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by necovek 4mo ago
Parts of requests has been adopted into stdlib: https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html People mostly defer to requests because they do not track language development closely and because we are creat
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For the same reason GP posted and half the stdlib is written in C: Python is a language that is almost always good enough, but never really the best (and especially when it comes to performance of complex algorithms).
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I like to invert that to: do I produce code I am perfectly happy with in regards to readability and maintainability or would I benefit from another pair of eyes? Every question I get (when my code is reviewed) is a signal that code could be
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A few confounding factors come up right away: one of professors removed final project which increased grades; due to less appealing CS career, you do not get the best students anymore: another professor is not a fan of curving so perhaps he
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by necovek 4mo ago
Not at my laptop to check with inspector, but does it at least use next/prev type "Link" headers (even if no browser would consume them)?
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On the first category, what is a process you use which has no "holes" in it? Does everybody produce completely readable, tested code every time? Perhaps that's just "style" to you when it is "maintainability&qu
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You seem to have inverted the logic: I did not say we have to make everybody smoke, which your examples imply. My position is: do not ban (make illegal!) everything that has statistically significant risk for one's health (like smoki
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As said already: readability and maintainability of the code (closely related) are two most important values a code review can get you.
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I have seen many a PR where it is obvious it is an exploratory work: eg. figuring out how to use an external dependency that is imperfectly or incorrectly documented, etc. (You can claim this should be done ahead of time, but experience tel
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A discussion ahead of the implementation can also bias the two parties to that discussion and have them overlook the same implementation issue: many things you only understand once you start implementing. If you have these parties review ea
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I agree about how you can reciprocate for a good code review, but I'd just add that for me, code review is also fun — when done for a fellow human who I might be teaching. It is definitely very grunt-like for an LLM.
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How many teams did you see? On your original claim, I have seen engineers put up 5x more PRs simply because they paid less attention to the quality or put less thought on each one of them. I have seen people put up 5x more quality PRs too.
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by necovek 4mo ago
You seem to be talking about how one can expand information into useless babbling, whereas you are responding to a comment about condensing information into true essence.
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The definition of clickbait includes intention. If anything, the poster here likely followed a rule to use the original, non-editorialized page title, and certainly the original page has not had the title set with intent to attract clicks b
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! is not included in the automatic link by HN: it's rare for a URL to end with !, so it'd be hard to fix HN to do the right thing every time.
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Nope, I believe you are wrong: a path where we, for example, forbid smoking because the statistics point at it correlating with many health problems, is a world where we use the same statistical tool to prescribe human behavior to the last
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Interestingly, they claim to have done this and offer it as an API layer (Trusted System Agent) for other agents to use. There is just this minor point that their own agent simply doesn't use it and goes directly to lower level interfa
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Sounds like "comprehensive" does the heavy-lifting here (in "country or territory that is the target of comprehensive U.S. sanctions"): what countries are under comprehensive sanctions, and which are under non-comprehens
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They also vibe-coded a PowerPoint clone ;-)
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And one needs to think from the outcome perspective too: maybe it is too hard to cut the part of the enclosure, but can it 3D print a new one hollowed out exactly where needed?
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You'd be surprised about how much production level software was built in two days — the fact that organizations are usually unable to do that is what gave rise to the agile movement, though it falls apart as soon as management asks for
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You suggest doing it with water, perhaps? The same one we use in the toilets? Yuck!
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Due to costs of running frontier models on every search request, Google simply does not: the failure rate is so high when you are just expecting an objective output. Imagine a search for your name resulted in an AI summary saying you are in
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Did we not already see that with the financial sector in 2008?
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Usually running pip as root overcame that problem — but it did cause all the other problems virtualenvs were introduced to work around (so I am not suggesting this as the solution). You are right that there are many problems with packaging
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I am not sure this is as much of a tension as you make it sound: where is the obligation that a marketplace administrator will be blamed for any and all breaches of data privacy trust from a participating (likely malicious) third party? Acc
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EU response said it was "for a minimum of 18 months" — does not sound temporary to me.
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People in EU are upset that Apple is saying that EU would not let them build it, not that it's not offered there.
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It sounds like the work on the privacy layer was significant and to give "equal" access to other competing AI systems, they would need to include that "for free" as part of the platform. Or they could try to keep that a
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Letting a US company (under jurisdiction of, say, US Cloud Act, but also unknown administration orders that might come) strictly control the phone for a privacy focused EU citizen (or more broadly, non-US citizen) seems super dangerous. The

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