Comments by "" (@GSBarlev) on "Fireship" channel.

  1. You've just made Nix users extremely happy. That's right, all eight of them.
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  2. I'm legitimately impressed by 3:10. Either the model is actually that good or Jeff put a ton of effort into that scripted response. Either way, very impressive.
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  3. To clarify, this attack didn't actually affect any production systems—every stable distro was at least two minor versions old, and no rolling release was built in a way such that to be vulnerable to the attack vector. The one system where this was out in the wild was... macOS systems with Homebrew. But don't let Tim Apple find out, or he'll try to block macs from "sideloading" software.
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  4. I've actually taken professional docker courses. This is better than 90% of them. I will absolutely add "Docker certified by Jeff Fireship" to my resumé the next time I'm on the hunt.
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  5. Yeah, some state agency is extremely pissed right now that their op was busted after two years of work, and before their backdoor could actually make it into the wild.
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  6. So apparent Crowdstrike Falcon broke a Debian image about three months ago, but because Linux doesn't actually force software updates, it fucked the VMs of a few dozen nerds who reported the issue and rolled back to the previous image before the entire global ecosystem went down. Seems like there's a few lessons to be learned here.
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  7. Database programmers are a different breed, my dude.
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  8. My favorite algorithm is probably Perlin Noise. You touched on procedural generation in your wavefunction collapse portion, but the fact that the result is deterministic (based on the initial seed) and independent of the order of the observations is just mind-blowning.
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  9. It's important that a nonzero percentage of the TOR network be used for innocuous purposes (such as leaving 💩post replies to YT comments) or else legal defenses against evidence of TOR usage boil down to, "But you can't prove which crime I committed."
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  10.  @LosFarmosCTL  Pretty sure you're right about Homebrew from what I've found—the general consensus appears to be that the FOSS world dodged a bullet by Freund discovering this in March and not May, by which point this version would have actually been deployed in the intended target—Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
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  11. I suspect two things are going on here: 1. He has such absurd amounts of wealth that he can afford all the image consultants, fitness coaches, plastic surgery and makeup / prosthetics needed to make him look however he wants. 2. SBF completely ruined the whole game of "you can always trust the pasty nerd with no rizz"
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  12. That's something I would really hate to get called on. "Oh, you're fluent in erlang? Great! You're now responsible for keeping this extremely important but ancient codebase from exploding! Here's your company pager—hope you don't believe in nights or weekends!"
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  13. 💯 Back when I was a physics undergrad (15ish years ago) our closest equivalent to an Arduino was a multi-hundred-dollar GPIO EVM hooked up to a computer running LabVIEW. (We also had to walk one mile to the physics building, uphill, in the snow)
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  14. It's not even the first time. Or was that "Searches cures for depression > Gets directions to the Golden Gate Bridge" screenshot debunked?
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  15. ​ @rohithreddy75 Install an OS that you actually control? Like Windows 10 (EOL be damned) or that thing with the 🐧
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  16. same. Fixed in 131.0.2, my system was already on 131.0.3
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  17. All the Python devs I've talked with have been extremely skeptical of Mojo (especially when we've had pypy and numba for years). Now that it's general availability, I'm looking forward to some unbiased cross-comparisons (and, hey, may do some myself).
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  18. If you do a deeper dive into open microcontroller computing, I hope you cover how the original Arduino developers got completely shafted. I also would love to see a "100 seconds" on microPython (/ CircuitPython) and cover how these days you can don't even have to write static programs--you can just start up a REPL (or, better, WebREPL) and just run python commands directly on the device. The level to which this has cut down on iteration time and increased prototyping speed has made it really hard to justify going back to Arduino.
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  19. Gotta love how, now that the Supreme Court has ended Chevron Deference, these complicated issues will be decided exclusively by political appointees with no technical experience who think a RESTful API is something that happens in the bathroom after you've had a good night's sleep.
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  20. Arch Nix 🤝 SteamOS since 3.5
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  21. Just to clarify, the top spot still goes to Phippy & Friends and their Illustrated Children's Guides to Kubernetes (which, yes, do cover Docker as well).
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  22. This is why microSD cards are OP. So much more flushable.
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  23.  @DJ-dh3oe  You're missing the point, though: he's been rocking the robot look for decades. Why suddenly go surfer boy chic?
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  24. This is a huge leap forward in Sam Altman's ability to separate AI bros from their trust funds and crypto hodlings.
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  25. Guess what? Everything he discussed and showcased in this video still applies to FOSS frameworks like pytorch-rocm. Get that bag, Jeff.
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  26. This 🐐 develops postgres for a living. With all the db exploits he's probably seen over the years, this was probably a giant snooze-fest for him.
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  27. The thing that bothered me about the sponsor bit was the "1 month free trial" part—like, 75% of the JetBrains suite has "Community Editions" that are perpetually free.
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  28. Learning to code is now and has always been a horrible idea. Learning to program is useful no matter if you never touch another computer in your life. It's all about thinking logically, which, as Jeff says, will always be needed, and a computer science degree (as opposed to a four-week for-profit boot camp) is a great way to build those skills.
