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Comment · 4 days ago
Python doesn’t really compile to *.pyc. These are just parsed tokens and AST, really not proper machine code.
Comment · 4 days ago
Where you using standard optimized libraries (e.g., NumPy for numerical computation) or did you do everything in Python? This kind of increase of speed seems to indicate extremely sloppy Python programming.
Comment · 4 days ago
Aren’t you confusing internals and API? I don’t think nobody cares about HOW the optimisation is done, but SC wanted API with the rest of the interpreter be defined and stable. Two different things. I think.
Comment · 27 days ago
If the main to run Apple computers is their hardware, why not to run it with Linux. Aside from better filesystems (Theo tests were shocking to me, how bad FS you guys have), you would get better compartmenalization and I believe better security. What's missing?
Comment · 1 month ago
Wow! Was this sent upstream to cgit?
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Comment · 1 month ago
Anybody running LibreOffice online or NextCloud as a service.
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Comment · 1 month ago
And if I am not mistaken, Theo’s T3Code (which was explicitly told was bad), doesn’t even use anything else than AI producer provider command line tools and use them with `-p`.
Comment · 1 month ago
And we are not in The Crash yet! Imagine how will they behave when they become desperate!
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
By lowering cost and not investing profit to the company? Yes, short-term v long-term, but who in this world cares about anything after their next salary?
Comment · 6 months ago
Lovely, so yet another promise to federate which will never materialise! Still going with the Drew’s reply in https://is.gd/5wwQy2 (yes, two years old, and he slightly softened his stand since then):

> SourceHut is already federated via email. We have no intention of adding ActivityPub support at this time.

Federated repositories is something very similar to paperless office, distributed authentication (OpenID), and distributed computing … it has been promised since forever, and nobody has ever seen it in the real life, and even less supported by somebody who matters. And yes, those who matter don’t help by sabotaging any efforts towards it.

Comment · 6 months ago
You said SHOULD. Yes, I absolutely agree that politicians (and I very intentionally do not call any names) should be criminally punished most harshly for abusing their position for personal enrichment or for some other egoistical goals. On the other hand, these are the people we, as totality of all voters, chose for their function. The main punishment for a politician in democracy should be the threat of losing next elections, not criminal prosecution. And of course, per definition, in every democracy every politician has a majority of citizens, who considers him stupid and in the hysterical environment of the current political life (hysterical for many more or less good reasons) such politician is not only opponent, but an enemy if not a traitor. There is an unfortunate tendency to convert this adversarial feeling into full blown hate and accusations of criminal misconduct.
Comment · 1 year ago
I feel strangely offended that here in Czechia there are actually no ads on BBC podcasts …

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