Yes, but computer chips are powered by DC.
As long as you don't keep switching the DC current on and off, which is what computers are all about
Readit Newsdoliveira commented on Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 preprint revision 2 arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037... · Posted by u/lnyan
You can try pip install pillow for a good example of how it works. I suspect there's a strong survivorship bias here, as you'd only notice the packages that don't ship with wheels.
Yeah, perhaps. One I remember from last year is the cryptography and numpy package, for instance. Now they do seem to ship with binary wheels, at least for my current Python and Linux version.
Kerberos and Hadoop stuff obviously still doesn't, though. I guess the joke's on me for being stuck in this stack...
At this stage [0], uncompiled native extensions are not yet a bug, but a definite oversight of the maintainer. They should come as precompiled wheels
Honestly I don't think I've ever used a precompiled package in Python. Every single C stuff seems to take ages and requires all that fun stuff of installing native system dependencies.
Edit: skimming through this page, precompiling seems like an afterthought, and the linked packages don't even seem to mention how to integrate third-party libraries. So I guess I can see why it doesn't deliver on its promises.
doliveira commented on Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional discuss.python.org/t/a-st... · Posted by u/pablogsal
Like not everyone toy app isn't going to be the next FAANG, there are plenty of workloads where it hardly matters, while 30 years later it is still a mess in C and C++.
And between C++ and Rust coroutines, still not sure which one I like less.
I thought so too until I got to interact with databases and Big Data tools written in Java. God, what a mess that requires so much upkeeping, more dependency problems than I remember from C++ and probably some orders of magnitude more resources than they should.
doliveira commented on Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse blockworks.co/news/worldc... · Posted by u/hammock
The existing finance system is largely reputation based, with a light side of contract enforcement and a heavy dose of middlemen. It mostly works, but one of the biggest advantage of crypto stuff is removing the need for reputation and trust.
Is that an advantage? At the very least, what it entails is that losing your private key is game over.
I'm not sure Elbakyan receiving this award is particularly appropriate, considering she is strongly pro-Putin and is a big fan of Joseph Stalin (she regularly quotes him on VK).
I mean, that sucks, but honestly she's not a ~digital influencer~. So I don't think her views matter that much.
doliveira commented on Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium github.com/chromium/chrom... · Posted by u/topshelf
doliveira commented on Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium github.com/chromium/chrom... · Posted by u/topshelf
I was watching a video about nesting in CSS and how it's just in Chrome and comments were all about how cool it is and how they can't wait to use it, and so on, and so forth. I think it's quite a representative example: we can do that much better with SASS today, but I guess Google needs to keep features pushing at full speed so no one else can keep up.
We developers are so gullible. Just give us some shiny things and we don't even realize they're heating up the pan.
doliveira commented on Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium github.com/chromium/chrom... · Posted by u/topshelf
I feel like I have to repeat this, since so much is at stake here, where it is about the preservation of the web as we know it today, at the peril of having it turned into yet another walled garden:
The only way around the dystopia this will lead to is to constantly and relentlessly shame and even harass all those involved in helping create it. The scolding in the issue tracker of that wretched "project" shall flow like a river, until the spirit of those pursuing it breaks, and the effort is disbanded.
And once the corporate hydra has regrown its head, repeat. Hopefully, enough practise makes those fighting the dystopia effective enough to one day topple over sponsoring and enabling organisations as a whole, instead of only their little initiatives leading down that path.
Not a pretty thing, but necessary.
Yeah, financial and social pressure is basically the only weapons we have against corporations when regulations don't exist. And honestly, financial pressure doesn't work at this scale or in this case.