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by zzzeek 10mo ago
> All these AI agent tools need to come with no permissions at all out of the box, and everything should be granularly granted. That's what the tools already do. if you were watching some cool demo that didnt have all the prompts t
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
im sure you could get procmail to do this, have fastmail forward to a self-hosted mail server with procmail and then have it go nuts. You can send mail from your own server using fastmail's servers with an API key.
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
so glad I got off gmail years ago once I saw stories of people's lives being completely cut off due to "suspicious CC activity". Fastmail is the way to go
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
"you're posting too fast; please slow down"
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
my fear is people are going to post issue reports, sometimes good ones that we need to act upon, they get autoclosed, and the submitter either never bothers to re-post or they are so annoyed that they don't re-post. it would be way bet
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Black bear living under house shows no sign of budging; owner mulls legal action(cbsnews.com)
6 points by zzzeek 10mo ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
Yes this is the identical pattern we strive for at SQLAlchemy. However github has no option to close issues to contributors only. These folks do what we do, they have an issue template called "do not use this". big whoop. P
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Here's Everything Elon Musk promised in 2025 – and failed to deliver(mashable.com)
24 points by zzzeek 10mo ago|1 comments
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
> However, AI infrastructure cannot wait for the grid’s multiyear transmission upgrades. An AI cloud can generate revenue of $10-12 billion dollars per gigawatt, annually. Getting a 400 MW datacenter online even six months earlier is wor
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
> And then uv arrived. And they disapeared for those people. I'm not arguing against tools that make things as easy as possible for non programmers, I'm arguing against gigantic forks in the Python installation ecosystem. Fork
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
Oh, well yes the ff tool shown here is a classic 80% kind of thing for sure . Claude OTOH will get you about 98% and can explain the options to you as well
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
sure here's a command that a program I wrote to record my practicing and produce different mixes uses /usr/bin/ffmpeg -i "/path/to/musicfile.mp3" -i "/path/to/covertune.
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
> Maybe the strongest advantage of rust, on top of very clean and fast default behaviors, is that it attracts people that care about speed, safety and correctness. And those devs are more likely to spend time implementing fast software.
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
> real threads, no need for multi-processing parallel downloads don't need multi-processing since this is an IO bound usecase. asyncio or GIL-threads (which unblock on IO) would be perfectly fine. native threads will eventually be
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
> pip could implement parallel downloads, global caching, and metadata-only resolution tomorrow. It doesn’t, largely because backwards compatibility with fifteen years of edge cases takes precedence. But it means pip will always be slowe
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
not even, anyone still left at DOJ working to protect the president is immensely corrupt, and this is just that careless stupidity that typically goes along with deeply corrupt people.
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
it seems obvious for nostalgic reasons
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
great. Spotify just removes things all the time (things I actively listen to and work on for my jazz practices, one day just go "poof" because they didn't want to pay the record company anymore), and they are not as a compan
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
oh....no, not really, no, the world needs GPS, so, yeah. this is not like scrooge mcduck telling you to be at work on time. scrooge still has a windup watch
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
Paging MacKenzie Scott....
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
I didnt say the LLM does not make mistakes, I said the idea that a reviewer is going to miss them at some rate that is any different from mistakes a human would make, is ridiculous. Missing in these discussions is what kinds of code people
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
from some of the engineers I've debated this over, I think some of them have just dug their heels in at this point and have decided they're never going to use LLM tools period, and are just clinging to the original arguments witho
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
> I certainly wouldn’t want my children getting exposed to books that normalise trans ideology, for example. fortunately "trans ideology" is a nonexistent boogeyman made up by whatever vile youtube videos or FOX news you'r
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
because that would suggest something very bad is happening in the US and the HN party line is "this is nothing unusual, typical woke [1] panic attack over nothing, now please get back to your HN job of trying to win VC money" [1]
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
dunno, but this is only actions. You can use github without being dependent on actions.
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by zzzeek 10mo ago
how long before they start skimming OSS projects that are public but nonetheless have Github Sponsors income. I mean that's money right there for them right
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
SQLAlchemy has its own frozendict which we've had in use for many years, we have it as a pretty well performing cython implementation these days, and I use it ubiquitously. Would be a very welcome addition to the stdlib. This propos
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
but Japan is actually relaxing immigration rules due to the need for younger workers. I bet they can pay them pretty well for less than the R&D, maintenance, and loss of productivity of the robots costs
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
you may want to consider my use of the word "ambiguous" and consider what you're projecting by ignoring it
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
because it's AI and badly drawn, it's difficult to tell. A real artist with intent to state it one way or the other would make sure it was unambiguous. which is my point

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