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by dagw 2y ago
Greenpeace USA and its subsidiaries are US based non-profits with assets in the US. Nowhere near $600M, but what they do have can be collected, and Greenpeace USA and all its subsidiaries will certainly be driven into bankruptcy
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by dagw 2y ago
It was first coined in the 60s and has been floating around since, but it's really only seen regular use in the past decade or so.
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by dagw 2y ago
The way it assumes one and exactly one venv per project was a big one. The one that broke me however was trying to get it work with external build systems, specifically trying to compile C++ code as part of the build process. Another import
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by dagw 2y ago
Yes, that's my point. You need to bring your own 'real' build system to make uv doing anything non-trivial. And the fact that this work transparently with uv is a very good thing.
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by dagw 2y ago
I wonder what it would take to get poetry on par with uv for those who are already switching to it? Poetry and uv have quite different philosophy. Poetry is incredibly opinionated in how you should do things, and trying to make poetry fit
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by dagw 2y ago
For what it's worth uv is fully compatible with pip. just replace 'pip --foo bar' with 'uv pip --foo bar'. One project I'm working on is 100% 'classic' pip based with no plans of moving, but I still u
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by dagw 2y ago
The libc version(s) to use when creating python packages is standardised and documented in a PEP, including how to name the resulting package to describe the libc version. Your local python version knows which libc version it was compiled a
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by dagw 2y ago
with uv (and pip) you can pass the --no-binary flag and it will download the source code and build all you dependencies, rather than downloading prebuilt binaries. It should also respect any CFLAGS and LDFLAGS you set, but I haven't ac
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by dagw 2y ago
I guess it depends on what you mean by a build system. From my understanding uv build basically just bundles up all the source code it finds, and packages it into a .whl with the correct metadata. It cannot actually do any build steps like
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by dagw 2y ago
You are describing two different problems. Do you want a shapely package that runs on your system or do you want to compile shapely against the GEOS on your system. In case 1 it is up to the package maintainer to package and ship a version
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by dagw 2y ago
UV is not (yet) a build system and does not get involved with compiling code. But easily lets you plug in any build system you want. So it will let you keep using whatever system you are currently using for building your C libraries. For e
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by dagw 2y ago
Wonder what his reason was for it Initially almost certainly money. He had a history of being an entrepreneur and investor involved in all kinds of random businesses. Back when he first got involved with TPB, what they were doing (just ho
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by dagw 2y ago
Once rebuilding your venv takes negligible time, it opens up for all kinds of new ways to develop. For example I now always run my tests in a clean environment, just to make sure I haven't added anything that only happens to work in my
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by dagw 2y ago
Carl Lundström was literally an active member of a group that would literally wear Nazi symbols and openly shout sieg heil while doing the Nazi salute in public.
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by dagw 2y ago
Oh absolutely. I think it's very safe to say that Aaron Swartz would have hated everything Carl Lundstöm stood for. I was being slightly facetious with my comparison.
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by dagw 2y ago
Both Swartz and Lundström seemed to have been first and foremost passionate and unyielding about their politics and I'm sure they both considered their lifelong political activism their true meaningful work, certainly much more importa
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by dagw 2y ago
Do you think Carl's life long political activism outside of hosting TPB should be taken into account when deciding whether to compare him Aaron Swartz or not? Or do you think that his actions with TPB where so noble and important that
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by dagw 2y ago
Do you consider using your inherited wealth to bankroll white nationalist political candidates also part of the "true hacker spirit". Carl may have been part of TPB for a small part of his life, but his true life long passion and
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by dagw 2y ago
This story has be posted to HN several times. The earlier story has 220 points and 50 comments
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by dagw 2y ago
Getting something that works out of the box on just your computer is normally fine. Getting something that works out of the box on many different computers with many different OS and hardware configurations is much much harder.
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by dagw 2y ago
According the author of the article he seems to consider 'real' work is any work the requires "terminal windows, root access, and the ability to type "python" to get into a REPL".
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by dagw 2y ago
Why's everything gotta have arms and graspers it's so inefficient. We have designed a lot of processes and workplaces around the assumption that the 'machine' working there will be be around 160-190 cm tall, with two a
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by dagw 2y ago
Duff's device hasn't relevant for over 25+ years and there is no reason why anybody who learnt to program within the past 20 years should even know what it is, while recursion is still often the right answer.
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by dagw 2y ago
Just because you can put information into an LLM, doesn't mean you can get it out again.
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by dagw 2y ago
Apparently from what I've read, universities are already starting to see this. More and more students are incapable of acquiring knowledge from books. Once they reach a point where the information they need cannot be found in ChatGPT o
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by dagw 2y ago
Two things that have brought up in interviews. They don't seem to believe that AOT compiled C# is mature enough and can give the best possible performance on all their supported platforms. Their current codebase consists of more or les
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by dagw 2y ago
no shortage of people saying that the only thing that matters is your algorithms. To be a little bit fair to those people, I have been in many situations where people go "my matlab/python code is too slow, I must re-write it in
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by dagw 2y ago
Hejlsberg seemed quite negative when it came to cross platform AOT compiled C# in several comments he's made, hinting at problems with both performance and maturity on certain platforms.
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by dagw 2y ago
it's maybe not as idiomatic as in Go, but it should not cause problems. Based on interviews, it seems Hejlsberg cares a lot about keeping the code base as idiomatic and approachable as possible. So it's clearly a factor.
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by dagw 2y ago
I found this [0] which claims 39k Cybertrucks sold in all of 2024 vs 33.5k F150s and 11k R1Ts. It also claims 16k Cybertrucks sold in 3Q24, compared to your linked article which claims 7.5k for the same period. So who knows? [0] https:&#x2

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