A while back I wrote that the "official" Mastodon app seemed to be optimized for mastodon.social at the expense of smaller instances. Now that its onboarding page will steer new users directly toward mastodon.social, I'm convinced I was right.

It's not a Mastodon client. It's a mastodon.social client. The fact that it can also connect to other instances feels like an afterthought that it'll eventually remove.

https://blog.freeradical.zone/post/skip-mastodon-for-iphone/

A familiar member recently had a medical emergency with approximately the same urgency and simplicity of treatment as acute appendicitis. We just got the bill:

- Hospital charged insurance $60000.
- Insurance said nah, that was worth $20000 tops.
- Insurance paid the hospital $17000.
- Because our insurance is “good”, we “only” owe the hospital about $3000 for the 6 hours we were there.

Boy, sure glad we don’t have that socialism medicine. /s

#murica

Oof, what a week. Hi gang!

@TheGibson Tell us more. What's HOPE like as an attendee?

@TheGibson Would someone attend DEF CON *and* HOPE?

Tibetan woman holding flowers, only they're not flowers they're cryptocurrency mining PSUs.

(Via Reddit)

@ekaitz_zarraga I think so too. I could see it being hard to use heuristics to decide which pattern to use, so let the programmer be explicit about it. I mean, today you can abuse `settrace` to do all sorts of weird and wonderful things to the call stack, and that's built in. Good tail call support couldn't possibly be potentially worse than that.

@ekaitz_zarraga I dig Guido, but I think he's wrong here. I'd hope he's rethought this since then:

1st: I'd happy have a `@optimize_recursion` decorator that let *me* decide whether I wanted performance or debugability on a per-function basis.

2nd: All implementations must be equally bad? ಠ_ಠ

3rd: Recursion doesn't solve everything. Neither does FP or OOP, but Python supports those.

4th: Sure, it'd be hard. But if someone wants to do it, yay!

I absolutely love writing Python code, but some parts of the community drive me nuts.

Q: Why can't Python recursion be faster?A: "Deep recursion is evil" - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67988828/why-is-python-recursion-so-expensive-and-what-can-we-do-about-it

WTF. Deep recursion is freaking awesome, except that Python sucks at it because it doesn't have TCO. I bet if it added TCO, the same people would be saying deep recursion is the best thing ever.