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by bgwalter 1y ago
Even construction work in Europe is limited. People from Eastern Europe are undercutting German tradespeople and frankly deliver inferior work. You could hire a German craftsman with the quality of work that was present 30 years ago and the
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Well, Sun Microsystems launched a cloud shortly before being acquired by Oracle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Cloud Microsoft's Azure is reportedly a loss leader: https://www.cnbc.com/2022&#x2
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by bgwalter 1y ago
No, you'd better hope that the kidnappers have studied cryptography. If they think they can extract something, they'll go ahead anyway.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Paul Graham clearly loves writing and spending many iterations on producing something perfect. That was also his approach with the Arc language. I may be projecting my own preferences here, but such a person is likely to have an ambivalent
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by bgwalter 1y ago
"If the project is under an open source license, it means that everyone can share a copy – even on GitHub – of the licensed material under certain conditions." This is disputable. GitHub demands so many additional rights from the
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It is true, but in the opposite sense: AI makes the kind of 0.1x but high volume developer unstoppable, so the code base will degrade even faster.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I took it for irony, that is, accountants weren't replaced by Excel. There are thousands of articles right now of course that accountants will be replaced by AI.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
But why don't you steal directly from GitHub, it will make you more "productive", too?
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I wonder why all these prompt geniuses don't write AppleScript, it should be the perfect language for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript But AppleScript does not let you steal other people's code
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I don't know. The integration of Java applets was way smoother than WASM. Security wise, perhaps a different story, though let's wait until WASM is in wide use with filesystem access and bugs start to appear.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Gemini 2.5 will write a whole Linux kernel from scratch! We are seeing a paradigm shift! This is bigger than the invention of electricity! Awesome times to be alive!
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Thanks! I didn't know about WASIp3. I'll take a look at WASIX, which sounds the most interesting of all three.
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Ask HN: State of WASI
3 points by bgwalter 1y ago|3 comments
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Why would you want your credit card and real name connected to your consumption history? Watch too much Daily Wire? Good luck with your Google interview. Want to enter the US on a visa? Perhaps they'll demand your YouTube history next.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This is the true Python concurrency effort! I know, I have followed many! (Life of Brian) So they sounded out the Faster CPython team, which is now fired (was van Rossum fired, too?): "Over the last two years, we have been engaging wit
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by bgwalter 1y ago
In an article full of marketing speak, NASA only promises a quieter sonic thump: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-lockheed-martin-revea... "The X-59 is expected to fly at 1.4 times the speed of sound, or 925
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Knowledgeable people? Pytorch has memory leaks by design , it uses std::shared_ptr for a graph with cycles. It also has threading issues.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
No, that story is from last year.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
They were quite a bit behind the schedule that was promised five years ago. Additionally, at this stage the severe political and governance problems cannot have escaped Microsoft. I imagine that no competent Microsoft employee wants to give
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If it is C-API code: Implicit protection of global variables by the GIL is a documented feature, which makes writing extensions much easier. Most C extensions that will break are not written by monkeys, but by conscientious developers that
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This is just an advertisement for the company. Fact is, free-threading is still up to 50% slower, the tail call interpreter isn't much faster at all, and free-threading is still flaky. Things they won't tell you at PyCon.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Oh sure, my comment was addressing the general issue of perceived "genocide inflation". I have no knowledge about SA.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The broad definition is from the 1948 United Nations Convention: https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20110210-what-is-genocide.pdf Especially this one can be applied to many things: c. Deliberately inflicting on the gro
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by bgwalter 1y ago
My guess is that it's a joke about: https://jfrog.com/blog/leaked-pypi-secret-token-revealed-in-...
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by bgwalter 1y ago
For a critical article it lists quite a lot of pro-LLM analogies, which are false in my opinion. The pocket calculator simplifies exactly one part of math and probably isn't even used that much by research mathematicians. Chess program
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by bgwalter 1y ago
You can't make suggestions or criticize PyPI. For 20 years, it has been the worst package manager of any language in existence, yet they still get tons of funding and never take external suggestions. In that sense, the funding model is
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by bgwalter 1y ago
State and local governments cannot regulate. This means that the leader still can issue executive orders, e.g., against AI wokeness. Republicans very much wanted to regulate just one year ago: https://www.theguardian.com/us-
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by bgwalter 1y ago
For comparison, the famous Debian language benchmark competition: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by bgwalter 1y ago
> Critics of Python don't get "silenced in their bubble" generally, just ignored. I disagree. The public bans are just the tip of the iceberg. Here is a relatively undocumented one: https://lwn.net/Articles
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The same president that is putting 145% tariffs on China could put 1000% tariffs on Internet chat bots located in China. Or order the Internet cables to be cut as a last resort (citing a national emergency as is the new practice). I'm

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