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by short_sells_poo 4mo ago
Living in London, I notice the same. Getting access to true quality produce is not even a question of money now, it's basically just impossible to get full stop. There are a few local shops in the more upmarket areas that survive on th
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by short_sells_poo 5mo ago
I understand what numexpr does, I don't understand why I'd use it. Polars is able to lazy evaluate query plans without any unnecessary intermediate allocations, if I want to do algebra on dataframes, I'd use polars. The narro
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by short_sells_poo 5mo ago
Nobody said that it's useless, that's a straw man. But it also isn't a free exchange of ideas. It's a concentration of capabilities in the hands of a few corporations.
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by short_sells_poo 5mo ago
It's not hated because it impacts people's wages, although that perhaps factors into the hate. It's hated because AI is not a public good. The LLMS today are owned by megacorporations who harvested a public good for private g
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by short_sells_poo 5mo ago
There are two issues the author raises (as I understand it): 1. People copying others' work, made much easier by AI. 2. AI companies effectively harvesting all the accessible information on an industrial scale and completely sidesteppi
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by short_sells_poo 5mo ago
What is the advantage of using Numexpr instead of say Polars, Numba or Taichi? Numexpr seems to sit in a sort of odd niche of having to do relatively simple arithmetic on in-core matrix data fast. For anything more complex, Polars seems mor
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by short_sells_poo 5mo ago
Is SA still a thing? I had an account since... 2007? God I'm old. I miss the days when you could have a community that you could easily search for content. Nowadays everything is a discord black hole.
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by short_sells_poo 6mo ago
I hope this is not trolling so I'll bite. It is incredibly natural to represent an object, such as an email, as an Email class in object oriented languages like C++. It'd then have a constructor that accepts a string and construct
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by short_sells_poo 6mo ago
I don't get the joke and I'm a bit too worried about googling this on my work pc, can you please enlighten me what's up with the word knot :D
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by short_sells_poo 6mo ago
Slight tangent: the post says that github is crumbling. Can someone get me up to date on what's going on please? Admittedly I'm not following tech drama particularly closely, but I thought I'd have heard if a major thing like
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by short_sells_poo 6mo ago
This is happening quite a lot actually. People just feed an existing project into their agent harness and have it regenerate more or less the same with a few tweaks and then they publish it. I'm not sure how this works in the legal sen
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
It's actually unbelievable that this would be taught as anything but a cautionary tale of survivorship bias. The FedEx founder got lucky. The countless others who tried a similar gamble didn't and unfortunately their story doesn&#
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
I see where you are going with this, but IMO this is not a technical problem but a legal problem. Who will be held responsible when an AI agent messes up the HR system and the company is exposed to losses due to a mistake? Who is going to b
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
Parent is pointing at the fact that the relationship between our perception of MS products and their financial success is highly inelastic. The bottom line isn't impervious to bad product decisions, but there can be a large number of u
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
How would this really help python though? This doesn't solve the difficult problem, which is that python objects don't support parallel access by multiple threads/processes, no? Concurrent threads, yes, but only one thread ca
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
Ah sorry, fair enough. I guess you were, are and will have been getting this question quite frequently :D I used dashes quite frequently in the past, but stopped using them to avoid being associated with llm generated text :( It's a sh
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
I like it a lot :D. Virtual environments have been always associated with projects in your use case I guess. In my use case, they almost never are. Most people in my industry have 1-2 venvs that they use across all their projects, and uv fo
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
Just how much effort even went into this? The project is LLM generated, the blog post is LLM generated. It produced something that is really annoying to deal with as a consumer. The last thing I want to talk with when calling a boutique gar
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
You are right, but this also isn't a luxury mechanic shop. A luxury mechanic shop would be a place that services and customizes Bentleys, RRs, vintage Ferraris and similar. And to your point, the clientele there will be extremely unimp
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
Are you an AI? This looks like it was at least ran through an LLM judging by the heaps of em dashes.
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
You'll get a lot of responses saying Polars is better than Pandas. I argue those people are missing the point and don't understand Pandas' real strength or why people choose Pandas today. Pandas was never meant to be a techno
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
For short scripts and interactive research work, pandas is still much better than polars. Polars works well when you know what you want. When you are still figuring out things step by step, pandas does a lot of heavy lifting for you so you
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
They clearly vibe code a lot (most? all?) of their stuff, and it shows. Elementary features are broken regularly and while I appreciate them trying new features, I'd appreciate it more if existing ones were reliable and promptly fixed
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
For a human to be able to do any customization, they have to dive into the code and work with it, understand it, gain intuition for it. Engage with the maintainers and community. In the process, there's a good chance that they'll
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
This is not even about capabilities but responsibility. In an open source context where the maintainers take no responsibility for the code, it's perhaps easier. In a professional context, ultimately it's the human who is responsi
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
> We, agentic coders, can easily enough fork their project And this is why eventually you are likely to run the artisanal coders who tend to do most of the true innovation out of the room. Because by and large, agentic coders don't
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
I find the fact that people can't even be bothered to put their own thoughts into text and communicate via an LLM to be the most grotesque and dystopian aspect of this new AI era. It looks like we are going to have large numbers of peo
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
An LNG terminal would not help for the current high prices. Europe is experiencing a gas price shock precisely because LNG is easy to store and transport. Asia gets half it's gas through the Strait of Hormuz, which is currently experie
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
> Ultimately though, the only way to fix this is to build a lot of wind (industrial scale) and solar (residential scale) as otherwise we're at the mercy of world events. I'd add that this is only part of the equation because: w
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
> Should the state just prohibit all agreements between two parties unless the state's adjudicator decides they are exactly equal in "power" and permits it. This is a strawman and you know it. Please at least make an attem

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