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baggiponte··on Eating Processed Red Meat Linked to Increased Dementia Risk
cool article, but I need a subscription
baggiponte··on Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
In the end, uv will be the pyenv + poetry replacement, and supersede rye.
baggiponte··on OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?
Not a US right expert. Isn’t the “you can’t criticize ever the company or you’ll lose the vested equity” a violation of the first amendment?
baggiponte··on Daft: Distributed DataFrame for Python
yes exactly, they """took""" part of the Polars engine code.
baggiponte··on Daft: Distributed DataFrame for Python
I was told they use Polars engine; so they "just" build a distributed system around it
baggiponte··on Show HN: Marimo – open-source reactive Python notebook – running in WASM
I discovered marimo by chance some months ago and have been surprised by the incredible pace of development. New features are being added constantly and the dev team is incredibly responsive and open. Keep it up!
baggiponte··on RLHF a LLM in <50 lines of Python
The API looks nice, congratulations. Will experiment with it. One small silly question: why did you choose to specify the dependencies inside the src dir with the requirements format - rather than inside the pyproject?
baggiponte··on Boring Python: dependency management (2022)
I like pixi, but I am not likely to make the switch. They don't support pyproject.toml and other standards. This disqualifies it from being a potential "recommended tool" by PyPA or whatever.
baggiponte··on Boring Python: dependency management (2022)
Not a huge fan of poetry since it does not comply with standards (PEP621 PEP518...). But it has a great UX compared to alternatives. My go-to has been PDM: which is basically PEP-compliant poetry. But it is being maintained by one dev only and support for containers is not great...
baggiponte··on Progress on No-GIL CPython
I suppose no-GIL Python will be here in no less than 3/4 release cycles. 3.11 has been out for a year and most Python code in prod is what, 3.8? So I guess we won’t have to deal with this at scale before idk 2030 is approaching. I also don’t see Python runtimes in prod being updated from whatever they’re on now to newest releases. I don’t want to sound harsh, but the SC stated they don’t want to have another 2-to-3 migration, so people won’t update lightly. Yes, most of the content online right now might be dangerous to copy paste
baggiponte··on Show HN: Use Code Llama as Drop-In Replacement for Copilot Chat
The guy TJ De Vries works at Sourcegraph + contributes to neovim and he’s building sg.nvim - a plug-in to hook Sourcegraph AND their code assistant Cody to neovim LSP.
baggiponte··on Zrepl – ZFS replication
I did not understand what is ZFS - could anyone be so kind to explain?
baggiponte··on Asyncio, twisted, tornado, gevent walk into a bar
I don’t fully disagree, but I get that the author just wanted something straightforward and oversimplified because the scope of the article was something else.
baggiponte··on Meta developer tools: Working at scale
I am genuinely curious about wasabi, the python LSP they announced on Meta open source but is not available anywhere. Would love to try that out, there is not enough competition in the LSP space in Python and it would foster new development https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2022/07/18/enablin...
baggiponte··on Writing Python like it's Rust - broken link
lol rip.

https://kobzol.github.io/rust/python/2023/05/20/writing-pyth...

baggiponte··on Writing Python like it's Rust - broken link
Interesting discussions in the reddit threads, would love to see what comes out of the HN crowd
baggiponte··on IPyflow: Reactive Python Notebooks in Jupyter(Lab)
Congratulations! I starred it a long time ago but never used it (sorry). But I do think this IS the way to go for Jupyter. I don't know how I could contribute to this - lack of time, but mostly knowledge, but I would love to find other ways to help.
baggiponte··on Mountpoint – file client for S3 written in Rust, from AWS
I don’t understand whether this is just a higher level abstraction of boto’s s3 client (à la s3fs)
baggiponte··on WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator written in Rust
what's the difference with alacritty?
baggiponte··on How to improve Python packaging
been using pdm since at least one year and have no regrets: it's the go tool and we should flock to it!
baggiponte··on Numba: A High Performance Python Compiler
I am really intrigued by the Codon project, which aims to be a JIT compiler for Python with Numba/JAX decorator syntax: https://github.com/exaloop/codon
baggiponte··on A not so unfortunate sharp edge in Pipenv
I wholeheartedly recommend PDM as a modern python package management tool: https://pdm.fming.dev/latest/

* greater PEP compliance with respect to poetry (and no upper boundary constraints on packages)

* support for scripting

* parallel installation

Here is the opinion of somebody way more qualified than me:

- https://iscinumpy.dev/post/poetry-versions/

- https://iscinumpy.dev/post/bound-version-constraints/

baggiponte··on A not so unfortunate sharp edge in Pipenv
PDM in my experience has been the best, plus it's rapidly growing, and is more PEP compliant than poetry. My go-to choice, been advocating it since I found out about it!
baggiponte··on Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things
Nice, but for point 14 I would recommend using pushd/popd instead of cd-ing directly into $0... any reasons to prefer cd directly?
baggiponte··on Building the Future of TensorFlow
So is DTensor a Google thing like XLA or more of an open standard?
baggiponte··on Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
Totally agree I don’t get why antitrust gave the okay to this…
baggiponte··on Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
That’s so uncompetitive
baggiponte··on Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?
I guess scikit-learn?
baggiponte··on Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packaging
I recommend PDM over poetry!
baggiponte··on Day ahead electricity prices for EU
Source?
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