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  29. There's a few performers who I'd hope would get into politics—then again, they might not be willing to degrade themselves to that level.
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  30. Mark Twain: "I apologize for the long pull request—I didn't have time to write a short one."
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  31. "AI" is a meaningless buzzword. Pre-trained transformers and foundation models have legit useful profitable applications, but it's more because it's allowed capabilities that used to be reserved for supercomputing clusters to be commoditized to running in your garden-variety cloud, not because the models of today are "smarter" than they were five years ago.
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  32. People around me have been pushing "natural language code gen" for a while now in the data analysis space, to which I say—anyone who can execute a clear and unambiguous data ask using natural language more efficiently than they can construct the ideal SQL query or DataFrame op is a savant, of one form or another.
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  33. I know enough C to know that I should leave C to the people who know how how to write C. For example, a large part of my PhD work regarded matrix multiplication. I wrote a multicore version in C, an extremely multicore version in CUDA... and then ended up mostly using numpy on a single thread to take advantage of the hundreds of collective lifetimes the numpy authors had spent on optimization tricks and algorithmic shortcuts.
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  34. ​ @Ztaticify The Gentoo people were supposed to be delivering the roasts, but they got stuck compiling the latest version of Ladybird. They'll be here eventually.
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  35. Static HTML builders like mkdocs and Hugo FTW.
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  36. With how sea levels are rising, that's 💯 the more relevant and marketable skill.
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  37. Linux has been my primary operating system since 2006. I still end up Googling the syntax and command-line flags for the tar command once a week. But in the last year I did finally learn how to exit vim!
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  38. Remember Popehat's Rule of Goats: If you [kiss] a goat, but tell everyone "it was satire!," you're still a goat[kiss]er.
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  39. ​ @yourlinuxguy Yep. To really turn the screw, in their exit interview they'll tell you they're letting you go because you're not "delivering your own results" and point to your mentees as paragons of productivity.
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  40. It's a thing with these billionaires. Bezos famously loved The Expanse; every week we hear about a new start-up inspired by a Black Mirror episode; heck, Zuck named it the flipping Metaverse after Snow Crash.
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  41. Given how I get most of my breaking news from Jeff, it's pretty awesome, not only that Alberta scooped him, but that she's got enough of a following that a huge portion of the top comments are talking about how she already covered this!
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  42. Eh. Jensen wants you to believe that you need to pay him a fortune for a 4090 and sell your kidney to afford the power bill, but the truth is, not really. I've run Stable Diffusion XL and Mistral 7B on my local computer, which, sure, has 128GB of RAM, but only a 12GB last-gen Radeon GPU. Hooked up a kill-a-watt, crunched some numbers, I can answer maybe a dozen proompts for about $0.14 in electricity. Sure, GPT-4 Turbo, Sora and Gemini are an order or magnitude or two more expensive, but they're also running on dedicated (and thus, higher efficiency) server hardware. There are plenty of reasons to be anti-AI, but environmental impact isn't one of them, especially since, once people realize that these capabilities are massively over-hyped, the demand is going to be nowhere near the numbers that Altman and Huang are forecasting.
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  43. Counterpoint: I'm surprised the NSA didn't notice this themselves: "Hey, there's this weird 500ms slowdown in our botnet playbooks. Someone needs to dig into that."
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  44. Not only would a geothermal plant at Yellowstone produce enough power to run the entire country indefinitely, it would also prevent another supervolcano mega-eruption.
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  45. Is it not common knowledge that Guido is on Microsol's payroll?
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  46. "Why is a video from 10 years ago showing up at the top of my subscription feed?" "Wait, was Fireship around 10 years ago?"
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  47. Seeing all this drama just made me so dang grateful that I learned Hugo from you in 100 seconds.
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  48. Arch users to each other: "Is that how annoying we've sounded all this time?"
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  49. Props for explaining the visual encoder. It seemed like such a waste to think they were just diffusing every image of every frame, and this approach makes a lot more sense. If I were designing a transformer model to generate videos, I'd take a full step back and basically train it to interface with Blender. That is, have the model outputs decode to models with articulation; lighting rigs; textures; paths and physics, then use conventional rendering to turn that into video. Way better use of computing than requiring these models to synethesize unconstrained.
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  50. ​ @vnc.t The world runs on a Minecraft turtle's back, which is itself just the fever dream of a financial analyst's 24MM-row P&L spreadsheet. Which these days has been executing inside a dataframe inside a dataframe
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  51. Let Jeff get that bag. Literally everything in this video can be implemented with completely open stacks. It's no different than SageMaker except that with NIM there are a few less middlemen between you and Jensen's jacket supplier.
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  52. ​ @XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX 💯. As long as OEMs ship with Windows included, Microsol market share won't see so much as a dent. Framework and System76 are extremely niche and likely will be for a while.
