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by nerdponx 1y ago
I'd rather have this file format with an incomplete reference and confusing implementation, than not have this file format at all. Parquet was such a tremendous improvement in quality of life over the prior status quo for anyone that n
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Case in point: the electric fence is broken, but that doesn't mean it needs to be fixed.
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Has that ever happened in the Python ecosystem specifically? It seems like there would be a community fork led by a couple of medium-size tech companies within days of something like that happening, and all users except the most enterprise-
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by nerdponx 1y ago
There are a bunch of problems with PyPI. For example, there's no metadata API, you have to actually fetch each wheel file and inspect it to figure out certain things about the packages you're trying to resolve/install. It wou
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by nerdponx 1y ago
I have had this pet theory for a decade+ that this is the case for most of the economy, and the current "recirculative bubble" is just a really strong example of it happening in a tighter loop than usual. Think about the classic e
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by nerdponx 1y ago
> Mass homelessness Already here > the 10th republican president in a row mobilizing the army, purging the homeless from the streets, people cheering. This is literally happening right now in Washington DC (it's the National Guar
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by nerdponx 1y ago
You basically just disregarded the comment you replied to and doubled down on your original idea. You are saying that the problem would be a non-problem if only we had voter ID was. However the evidence before you (and that includes evidenc
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Apart from the fact that you are basically disregarding all of the detail explanations on why the US is in fact different when it comes to voter ID, all of the things you mentioned are primarily decided by states, with relatively federal au
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by nerdponx 1y ago
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/content/noncitizen-voting-us... > There is no evidence that unauthorized immigrants, green-card holders, or immigrants on temporary visas are voting in significant numbers, despite so
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by nerdponx 1y ago
The kind of actual voter fraud that ID requirements would prevent is extremely rare. There are better ways to rig elections than hiring thousands of people to physically show up at different polling centers and vote several times under diff
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by nerdponx 1y ago
It was his, along with his clients' data.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Naming an AI thing after a decades-old statistics and machine learning abbreviation It's going to be a headache for searching. I already have to type out "maximum likelihood", don't make me also type out "generalize
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by nerdponx 1y ago
I can't speak specifically for this agency, but regulatory capture is very much a real thing.
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That doesn't seem true to me at all. Let's say you fit y=c+bx+ax^2 on the domain -10,10 with 1000 data points uniformly distributed along x and with no more than 1% noise in observed y. Your model will be pretty damn good and abso
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by nerdponx 1y ago
> The leadership of this country seems to believe it can in fact influence biology to take its positions. That or they would rather simply ignore biology in service of this or that politically-motivated special interest, and put off any
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by nerdponx 1y ago
> labor friendly policies of full employment Same response as above. Everyone is so eager to criticize unions for doing the same thing big business employers do, and so in fear of the negative consequences, that they'd rather accept
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by nerdponx 1y ago
When did they become political? The Project 2025 document makes a lot of accusations about this or that department being politicized and left-aligned. But that's not exactly a good standard to go by.
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And that happened largely because of powerful unions.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
> Yeah. Because at one point unions got so powerful they formed their own union towns. Companies did this too, but it wasn't bothering any policy makers.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
New numerical computing algorithms are being developed with AI assistance, which probably would not have been discovered otherwise. There was an article here a few days ago about one of those. It's incremental but it's not nothing
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by nerdponx 1y ago
I haven't tried the Ruff server yet, but Jedi Language Server is usably fast, and does a good enough job.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
The big one for me is no string interpolation, as a deliberate design choice.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
I could imagine them seceding independently, but allying once seceded, especially if the CA secession government shifts more conservative.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
That's incremental adoption for adding type hints, not for adopting this particular tool in an already-type-hinted codebase.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
How do I get in on the AI manipulation conspiracy? I could use some extra cash.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That's the thing. Regardless of whether or not you think the Court was unconstitutionally packed (due to the Senate running out the clock on the Garland nomination under Obama), it doesn't matter, because SCOTUS rulings are preced
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Much of the DOGE-driven chaos is just executing Project 2025 objectives. The justification of course is retroactive. The objectives are domestic and political.
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We literally have a Supreme Court decision saying that the President has immunity as long as he was acting as part of his official duties. So while any clear-minded person will see that, say, running a protection racket on law firms from th
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I used it to build a (now permanently unfinished) lightweight DAG runner that uses only the Python standard library, with the intention that you can just copy the .py file into a project and use it without installing anything other than Pyt
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And how many people book flights that way today?

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