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by Spivak 1y ago
Welcome to the Python community's "subclassing is only for sharing code, user-beware if you try to use it for anything else."
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by Spivak 1y ago
The fundamental tension is that there is real complexity to running services in production that you can't avoid/hide with a better abstraction. So your options are to deal with the complexity (the k8s case) or pay someone else to
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by Spivak 1y ago
I like it, I think it's a good way to encourage people who otherwise may have not given the linux desktop a chance. I think one of the big hurdles he's going to be getting new users used to the command line. Because I know there&#
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by Spivak 1y ago
Well that's one way to end run around searches you're not legally allowed to perform.
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by Spivak 1y ago
I think high schools / universities do their students such a disservice assigning books that students don't have the life experience to understand. Like they can read the book and analyze it sure but they're going to hate it
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean if you define superior not in terms of its technical merits but because of its blessed status by Google. It's not a terrible format but it is very much "what is the worst quality we can reasonably get away with to save on b
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by Spivak 1y ago
It's maybe inefficient to hotbox everyone but I think I would rather that than give my government the green light to define and identify defectors. If humanity has proven one thing over and over and over again to itself it's that
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by Spivak 1y ago
Out of scope—pledge is designed to allow developers to sandbox their own programs to deal with compromises. If someone finds a bug with your program that tricks it into opening an arbitrary file then pledge just saved you. These sandboxing
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by Spivak 1y ago
Has the tide finally turned against fruit due to its sugar content? So it's just eat your veggies then? Do we update the saying—"a vitamin c supplement a day keeps the doctor away?"
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by Spivak 1y ago
Make sure to read the article before commenting because this proposed practice is specifically to close the gender gap in which girls are ahead . Parents specifically try to get their sons redshirted for the advantage it confers. The propo
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by Spivak 1y ago
But then you get to list every invention that was funded by taxpayer dollars and well.. you end up with two very long lists. Every modern economy is a mixed economy where you have some private funding and collective funding, some collective
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by Spivak 1y ago
Well and that JS is really fast thanks to V8 and TS has leapfrogged Ruby in terms of developer tooling. Personally I think Ruby is a nicer language and JS has a lot of odd quirks but it became Java. A good natural choice that can be used fo
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by Spivak 1y ago
Hey now, let's not criticize the Anthropic CEO just yet. He made a totally not just pulling a number out of his ass prediction, but a prediction that's nonetheless falsifiable. > that 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs co
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by Spivak 1y ago
If you are riding in a Lyft and get hurt (and the Lyft is at fault), it's Lyft's medical insurance company that pays out for your medical care. Same as it is for all other auto insurance. It's a pretty delayed process because
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by Spivak 1y ago
And not even a public beta, a developer only beta.
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by Spivak 1y ago
The python dict() is already high-quality and high-performance. You're probably not going to be able to do much better than the current state. If you want faster you end up moving your data into an environment that lets you make more a
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by Spivak 1y ago
A little bit of inequality is good as an incentive as you describe. A large amount of inequality devolves an economy into being pseudo-centrally-planned as nearly all the wealth is allocated by a small group of super wealthy individuals. Yo
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean this gets to the fundamental question of what being ordered actually means. The author decides that regardless of whether the data structure has an order, even if that order is guaranteed, it's a necessary property that order mu
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by Spivak 1y ago
Seems like they can do what private security would be allowed to do.
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by Spivak 1y ago
> Proponents of these assessment systems argue that they can create more efficient public services by doing more with less and, in the case of welfare systems specifically, reclaim money that is allegedly being lost from the public purse
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by Spivak 1y ago
From the horse's mouth. https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112202687764571433 > In the past, I have been telling anyone who wanted to listen that if all you want is sd_notify() then don't bother linking to
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by Spivak 1y ago
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by Spivak 1y ago
This wasn't a systemd problem— this was distro maintainers doing something stupid problem. The thing the maintainers wanted to patch into OpenSSH was systemd-notify which is the way services can tell systemd that they're ready. T
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by Spivak 1y ago
Sure but cars replaced horse ownership 1-1. The thing that's high is personal transportation. If whatever you propose as an alternative doesn't confer the benefits of personal transportation then adoption is likely to be quite low
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by Spivak 1y ago
I can see why the FCC wants to revoke the license to a company that's not doing well financially but bit of a dick move reneging on your previous agreement. Government isn't the fastest moving entity, honestly surprised it's
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean Fox News seemed to be pretty darn good at calling out Biden and made it their personal mission to hate everything Obama touched. Why aren't people comfortable calling out Trump? Because he's made it clear he will and has re
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by Spivak 1y ago
Right but MCP is a brand new protocol which is at its core JSON-RPC formatted messages and a few verbs. It doesn't actually do much. The main things are tool definitions which is just a JSON schema describing a function call and resou
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by Spivak 1y ago
> This is also where the “stimulant medications affect ADHD people differently” myth comes from This doesn't seem right, the effect people talk about isn't a non-ADHD person taking adderall and going off the wall— it's som
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by Spivak 1y ago
> Of course, Intel Macs will continue to get critical security updates for some time thereafter. But users should not expect to be able to update to get new features from macOS 27 onwards Crazy to see how fast Intel got dethroned. ARM on
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by Spivak 1y ago
Here's what the CDC put out in 2021 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e4.htm > a network of prospective cohorts among frontline workers, showed that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRN

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