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kapilvt

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About kapilvt

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    The other consideration that would be useful is an explicit api for a developer to freeze the release, to prevent new file upload.

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    Comment #49048532

    The files in a release are immutable, but a release on pypi consists of multiple files for binaries that is a cross of architecture, os, and python version. Per other comments the …

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    Comment #48439379

    Is the name on homage to James Mickey’s classic column article in usenix ? https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf

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    Comment #48311855

    Like anthropomorphism is literally in the company name… i recall reading this book as a teenager.. it does seem apt in the world to come. https://www.amazon.com/Faces-Clouds-New-Th…

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    Comment #47854070

    Assuming the Qualcomm ARM lawsuits are what’s preventing the AArch64 debut…

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    Comment #45868473

    Sphinx does have markdown support fwiw

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    Comment #44608012

    blood test cancer screening (free form dna), provides most of the benefits at a fraction of the costs.

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    Comment #43593075

    Docs links lead to a 403 forbidden for me https://www.ferronweb.org/docs/

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    Comment #42877486

    This article from isovalent introducing netkit walks through the benefits and tradeoffs https://isovalent.com/blog/post/cilium-netkit-a-new-containe...

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    Comment #41386558

    Sqlalchemy in general is great but the data class integration feels non pythonic to me, due perhaps to catering first to the typing crowd instead of the ergonomic one.

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    Comment #41314730

    yeah. its not great, we had to build out a poetry plugin that worked for our cases to support a mono repo, https://github.com/cloud-custodian/poetry-plugin-freeze?tab=... the uv su…

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    Comment #41234462

    It was a code of conduct discussion wrt to enforcement and changes to bylaws to enable that. The actual threads https://discuss.python.org/t/for-your-consideration-proposed... And …

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    Comment #41231615

    Multiarch via qemu

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    Comment #40986116

    sort of reminds me of https://github.com/google/gvisor , re syscall interception and checking. gvisor had some significant performance impacts for io/syscall heavy workloads, but p…

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    Comment #40926642

    FAANG & Co won't touch AGPL, ditto for most enterprises. There are some exceptions in countries with weak IP enforcement on smaller players.

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    Comment #40924184

    For large buckets key space enumeration is a significant portion of most bulk operations, especially on a potentially non optimized key space (aka hotspots), there’s a few heuristi…

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    Comment #40908131

    fwiw, we built an oss plugin for poetry on option #3 when publishing for repeatable installs to automate translation of published wheel metadata from lock file, also supports mono …

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    Comment #40899048

    Not to be confused with Linux app armor (lsm) https://apparmor.net/ Instead this is a mobile app/ physical security thingy originating on uni campuses

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    Comment #40779810

    Arstechnica has a solid write up. He did a lot of work making linux wifi and driver ecosystem significantly better. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/larry-finger-linux-w... …

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    Comment #40564094

    its not quite the same, roughly 60-70% of chalice code by volume is actually helping auto provision. power tools is about 70-80% code by volume is integration with other services/c…

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    Comment #40563976

    as a previous contributor and user, I would not recommend. as a project in the GitHub aws organization, it can not accept non amazon external maintainers. as a project, it has a si…