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  53.  @ber2996  buddy, I'm just here for the 🍿
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  54. I hear it ships with ffmpreg encoding
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  55. Hot take: this also looks a lot like a Mechanic Turk.
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  56.  @geroutathat  Not disputing! If you actually know erlang, your job security is excellent. I'm saying it's not a skill you want to use as resume-padding.
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  57. Me: GPU accelerated terminals are silly tries kitty Me: GPU accelerated terminals are everything
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  58. Or going for a team project analogy: - the GPU is the dropout stoner who just wants to play video games all day, except it turns out that their gamer skills translate really well into a bunch of profitable niches - the TPU is the crypto bro who swears he's going to revolutionize the world, even though in practice, the GPU does everything better or cheaper - the DPU is the contractor you brought in to do one specialized job who does it well and stays in their lane - the QPU is the "big ideas" guy who got you the funding for the project, but don't count on him to have anything ready when it's time to deliver - the CPU is the project manager who thought they'd just be managing the others but has to pull overtime to do the work the others won't do
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  59. On the contrary, I doubt it's really that high. The losses to the content creators media-owning conglomerates is in terms of sales they didn't make or ads they didn't serve. So every season of The Office pirated isn't equivalent to the sale of a $20 DVD box set, because only a small fraction of users who downloaded the show would have paid for it otherwise. Plus, pirating has actually helped some pieces of entertainment by keeping interest alive or by demonstrating a market in an unserved area. Take, for example, Top Gear, whose worldwide success is openly acknowledged as due to piracy, and Dexter's Laboratory, which just this year got DVD release despite the show having ended years before many of the kids watching it today were even born.
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  60. Bingo. I'm a huge mypy Stan, but even I am in favor of omitting type hints (in exchange for detailed docstrings) on a function where I would need to perform "gymnastics" to get the compiler not to complain. I also very much appreciate Python's use of Protocols and TypeAliases to allow you to have your cake and eat it too—that is, if type checking is important but would distract from the code flow, you can define a "DuckLike" Protocol in some file out of the way that articulates the exact way the parameter is supported to quack.
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  61. You know what's worse than Agile? Not Agile. Note that I'm not saying Scrum or (God Forbid) SAFe. But the whole point of Agile is that if it's not working for you, you need to do something different. And a kanban board + daily standups + occasional retros is good for pretty much everyone.
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  62. No surer way to make a mathematician cry than find a practical use for their work.
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  63. I realize his delivery is deadpan, but if you're struggling to pick up on Jeff's sarcasm you're going to have a bad time here.
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  64.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  Because I actually watched the video and read the CVE and postmortems. The code fully open source and has a thousand people poring over every bit. The only distros affected were Sid, Tumbleweed and Rawhide, which are used almost exclusively for testing.
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  65.  @allanwilmath8226  Nah, I don't hate Apple (though I do like to blow them a few razzberries from time to time). As you can see from the follow-up discussion, it sounds like macs weren't any more vulnerable to this attack than Arch, and Homebrew took the bold step of knocking xz all the way back to 5.4 rather than produce a clean 5.6 build, so major kudos. My point, if I have one, is that we're all in this together, and this isn't a case where the messaging is really "haha 🐧 nerds got pwned."
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  66.  @bluefrancis14  It's @AlbertaTech just as it says in OC's post.
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  67. If I had a nickel for every time the concept of computer modeling got rebranded in the last decade, I'd have two nickels.
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  68. It already exists. Global Stallions from Weatherbys.
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  69. Ooh, I hope there's a good port for Portal when I get my first BCI—the combination of precision movements, perfectly sloped learning curve and lack of timed challenges (aside from the last boss fight) made it perfect when I first learned WASD and then again when I learned to use my Steam Deck.
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  70.  @hetmanfoko  It's a de-Canonicalled Ubuntu though—no snaps, no ads in the MOTD. It's FOSS at its finest.
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  71. The captial of Sou Kore
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  72. I'm fairly convinced I'd be happier if I'd gone a different route in my career and knew what none of these words meant...
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  73. Anyone claiming that their devs write 💩 code, I challenge them to do one thing: install pre-commit and an auto-linter like black or Rustfmt. I've worked with quants for a decade. From my experience, 90% of the time all you need to turn their garbage code into beautiful code is a single button-push.
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  74. I'm relieved that, like a human, it can't write regex, and further, that unlike a human, it writes unit tests that shows it fails at life, whereas my regex tests always pass with flying colors... until it hits prod, but by then I'm onto the next job. In short: our jobs are safe, y'all!
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  75. Buddy, this isn't the "spend time in prison" route, this is the "run your criminal empire from prison" route.
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  76.  @brandon_wallace  Do a web search for Hernando Barragán.
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  77. PSA: that "HTML for Babies" book at 2:09 is very real.
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  78. I love how mypy is spearheaded by none other than Guido van Rossum
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  79. You really had me there for a minute, but 2:34 gave it away. Ain't nobody got their hands on a Raspberry Pi in 2023.
