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boomer_joe

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    Comment #48432582

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    Comment #45381919

    Gemini 2.5 Pro feels heavily lobotomized for me lately, failing at very simple tasks with a frequency far above what I was used to seeing back when it first released. The personali…

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    Comment #45125987

    Thanks! Will it be paid or open source?

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    Comment #45125865

    I don't understand. Can I use distributed Polars with my own machines or do I have to buy cloud compute to run distributed queries (I don't want that). If not, is this planned?

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    Comment #44642714

    I fail to see why. You can have an event loop per thread, and a hypothetical requirement of wanting to make sure all compute in each thread is spent inside of its event loop (assum…

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    Comment #44110438

    What's the plan for ruff? Will it be part of ty one day?

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    Comment #44063313

    Isn't VLC an option for playing local files and available in the App store? You could sync the folder with iCloud.

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    Comment #42982341

    You're interacting with an LLM.

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    Comment #37229533

    No, you're just moving the goalpost (and you're pretty bad at it too)

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    Comment #37220161

    And what's the use if you don't know they're not compiling against a backdoored version under the hood?

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    Comment #37217229

    >as I run macOS How is the FDE story on macOS? Isn't it closed source - how can you tolerate that as a cryptographer? (Not saying Linux is perfect, cryptsetup doesn't have a secure…

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    Comment #31847948

    We need a licence that forbids use in ML and the people willing to sue github for it ASAP.

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    Comment #28062630

    Given the amount of time people spent trying to implement something interesting in Malbolge (unshackled), I would also be very interested in a detailed explanation, perhaps a blog …

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    Comment #27906567

    Drawn with a graphics tablet, yeah. I find the drawing UX of Okular very lacking - if this application could have a simple, clean annotations interface that produces clean lines wi…

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    Comment #27540699

    >Non-collateralized stablecoins read: "ponzi scheme". This is pretty funny.

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    Comment #26031229

    Same story as with Article 17 back then. Remember how the deputies in the EU parliament claimed they "accidentally pressed the wrong button"? The part about pushing this through un…

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    Comment #25182202

    What is the advantage of your assume macro over regular C11 static_assert / assert? Apologies if it is immediately obvious. And in case anyone else is wondering, the advantage of t…

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    Comment #24599751

    >People who stutter often appear to have slightly weaker connections between the brain areas responsible for hearing and for the movements that generate speech Interesting. One wou…

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    Comment #24375841

    I wish the WG14 would publish the TeX sources for the latest working draft. None of the pdf-to-html generators work well, and as a result the most up to date version you can conven…

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    Comment #24168793

    Now if only they had a bot API which wasn't so restrictive...

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    Comment #24155841

    Useless is an understatement.

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    Comment #24104659

    No such thing - To the kind of people you just replied to, a cultural identity and homogenous, well educated society means nothing.