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I think those are both different in that they require the user to say they trust this code. Additionally the first is arguably not a bug (the code in tasks.json will indeed run if you say you trust the project) and the second was reported and fixed within two months.
Re:Claude: Elevated errors across many models on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @02:07PM (#48559441)
Asking a colleague to do it?
People at my company have started writing docs specifically for claude. They're quite useful for me too, but kinda disappointing they never wrote these docs for their colleagues.
Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me on Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:35PM (#46998975)
The issue is misrepresenting the situation.

One of those operations makes a row-major array, the other makes a col-major array. Downstream functions will have different performance based on which is passed.

Re:Prism on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @08:33PM (#46789873)
I've heard that now that AI conferences are starting to check for hallucinated references, rejection rates are going up significantly. See also the Neurips hallucinated references kerfuffle [1]

[1]: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/26/machine-le...

Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @06:07PM (#45894158)
Since Steve's famous turtle neck was from Issey Miyake and he wanted everyone at Apple to wear an Issey Miyake vest as a uniform [1], I think he might have been into this. This is also the man who launched the iPod sock.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116769827/the-story-of-steve...

Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @05:54PM (#45894025)
Issey Miyake's "Pleats Please" line has always been made out of synthetics. It was an intentional choice due to the character of polyester as a fabric, like it's ability to hold the pleats while still being machine washable.

https://asufidmmuseum.asu.edu/learn/articles/issey-miyake-pl...

Re:Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office on Monday March 17, 2025 @01:52PM (#43391017)
I think there are backup systems. I sometimes walk by the Cloudflare SF offices on weekends and it looks like the lava lamps are off.
Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:58PM (#43133573)
Not defending them, the Hitler laptop thing seems bad, but within Germany torchwalks are pretty normal and not Nazi associated. For example, there was one as part of a ceremony honoring Merkel as she left office.
Re:Australia approves 17-20GW solar power link to Singapore on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @01:34PM (#41312406)
But the majority of Singaporeans live in public housing where rent is adjusted for income based via a grant system?
Re:Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @04:00PM (#40920424)
I don't think it makes money yet.

They've said the eventual plan is services [1].

[1]: https://astral.sh/blog/announcing-astral-the-company-behind-...

Re:Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @03:57PM (#40920383)
It parallelizes downloads and checking of the packages.

It also doesn't compile .py files to .pyc at install time by default, but that just defers the cost to first import.

Re:Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @03:41PM (#40920166)
> what has been the point of anaconda since binary wheels became a thing?

When you need python + R + some linked or CLI binary in an isolated environment. Also you will use the same tool to manage this environment across multiple OSs (e.g. no OS specific `apt`, `brew`, etc).

Guess they shoulda spent some of those ticket fees on a security team.
Re:German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization on Friday February 23, 2024 @10:43AM (#39481976)
I was thinking more about timescale.

If someone smokes a joint near your window, that smell will probably be gone in half an hour. If there is a plant that's just sitting there, it'll be more subtle, but it's not going anywhere.

That said – many people like the smell of Hopfentee (Hop tea), which is pretty similar.

Re:German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization on Friday February 23, 2024 @10:24AM (#39481675)
Most Germans live in apartments, and rent. The growing and processing does produce strong odors, which a landlord/ neighbors may not approve of.
Re:Uv: Python packaging in Rust on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:18AM (#39397332)
Even bigger now that their distribution is integrated in Excel[1]

[1]: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/announcing-python-in-excel-nex...

Re:Why car insurance in America is too cheap on Sunday February 04, 2024 @05:09AM (#39248981)
From their demonstration videos, I don’t think Tesla has proven particularly adept at detecting pedestrians.

And I don’t know that they’ve shown this for pedestrians on the pedestrian path, at distance, at night.

Re:New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers on Friday December 15, 2023 @07:19PM (#38660488)
I assume because it can be a little hard to navigate and doesn't have as polished a UI.

But also you can actually pick up a conversation from a month ago, so is infinitely better.

Re:No Man's Sky just keeps getting better on Thursday November 09, 2023 @06:43PM (#38212986)
That was my impression trying it this year
Re:Cthulhu.jl – show type-inferred Julia code on Thursday September 07, 2023 @06:10PM (#37426301)
Love this tool. Invaluable for figuring out what code actually got called after complicated dispatch.
Re:Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services on Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:58PM (#37255635)
Hey, that's not a fair assessment.

It would also dump greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.

Re:Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:52PM (#37229643)
Anaconda distributions aren't exactly small. I'd also assume there's some sort of environment isolation, so you're getting multiple copies. Maybe one per workbook?
Re:Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper? on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:01PM (#36760764)
kNN methods are broadly not O(n^2)[1], especially in practice where approximate methods are used.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearest_neighbor_search

Re:Has Xbox lost the console wars? on Sunday June 25, 2023 @08:08AM (#36467361)
> big acquisitions that, in hindsight, made Big Tech more competitive (the most common examples are Google acquiring DoubleClick and YouTube, and Facebook acquiring WhatsApp and Instagram).

How did these acquisitions make big tech more competitive?

Re:Lua: The Little Language That Could on Sunday May 28, 2023 @07:44PM (#36108928)
> Most elevators (at least in NYC) start at floor 1, not 0.

European buildings are generally 0-indexed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storey#Numbering

Re:How to Quit Cars on Thursday May 18, 2023 @06:56PM (#35995420)
Currently living in Munich, it is the quietest place I ever lived. Also super clean, like more than Singapore.
Re:Pandas vs. Julia – cheat sheet and comparison on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @05:13AM (#35972873)
ibis in python is a really nice middle ground. Nice API + in a programming language, but executes on database backends (which could be polars or duckdb on in memory arrow tables).
Re:Julia 1.9.0 lives up to its promise on Saturday May 13, 2023 @04:57PM (#35932637)
> it's really solving the problems that hurt AI most

Isn't this a bit premature? Mojo doesn't tangibly exist for most people (we can't run it ourselves), and I am unaware of any ML/ AI applications built with Mojo.

Re:Introducing PyPI Organizations on Monday April 24, 2023 @05:02AM (#35685223)
Is there a description of what exactly an organizational account entails?

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