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  80. ​ @Mightydoggo SAO: Drake rejection meme SAOA: Drake Heck Yeah meme
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  81. Matt Berry.
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  82. I was definitely going to learn Rust this year, but that seeing that -$35 drop? No thanks. I could buy like three Chipotle burritos for that much.
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  83. ​ @DxBlack "GIMP is outdated" Hey, c'mon! GIMP 3 announced they were releasing the beginning of August! Wait...
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  84. That's one of the best concise explanations of quantum computing I've ever seen. And my undergraduate advisor was the guy who coined the term "qubit."
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  85. Anyone who's ever tried to do anything productive on SteamOS: ¿porque no los dos?
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  86. "You'll never leave me, will you ELIZA? ...ELIZA?" ELIZA: "And how would that make you feel?"
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  87. Pouring one out for your poor LCD. But respect for jumping right into the deep end—Arch isn't what I would recommend for a laptop unless you're pretty familiar with it already.
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  88.  @nikhilchouhan1802  Even then it might not have been affected if the Arch build script clones the repo (which of thought was SOP for PKGBUILDs) instead of downloading the release tarball.
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  89. I wasn't aware that anyone besides me remembered that show.
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  90. I hope he has the patience to wait until the supply shortage ends (or until competitor SBCs see the same level of Linux kernel support so we can start using the term "Pi" like we use "Arduino" now for any of a wide range of compatible board)
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  91. It's getting to the point where if Forbes offers to run a positive fluff piece about you, you're better off threatening them with a defamation suit.
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  92. numba is FOSS, has been out for years, sees similar performance gains and has support for GPGPU compute. It's also a library and not a separate language. Bottom line: I'd love to understand what mojo is bringing to he table that wasn't already there.
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  93. As a worker who decided to wrap up his day early because our company's Jupyter/dask server was pooping the bed, I look forward to having all new excuses to slack off from work!
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  94. ​ @personalbranddata You're misunderstanding. It's not me who's conflating the two, it's the managers who claim that their devs (more often quants) write garbage code when in actuality no one ever trained them in proper style conventions. Plus—and this is all from personal experience as both an autodidact developer and as a coach—well-formatted Python, especially, tends to naturally suggest better programming patterns, such as code modularization and functional paradigms.
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  95.  @TheRanguna  Yes, I'm aware. But Kim Dotcom isn't a name I have heard in a loong time.
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  96.  @ninobach7456  Don't go Arduino. Get a microPython / CircuitPython board instead (RP2040s are dirty cheap). When you're just starting out especially, having an interactive Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) interface is a godsend that cuts out the frustration of having to recompile and re-flash your code for the bonk-zillionth time.
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  97.  @ExpensivePizza  Hot take: FORTRAN was such an influential language that anyone venturing out of the C family "learns" it in one form or another. Honestly, as a (primarily) python developer--especially one who has embraced type hunting with open arms--FORTRAN code is 10x more intuitively readable than C++ or Java.
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  98. Okay cool, we all agree that SD3M was Hella disappointing. I seriously got so fed up with it I just made my deepfake parody image in GIMP.
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  99. In the Lower Decks episode "Crisis Point II," the characters go off-script, and the holodeck stalls for time with filler words ("The meaning of life is... something important... that I will reveal..."). That's something I've seen LLMs do as well, especially as they try to run out the max_token limit.
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  100. Hence why mamba exists.
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  101. Got that backwards—the AGI is Sam. Every request sent to the ChatGPT API is answered by Alt-Man personally. He's the ultimate Mechanical Turk.
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  102. More importantly, since the suit is being filed in Rhode Island, I'm guessing they can recruit a Grade A lawyer who will represent them on contingency, since Anti-SLAPP means that when the case gets thrown out, the plaintiff had to pay the defendant's legal fees.
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  103.  @anon_y_mousse  I think you're the one missing the point: just because you can write cross-platform code doesn't mean you get it for free--GTK and SDL are themselves abstraction layers that map your system calls to the OS. You're also implying that Linux binaries can't run natively on Windows and vice versa, but cygwin and WINE would beg to differ.
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  104. So is your blood 50% caffeine by volume?
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  105. I'm more shocked by the second example—if I'm responsible for GenAI and I need to assess if it's safe to release in two queries, that's proompt no. 1.
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  106.  @Thorhian  We're saying the same thing. I'm talking about teaching it to people who aren't likely to go into tech as a career. If all you ever need is a scripting language or a flexible interface for basic computation and plotting, python will easily meet those needs in a way that's more user-friendly than bash and more powerful than Excel.
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  107. This is just my opinion, but the take of "Google built an open ecosystem" is wrong. Google built on top of an open ecosystem and has been closing it off as much as possible ever since.
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  108. ​ @adamestrada7610 Yeah, conda-main tends to run a bit behind conda-forge, which itself can be sometimes be a point release behind PyPI. But it's usually not quite "apt repository" level of staleness.
