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ivirshup··on Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left
I think those are both different in that they require the user to say they trust this code. Additionally the first is arguably not a bug (the code in tasks.json will indeed run if you say you trust the project) and the second was reported and fixed within two months.
ivirshup··on Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]
Asking a colleague to do it?
ivirshup··on Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
People at my company have started writing docs specifically for claude. They're quite useful for me too, but kinda disappointing they never wrote these docs for their colleagues.
ivirshup··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
The issue is misrepresenting the situation.

One of those operations makes a row-major array, the other makes a col-major array. Downstream functions will have different performance based on which is passed.

ivirshup··on Prism
I've heard that now that AI conferences are starting to check for hallucinated references, rejection rates are going up significantly. See also the Neurips hallucinated references kerfuffle [1]

[1]: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/26/machine-le...

ivirshup··on iPhone Pocket
Since Steve's famous turtle neck was from Issey Miyake and he wanted everyone at Apple to wear an Issey Miyake vest as a uniform [1], I think he might have been into this. This is also the man who launched the iPod sock.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116769827/the-story-of-steve...

ivirshup··on iPhone Pocket
Issey Miyake's "Pleats Please" line has always been made out of synthetics. It was an intentional choice due to the character of polyester as a fabric, like it's ability to hold the pleats while still being machine washable.

https://asufidmmuseum.asu.edu/learn/articles/issey-miyake-pl...

ivirshup··on Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office
I think there are backup systems. I sometimes walk by the Cloudflare SF offices on weekends and it looks like the lava lamps are off.
ivirshup··on Suckless.org: software that sucks less
Not defending them, the Hitler laptop thing seems bad, but within Germany torchwalks are pretty normal and not Nazi associated. For example, there was one as part of a ceremony honoring Merkel as she left office.
ivirshup··on Australian government approves AAPowerLink project to export solar to Singapore
But the majority of Singaporeans live in public housing where rent is adjusted for income based via a grant system?
ivirshup··on Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
I don't think it makes money yet.

They've said the eventual plan is services [1].

[1]: https://astral.sh/blog/announcing-astral-the-company-behind-...

ivirshup··on Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
It parallelizes downloads and checking of the packages.

It also doesn't compile .py files to .pyc at install time by default, but that just defers the cost to first import.

ivirshup··on Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
> what has been the point of anaconda since binary wheels became a thing?

When you need python + R + some linked or CLI binary in an isolated environment. Also you will use the same tool to manage this environment across multiple OSs (e.g. no OS specific `apt`, `brew`, etc).

ivirshup··on Ticketmaster breach affects more than half a billion users
Guess they shoulda spent some of those ticket fees on a security team.
ivirshup··on German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization
I was thinking more about timescale.

If someone smokes a joint near your window, that smell will probably be gone in half an hour. If there is a plant that's just sitting there, it'll be more subtle, but it's not going anywhere.

That said – many people like the smell of Hopfentee (Hop tea), which is pretty similar.

ivirshup··on German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization
Most Germans live in apartments, and rent. The growing and processing does produce strong odors, which a landlord/ neighbors may not approve of.
ivirshup··on Uv: Python packaging in Rust
Even bigger now that their distribution is integrated in Excel[1]

[1]: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/announcing-python-in-excel-nex...

ivirshup··on Car insurance in America is too cheap
From their demonstration videos, I don’t think Tesla has proven particularly adept at detecting pedestrians.

And I don’t know that they’ve shown this for pedestrians on the pedestrian path, at distance, at night.

ivirshup··on New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
I assume because it can be a little hard to navigate and doesn't have as polished a UI.

But also you can actually pick up a conversation from a month ago, so is infinitely better.

ivirshup··on No Man's Sky just keeps getting better
That was my impression trying it this year
ivirshup··on Cthulhu.jl – show type-inferred Julia code
Love this tool. Invaluable for figuring out what code actually got called after complicated dispatch.
ivirshup··on Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services
Hey, that's not a fair assessment.

It would also dump greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.

ivirshup··on Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
Anaconda distributions aren't exactly small. I'd also assume there's some sort of environment isolation, so you're getting multiple copies. Maybe one per workbook?
ivirshup··on Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper?
kNN methods are broadly not O(n^2)[1], especially in practice where approximate methods are used.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearest_neighbor_search

ivirshup··on Has Xbox lost the console wars?
> big acquisitions that, in hindsight, made Big Tech more competitive (the most common examples are Google acquiring DoubleClick and YouTube, and Facebook acquiring WhatsApp and Instagram).

How did these acquisitions make big tech more competitive?

ivirshup··on Lua: The Little Language That Could
> Most elevators (at least in NYC) start at floor 1, not 0.

European buildings are generally 0-indexed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storey#Numbering

ivirshup··on How to quit cars
Currently living in Munich, it is the quietest place I ever lived. Also super clean, like more than Singapore.
ivirshup··on Pandas vs. Julia – cheat sheet and comparison
ibis in python is a really nice middle ground. Nice API + in a programming language, but executes on database backends (which could be polars or duckdb on in memory arrow tables).
ivirshup··on Julia 1.9.0 lives up to its promise
> it's really solving the problems that hurt AI most

Isn't this a bit premature? Mojo doesn't tangibly exist for most people (we can't run it ourselves), and I am unaware of any ML/ AI applications built with Mojo.

ivirshup··on Introducing PyPI Organizations
Is there a description of what exactly an organizational account entails?
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