I think OP means user-friendly in the relationship user-company, not user-government.

No, it's much too low. OP shows Pearson's X^2 for their results, but that alone is meaningless. p-value would be the interesting metric. I haven't computed it (although we could from the results) but I expect it to be very high, i.e. it's likely to observe these results even with perfect dice.

powers e.g. the Human Organ Atlas https://human-organ-atlas.esrf.fr/

On desktop you can look at the organs directly in the browser via neuroglancer

Is this being downvoted because of the tone, or because state machines are unpopular/inappropriate in this case?

Genuine question, because this feels like a sensible solution to the problem as stated in the article.

It made no reference to the 'shared' in 'shared state'.

No mention of asynchrony, multithreading, or the race condition that TFA encountered.

The “attempt 2” was literally a state machine implementation which the author rejected because they didn’t know how to do it properly and so did it badly using a bunch of if then else logic.

A difficult prerequisite for that might be untangling a very unatomic codebase into testable chunks. And to determine a feasible "level of abstraction" to write tests for. Testing a full pipeline of a numerical library might be as impractical as testing super tiny functions, because both won't allow you to really work on the codebase.

I think it does? How would Whatsapp or Signal group chats work then?

Tiny nitpick: you actually can pin messages in Signal group chats. It's a pretty recent addition though.

Apart from that, I would have been interested in more details about the author's experience with ~Revolt~ Stoat. To my naive eyes it looks pretty nice. I really like the nuanced takes about the other platforms in this article, so I'd guess the author has some good reasons to dismiss Stoat like that.

How do you search messages from before you joined the mailing list?

Mail list archives. But at the point where the oss community I was part of switched, I had had a backlog of 8 years of mails.

You check the mailing list archives - those usually have a web based interface.

Admittedly I was being facetious: OP said mailing lists are better than a forum, but for searching the archive you need a forum-like interface anyway.

Its a bit easier as it can be read-only & static generated. Though there are some attempts to make it possible to reply using the Web interface, like HyperKitty /Mailman 3.

Google? Actually back in the day, gmane was the shiznit.

FWIW the afaik most common symbolic math Python library sympy does that on the first page of their tutorial. I think in this space it's pretty common.

https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorials/intro-tutorial/intro...

I have to admit that I still like to use the ancient

    from pylab import *

in scripts that only I will ever see. It makes it so much easier to use numpy in a "tool of thought" way. I would never do this in a library, though.

Two wrongs don't make a right. It risks significant ambiguity in longer snippets or files, and is therefore bad practice.