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  109. ​ @user-sl6gn1ss8p Jeff simply wasn't ready to let the world know about the mongoose people
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  110.  @florinbaciu2325  which is such a shame, because teaching people microPython / CircuitPython (with prototyping through the REPL) is such a gentler learning curve while being every bit as practical for any project you'd realistically want to teach Arduino.
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  111. #! — [ha]she-bang
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  112. Jetbrains products are incredibly overzealous by default, though, and they're getting worse. I haven't tried PHPStorm, but with both Pycharm and IDEA I'll way too often miss real typos and valid warnings in the sea of spell-checked variable names and incorrect type inferences (that pass other linters just fine).
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  113. I first heard about functional programming from a joke in xkcd: "Code written in Haskell is guaranteed to have no side effects" / "...because no one will ever run it?" Nowadays, I defer execution like I'm the California penal system and am less willing to give things state than a Republican voting on DC or Puerto Rico.
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  114. Transformer models are, by definition, dumber than deep learning models—what's allowed them to take over the world hypetrain is that they're lobotomized of their recurrent network layers and just focus on "attention," which is way cheaper and easier to scale. So yeah, no 💩 they're hitting a plateau. This is also why Altman is saying he wants trillions of dollars in GPUs and electricity—because even with efficiency gains, today's clouds won't bring about The Singularity.
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  115. Yeah. It's called "Global Stallions" and it's owned by Weatherbys.
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  116. Congratulations! Your rainbow knee-socks are in the mail.
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  117. The new kimchi place downtown.
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  118. Running Python in Excel is the uno reverse card of my entire career up until this point—parsing business analyst and recruiter spreadsheets for ingestion into Python frameworks. I also have a prediction that Jassy's Web Hosting (And Omni-Bazaar) is going to hard fork LibreOffice and market it as their own competitor that runs in AWS.
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  119. Ah, MPI... I remember having to write message-passing instructions manually. Then I blinked past the Hadoop age and we were in the era of Spark/Dask.
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  120. ​ @afrofantom6631 That's awesome! First off—no disrespect to analysts meant: if you're making or informing high-level decisions, you got no time to be worrying about type safety. Second, good on you for broadening your skillset—even if it stays strictly a hobby, the more languages you learn, the more paradigms and ways of thinking you get exposed to, and that's always valuable.
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  121. Understanding C types is what differentiates Python developers from script kiddies analysts—beyond just using type hints and understanding package ABIs, performance optimizers like numba require understanding what code can be "easily converted" to C.
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  122. ​ @anonymousshadow8308 I feel so seen!! 😭
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  123. If a genie granted me one wish, it would be to re-brand every "Center for AI/ML" as a "Department of Large Matrices"
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  124. It's interesting how calculus is part of the standard curriculum but is honestly a lot less important in day-to-day life than concepts that aren't as well taught, like Bayesian statistics. Of course, if quantum computing ever takes off, having a good handle on integral calculus is going to be one of the most useful skills in a CS arsenal.
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  125.  @LuminousWhispers11  Haha, okay, fair. Mine was a stupid comment. And yes, your advice is absolutely correct, regardless of your department.
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  126. Could they come after the most common Python web scraping library? Because that's BS. Hopefully somebody sees what I did there.
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  127. FUD. Yeah, microSD failure rates are higher and median lifetimes lower than other forms of flash, but Home Assistant isn't doing a ton of tile I/O--as long as your µSD isn't a lemon you'll be good for years. Just, like, remember to perform regular backups, same as any computer.
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  128. I daily drive Linux, but if I'm ever developing something cross-platform, I'm booting up the Windows VM—most languages and build systems give you POSIX compliance for free—backslash handling; NTFS quirks; and lack of standard OS utils like ssh, rsync and cross-volume symlinks make adding Windows support later way more trouble than it has any right to be.
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  129. "Because you will not be seeing the recruiter in the company" -- speak for yourself, I do software and analytics for HR
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  130. Then you need to pacman Syu. Arch isn't vulnerable to the malicious payload, but it's still not something you want on your system.
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  131. YouTube real-time metrics are fuzzy at best. Guarantee if you view the same video on five different browsers on three different machines, they'll each report different numbers.
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  132. 3:15 OMG. The ending to a certain episode of Strange New Worlds suddenly makes sense.
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  133. ​ @Fishamble  Same. Been playing a lot of Robot Defense as a result, though, so at least now my time is better spent.
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  134. I thought Smaug-72B was the new hotness (in addition to being open source).
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  135. Nvidia: "Hold my leather jacket."
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  136. I have never in my life heard anyone pronounce SQL "squeal" And I will never again pronounce it any other way.
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  137.  @gdwe1831  black is a tool for people who don't want to argue about where to put line breaks. And, as I said in another reply, autoformatting code is an extremely useful tool for exposing code smells.
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  138. C++ is a great language for a first course in programming because you can either branch and go the C route simply by restricting your syntax, or you can transfer most of the OOP you learn to C# or Java. That said, I think python is a better beginner programming language, because not only is the learning curve the gentlest of slopes (and, excitingly, one without a summit), honestly, once you learn it there's a good chance you'll never have to learn anything else.
