quietly: although state actors have the means and opportunity to slip a back door into open source projects, usually things are a lot more targeted

it would not surprise me if the motive turned out to be farming crypto, especially since the backdoor was noisy enough to show up in performance tests

nostr:npub1pfe56vzppw077dd04ycr8mx72dqdk0m95ccdfu2j9ak3n7m89nrsf9e2dm i think my fav is https://etna.math.kent.edu/vol.52.2020/pp358-369.dir/pp358-369.pdf the sequences that should converge but don’t, due to rounding errors

which only gets worse as you *add* precision

nostr:npub1pfe56vzppw077dd04ycr8mx72dqdk0m95ccdfu2j9ak3n7m89nrsf9e2dm yeeeeep https://go.dev/play/p/HFrHlaWpONm

although python's worst feature in my mind is "default args at define time"

tripped up on the “go loop variables aren’t inside the loop block” closure bug and i am very “you had _one_ job, rob pike”