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New comment by MoonZ in "Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²)"

MoonZ — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:42:26 +0000

> In fact lookbehinds require a fixed-length pattern

Just a small note: some regex engines support "variable length lookbehind", check the last column on this wikipedia article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_regular_expressi...

New comment by MoonZ in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

MoonZ — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:03:54 +0000

25 years of Python behind me, please let me tell you that hopefully you're wrong : we don't "need" uv :)

New comment by MoonZ in "Making Google Sans Flex"

MoonZ — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:16:04 +0000

1°) Gesture navigation is entirely optional.

2°) Android followed UX/UI 101 about where to put frequently used buttons: where you can reach them with your thumb. Basic design, right ? Apple iOS: the close/back button is usually on the top left corner, unreachable by right-handed users that only constitutes 90% of people, number about the same in all countries and cultures. That's only one example, but that bag where it comes from is deep.

You should take a few steps back before displaying publicly polarizing opinions and maybe nuance your words a bit.

New comment by MoonZ in "Flow – A Programmer's Text Editor"

MoonZ — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:24:05 +0000

Extracting log entries from large files for troubleshooting, mass editing, mass formatting... This missing feature is the only reason I wasn't able to get far with the vim family: I didn't find a close enough way to do the same tasks as efficiently.

New comment by MoonZ in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

MoonZ — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 05:18:55 +0000

I'm so happy to read this, I've been thinking about this question for a while now, and I think it would help a lot:

Big companies where revenues are based on marketing would collapse, the market fragments (which is good), smaller companies are created instead, better diversity of local products and services. Better wealth distribution. More money for the government, hopefully better public services.

With less flashy products and services, people have a better purchasing power, even considering they'll have to pay for services they use, like reviews. Review companies would need strict controls to be put in place against corruption.

It would probably also change a lot of nonsensical landscapes (ex: sports)

Advertising is evil.

New comment by MoonZ in "Nvidia Warp: Python framework for high-performance simulation and graphics code"

MoonZ — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:38:46 +0000

That makes that the best thing, when you're into computing like computational geometry (and not hyped by the AI bubble)

New comment by MoonZ in "Peculiar pattern found in 'random' prime numbers"

MoonZ — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:03:05 +0000

just tested it against the 10000 first prime numbers in Sublime Text : 2462 prime numbers have a direct neighbour with the same last digit. That's nearly a quarter of them... Edit: by taking into account sequences with 3 identical digits (110 occurrences), it's even more.