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Oh man, Python 2 > 3 was such a massive shift. Took almost half a decade if not more and yet it mainly changing superficial syntax stuff. They should have allowed ABIs to break and get these internal things done. Probably came up with a new, tighter API for integrating with other lower level languages so going forward Python internals can be changed more freely without breaking everything.

I had a Nokia N9 or was it N7 that ran the predecessor OS to Sailfish. It was so good back then. The UX left android and iOS in dust. Both ended up adopting a lot of patterns from it later. Loved that phone.

or perhaps as simple as saving xAI for himself as he prepares to offload rest of Twitter?

You have a service that talks to postgres, probably other services that talk to that service, a client that talks to these services through some gateway. When a user clicks a button, distributed tracing allows you to see the whole request right from the button click to API gateway, to every service it goes through to the DB.. and all the way back. So you can see exactly the path it took, where it slowed down or failed. DBs are usually seen as black boxes in such systems. We just see the DB call took 500ms. We don't know what happened inside though. This allows such distributed traces to also get visibility to the internals of the DB so you can tell the exact joins, index scans etc that took place by looking at your distributed trace. I don't know what level of visibility they've built but that's the general idea.

I'm sure you are aware but sharing anyway. Django 6.0 shipped an API called Django Tasks for background jobs so all Django code can implement portable, backend agnostic background jobs and swap backends on the fly but there are zero actual backends out there right now one can use in production. If you could add inbuilt Django Tasks support to Chancy or create a `django-chancy` package that bridged it, I think you'd see a lot of early adoption by Django projects.

Thanks. My two cents would be to not lock technical features behind a paywall. Lock "enterprise" features like encryption, FIPS, compliance reports, etc which make sense for a big corp. This would be far more palatable for someone small like my one-two person teams to adopt it and pay if we ever become big enough to care about enterprisey features.

Thanks for sharing Chancy. Looks really interesting. Outside of the API breaking, would you say this is safe enough to for production today?

Django 6's tasks framework is nice but so far it is only an API. It does not include an actual worker implementaiton. There is a django-tasks package which does a basic implementation but it is not prod ready. I tried it and it is very unreliable. Hopefully the community will come out with backends for it to plug celery, oban, rq etc.

Thank you

Interesting. Any docs that explain what/how they do this?

I'm just coming back to web/API development Python after 7-8 years working on distributed systems in Go. I just built a Django+Celery MVP given what I knew from 2017 but I see a lot of "hate" towards Celery online these days. What issues have you run into with Celery? Has it gotten less reliable? harder to work with?

I don't know how I feel about free open source version and then a commercial version that locks features. Something inside me prevents me from even trying such software. Logically I'd say I support the model because open source needs to be sustainable and we need good quality developer tools and software but when it comes to adoption, I find myself reaching for purely open source projects. I think it has to do with features locked behind a paywall. I think I'd be far more open to trying out products where the commercial version offered some enterprise level features like compliance reports, FIPS support, professional support etc but didn't lock features.

I mostly agree with you but I AM super productive with AI. I'm working on a side-project and have built in 2-3 months what my quite productive team of 3-4 people would take 4-6 months to build in 2016. And I'm not talking to generative slop but real production grade code that I have reviewed+approved or manually refactored before merging. Like you I'm not impressed by these toy projects but the productivity gain is very real. At least has been for me.

Cool. I used to install it on all my family and friends computer when I was a teenager but as I grew older and had less and less time, being the constant tech support guy for everyone I introduced to Linux got very hard so I stopped recommended/installing it. Which distro did you choose for your parents?

What is the ideal or realistic setup for a home lab to power big enough models running locally and service ~2-3 users at a time?

Very interesting but why would a browser report different coordinates depending on the monitor? I'd assume browser would treat the webpage as if it was the entire screen irrespective of which display it was on. Is there a reason for web APIs to have this information at all? Seems like a potential security/information/tracking risk.

Why would that matter? The tabs don't share memory. Any code doesn't run when it tries to acquire a lot that another piece of code from another tab has already acquired. The two tabs don't even need to run the same app.

Sounds like Flutter core teams hold contributors to a high standard and the Javascript bros can't deal with real Software Engineering so they're having a party of their own.

In all honesty, good luck. It might be useful if it never breaks compatibility with Flutter.

Maybe other philanthropy they do is not part of the tech scene where they are most recognized. Maybe in those circles they are seen as just another rich couple.

I guess they mean "fork" in the broader Open Source sense when you fork something to create your own version of it and take it on a different path or do things differently like like NeoVim forked Vim. GitHub uses the term "fork" merely to create a copy of the repo for contributions.

I personally have a hard time trusting closed source software random sources I've never heard of before. Maybe I'm just too paranoid but I try not to run random software especially something that has as widespread access to my data as a file-manager.

Yeah it does look really nice.

Can anyone confirm if this is Open Source or not? Looks like it used github as an issue tracker but I'm not seeing the source code anywhere.

Did they actually post a screenshot of the email they are sending out as an update? How hard is it to copy the text for the blog post? Why so lazy?

Not sure if that is the case. Imagine all ride hailing and cab services in a few years are based on Waymo tech including Waymo's own fleet. Waymo would be the clear winner.

Incredibly useful for live demos in meetings when working on mobile apps/web.

I want macOS to be as locked down as iOS when my dad, wife and son use it but I want it to be as open as Linux when I use it. Perhaps it should be closed by default but have a developer mode that behaves how macOS behaves today.

I think she was told to do it on purpose to exaggerate the effect on screen.

With a mobile phone camera without a suit or markers on the face. This makes motion capture available to you and me without renting or building million dollar studios.

This page is somewhat misleading. It pretends Little Snitch Mini supports blocking but that is not true and only works in the paid version. It does clarify this at the very bottom but weird to have your free app's landing page list features from the paid version. At least put a "premium" sticker on those screenshots or something.