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New comment by dagenix in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"

dagenix — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:31:46 +0000

If you don't like the debian model, didn't use debian. There are people that like the debian model, it seems like you aren't one of them, though. That doesn't make them wrong.

New comment by dagenix in "eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible"

dagenix — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:42:57 +0000

My understanding is that existing Ebay shareholders would get half cash and half stock. In order to actually profit, those shareholders would need to believe that the combined company's stock could be sold off without taking a significant loss.

New comment by dagenix in "x86 prefixes and escape opcodes flowchart"

dagenix — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:19:56 +0000

https://archive.ph/ZMsnQ

New comment by dagenix in "I see a future in jj"

dagenix — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:36:53 +0000

I strongly suspect that its not feasible to colocate pijul and git. git and jj are based on snapshots, while pijul is based on patches. They have very different models.

New comment by dagenix in "I see a future in jj"

dagenix — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:34:11 +0000

One thing JJ has that git doesn't is the concept of first class conflicts. In JJ, rebasing or merging never fails, but it might record a conflict to resolve later. Git, on the otherhand, forces you to drop we everything to resolve conflicts immediately. It sounds like a small thing - but in my experience, being able to resolve conflicts later when I feel like it is absolutely amazing and really helps reduce context switching.

YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24M to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension

dagenix — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:08:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/29/nx-s1-5557371/youtube-trump-lawsuit-settlement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422111

Points: 10

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New comment by dagenix in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

dagenix — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:50:22 +0000

You are supposed to supervise Tesla FSD. Waymo doesn't require someone in the driver's seat at all. They aren't the same thing.

New comment by dagenix in "Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?"

dagenix — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 02:45:00 +0000

The problem, IMO, with asyncio is that its way, way too complicated. In my experience, anyio (https://github.com/agronholm/anyio) provides a much better interface on top of asyncio. And since it can use asyncio as a backend, it maintains compatibility with the asyncio ecosystem. FastAPI, for example, uses anyio.

One thing that I don't see being mentioned in any of the threads here talking about green threads is cancellation. A huge benefit, IMO, of anyio is that it makes cancellation really easy to handle. With asyncio, cancellation is pretty hard. And with green threads, cancellation is often impossible.

New comment by dagenix in "Asyncio: A library with too many sharp corners"

dagenix — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 02:14:42 +0000

In my experience, the key to using asyncio is to use anyio. Anyio is an interface that you can use ontop of asyncio and fixes most of its shortcomings.

https://anyio.readthedocs.io

New comment by dagenix in "Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts"

dagenix — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:47:03 +0000

I'm not dismissing uv, I'm critiquing the article.

New comment by dagenix in "Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts"

dagenix — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:10:31 +0000

> This approach eliminates the need for complex setup tools like requirements.txt or package managers...

And yet, the rest of the article is about uv. According to uv itself:

> An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.

It's a package manager!

New comment by dagenix in "Happy 10k Day"

dagenix — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 04:50:05 +0000

It doesn't seem like https://comma.ai/ has sources either.

New comment by dagenix in "Happy 10k Day"

dagenix — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 03:46:37 +0000

I especially like how there is next to no mention about safety on the main page. But at least its only $999 and it has AI and 50k GitHub stars, so, thats nice.

New comment by dagenix in "Happy 10k Day"

dagenix — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 03:45:32 +0000

So, a hackier version of Tesla's autopilot? Sounds, uh, terrifying.

New comment by dagenix in "NixOS 24.11 "Vicuña" Released"

dagenix — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 21:17:55 +0000

The pretty significant updates to MacOS support are really cool to see!

New comment by dagenix in "Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers"

dagenix — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 03:18:07 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...

Technical Analysis of Men's 100M Final Photo Finish

dagenix — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 04:07:25 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1ekb7gt/technical_analysis_of_mens_100m_final_photo_finish/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41158117

Points: 1

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New comment by dagenix in "Why CSV is still king"

dagenix — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 03:05:27 +0000

I don't believe its in the standard library for Rust, even if it is very popular in the Rust ecosystem.

New comment by dagenix in "Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript"

dagenix — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 05:59:16 +0000

Java does jit

New comment by dagenix in "Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with"

dagenix — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 04:23:31 +0000

> Yes, but the absence of the GIL would make race conditions more likely to happen.

Does it though? I'm not saying it doesn't, I'm quite curious. Switching between threads with the GIL is already fairly unpredictable from the perspective of pure-Python code. Does it get significantly more troublesome without the GIL?

> Yes. They could run it in multiple threads with the GIL today, but as above, race conditions might not show up as often, so it might not be realized that the code is broken. But also, with the GIL there is the common perception that Python doesn't do multithreading well anyway, so it's less likely to be used for that. With the GIL removed, I suspect many people will want to use multithreading a lot more in Python to parallelize code, without fully realizing the implications.

Fair