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by kzemek 5y ago
That's how I understand "painted itself into a hole from the start" from the GP - removing GIL at this point is very hard because virtually all of Python language and code has been created in a world with the GIL.
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by kzemek 5y ago
> I'm not sure why you think this is good news: I think GP meant it's a `good (news description)`, not a `(good news) description`
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Toyota pauses Paralympics self-driving buses after one hits an athlete(theguardian.com)
28 points by kzemek 5y ago|6 comments
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by kzemek 5y ago
> It’s like if I said “i want to be able to attend the most prestigious school but I don’t want to pay for it”. I think it's interesting to note that in many European countries the top schools are free to attend.
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by kzemek 5y ago
Related article that popped up sometime ago on HN: https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html
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by kzemek 6y ago
Isn't that true for all correct implementations of negative zero? It's still a neutral for addition
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by kzemek 6y ago
I use WSL2 as my daily driver on a laptop. I find CPU performance to be very good if not quite equal to the native Linux setup I had previously. I don't run IO heavy tasks daily, so no comment on that. I do develop things that require
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by kzemek 6y ago
It will have a trackball module (if everything goes to plan). The modules are still undergoing the manufacture process, the last newsletter said they are delayed and expected "closer to end of November".
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by kzemek 6y ago
> But by the same token, Vim is arcane compared to Notepad style editors but is quite popular, so I outright reject the hypothesis that Emacs has lower numbers because it's arcane vim might be arcane compared to Notepad, but I'
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by kzemek 6y ago
Chrome, no. But I am running FRR on Ubuntu server, and it's also distributed as a Snap - in fact, that has spurred the most known discussion about Snap autoupdates[1]. Of course I can - and do - use the deb version, but it's just
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by kzemek 6y ago
One thing that's very valuable to me in WSL (both 1 and 2) is the automagic network settings that make ports available between systems - so if I start listening on 127.0.0.1:1234 in Linux, I can connect to that on Windows and vice vers