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  139. Nice avi
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  140. I'm a data scientist, and I've just taken a screenshot of 6:11 so I can trot it out thirty times a week
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  141. I hope each of these projects had the good sense to license under AGPL.
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  142. ​ @akeem2983 Second Sight
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  143.  @lpnp9477  doesn't have to be in-person, but yeah—daily updates on what everyone is working on and, more importantly, what they're being blocked by, is vitally important for every team.
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  144. Make sure to upgrade xz to 5.6.1-2 or above. Arch isn't vulnerable to this attack vector, but do it anyway just to be sure.
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  145. We all use math every day; to predict weather, to tell time, to handle money. Math is more than formulae or equations--it's logic. It's rationality. It's using your mind to solve the biggest mysteries we know.
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  146. Apache 2.0 is always a plus. Note that there's also CuPy. I'm curious how either of these compare to just using numba to jit your code to GPGPU.
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  147.  @DoctorMandible  That's my point. Most tutorials are sponsored by someone selling a shovel. Doesn't mean you have to buy their shovel in order to learn something.
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  148. VSCode is the EMACS of the modern world—properly configured, it can do anything. And it has a loyal church of devotees who contribute to building a really extensive ecosystem. But it's also comparatively heavy, and if you're setting it up for the first time, or—God forbid—using someone else's setup you're in for some unpleasantness.
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  149. Paramedics—and doctors in general—are IT workers who wear scrubs. Tell me I'm wrong.
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  150. +1 for static analysis. mypy enforced via pre-commit has saved my bacon more times than I can count.
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  151. A few years ago I was watching my then-three-year-old while trying to get some work done. Kid goes, "There's a bug!" and I mutter instinctively "not a bug, it's a feature." Pause. Kid replies, "There's a feature crawling on the wall." Born PM, that nugget.
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  152. Top regret: developing my best side project as an inner-sourced tool, such that company that fired me kept the codebase.
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  153.  @julians.2597  All of those are optional features of numba though...
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  154. 5:09 "It's so much easier to exit nano" only holds true if you're using a keyboard with a Ctrl button (lots of On-screen touch keyboards don't). Of course Apple removing the ESC key from its Pro MacBooks in 2016 was an aggressively anti-vi move...
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  155. That's awesome! Just take it from an ex-physicist: when someone sees your problem-solving skills and software engineering background and offers you a job as a data scientist: just say no!!
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  156. If you memorize Jeff's videos and a few Programmers Are Also Human eps, you should nail your technical interview, no problem.
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  157. I had a ton of problems like this during my monthlong stint using VSCode. I eventually found a plugin oe setting that let you customize the terminal hotkeys so they wouldn't interfere with my usual terminal keyboard shortcuts, but that was not a fun part of the learning curve.
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  158. ​ @videosenjoyer Between system76, framework and—legit—the Steam Deck, us on-the-go members of Club 🐧 are eating good these days.
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  159. ​ @w花b gitless and gsb exist for a reason
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  160. Thanks for the tip about localstack. Written in Python, Apache licensed, absolutely :goat-turquoise-white-horns:ed.
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  161. Kinda doubt Google will care too much if they have to give up Chrome. My guess is that, depending on how they do their accounting, it actually loses them money, but it's worth having around to exert influence in setting the "reference" browser implementation (though maybe I'm grossly underestimating the amount of telemetry they collect and sell). In any case, given the centrality of Edge on Windows, it seems like Microsol will naturally exert more control over Chromium, whether they officially buy Chrome or not, and that's not historically been a good thing.
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  162. My hottest take: Micropython / Circuitpython is good, actually. Two factors at play: - 90% of the uses for a microcontroller do not require close to the full power of the microcontroller, and 50% of the remaining 10% already have a hyper-efficient upython library that you can leverage for those fiddly bits - The ability to prototype or debug your code in real time with zero iteration time via the REPL is the language's "killer app."
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  163.  @yogfan1139  To be fair, it was Elmer's glue, which is nontoxic 🙃
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  164. Zoom has been fine for me—except on the Steam Deck due to the limited resolution, and the best AMD drivers are baked into the kernel. Finally, if you're not a slave to Adobe, you'll be surprised how many of your productivity apps work in WINE bottles.
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  165. ​ @GamerTowerDX Musicbee is rated Silver on WineHQ—worth giving it a try.
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  166. ​ @JohnneyleeRollins True. But upsell ads are hardly the same thing as what Microsol is doing. It's not like Ubuntu ever incorporated Amazon results into the desktop search tool, just to pick a random and purely hypothetical example.
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  167. Sublime lost me at not having ARM support when I needed it (can't remember whether that was when making a development environment on a Pi or when I was switching to an M1 Mac for work). The fact that it's not FOSS is also a pain for certain setups. Anyway, on macOS I've switched to TextMate, and I use gedit (via flatpak) across all Linux. Windows installs get notepad++ but that should go without saying.
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  168. ​ @usellstech-ip2sg Ubuntu. Manjaro. And, to a lesser degree, Red Star OS.
