't very portable either, unless you plan to stick to the original version of K&R C you have to pick and choose which implementations you plan to support.
I disagree. Modern C with C17 and C23 make this less of an issue. Sure, some vendors suck and some people take shortcuts with embedded systems, but the standard is there and adopted by GCC, Clang and even MSVC has shaped up a bit.
Well, if that is the standard for portability then may_alias might as well be standard. GCC and Clang support it and MSVC doesn't implement the affected optimization as far as I can find.
Within the context of this discussion portability was mentioned as key feature of the standard. If C23 adoption is as limited as the, possibly outdated, tables on cppreference and your comments about gcc, clang and msvc suggest then the functionality provided by the gcc attribute would be more portable than C23 conformant code. You could call it a de facto standard, as opposed to C23 which is a standard in the sense someone said so.
These "edge cases" were required knowledge to get a license in my home country. You make room for any emergency vehicles, you don't try to score an ultra kill when passing a school bus and you certainly don't drive on rail tracks.
I’ve seen pictures in Germany where cars will move to the side of the expressway during a traffic jam to make room for emergency vehicles. I could tell that wasn’t the USA for sure.
> While you type, the keyboard quietly records how you type — the rhythm, the pauses between keys, where your finger lands, how hard you press.
> Nobody types the same way. Your pattern is as unique as your handwriting. That's the signal.
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