I ran into a frustrating issue today with uv lock. AFAICT there's no way to "unlock" an individual dependency. I either lock everything down or forgo locks entirely. In my case I'm working with two tightly coupled packages - both developed internally to my organization - where package A is dependent on package B and I always want the latest version of package B. But I still want all my other packages to be locked to specific versions.

My thought was to stop using a uv lock file and just go back to pip with all my dependencies pinned with hashes in pyproject.toml. But after some digging I realized there was no way to put dependency hashes in pyproject.toml. So my only solution is to go back to using requirements.txt, at which point I lose out on the primary value-add of uv.

This experience left me feeling like the "new and improved" tools are still half-baked and that I should stick with the old stuff. It's a little slow and clunky sometimes, but I'm familiar with it and once it's setup it just does what I want.

It's a funny bug, but hardly worthy of the headline.

Investors like growth, not shrinkage. Claiming AI is replacing those jobs helps avoid the appearence of shrinkage, while also feeding the AI hype machine that many of these companies have invested heavily into.

The reason is quite simple. When Microsoft steals YOUR work, GDP go up. When YOU steal Microsoft's work, GDP go down. And the people who create and enforce our laws want GDP to go up. To these people morality and rights are a thin guise that can be conveniently discarded when it's invonvenient for them.

While doing teaching special ed she developed a fondness for teaching math. But she isn't allowed to take on a general ed math class because she doesn't have a "math endorsement" - which would require her to go back to school again for basically another advanced degree in math. And she can't get a general ed job in history because it's too competitive and her years of experience makes her too expensive compared to fresh blood.

If you want to get your foot in the door in a competitive market, degrees help. They offer some substitute for experience. But it's ridiculous to require them.

This reads like an April Fools joke. Even the title sounds like satire.

That sounds great, but how are LLMs supposed to achieve this? You can't just say "AI will make a utopia". You have to present a vision for how it will get us there.

I'm tired of hearing about how AI will solve all the worlds problems. I want to see actual progress towards achieving these goals. And for the most part that hasn't manifested. Most people would consider AI to have had a net negative impact on their lives.

At the end of the day it's just a big weighted graph traversal. Its output is a result of many combined probabilities. It's not deterministic and even if it was the input range is so massive that it would be impossible to comprehensively test.

You cannot possibly know an LLM will do what you command it to. It's impossible by design. LLMs are inherently unpredictable. They can still be useful, but that unpredictability needs to be accounted for to use them safely.

Tools cannot eschew accountability. But the users of the tools can and that is exactly what happened in the PocketOS fiasco.

Just as a company is responsible for the actions of its junior employees, so too are users responsible for their LLMs.

"It is a poor workman who blames his tools."

I'm curious what about them would be more difficult to plan, install, and maintain. Obviously there are many things to consider when retrofitting a building with a central gas furnace... but otherwise why would they be much more complicated than an air conditioning system?

But my wife is also a high school teacher and one of the most consistent problems I hear about from her is smartphones being a distraction. If she lets a kid use their smartphone as a calculator, odds are they'll soon be scrolling content feeds, playing games, or chatting with others. If her school required students to have a graphing calculator with limited functionality, it would probably be a benefit to her classroom.

Okay... so? I do not understand the connection between Linux and the US/Israel. You'd think Iran would be very pro-Linux since Windows is a very obvious liability for them.

Is there any reason to believe this attack even has anything to do with Iran? They could simply want money and they just happen to also be pro-Iran.

IMO that is what automated static analysis jobs are for. Let me configure my IDE how I want.