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by woodruffw 13d ago
That’s fascinating; like others, I’d love to see the source data.
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by woodruffw 13d ago
That makes sense, given that the median car mile probably isn’t in a dense urban core. The more accurate comparison would require us to know pedestrian fatalities per mile in urban areas.
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by woodruffw 13d ago
The primary driver appears to be economics (vis a vis the pandemic and slow recovery afterwards), which has very little to do with the author’s primary target (cyclists and buses). A more sensible null hypothesis would be that cyclist and b
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by woodruffw 15d ago
I mean, the point of Frankfurt’s bullshitter is that we know they’re bullshitting (or more expansively, Frankfurt gives us a set of criteria to test them against). We know they don’t care about the truth value of their statement, only tha
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by woodruffw 15d ago
I don’t think these mental states are in evidence for either of them. I think they’re both credibly earnest in their views. (Frankfurt’s characterization of the bullshitter rests on not just the truth value being absent, but also on the b
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by woodruffw 15d ago
Without reference to either person, I think this is essentially a misunderstanding of Frankfurt’s analysis: On Bullshit is about expressing sentiments without caring about their truth value, i.e. the concept of a “bull session.” Both Altm
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by woodruffw 16d ago
It depends on what you mean. The PEPs are essentially a behavioral core, and each tool (build backend, etc.) adds on top of that core. If you’re installing a package, any installer should work; if you’re developing a package, you may be s
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by woodruffw 16d ago
We do a lot more than that, e.g. how to cache distributions is not defined anywhere within PEPs (and should not be, since it’s a purely internal tool decision). But yes, it helps that uv implements the PEP for detached metadata, particularl
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by woodruffw 16d ago
I think this sockpuppet is referring to a different thread I commented in yesterday. But I think it would be an uncharitable stretch to read what I wrote in an official voice, much less “pro” in an unqualified sense.
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by woodruffw 16d ago
This kind of hellish experience is a great example of the CVE system trying to have it both ways: when on the offense it’s a rich source of information for defenders, and when on the defense it’s just an opaque ID for coordination that impl
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by woodruffw 17d ago
Another one?
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by woodruffw 17d ago
My understanding is that IME and PSP come more from the world of corporate compliance than anything else. In other words they exist for x86 because x86 gets deployed in corporate settings, and any ISA that attempts to occupy a similar niche
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by woodruffw 17d ago
I don’t think the average American voter “genuinely” thinks that they’re on a Blues Brothers-style mission from god to deliver liberalism and freedom to the world. I would be surprised if that’s even a minority view among voters.
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by woodruffw 17d ago
Is there some evidence that x86 is uniquely prone to exploitable memory corruption? I haven't seen it, if so. > That's why Huawei and the Chinese government aren't even trying any more to make western CPU architectures sec
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by woodruffw 17d ago
Another useful one if you have a large number of tags and want to see the most recently created ones first: git config --global tag.sort -creatordate (`-creatordate` reverses the sort so that the newest come first.)
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by woodruffw 17d ago
I've seen monorepos with over 10k active branches. But even at a smaller scale (10-100 branches), it becomes useful when manually stacking and/or rebasing, especially if you have a smaller terminal.
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by woodruffw 18d ago
I mean more in the psychological safety sense. An assembler's process is deterministic, not statistical, and knowing that affects how we interact with it.
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by woodruffw 18d ago
Python's tiering has to do with testability and availability thereof, not modernness. In the case of 32-bit Windows, the reason it's still testable is because Windows still ships a 32-bit userspace, even if Windows itself only s
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by woodruffw 18d ago
I agree. It remains to be seen whether the field will even stabilize, beyond some local maxima of everything being a chat interface. I for one hope it does.
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by woodruffw 18d ago
Charitably, we could say that “agentic” software engineering is less than 4 years old. I say charitably because I think even that’s an extraordinary stretch. But even at 4 years, I don’t think anybody can fairly claim to be experienced in
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by woodruffw 18d ago
I generally agree with this. One of the strangest things about LLM driven engineering is holding two seemingly contradictory positions in your head: they’re both better than the median developer, and they’re also much worse at producing a
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by woodruffw 24d ago
I think the very short version of Kant’s view is that “good” is not impinged upon by any particular desire or action. What makes the good will “good” is that it operates in conformity with duty, and duty in turn is derived from reason (and
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by woodruffw 25d ago
(4) is not actually co-extensive with any of Kant's four formulations of the CI. To break them down: 1. The "universal law" formulation (GMS 4:421) states that an action if permissible if and only if we can will that maxim of
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by woodruffw 25d ago
> Even in the Metaphysics of Morals, the whole concept of duty would be arbitrary if not in reference to rational beings. In what sense? There's a sense in which there's no moral law without rational agents, but Kant himself is
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by woodruffw 26d ago
The entire point is that they have no control! That’s what makes it not nullification. Edit: to be clear, the essential quality of nullification is that it’s the product of a contradiction between two unassailable principles in our legal
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by woodruffw 26d ago
It doesn’t fit the spirit, because it doesn’t have the legal qualities of nullification. In particular, the prosecutor can choose to empanel a new grand jury and seek a new indictment on the exact same charge.
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by woodruffw 26d ago
Nullification is based on a contradiction in terms: juries cannot be punished for the judgments they render, and prosecutors may not re-try a case to obtain their preferred outcome (“double jeopardy”). With a grand jury, the second term d
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by woodruffw 27d ago
I don’t know anything about this particular tool. But I’ll note that comparing package counts often doesn’t make sense between ecosystems, since some ecosystems (like Rust) lean heavily towards workspace patterns where several “physical” pa
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by woodruffw 1mo ago
Yes :-)

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