northzen (u/northzen)

northzen commented on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade emily.space/posts/251023-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

BrenBarn · 2 months ago

The sticking point for me is the way tools like uv and poetry build everything around the idea of a "project". I don't want a separate environment for every project, and I don't want to start by creating a project. I want to start with an environment that has stuff in it, and I start fiddling around, and gradually something comes together that eventually will be pulled out into a separate project. From what I can see uv doesn't make this easy.

northzen · 2 months ago

Use pixi (whici is build with uv) and use its "global". It should solve what you wanted to solve: https://pixi.sh/dev/global_tools/introduction/

northzen commented on I ditched Docker for Podman codesmash.dev/why-i-ditch... · Posted by u/codesmash

Shog9 · 3 months ago

Reproducibility? No.

Not having to regularly rebuild the whole dev environment because I need to work on one particular Python app once a quarter and its build chain reliably breaks other stuff? Priceless.

northzen · 3 months ago

Use pixi or uv to maintain this specific environment and separate it from the global one

northzen commented on PYX: The next step in Python packaging astral.sh/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko

IHLayman · 4 months ago

Anaconda was a good idea until it would break apt on Ubuntu and make my job that much harder. That became the reason _not_ to use Anaconda in my book.

venv made these problems start to disappear, and now uv and Nix have closed the loop for me.

northzen · 4 months ago

Why don't you use pixi, which has the best from these worlds?

northzen commented on PYX: The next step in Python packaging astral.sh/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko

pama · 4 months ago

These tools together solve a fraction of the problen. The other parts of the problem are interfacing with classic c, c++ libraries and handling different hardware and different OSes. It is not even funny how tricky it is to use the same GPU/CUDA versions but with different CPU architectures and hopefully most people dont need to be exposed to it. Sometimes parts of the stack depends on a different version of a c++ library than other parts of the stack. Or some require different kernel modules or CUDA driver settings. But I would be happy if there was a standardized way to at least link to the same C++ libraries, hopefully with the same ABI, across different clusters or different OS versions. Python is so far from solved…

northzen · 4 months ago

Why don't you use pixi?

northzen commented on xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app techcrunch.com/2025/05/28... · Posted by u/freetonik

retornam · 7 months ago

Indeed, it is undoubtedly advantageous for scammers and malware authors.

northzen · 7 months ago

One day you will discover Internet and how advantageous it is for scammers and malware authors.

Wtf is this argument even about? Knife is advantageous for robbers. Phone calls are advantageous for scammers.

Your existence is advantageous for many malicious agents.

So what?

northzen commented on xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app techcrunch.com/2025/05/28... · Posted by u/freetonik

northzen · 7 months ago

I heard that Internet on its own is a home of underage media, drug deals and Russian hackers. I guess we need to rant about it also, right?

northzen commented on xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app techcrunch.com/2025/05/28... · Posted by u/freetonik

retornam · 7 months ago

Telegram is a haven for scammers and malware authors, who frequently use it as a command and control channel. These scammers and malware authors can now seamlessly integrate Grok into their tools.

Congrats everyone.

northzen · 7 months ago

Still better and more feature rich than WA.

northzen commented on Insomnia, Control untested.sonnet.io/notes/... · Posted by u/rpastuszak

mancerayder · 10 months ago

Does anyone else live in a city and suffer from sensitivity to noise, specifically 'boom' noises like slamming doors and bassy music?

I suffer from sensitivity to my own brain talking, but even if by some miracle there's a low stress period of inner chatter, and I haven't drank, I still have to worry about my neighbor upstairs slamming things or someone slamming their front doors in the hallway

In decades of living in a city, every single apartment had this problem, even a brand new luxury building.

And the amount of lack of sympathy from this problem I've gotten (using ear plugs doesn't stop BOOM type noises and top floors are rarely available) suggests it's a neuro divergence and not a "lifestyle" issue.

northzen · 10 months ago

I used to observe the increased sensetivity to noise during my epresssion periods. Observe the same problems also with bright light. What may actually help here is psychologist / psychiatrist and therapy or medication. I'm not a doctor and maybe your problem not related to yours, but I just wanted to share the direction which helped me to decrease sound sensetivity.

northzen commented on Why Scrum is stressing you out rethinkingsoftware.substa... · Posted by u/aard

lpapez · a year ago

> It may be explicitly stated, but I’ve never had a scrum meeting without all managers and project managers.

This, this, this and a thousand times this.

It's always the same with Scrum. Every time you point out something clearly wrong, the response is always "well that's not really scrum, you're doing it wrong".

It's like when discussing communism with some diehard fans - when you point out the flaws, the response is always "well that wasn't real communism that's why it failed".

Well to both of those camps I say: if most attempts ended up implementing it "incorrectly" in the end, it's not a very useful framework to begin with then, is it?

northzen · a year ago

But ones you are in company which does it right you start appreciate all good things it brings.

I haven't seen working communism though and never heard about it.

northzen commented on We're Watching Facebook Die wheresyoured.at/were-watc... · Posted by u/thm

chrisco255 · 2 years ago

Author guy dares to blame the promotion of "anti-vaxers" by Facebook as the reason for the platform's decline when it was the lockdown and vaccine skeptics that were getting deplatformed left and right and the protestors having their bank accounts frozen that led to an absolute breakdown in trust in social media companies. Your job as a platform is not to wade into any topic and fact-check it. If someone you know is spouting off things you don't like on your feed, you can simply mute them or unfollow them. The antivaxxers were more right than they were wrong. The vaccine didn't stop Covid, natural immunity is not a right wing conspiracy theory, and lockdowns and mask mandates were excessive abuses of liberty and ineffective to boot. But I digress.

Absolutely no one wants a nanny bot to prevent discussion or opinions from being said on their own page. I also don't want to see 15 recommended groups, ads, or pages being injected into my feed while I'm trying to check whose birthday it is and what people got going on lately in their lives.

The reason Instagram is doing pretty decent is that it's a far less noisy social media site. It's mostly photos and video stories.

northzen · 2 years ago

Also instagram allow you to see your feed in chronological order. And if you reopen it you still can see all posts (except ad) in the same order and on the same place they were.