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I write to save you time and effort when dealing with Python:

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BiteCode_dev··on Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines
Note that 3.15 is not released yet. It will come out in 4 months
BiteCode_dev··on Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back
I think the opposite. Automation and scale made it possible to cheaply influence way more people. Information bubbles mean people are more convinced than ever.

Before you had one big influencer, usually the state, manipulating the news of your country. The alternative players were more trustworthy, because they had to if they wanted to keep credibility.

Now, any big company can buy a narrative when they need one. No reputation matters. No memory. No consequences for the long run.

It's literally pay to play.

BiteCode_dev··on Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
Maybe as often, the laws is just a pretext for this little nuget. They innovate for once, not using terrorists or pedophiles, nobody checked.
BiteCode_dev··on Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
True, but none of the action of Meta under his direction points to having changed in any way. If anything, he doubled down.
BiteCode_dev··on Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
Yes.

But there are things you say as a young person that are revealing of core personality traits.

Most people would just not say that.

BiteCode_dev··on Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
You have much less control over what the government does than choosing your job. I have rejected job offers from both facebook and google. If FAANGS want you, you have the choice of employers. And you chose.
BiteCode_dev··on Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
Meta is a scourge of a company.

You literally work for a guy who, talking about the user data he dubiously acquired, that said "they trust me, dumb fucks".

It's hard to feel sorry for workers who chose that road, the writing was on the wall.

And to be very well paid to create the biggest spying tech on the planet, making doomscroll addictive, ads that serve scams, AI slop everywhere, and being accused of having participated in election manipulation.

At some point, I call it poetic justice, and I wish there were more of that.

BiteCode_dev··on New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater
With solar sometimes producing a lot of energy when you don't need it or can't store it, having a cheap hardware to produce hydrogen from it is quite nice.

Natural gaz may be cheap, but you can't beat free.

For this setup, the price of the hardware was a limiting factor.

BiteCode_dev··on Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
Make people pay money instead of watching ads.
BiteCode_dev··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Does each playwright (or similar automation system) count as a different user, and does it keep the model around ?

If yes, it's an interesting API to call when a AI crawler hit your website.

BiteCode_dev··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Do you see a changing trend in number applications, accepted ones or visa cancellations ?
BiteCode_dev··on Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
yes thx
BiteCode_dev··on Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
Tangential, but LLT recently came out with their own lineup of USB-C cables guaranteed to be up to spec. And they have the main specs printed on each cable end, so you know what you grab.

That should be mandatory.

BiteCode_dev··on Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew
Reproducibility doesn't mean good.

I can make bad coffee every time myself by putting 2 spoons of vinegar in it.

BiteCode_dev··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
So if they don't give you an apple dev account, or close yours, you can't.

Case in point.

BiteCode_dev··on 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
One more data point for why sueing companies should lead to CEO getting prison time as well. And ideally invent some kind a of equivalent of pruson for non human persons like organisations.

Because right now the incentive to do what's right are so low. Taking a risk with other's people lives is becomming the norm for companies.

BiteCode_dev··on Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting
Thanks. So you basically make pointers manually with your own separated stack. Wouldn't make sense to have the ability to just allocate anew stact you dedicate to a graph and let the ownership system deals with it for you? Seems like a missing abstraction.
BiteCode_dev··on Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator
Also discovered the amazing Tales of Phantasia thanks to zsnes. The translation community did a bonker job bringing that from Japan, patching the game without even having the source code, like mad men. Without them, I would have never known such gems existed that were never sold on our market.

The translation does take some liberties, but honestly, just for the boat scene, I feel like it's worth it.

And being able to slow down or speed up the game at will, or quick save/reload at any second, thanks to zsnes, is just chef kiss.

BiteCode_dev··on Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting
Do you have a simple example of how this is done correctly?

I always heard that but comming from Python internal references would be the way to go so it's not natural to me.

BiteCode_dev··on Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity
My clients didn't get the memo
BiteCode_dev··on Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)
Since I'm mostly cooking fresh food, I wouldn't know.

I do use MSG, though, and don't feel anything off about it.

BiteCode_dev··on Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020)
> Piracy became rampant. Asking for "TBA 970" delay chips in electronic stores prompted employees to offer the full list required to build a "decodeur pirate". The encryption system was updated to Nagravision encryption in 1992 and Discret 11 was retired by 1995.

We had one in the house. Very cheap and easy to get from north africa. Upgraded encryption was quickly matched with upgraded piracy. Then canalsat came along and you needed a memory card to keep your pirating hardware up to date, but it was still ok.

Now I don't watch TV, and DRM in browser doesn't seem to have been broken the same way.

But it doesn't matter because things like stremio give you the catalogs of all streaming services for free.

Seems like piracy never dies.

BiteCode_dev··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center
On 100k yeah, on 1k no.
BiteCode_dev··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center
It's already the case. I plan to upgrade my old 13 with some parts from the pro next year. I won't have to pay a full machine for a new screen, battery or touchpad.

At the price of the RAM (I never fill my 32GB, why would I buy any?), not buying a new machine basically pays for the first laptop premium.

Next upgrade, I'll be saving money.

And giving money to an ecosystem I like, creating a stronger competitor with those values.

Love it.

BiteCode_dev··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center
Also, with hardware being now more expensive, just being able to swap parts for upgrades or repairs is way more appealing than before.

Not to mention they don't spend time with marketing fluff about AI, which in the current market is winning them some clients.

But I also think the fact that they have been here for a long time now, and they got the pro backward compatible with the old 13 means people trust them now. They delivered.

BiteCode_dev··on Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)
n = 1 but I clearly feel the effect when I start drinking aspartam drinks a few times a week. So much so that I just stopped drinking them.

I didn't use to. But I stopped rafined sugar for a year and compensated with coca zero. After that, guts never been quite the same and it took some copious amount of probiotics with regular doctor checks to feel better.

Even then, it's still no back up to baseline, and now drinking aspartam more than once is upsetting.

BiteCode_dev··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
It's infuriating but practically true. I had a few services that received illegitimate DMCA notices that I ignored. They were either blatantly fraudulent, automated junk or just not applicable to the law of the country where I'm hosting.

They escalated to either my hosting or my domain name provider, who then threatened to cut me off for not complying. No discussion with them would work in my favor. I had to comply with this BS. I got cut off several times for completely wrong reasons.

They don't care. It's not worth the legal risk for them. I'm not big enough.

So in the end, the US CAN indeed do that.

BiteCode_dev··on AI and bots have officially taken over the internet
Bot traffic have been overtaking humans for a long time. Between crawler, spammers, fake accounts on all social media, automated scripts for API and various saas and botnets for various attacks...

It's just that now the official numbers say so.

But anyone on twitter or reddit can tell you the dead internet theory has been progressing at a swift pace for a decade.

AI just made it more apparent.

BiteCode_dev··on A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU)
Sure, in the same way you can easily limit yourself to one cigarette a day.
BiteCode_dev··on Everything old is new again: memory optimization
rnomal ?
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