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don't say "apparat" when you can say "device".

side note, when first transistor-based portable radios showed up (as opposed to large lamp-based stationary devices), they were called "transistor". you would take not your portable radio with you, it was your transistor.

I have no doubt those studies are run by some smart fellers.

What I am saying, is make another version of the function, which is explicitly not allowed to fail, if you want to use it in the loop.

If they're not going to handle the return values, they should change the function signature to reflect this aspirational contract, that that function "never fails".

I see in the article they did change the poll_flush to run just-in-time at poll_shutdown. So they definitely can make a "best effort" poll_flush version that just does not return any errors for use in that loop.

But all in all? Amateur hour.

You lost me at "I have a function that has a value `x`". How does function "have" a value?

I find it strange that software people will accept this level of flakiness from the hardware. Normally you would just send the card back, and request a replacement.

One of the cards would only show up if I crossed my fingers when turning it on. Even reboots wouldn't cure it - I had to A/C power off and remove the power cable each time for 30 seconds.

This is ridiculous. Of course we are living through supply crunch, but that card is clearly defective hardware.

Yes. I kick myself that I did not get the 500gb model when getting was good. It was a massive price tag, but the hardware is NICE. And that MLX architecture really works. I run the gpt-oss 100gb model and it's right quick.

Instead of "Reference counting primer" I would like to see a primer on how exactly such a huge change can go into Python without formal PIP process.

the billing alerts DO NOT help. you may rack many thousands of $$$ before you know it.

If you think you know what every acronym stands for, I recommend CBT.

gets more conventional, you mean. the book is outstanding.

Reynolds' Aurora trilogy (of Revelation Space - Aurora Rising, Elysium Fire, Machine Vendetta) hits very close.

try M. John Harrison - he has similar command of the word. His Kefahuchi Tract trilogy (Light, Nova Swing, Empty Space).

And the icons are too small. It's vaguely a mystery meat navigation.

HomeKit cooking your phone battery, period.

It is full of these short sentences that AI writing loves, sort of to feel "punchy". Normally you would copy-edit that stuff, join them up, have the writing have some rhythm. I agree with GP, the article is hard to read because it seems to have a lot of https://tropes.fyi/

if they wanted to switch to pumping out destroyers, missiles and drones

This is such a naive take. Nobody is coming to US to try to outgun you. The moment petrodollar wobbles, the moment US Dollar stops being the world reserve currency, the game will be over for you. You will discover what it really means to be competitive, once the world stops giving you goods essentially in exchange for glass beads.

That issue now is closed, probably as "not planned".

The Feds added methanol to bootlegged hooch

how did that work? did the Feds pose as some false flag bootleggers? do you have some sources I could read up on?

thing is, russia has a large tradition of home distillation (samogonka), and they too have tropes of people going blind. there have been a lot of cases of people dying because of bad alcohol, here's somewhat recent case: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/contaminated-cider-deaths-russi...

Oh, it's Mandala effect now? I could swear it was Mandela before.

Says who? Trillionaire capitalist overlords?

Read Tonsky for that. https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ a disgrace. https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/writing_direction@2x.webp...

In 2010 I was paying 10 cents per kWh. In 2025 I am paying 36 cents per kWh. What ever happened in these 15 years, it is an absolute death spiral.

until the day you accidentally run it in your home directory without any arguments.

would you enjoy it if running "rm" in any folder recursively deleted all files in it?

Sounds to me that etcd has data handoff consistency issues, and is just flying by seat of its pants: in other words, the moment IO subsystem hiccups, it just shits the bed?

I ship 0 projects and now with AI I can ship thousand times more in the same time frame!

In other news, Project Gutenberg not completely censored in Germany. Well done, Germany. https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/index.html

And the works that previously had lead to Project Gutenberg being unavailable from Germany IP addresses will go into public domain in 2027.

Unless I misunderstand your metaphor, there is nothing you can do about the steamroller, it is going to roll, no matter what.

Remember how long it took for them to give up on that stupid touchbar and "butterfly" keyboard. Don't hold your breath.