jonawesomegreen

I’ve noticed Claude has been noticeably worse over the last week. For example, it told me I should pass frozen to make my Enum immutable—that’s not a thing. (It is a thing for dataclasses, but not for Enums.) That’s a pretty basic language feature it was nailing until recently. It also suggested I parse a URL using urlparse in a function that already uses urlparse. These are basic mistakes it wasn’t making before. Something seems to have changed, but I’m not sure what.

I've encountered frustration with Python packaging in two main areas:

1) Installing applications within Docker containers. While wheels have improved this situation, I was surprised that building a package for easy copying into a container and running without the need for installing build tools and extensions in the final container image was not straightforward, especially coming from other languages.

2) Distributing Python utilities to end users across various platforms in an easily installable manner without requiring them to follow lengthy instructions to set up all the dependencies has been another challenge.

We use Poetry and have largely "solved" #1 with a somewhat complicated Docker build. It works well now, so no one has to think about it much. That made deploying Python server-side fairly easy. However, #2 has been much more of a challenge, and I wonder if that is where other folks in this thread are feeling the most pain.

This is really cool. The killer feature I see is to be able to have a cloud storage tier for warm data that goes off to s3, while keeping the hot storage local. Does anyone know of another option that allows this kind of hybrid local / s3 storage that also has a filesystem interface?

> Since then, he has been unable to remember almost anything for longer than 90 minutes. ... Without a record of new experiences, the passing of time means nothing to him. Today, he only knows that there is a problem because he and his wife have written detailed notes on his smartphone, in a file labelled “First thing – read this”.

I think it would be fascinating to read the "First thing - read this" file on his phone. I can see why they don't go into more detail it would probably be pretty personal info in there.

Still as a mental exercise, its interesting to think about what I would write down in that file for myself.

Sounds like a great attack vector to me.

With Safari removing my ability to use uBlock in version 13, I've been wanting to make the jump back to Firefox on the desktop. The one thing that has been holding me back is that Firefox can't use the OSX Keychain for passwords. All my passwords are in my OSX/iCloud Keychain, and this is great. It works on my iOS devices and on my Mac and everything is lovely, but its keeping me using Safari on the desktop.

There was an extension that did this, but the API it relies on was removed in FF 57 with the switch to the extension API.