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by ajross 8mo ago
> If you're relying on Python garbage collection to free file descriptors in a loop Again, that's a proscription for how to write python code for future execution. It's emphatically not a statement for the behavior expect
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by ajross 8mo ago
> Everybody hating on the IPX Most of that is misguided. The IPX was the high volume, low cost, face-for-the-user Solaris box during exactly the moment in the mid 90's where Intel and Microsoft took over and Sun and the Unix vendor
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by ajross 8mo ago
This take, which I've seen in a few different places now, seems 100% bonkers. A world where anyone can cheaply reimplement anyone else's software and use it on hardware of their own choosing in their own designs and for their own
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by ajross 8mo ago
Just stop. Your ability to show a handful of negative externalities from industrialization doesn't invalidate the progress of the last century and a half, and to argue so (as you clearly did) is laughable. And all the same logic appli
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by ajross 8mo ago
> The entire notion of being allowed to enforce arbitrary terms of service is absurd. For clarity, and while the HN seems to imply that, that is not what this decision was actually about. It was about the specific requirement that disput
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by ajross 8mo ago
> Manchester is the poster child city for the industrial revolution. Which is to say, you cherry picked the data rather than looking at aggregates. Manchester industrialization being terribly managed isn't an indictment of steel ma
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by ajross 8mo ago
> The professional typist' role evolved The "role" might have evolved, but the jobs disappeared. There are, what, maybe two or three orders of magnitude fewer "executive assistants" than there were typists in th
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by ajross 8mo ago
> The 1880s blacksmith [...] moved to shared housing in Manchester and a shorter lifespan working for poverty wages, lost fingers/arms in machines, maybe ended up on skid row That's... just not remotely true, unless you're
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by ajross 8mo ago
Meh. I think there's basically no benefit shown so far to careful curation. That's where we've been in machine learning for three decades, after all. Also recognize that the Great Leap Forward of LLMs was when they got big
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by ajross 8mo ago
That sounds like spin to me. If there were a clear "quality edge" in "certain business domains" stemming from "exclusive proprietary data", someone would have been exploiting it already using meat computers. B
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by ajross 8mo ago
No, but "shipping less RAM" is clearly on that spectrum. The point wasn't about literal product strategy, it's that there's a limit to what actions are financially feasible and it's set by "what else coul
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by ajross 8mo ago
I mean, arguably AI is faster (but it's equally arguably oversold, certainly we aren't seeing that kind of change yet). But the stuff I cited was faster than you think. In the rural US, in 1900, most routine transport was still
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by ajross 8mo ago
> You need to explain, from a systems point of view _why_ the gains must diffuse out as you suggest. Do we? I mean, isn't "because they always have" enough of an argument on its own? I am hardly a libertarian ideologue
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by ajross 8mo ago
Sorry, the with statement is non-responsive. The question isn't whether you "can" write PyPy-friendly code. Obviously you can. The question isn't even whether or not you "should" write PyPy-friendly code, it&
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by ajross 8mo ago
The story is literally about them cancelling a product variant...
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by ajross 8mo ago
> PyPy is a fantastic achievement and deserves far more support than it gets PyPy is a toy for getting great numbers in benchmarks and demos, is incompatible in a zillion critical ways, and is basically useless for large-scale developmen
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by ajross 8mo ago
Even if so, everyone lives in the same market. If Apple has a contract for those chips at an artificially low price, it's to their advantage to sell them to someone else at market value instead of putting it in a Mac where they'd
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by ajross 8mo ago
This is theater. I say this every time it comes up, but the solution here IS NOT to just add vain and silly friction between potentially-malicious upstreams and package users. You'll never win that war. The solution is independent
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by ajross 8mo ago
I'm just saying that subtle trickery isn't his M.O. And they're not any good at it, anyway. Just watch, he'll address with with Big Lie politics like he always does. He'll stand up on a podium, throw his own Labor
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by ajross 8mo ago
Honestly, no. The administration is not subtle with its lies. If they want to fib, they do it out of POTUS's mouth at a podium, and it's a huge whopper that just dares the nasty liberal media to try to call it out. The strategy
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by ajross 8mo ago
> Docker sucks and only exists because after all these years, Linux STILL doesn’t have a great way to handle third party applications. That's... not at all a correct characterization of where Docker found its purchase or what it&#x2
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by ajross 8mo ago
> I always take these vendor reports with a massive grain of salt. Yeah. "Here's a blog post with some casually collected numbers about our product [...] It turns out that it's great!" is sorta boring. But couple tha
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by ajross 8mo ago
The OCI work mentioned upthread is about interface, not implementation. Most people who think "Docker sucks" are talking about it's somewhat questionable network layer on Linux and the poor security isolation of the daemon.
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by ajross 8mo ago
> GNU's goal isn't licensing per se, but giving users freedom to control their software. I think that's maybe misunderstanding. GNU wants everyone to be able to use their computers for the purposes they want, and software
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by ajross 8mo ago
Cite 0 isn't what I said, though. I said people who care about Iran (in the sense of it being a primary driver of voting preference) are in the minority. You're arguing with a strawman, or a mistake. You agree with me.
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by ajross 8mo ago
> you are trying to convince me that someone being encouraged to kill themselves [...] Arrgh. You lost the plot in all the yelling. This is EXACTLY what I was trying to debunk upthread with the D&D stuff. You don't know the
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by ajross 8mo ago
> If a DM made such a suggestion, they wouldn't be playing the game anymore. That's not an "in game" action Again, you're arguing from evidence that is simply not present. We have absolutely no idea what the con
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by ajross 8mo ago
> energy of magnetic domains is less directional and depends mostly on the state of neighbor domains Yes, but it's the same thing. The flux changes on the drive define the bits. It's probably true that a drive storing all 1&
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by ajross 8mo ago
> arguments result of the form that such actions are what people want ... who are you replying to? Not me. I certainly didn't say that.
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Distinction made by who, though? The BBC? The plaintiff in the lawsuit? Those are the only sides we have. You're just charging ahead with "This must be true because it makes me angry at the right people", and the rest of

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