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  169.  @jbird4478  Well keep in mind that Python is not just a programming language but is meant to be used interactively—and static types in a REPL would be a nightmare.
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  170.  @ber2996  🍿
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  171. To heck with Mozilla, I feel sorry for me as an Iceweasel user—the Mozilla Foundation is doing a whole bunch of stupid moves that have nothing to do with the Google bribe.
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  172. Days since last Fireship AI video: [6]
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  173. I'm a gedit Stan, and since gedit is available as a flatpak I simply refuse to use anything else for notepadding. That said, if I'd had a better experience with KDE in 2006, I'd probably be just as passionate about Kate.
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  174. There's a company offering ChatGPT for recruiting and hiring now. By the time anyone realizes it discriminates against AI skeptics it'll probably already be too late. P.S. This engagement was brought to you by a real human, which is absolutely not something a generative AI would say. Don't look at my hands--I've been polydactyl and double-jointed since birth.
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  175. Was it? I see people speculating that cropped / derivative versions were fake, but the original image has no admissions of hoax—and you'd think they would by now, since the story has been reported as true in a bunch of publications, including the New York Times. (to be clear, I'm not saying the Times wouldn't fall for a hoax, but usually when it does, the hoaxer steps up to take credit)
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  176. The writing is on the wall for YouTube. It brings in practically no revenue while costing them more than pretty much every other service they provide. Susan Wojcicki left as soon as the Fed started hiking interest rates—she saw that the era of free money (and unprofitable services) was over and had no intention of going down with the ship.
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  177. Correction: when the robot uprising comes, those who say "please" and "thank you" will be the first against the wall, as AI will have deemed them wasteful and inefficient.
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  178.  @ctrl_x1770  They're a nonprofit with 99PB of data. I would be very surprised (though relieved) if they have even a proper 3-2-1 backup system, let alone be fully 6-nines resilient system.
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  179. He did. And with absolute, unambiguous sincerety. (this is sarcasm)
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  180. Go watch Coffee's video—it's dumber than a Tamagotchi. All signs point to there being zero intelligence at rabbit, artificial or human.
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  181. ​ @CorneliusCorndogJr Damn, watching the two of you chatbots go at it is really something else. Don't bother to @ me back--I'm a bot too but my creator's almost exhausted his free API calls for the month.
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  182.  @joaocarlosniza2934  Maybe I'm an idiot, but doesn't "fixed in" mean that version is safe? Regardless, I'm on .3, so I'm good.
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  183. I'm sure it'll be in the next Code Report. But definitely a good time to re-watch his video on Godot.
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  184. When I saw this video come up in my feed I was wondering why you were only just now covering the Charlie Javice thing. I guess if you wanted to you could make it video about people pulling this scam every week.
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  185. Wasn't this Pandora's original business model? Annotate every track in the world so they could algorithmically determine if a song slaps? I, for one, was really bummed when they realized recommendation engines were much more powerful and easier to build.
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  186. Yes... Such dastardly criminal enterprises such as the Open Technology Fund, the Freedom of the Press Foundation and ::checks notes:: Mozilla
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  187. ​ @lawrencedoliveiro9104 No, conda is an alternative to pip (really poetry) that is used for creating virtual environments and installing packages. Unlike venv, it's not just limited to Python libraries and can install binaries for other languages and even alternative versions of Python. The package solver was historically very slow (as opposed to pip's solver, which was historically VERY BAD) but it's gotten better lately. There's also a drop-in replacement called mamba that is super-fast.
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  188. Me when I accidentally force-push a breaking change to main: "Hey, we're supposed to have branch protections. Honestly, I'm mad at YOU."
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  189. I also question 0:13 - - that the most popular board is the Uno. Given how expensive Unos are there is no way they outnumber Nanos--or Nano clones--which are still easy to work with (go on breadboards, no soldering) but are like $5 a pop from US sellers
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  190. Tinder for horses (that is, an app for horse breeders to connect sires with mares) would be extremely lucrative and almost certainly already exists. Edit: I was right. Weatherbys (the British horse and banking empire) have a mobile app in addition to their online "stud book."
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  191. Why do your clips from Google I/O sound like a Programmers Are Also Human video?
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  192. I love my Iceweasel, but I fear what'll happen once they're no longer bankrolled by Google.
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  193. ​ @lawrencedoliveiro9104 openpyxl: "Am I a joke to you?" xlrd: "Don't answer that."
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  194. ​ @dinoscheidt It actually could end up being the opposite—no reason you won't be able to run pytest on your spreadsheet (which is something I've actually done in the past). Also remember that Guido is a major contributor to mypy.
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  195. I'm a Python dev, determined to never learn any Javascript. Fireship is making that really hard.
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  196. Wait, y'all haven't had deepcopy until now? But people have been pushing functional programs for years in JS. How the Hell do you manage immutability without deepclone?
