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What is the correct size for a Mission-style Burrito? This is unsearchable...
What is the correct size for a Mission-style Burrito? This is unsearchable because "Mission" is a common brand.
**PEP 666: Enhancing Python's Memory Safety with Rust-Inspired Mechanisms**...
**PEP 666: Enhancing Python's Memory Safety with Rust-Inspired Mechanisms** Abstract This PIP proposes to inflict with Rust-inspired memory management and safety mechanisms into...
What computer will still be able to run in 100 years? I mean, if the chip...
What computer will still be able to run in 100 years? I mean, if the chip factories stopped churnin out chips and we had to get by with the current stock, is there any limiting...
Copilot is like finding out that your dishwasher has an enslaved gnome inside...
Copilot is like finding out that your dishwasher has an enslaved gnome inside it. The current iteration can carry on a reasonable conversation. A few iterations ago, a convo in...
How many git repos do you work with on a regular basis?
How many git repos do you work with on a regular basis?
Next time someone says, "correlation isn't causation" I now can say, "didn't...
Next time someone says, "correlation isn't causation" I now can say, "didn't you keep reading in the stats textbook? The part about causal inference?" Anyhow, the justifications...
My prediction: will soon compete directly with codeclimate, sonarqube, codacy...
My prediction: will soon compete directly with codeclimate, sonarqube, codacy and the like. As far as I can tell, these products take a variety of free tools, repackage them and...
Thinking about telemetry for CLI tools - single user. You know what options you...
Thinking about telemetry for CLI tools - single user. You know what options you used. - company. I guess you could do telemetry, or just ask the users, they work at your company....
@teamtuck@social.linux.pizza If you come back, try following more people, turn...
@teamtuck@social.linux.pizza If you come back, try following more people, turn off retweets from everyone and don't follow tags/choose tags carefully. Retweets & some % of tagged...
setuptools itself doesn't have to - install package dependencies, create a lock...
setuptools itself doesn't have to - install package dependencies, create a lock file (python setup.py install) - act as a place to put build tasks (python setup.py tests) - bump...
I don't like setuptools, setup.py nor the directions it evolved to. I will...
I don't like setuptools, setup.py nor the directions it evolved to. I will continue to not use setuptools except when some tool only works when you add setup tools into the mix...
WaPo May 8, 1945: The war is over, the death toll is 50,000 German children...
WaPo May 8, 1945: The war is over, the death toll is 50,000 German children killed by RAF bombing, 40,000 women and children killed by US bombing. We have literally no idea why...
Lazy RAG: I made a GPT (a system prompt) that tells ChatGPT to use it's own...
Lazy RAG: I made a GPT (a system prompt) that tells ChatGPT to use it's own info to think of packages that match my needs, then to search bing using `domain:pypi.org...
It takes about 2 months of coding with an LLM to get reasonably good at it The...
It takes about 2 months of coding with an LLM to get reasonably good at it The neophyte - doesn't have a fine tuned system prompt - has a wildly untuned feel for what the bot can...
- getting open source paid for is hard - not demotivating the people who write...
- getting open source paid for is hard - not demotivating the people who write the code for free is hard too If you got a company that depends on a weird community who writes code...
This library is depended on by a 867 packages ( , requests, hypothesis ), has a...
This library is depended on by a 867 packages ( , requests, hypothesis ), has a bogus CVE and is abandonware. That's a bit under 1000 releases not counting the iceberg of closed...
Moto 5 brings incompatibilities with 4 and the possibility to... use it as an...
Moto 5 brings incompatibilities with 4 and the possibility to... use it as an AWS simulator for Terraform? And every other non-python SDK? Don't know when they added that. So when...
The Buddha-100 will enlighten your wallet.
The Buddha-100 will enlighten your wallet.
Unless you got revenue per transaction, you shouldn't be doing side projects...
Unless you got revenue per transaction, you shouldn't be doing side projects with paid API. (For anything that has more than an incidental number of API calls) Why? Because if you...
Will people walk across roads and drive wearing VR headsets? yes
Will people walk across roads and drive wearing VR headsets? yes
As build master, your task will be to click the 🔄 over and over again as the...
As build master, your task will be to click the 🔄 over and over again as the docker containers fail due to network problems. Gitlab automations would be good for this, but I don't...
Someone needs to experiment with training an LLM on the bad texts (the hate,...
Someone needs to experiment with training an LLM on the bad texts (the hate, fear and racism and so on) and see if it always ends the same. Sometimes our meat based LLMs we're...