RS-232
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C++ as a reference language. That’s actually a great concept.
Doesn’t hurt that it has fantastic, minimal, navigable documentation.
You can see the entirety of the language on a single page: https://cppreference.com/
You don’t even need uv_build if you just use uv. uv recognizes if a project specifies uv_build and does the same job.
(If you’re not using uv, you’ve made the wrong choice, but that’s a separate concern.)
Thanks, I hate it.
The camera in particular is exactly why I’ve reverted to using devices without networking capabilities.
It’s worse than that.
Title should be “Private Snapchat DM to 3 people reached the FBI and led to an arrest in an hour.”
The AI assisted police surveillance state is fully operational.
And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.
Surely this was preventable? I am surprised that immunologists and immunosuppressants weren’t part of the protocol here. Injecting trillions of viruses into spinal fluid sounds like a recipe for triggering a cytokine storm.
It’s a tragic outcome, but her death is not in vain. The results need to be published for the public benefit, advancement in this area of research, and preventing similar outcomes.
Epic, just needs dark mode ;)
Also, maybe a way to use sharing via LAN and strip any features that any phone remote services.
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RS-232 on Monday July 20, 2026 @07:12AM
from the ask-hn dept.
The modern web is built on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Web browsers are essentially sandboxed JavaScript interpreters with rendering engines.What do you think the web would look like if it were built from the ground up in Python?
> JavaScript being the most popular programming language in the world
This is where I stopped reading.
JavaScript is not the most popular programming language in the world. It’s not even in the top five.
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
This is pretty terrible for offline deployment. An install manager is useless for offline systems.
For folks who don’t want any hassles, there’s WinPython. It’s a portable Python distribution à la Anaconda. The “whl” flavor includes a nice wheelhouse of packages that you can use as a flat index for your venvs.
> Fasting (1 to n weeks) is said to provide potential benefits for certain types of cancer treatments. Pre-cancer, it is said to potentially prevent cancer onset. This is potentially powerful for those of us with a family history with cancer.
It makes sense. Cells need nutrients for the cell cycle, similar to the way computers need RAM to execute programs.
Fasting not only deprives cancer cells of nutrients, but also triggers a homeostatic response in the entire body. This response includes putting its garbage collection system (autophagy) into overdrive mode so that it can reclaim the limited resources it has left to survive. Fasting is a reductive treatment, like purging oxygen from a server room on fire. It might help slow it down, but it can take healthy inhabitants along with it.
Additive treatments offer more options. If you catch the fire early and it’s contained (non-metastatic), you can target it with a fire blanket (surgery, stem cell transplantation) or a fire extinguisher (small molecules, biologics, peptides, gene therapy, etc.) to put it out. The sprinklers are a last ditch effort for larger fires (chemotherapy, radiation), which could save the building, but result in significant collateral damage.
Has anyone had success using 2 agents, with one as the creator and one as an adversarial "reviewer"? Is the output usually better or worse?
Has to be an inside job. One doesn’t just simultaneously hack into an AWS account, know exactly which key is needed for coin minting, and know internal details necessary to exploit a smart contract. The nature of the hack practically reveals their identity.
It’s garbage either way.
On that note, do we have an open standard for OS implementations? Where the fuck is our modern scratch made OS written in Rust?
It’s about time we topple this shitty triopoly.
How is this pronounced phonetically?
> The build script compiles C code down to a clang intermediate assembly, which is then handed off to a Python script that translates it into a Rust macro which is checked into Xous as a buildable artifact using its pure-Rust toolchain.
Ah yes, the good ol “we solved the C problem by turning it into four other problems” pipeline
Silly is not explaining why you can’t just pass a handwritten note like a polite person who follows etiquette. Polite people naturally won’t really just start speaking out loud; ones that know etiquette will pretend it’s more convenient for you to read their note when you can, and others will just note you are rude.
> If you put someone on speaker without introducing everyone present then they should hang up on you.
This is silly. Just tell the person you are talking to that they are on speaker.
Assuming the party on the phone has been informed and the volume is not excessive, having a conversation on speaker is equivalent to having a physical conversation in person.
Pretty ironic that the security tool is insecure
Does it go without saying that OpenAI/majority shareholder Microsoft can unilaterally change the licenses and take Astral’s repos offline (completely against the will of Charlie or the community)?
Regardless of how likely/inevitable this scenario is, the public should make offline backups and forks immediately.
For some reason I thought this would be about design/architecture patterns that work and scale well with agentic workflows.
Look into the black cube of Saturn.
(btw, it’s everywhere, even the kaaba)
Sure, ban everyone that uses em dashes from the digital commons. That will certainly stop the existential threat to your livelihood.
Sarcasm aside—there is no reliable way to prove this. So it begs the question: you really care if something is AI generated? Or is this just an another excuse to silence people you don’t like?
You know, those people. The ones who didn’t win a full ride to <prestigious university> or pay a fortune for a sheet of paper. The ones who haven’t spent thousands of man hours handcrafting a <free-and-open-source-cloud-native-hypermedia-aware-RESTful-NoSQL-API> framework implemented in Rustfuck, a new language that you made in your free time that borrows from Rust and Brainfuck (but they wouldn’t know about it).
(this is to anyone reading, mostly rhetorical, not dang in particular)
This seems like proof to me that Safe Browsing is about surveillance, not protection.
More desperate virtue signaling and gatekeeping.
“Look at me and the code that took me eons to perfect. It’s handcrafted and genuine.”
Newsflash: nobody cares, especially if it’s expensive, time consuming, or doesn’t work. They also don’t care about “artisanal” PDO cheese with a 30% tariff that still tastes like shit.
“The posers are stealing our thunder. Forgery!! They terk r jerbs!”
Sink or swim. You decide.
That’s intriguing. I have the same card, maybe I should give it a go. Curious about your CPU/RAM/storage capacity as well.
Any resources for configuring the local setup?
My entire home media stack is a single compose file in a WSL distro so it would be cool if local LLM worked the same way.
That's fair. The public infrastructure in other places around the world is a lot more hospitable to other methods of transportation.
The advent of AI may shape up to be just like the automobile.
At first, it's a pretty big energy hog and if you don't know how to work it, it might crash and burn.
After some time, the novelty wears off. More and more people begin using it because it is a massive convenience that does real work. Luddites who still walk or ride their bike out of principle will be mocked and scoffed.
Then the mandatory compliance will come. A government-issued license will be required to use it and track its use. This license will be tied to your identity and it will become a hard requirement for employment, citizenship, housing, loans, medical treatment, and more. Not having it will be a liability. You will be excluded from society at large if you do not comply.
Last will come the AI-integrated brain computer interface. You won't have any choice when machine-gun-wielding Optimus robots coral you into a self-driving Tesla bus to the nearest FEMA camp to receive your Starlink-connected Neuralink N1 command and control chip. You will be decapitated if you refuse the mark of the beast. Rev 20:4