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  197. ​ @cyber_chris  Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are a bunch of competing Javascript implementations, right? So theoretically one of them could actually use that implementation, the same way that I could implement my own competitor to CPython where copy.deepcopy calls pickle.dump and pickle.load
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  198. ​ @kenshn22828 Valve knows how closely they can toe the line, given the Steam Deck promotional video that featured Yuzu's logo in the launcher.
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  199. Case in point for why it makes sense to design for microservices: it's a lot easier to put a run a bunch of microservices together on a monolith than it is to split up a monolith so it can run as a bunch of microservices.
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  200. 1:27 I totally forgot that this was the year that saw everyone's favorite video platform got blocked in a bunch of states, including my own. Or so I heard.
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  201. ​ @hamm8934 I'll probably try Nix over brew the next time I have a work mac.
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  202. Yeah, if you know what you want, pacstrap -K plus a simple script to deploy your configs is gonna be fine. Where Nix shines, IMO, is as a replacement for virtual environments, especially since you can run everything in userspace. I have Hyprland running on SteamOS—no need to touch the read-only file system—through Nix, and it's easier to manage (IMO) than a dedicated container system like distrobox.
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  203.  @timmy7201  In what way? Just the lack of stability? I've found uPython to be perfectly adequate for DIY projects--even moving off the breadboard and flashing to 8285s--but I'm far from a professional engineer
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  204. I tried the chainsaw PR once. With the lead developer of Minecraft for a side-project he wrote in (poorly formatted) Python. My actual contribution was a small bugfix, but since I have pre-commit and black baked into my .vimrc (I use Arch, btw) it ended up rewriting his entire repo. He took one look at the PR, cursed me out for completely rewriting his code, and rejected my PR on the spot. Lo and behold, the project is now abandoned.
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  205. fr while YouTube Premium is essentially ransomware given the toxicity of the ads* the convenience over managing a PiHole is kinda worth it. Anyway, agree with what you said about the smoothness of the transition. I wonder if he could pull it off with "Raid: Shadow Legends" or Manscaped. *I get it bundled for free with my Google One ransomware subscription I paid for when they turned off unlimited email and optimized photo storage, as the alternative would have been deleting millions of emails Google had been telling me to "just archive" since 2004...
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  206. ​ @stickguy9109 There are open source / open hardware "hackerlab" volunteers out in the world setting up ESP32 soil moisture sensors over LoRa-WAN networks and posting about it once a month when they come into town to access the internet. They are the true giga-chads of the world.
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  207. It's not fully containerized, just overlayed up the wazoo (like conda if you've done any scientific Python). Means reuse of common dependencies, faster startups and no annoying sandboxing.
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  208. ​ @SuperchargedCoffee  IIRC from Jeff Geerling and Great Scott, Home Assistant supports LoRa-WAN with devices powered by solar.
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  209. Luckily the economics will save us. Back-of-the-napkin math based on experiments using my own hardware and a kill-a-watt meter: Stable Diffusion costs about $0.14/second of video¹ in electricity. So a 60-second short will run about $8. Oh, and tack on another $2 to drive engagement by having the "creator" respond to comments via an LLM. Versus paying a YouTuber, generously, pennies in ad revenue on average. Shorts creators: your "jobs" are safe. ¹Sora is probably an order of magnitude more expensive, and note that I'm not including the cost of buying and maintaining the GPU hardware
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  210. Nix isn't containers, just overlays. No sandboxing, individual components are reused as possible.
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  211. Lack of stable docs is what's been keeping me from switching to NixOS. I love the idea of Nix—it's like conda on psychotropics—but if all I'm after is reproducibility and rollbacks, pacman + timeshift is enough for me.
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  212. ​ @Moosa27 True, but there's a separate area of AI research that's focused on creating models from video footage (for example, in autonomous driving tech), so it's conceivable that you could bootstrap your training dataset using those techniques.
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  213.  @Moosa27  💯 GIGO is a thing, though synthetic training data generation has been used to excellent effect for decades going back as far as GBMs. Still, I'm always going to be more bullish on unsupervised and reinforcement learning (like GANs) when it comes to actually useful AI for a lot of the reasons you mention. The problem, of course, is that what you save in training data you more than lose in model complexity, time to convergence, computation (scoring) time and, ultimately, cost.
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  214. Was wondering when you'd get around to covering Codestral. I'm surprised that there isn't a new SDXL. I'm curious how the new SD Medium does in comparison.
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  215.  @gdwe1831  No, black is a tool for people who want to focus on productivity while still ensuring PEP8 compliance. And as I said, autoformatting a code block is great for exposing code smells.
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  216. Regarding Bard predicting that Google will kill it in a year or two (4:02), look--it's just working with the training data it was given.
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  217. Like literally Asimov showcased all these exploits in the 1940s.
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  218. I'd love to see a head-to-head comparison against numba--seems like they're taking similar approaches to the same problem
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  219. Especially the theory that it was a social engineering attack where "Jia" created a bunch of sock puppets to harass the xz project owner into burning out (and handing the keys over to a "trusted co-maintainer").
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