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by ptx 1y ago
It's lacking a convenient way to queue a task and inspect the task queue, but "at" (at/atq/atrm) provides exactly the "single cron job responsible for executing scheduled tasks that runs once every minute"
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by ptx 1y ago
So how could a company handle this? Can they bootstrap from printed documentation or is that assumed to be wiped as well?
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by ptx 1y ago
> The domain, long associated by users with PuTTY [...] a domain name that clearly and historically signals the PuTTY project This seems a bit misleading. The domain has never, as far as I know, belonged to the project, so it can only
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by ptx 1y ago
> While we can’t change the universe, you can now get the latest Thunderbird features as they land, instead of once a year. Switch to Thunderbird Release and enjoy monthly updates with the same dependable stability. Does this mean anyt
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by ptx 1y ago
Python takes up less than 16 MB on disk (python3.11-minimal + libpython3.11-stdlib on Debian) so whatever Microsoft did to make their Azure CLI package take up almost 700 MB, I don't think the language is the problem.
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by ptx 1y ago
> Or RUN —-mount=type=bind,rw…? This seems to be pretty safe, according to the docs, if I understand them correctly. A bind mount can only mount "context directories" and the rw option will discard the written data, it says.
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by ptx 1y ago
> Gartner still expects that by 2028 about 15 percent of daily work decisions will be made autonomously by AI agents, up from 0 percent last year. Companies hoping to automate decision-making had better keep in mind that article 22 of
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by ptx 1y ago
How does MCP solve any of the problems you mentioned? The LLM still has to access your data, still doesn't know the difference between instructions and data, and still gives you hallucinated nonsense back – unless there's some tru
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by ptx 1y ago
> As we learn to use LLMs in our work, we have to figure out how to live with this non-determinism [...] but there will also things we'll gain that few of us understand yet. No thanks. Let's not give up determinism for vague
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Dynamic Region Ownership for Concurrency Safety(dl.acm.org)
2 points by ptx 1y ago|0 comments
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by ptx 1y ago
Do you still have the links to what you dug up manually?
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by ptx 1y ago
> What if you can feed a transformer with literature on how the body works and diseases, so that it can _analyse_ (not just _classify_) scans, applying some degree of, let's call it, creativity? Then it would make up plausible-sou
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by ptx 1y ago
How does this work if the conditional access policies require compliance with Microsoft's "security baseline" which involves e.g. checking that the latest Windows updates are installed? Presumably the Microsoft software runni
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by ptx 1y ago
> BTW, this is not something Linux specific. Unfortunately it is a trait inherited from the UNIX ancestry by almost all operating systems, including all BSD variants [...] Hmm... Strange... There is nothing to quote from this manual abo
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by ptx 1y ago
I'm pretty sure notifications could always be updated after being created. The actual change seems to be not that they now support "live updates" (as the article says) but that the UI now supports a customizable progress bar
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by ptx 1y ago
> ZeroMQ has support for Unix Domain sockets even on Windows. The support for Unix-domain sockets is there, in X and in the OS, regardless of whether you add ZeroMQ in the middle. Adding ZeroMQ wouldn't solve any problem in this r
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by ptx 1y ago
How does running PostgreSQL compiled to WebAssembly reduce "the overhead of a full PostgreSQL installation"? Couldn't a native version be configured similarly and avoid the additional overhead of WebAssembly, Node.js and npm?
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by ptx 1y ago
Hmmm... Disappointing that the static methods are no longer imported as of JEP 512. I thought that was the whole point of the new IO class. If we can't write "println" we might as well just write "System.out.println&quot
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by ptx 1y ago
Does dotnet install the script's dependencies all over again every time you run it? The quoted part was about the 0.5 second startup overhead, which I figured did not include installing the dependencies. Anyway, lots of Python scriptin
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by ptx 1y ago
What would be really useful is to include one of these with Windows, so that it simply works and can be used for scripting without needing to write a batch file to bootstrap a PowerShell script to bootstrap the .NET runtime to bootstrap the
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by ptx 1y ago
A Python script can start and finish in less than 10 ms on my machine.
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by ptx 1y ago
> James Shore calls this Parameterless Instantiation Mark Seemann calls it the Constrained Construction anti-pattern: https://blog.ploeh.dk/2011/04/27/Providerisnotapattern/#4c7b...
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by ptx 1y ago
Apache comes with built-in ACME support. Just enable the mod_md module: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_md.html
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by ptx 1y ago
The tricky part is coming back onto the UI thread when the background work finishes. Your transcription thread has to somehow trigger the UI work to be done on the UI thread. It seems the way to do it in Qt is with signals and slots, emitti
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by ptx 1y ago
Although keep in mind that the callback will be "called in a thread belonging to the process" (say the docs), presumably some thread that is not the UI thread. So the callback needs to post an event to the UI thread's event q
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by ptx 1y ago
> "Noyb's copycat actions What? > are part of an attempt by a vocal minority of activist groups to delay AI innovation in the EU [...]," Meta told us. Handing over the data of EU citizens to be exploited by US compa
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Project Verona: Fearless Concurrency for Python(microsoft.github.io)
166 points by ptx 1y ago|145 comments
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by ptx 1y ago
Unfortunately we don't have that kind of AI. We only have the useless kind.
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by ptx 1y ago
> those prompts are forever Have you tested them across different models? It seems to me that even if you manage to cajole one particular model into behaving a particular way, a different model would end up in a different state with th
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by ptx 1y ago
They are doing that as well. There's a lot of investment in RISC-V: https://asiatimes.com/2025/03/china-all-in-on-risc-v-open-so... For x86, supporting multiple companies would be more difficult, as they woul

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