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by zem 1y ago
perhaps my favourite of his short stories. there's also the more satirical "the feeling of power", which touches on the same theme https://ia800806.us.archive.org/20/items/TheFeelingOfPower/T...
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by zem 1y ago
for me it's the hope of at least some minor degree of longevity. I used a pixel 3 for six years, until the degenerating battery finally drove me to get a new phone, and I paid whatever exorbitant amount they wanted for a pixel 9 pro wh
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by zem 1y ago
"traditional" conservatives are mostly people who were sufficiently concerned with appearances to not say the quiet parts out loud. I have no doubt they support trump's agenda, if not the uncouthness of his methods.
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I used to like those but they started giving me rsi
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by zem 1y ago
a good way to look at it is that problems solved is an asset, but lines of code are a liability. you pay the cost of maintaining that code because you want the benefit of the problems it solves. note that LLM-generated code is even more of
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by zem 1y ago
it sounds like there's a need for a blog or forum where people discuss and recommend these series, so the actual human ones can stand out.
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by zem 1y ago
yeah I don't want an egpu, I want a complete gaming device that I can use my laptop as a peripheral for
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by zem 1y ago
more than that, in the faang jobs I've had you could not even check code out onto your laptop. it had to live on the dev desktop or virtual machine, and be edited remotely.
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by zem 1y ago
I would honestly love a steam machine like thing that I could just plug into my laptop. I'm carrying my laptop around anyway, if I could plug in a small gaming system and have the laptop act as the input/output that would be ideal
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by zem 1y ago
it's doing what it's designed for, which is to funnel money okay the pockets of corrupt people, and abuse a (literally) captive population. the average american does not care because a lot of them are fine with cruelty towards tho
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by zem 1y ago
but that's not the analogy the article was making at all! it was making an analogy with using technology based on underlying physical principles, where you could either be cognizant or ignorant of those principles, and similarly you co
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by zem 1y ago
the underlying connection the author is making between physics and security is knowing the low level laws governing the systems you are dealing with, or at least being aware of them. if anything the functional programming bit could have bee
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neat. did they also do it by symbolically executing the function body?
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by zem 1y ago
this is very much in line with the unix philosophy - it delegates formatting to ruff and simply provides a unified front end that calls out to the right specialized tool. think of it as a makefile.
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by zem 1y ago
not to cast any shade on the article, which clearly people are liking, but I found it so unrelatable that I abandoned it halfway
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by zem 1y ago
I used to be a vim-without-lsp dev too, but "jump to definition" really is worth setting up the lsp integration.
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by zem 1y ago
please note that I am not talking about introducing rust into the python interpreter (where, I agree, bootstrapping concerns would make the gain in code maintainability not really worth it), but in writing developer tools that work with pyt
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by zem 1y ago
I can sympathise with that, but to argue a bit for the other side, these tools are mainly intended to run on the developer's machine or in the CI pipeline. in both cases they overwhelmingly use architectures that rust supports, and in
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by zem 1y ago
* alec effinger: when gravity fails * pat cadigan: synners * neal stephenson: the diamond age and two books that bring cyberpunk elements into a larger sphere * greg egan: zendegi. a dying engineer wants to make an AI version of himself to
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by zem 1y ago
I have find memories of this anthology! got into cyberpunk via gibson's "burning chrome" and sterling's "a good old-fashioned future", and I still think short stories were the best of the genre. I remember them
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by zem 1y ago
because there is a ton of existing python code that people find a lot of value in, and that no one wants to abandon. the return on investment for making python better is insanely higher than that on porting hundreds of millions of lines of
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by zem 1y ago
I miss Nokia's maemo/meego based phones :( the n900 was really nice to use and even write my own little personal apps for (something I haven't done in over a decade of owning android phones)
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by zem 1y ago
there is a new python team, we met up with them at pycon and had some nice conversations. as a former pytype dev I will be the first to admit that maintaining it as a legacy project without the context of having developed it over the years
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by zem 1y ago
yeah, that's a really nice project too!
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by zem 1y ago
pytype had two features that made it uniquely suited to google's needs: 1. it had powerful type inference over partially or even completely unannotated code, which meant no one has to go back and annotate the very large pre-type-checki
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by zem 1y ago
ex-pytype dev here - we knew this was coming and it's definitely the right thing to do, but it's still a little sad to see the end of an era. in particular, pytype's ability to do flow-based analysis across function boundarie
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by zem 1y ago
I think the gp is complaining specifically about the "OS" bit; that makes it sound like a new operating system rather than a derivative linux distribution
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would also be unnecessary if these apps respected the user rather than trying to addict them
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I had a BBC B as my first computer and would likely have enjoyed having an Archimedes greatly, but in retrospect "IBM compatible" was winning the day even then.
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I think the key point is this one 8<------- What is frustrating though is that unless you’re being hired by someone else who posts this way I am strongly convinced this behavior doesn’t work in your favor. 8<------- in other words, li

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