What the other person is trying to explain to you is that your Yubikey solution fails the following scenario: you leave your laptop at school.
With TouchID, nobody can unlock it. With a Yubikey in the USB-C port, anyone could unlock it.
That's why macOS Yubikey login integration requires you to type in a PIN on the lock screen. At which point it's no different from typing in a password.
A big chunk of the performance gain comes from the fact that with tail calls the CPU doesn't have to reset the registers (configured through the `preserve_none` calling convention).
Simon Willison is a great guy, but he's not a Python core developer and his ad hoc benchmark is not what the CPython core team members are using. For the latter, see https://github.com/faster-cpython/benchmarking-public
> I'd maybe quibble with "running natively on WebAssembly with speed in the same order of magnitude as Rust" given I expect that statement would be just as true if you replaced Rust on WebAssembly with the equivalent JavaScript.
This is incorrect. It's widely publicized that WebAssembly is often faster than JavaScript.
Work on what you want, so don't let me deter you. But in my personal case, what pushed me from fish to xonsh was that I could never quite internalize the way it wanted to do functions, if statements (and tests inside them) and loops.
Once you were reading code, it made sense for the most part. But when I had to write a new multiline command or a script, I had to look things up in documentation constantly. For my brain "similar but different" was torture, not an advantage.
With Xonsh you get real Python and this solves all my problems. As soon as you learn what $VAR, $(CMD), and @EXPR do, you're good to go!
Markdown is plaintext so you decide what it means. I personally write *italic* and **bold**, so I can use _underline_. Most Markdown to HTML converters would make the last example into italic, but you can customize many of them.
Commonmark doesn't even mention "bold", "italic", and "underline". It just says "emphasis" and "strong emphasis". You can style it however you want.
I wholeheartedly agree with this post. I also keep my notes in Markdown, I also have plenty of Python scripting around them, including automatic publishing of my website.
I use FSNotes today on macOS and iOS. Both apps are open source, both use well-structured .textbundle directories that separate Markdown content from JSON metadata and binary attachments. Synchronization happens through Git. It's a very powerful combination.
Ironically, I wrote a blog post some 8 years ago about this very subject. That blog post is now offline.
Not sure how much "trust" I actually need there. It's mostly convenience for me where it's easy to kill results from websites you never want to see again. This process allows for getting terrific results real quick after you start using it. Also not having ads is great, because you know the result ordering isn't affected by that, and your ad blocker won't be breaking your experience every now and then.
On top of that it's pretty fast and the price is right.
Xonsh is a fantastic shell. I literally think they are most hindered by the name at this point, since it's one of those clever names that are pronounced in a peculiar way and one that doesn't convey too well that it's really Python + sh in a beautifully consistent design.
A fair point about what? Threads is out for less than a day, I have 8 followers there so far. I originally posted this information on Mastodon, actually:
https://mastodon.social/@ambv/110665808046065754
However, I have a much larger following on Twitter, so it was the tweet that got picked up by someone here on HN.
With TouchID, nobody can unlock it. With a Yubikey in the USB-C port, anyone could unlock it.
That's why macOS Yubikey login integration requires you to type in a PIN on the lock screen. At which point it's no different from typing in a password.
Not equivalent to TouchID at all.