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by zbentley 2mo ago
One hopes that there were recovery keys or equivalent in a fireproof safe offsite somewhere.
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by zbentley 2mo ago
I’m not sure I’d go as far as “always a bad decision”, but Python async is definitely something that shouldn’t be adopted without carefully considering alternatives and being aware of the requisite expertise needed. It’s an advanced and sha
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by zbentley 2mo ago
> I'm really loving C's character arc at the moment, where they keep going back to fix old problems Valid, but it does seem a bit Stockholm Syndrome to have this much rejoicing that your language added a builtin for getting th
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by zbentley 2mo ago
I wish Stackless/Twisted had succeeded, I really do, but they unfortunately lost to what I agree is a worse implementation. Like you, I've spent probably thousands of hours in my career debugging bizarre Python async internal mach
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by zbentley 2mo ago
> Their internal confidence can be measured and returned It can? I was under the impression that confidence was either self-reported by the LLM or assessed by having another model interpret the output response. If there's a confiden
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by zbentley 2mo ago
I think that's probably at least somewhat true, and regrettable/something to be worked on in your community, and a very different statement from > [it] is better when people create for fun. If they need to create to earn a livi
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by zbentley 2mo ago
> I believe that is better when people create for fun. If they need to create to earn a living they are forced to create and that is not the best incentive to create. Fun is a better incentive I'm not sure that's true (thousand
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by zbentley 2mo ago
> pricing is determined by what someone else will pay for something That’s so reductive that even Keynes would probably take issue. Discoverability is the axis of competition in this context, not price. The market has not effectively fou
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by zbentley 2mo ago
Yes, and as Howey explains in TFA those things might be good for consumers and creators who create for fun, but they are not good for people who create in order to earn a living.
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by zbentley 2mo ago
You have reinvented the search engine. That’s not meant to be glib; Google and friends are pretty trash now.
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by zbentley 2mo ago
> This only works in broken companies The promotion of LLMs is, I believe, basically a referendum on how many companies are broken in that way. So far, the adoption statistics are looking like it’s most of them.
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by zbentley 2mo ago
Sorry, what I meant was that FDs that aren’t sockets should be uniformly handled by the async IO syscalls rather than having to parse man pages or trip over EINVALs to figure out the answers to questions like “can I select(2) on a pidfd? Ca
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by zbentley 2mo ago
Those are all fair points! They apply more or less equally to, say, nodejs or Perl's AnyEvent. I'm totally onboard with "use the OS thread scheduler when you can"; it's a brilliant piece of technology. And if you ar
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by zbentley 2mo ago
If you mean “would it allow arbitrary queries in the admin interface?”, then yes, it would. That’s why it’s the admin interface. If you mean “would it allow arbitrary queries from normal view code”, then no it would not—not unless you str
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by zbentley 2mo ago
I don’t think there’s anything Python specific about that criticism. Most languages with cooperative concurrency have simple or no schedulers and run coroutines pretty much directly (or unpredictably, if they’re scheduled into parallel exec
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by zbentley 2mo ago
> By your honor as a software developer you should fall on your sword rather than put up something like anubis. Okay, then my little indie-web, zero-commercialization FOSS website is going to go down due to endless residential proxies DD
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by zbentley 2mo ago
I wonder if apple tracks metrics on apps that request permissions via iOS APIs and get turned down by the user. If they do, and use those metrics to flag or blacklist apps, that would suck: there are plenty of perfectly reasonable apps that
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by zbentley 2mo ago
I suppose, but the number of applications for whom a successfully-negotiated bare socket connection (with no TLS or data exchanged) is side-effectful to the point that this causes problems is pretty darn small. I'm sure there are some
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by zbentley 2mo ago
I'd actually say that the original sin of the socket API was taking DNS in higher-level connect methods at all . Users should have to separate the act of address lookup from the act of opening a connection every time (and could write
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by zbentley 2mo ago
> non-blocking semantics and poll/select suck. I'd argue that it's not that the semantics suck, it's that there are too many of them. We have O_NONBLOCK, multiple multiplexers (for sane reasons--I don't begrudge
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by zbentley 3mo ago
Makes sense, thanks for clarifying.
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by zbentley 3mo ago
I'm not sure that's true, though most policies are implemented that way. If you get, say, a basic income payout that's a function of the income you make, that function scales all the way from 0 income/max UBI to >= ma
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by zbentley 3mo ago
I'm not clear on what you're trying to say here. Are you saying we're providing those things instead of food? Or that if we provided food we wouldn't need to provide those things? If so, that's patently false. A l
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by zbentley 3mo ago
> very verbose languages are likely to be worse Citation needed. I don't think there's a correlation there. Over-architected Java spaghetti is verbose and unmaintainable. Under-architected Perl code golf that metastisized is te
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by zbentley 3mo ago
If you just meant apple-targeting developers, then yeah; you're right that those languages are in decline. But if you meant developers in general, I think you'd be surprised how many growth sectors are hiring C programmers. They
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by zbentley 3mo ago
The author does mention that a synthetic digestive system was used in another experiment, so you may be correct!
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by zbentley 3mo ago
I don't know the author, but I do know that it's very much possible to work for organizations whose values and ethics are extremely compromised, and to mindfully participate in their work because you can also do a lot of good
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by zbentley 3mo ago
I do appreciate the rigor that was included, and please don't take my comment above as saying "this is a bad project"; rather, it's not a project I personally am comfortable using at this time due to the combination of i
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by zbentley 3mo ago
Thanks for replying and working to improve the project! All of the below is just, like, my opinion, man; I'm not any authority on what you should or should not do, just someone who uses computers a lot. > On the opaque binary, the C
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by zbentley 3mo ago
> you can prevent all memory safety errors by using a garbage collector Garbage collection and a higher-level language that controls allocations handles 2/3 of the memory-safety problem space (using memory you shouldn't via use

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