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boomer_joe commented on Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite   developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
boomer_joe · 6 months ago
Gemini 2.5 Pro feels heavily lobotomized for me lately, failing at very simple tasks with a frequency far above what I was used to seeing back when it first released. The personality seems to be getting worse too - I'm getting very tired of those dumbed analogies it loves to spew.

Would like to know whether Flash exhibits these issues as well.

boomer_joe commented on Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available   pola.rs/posts/polars-clou... · Posted by u/jonbaer
ritchie46 · 6 months ago
On-premises is in the works. We expect this in a couple of months. Currently it is managed on AWS only.
boomer_joe · 6 months ago
Thanks! Will it be paid or open source?
boomer_joe commented on Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available   pola.rs/posts/polars-clou... · Posted by u/jonbaer
boomer_joe · 6 months ago
I don't understand. Can I use distributed Polars with my own machines or do I have to buy cloud compute to run distributed queries (I don't want that). If not, is this planned?
boomer_joe commented on A conceptual overview of asyncio   github.com/anordin95/a-co... · Posted by u/anordin95
bb88 · 8 months ago
This is spot on. GIL-less python will be a thing, and when it happens, there will still be no reason to combine asyncIO with thread primitives. Waiting for IO can be spun off into a new thread, and it will work as you expect it would.

Trying to combine mental models of asyncio and threading is a model for pure insanity.

boomer_joe · 8 months ago
I fail to see why. You can have an event loop per thread, and a hypothetical requirement of wanting to make sure all compute in each thread is spent inside of its event loop (assuming OS level parallelism). Eg a latency-sensitive server in thread A and a logger in thread B (dont even need the event loop there for this example)
boomer_joe commented on Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers   blog.edward-li.com/tech/c... · Posted by u/edwardjxli
dcreager · 9 months ago
ty is definitely not ready to be a pyright replacement yet. But it is usable as an LSP for simple things like go to definition, and deeper LSP features are on the roadmap for the eventual beta and GA releases.

https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/blob/main/docs/README.md#oth...

boomer_joe · 9 months ago
What's the plan for ruff? Will it be part of ty one day?
boomer_joe commented on I Built My Own Audio Player   nexo.sh/posts/why-i-built... · Posted by u/nexo-v1
boomer_joe · 10 months ago
Isn't VLC an option for playing local files and available in the App store? You could sync the folder with iCloud.
boomer_joe commented on Turner, Bird, Eratosthenes: An eternal burning thread   cambridge.org/core/journa... · Posted by u/matt_d
mrkeen · a year ago
Turner hoped that we could have programming languages that wouldn't go into (useless) infinite loops. They should either terminate, or keep producing values forever (be 'productive').

The author sets out to prove that Bird's version of the prime number generator (Sieve of Eratosthenes) is productive.

Fwiw I'm lost almost immediately in section 4 - the actual proof.

I think I get one point, which is to immediately ignore the actual values of the primes, and only prove that they keep being generated (which I guess is the purpose of `approx`), but I'm immediately lost by the overall strategy:

  that is, not so much showing that primes spec is a fixed point of makeP · makeC, but that it is the least fixed point.

boomer_joe · a year ago
You're interacting with an LLM.
boomer_joe commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox   addons.mozilla.org/en-US/... · Posted by u/tech234a
saagarjha · 3 years ago
That's a different question.
boomer_joe · 3 years ago
No, you're just moving the goalpost (and you're pretty bad at it too)
boomer_joe commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox   addons.mozilla.org/en-US/... · Posted by u/tech234a
saagarjha · 3 years ago
Apple’s crypto implementation is.
boomer_joe · 3 years ago
And what's the use if you don't know they're not compiling against a backdoored version under the hood?
boomer_joe commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox   addons.mozilla.org/en-US/... · Posted by u/tech234a
FiloSottile · 3 years ago
This is the uBlock Origin edition based on the much-maligned WebExtensions Manifest V3, which implements blocking declaratively instead of allowing/requiring live request interception.

Firefox—my daily driver—still supports the "main" uBlock Origin (and I'm a somewhat heavy user of features unavailable in Lite like custom filters), but I had been waiting for Lite to be available and immediately went ahead and replaced uBlock Origin with uBlock Origin Lite.

The security win can't be understated: with its permission-less design (enabled by MV3) I am down to zero third-party developers that can get compromised and silently push an update that compromises all my web sessions. Sure, attackers could still get into Mozilla, Apple (as I run macOS), or cause a backdoored update to be pushed via Homebrew (how I install unsandboxed applications when no web app is available, which thanks to the likes of WebUSB is getting less common), but unsandboxed browser extensions were clearly the lowest hanging fruit, so this update (and MV3) significantly raised my security posture (and transitively that of projects I have access to, and that of their users).

boomer_joe · 3 years ago
>as I run macOS

How is the FDE story on macOS? Isn't it closed source - how can you tolerate that as a cryptographer? (Not saying Linux is perfect, cryptsetup doesn't have a secure AEAD mode)

u/boomer_joe

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