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Re:Asyncio Task Cancellation Best Practices on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @03:48PM (#38701320)
answer: use Trio (or AnyIO if you're stuck in the asyncio land) and get sane cancel mechanics built-in.
Re:Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler on Monday December 18, 2023 @04:28PM (#38688571)
> That RFC is accepted, and this is starting to happen.

> Progress has been disappointingly slow,

I don't think there's ever been a more concise summary of Rust.

Re:Beyond "Abolish the FDA" on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:17AM (#38568102)
This is HN, so the answer to that question should be very obvious.
Re:Beyond "Abolish the FDA" on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:17AM (#38568098)
> we lived thousands of years fine without the FDA

For those thousands of years our only medicine was "ground up unicorn toe".

Re:Gemini sued over $689M in customer withdrawals on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:59PM (#38384322)
Man, I didn't realise HTTP alternatives were so serious.
Python does not use semantic versioning and never has.
Re:Gnome Receives €1M from German Government on Saturday November 11, 2023 @05:15AM (#38228974)
Hopefully all that money goes into making the GTK file picker better
Re:Why SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @07:11PM (#38199145)
> Right what we need is a requirements.yaml

It already exists, it's called pyproject.toml. It already existed for years in the form of setup.py. Requirements.txt means that projects can't be automatically installed which contributes massively to the difficulty of getting packages to work.

Re:Why SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @06:48PM (#38198932)
The proliferation of requirements.txt is one of the key reasons why Python packaging sucks so much.
Re:No dogs were harmed in the making of this app on Friday November 03, 2023 @07:13PM (#38136285)
That was a Simpsons episode. S9E22 Trash of the Titans.
You're not missing anything. WASM's primary purpose is to push unblockable, canvas-drawn ads.
AI risk is essentially Catholicism for tech guys
Re:Was Rust Worth It? on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:38AM (#38023864)
It may be a convention but in practice if you want to publish your package to Maven Central you need to prove ownership of your group ID domain. (Or ownership of your SCM account, which is in essence another domain).
Re:What Transport for London can learn about us from our mobiles on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:36PM (#38015592)
In practice a massive majority of people will be within Zone 6 at the furthest, where the daily cap is £14.90.
Perhaps we could optimise it further, by having sets of steel paths for the cars to drive on too.
Re:Yarn 4.0 on Monday October 23, 2023 @02:02PM (#37989282)
As an occasional Yarn user, this is how I learned there is even versions beyond 1.22.
Re:Building a unikernel that runs WebAssembly – part 1 on Monday October 23, 2023 @06:03AM (#37983603)
Can't wait for the Wazelle processor extensions to drop.
Re:Wayland Isn't Going to Save the Linux Desktop (2022) on Thursday September 07, 2023 @01:14PM (#37422229)
> they sabotaged it to force you to switch, and now your conclusion is oh, they were right all along?

Sure, let's go with that!

Re:Wayland Isn't Going to Save the Linux Desktop (2022) on Thursday September 07, 2023 @12:50PM (#37421841)
I updated my system recently and KDE under X11 started stuttering all the time, especially when opening new windows (which made using IntelliJ unusable, for example). Switched to Wayland and it just works. That's all it really took for me to go from a "I don't care about Wayland" guy to "I am a Wayland truther" guy.

Similar story for Pipewire; Pulseaudio had crackles and Pipewire didn't. Such is the way of life.

Re:RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @03:10PM (#37342255)
> ISO 8601 is prolific. Is RFC 3339 well used/adopted in any system?

90% of the time when a library says ISO 8601 it doesn't actually implement the more esoteric parts of ISO 8601.

Given how primitive the Go GC is, I doubt it'll work at all.
Re:GIL removal and the Faster CPython project on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:27AM (#37173709)
> Separately, if just going for concurrency for i/o, async/await is pretty amazing:

That's not async or concurrent. You're running a synchronous function in an asynchronous task which cancels out.

Re:Astro: All-in-one web framework designed for speed on Sunday August 13, 2023 @06:47AM (#37108646)
It doesn't even smoothly scroll on my desktop.
> but what were you gonna do anyway?

go outside, talk to friends, do something productive, etc...

Re:Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions on Saturday August 12, 2023 @04:46PM (#37104102)
nix is so clearly superior and yet nobody uses it. curious!
Re:Downfall Attacks on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:44PM (#37057788)
haswell isn't vulnerable, it only affects skylake or later
> The average complexity is at all time lows.

there's more than enough breakcore out there if you measure music quality like that. theree's definitely more than in the 20th century.

Re:What’s New in IntelliJ Idea 2023.2 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:23AM (#36878232)
I don't like icons. I like text.
Re:What’s New in IntelliJ Idea 2023.2 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:56AM (#36877782)
I don't care how much they update it. I will not use the new UI.

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