2026-04-29T06:15:34Z https://yabu.me Pradyun Gedam https://yabu.me/npub1zzq5pqr9rzhd29nlw5f7a0nktv00fmw5hyau7y67sd5h0ey6jghqwvtgwp https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/965/786/original/95864838ac3e4191.png https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/965/786/original/95864838ac3e4191.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxa3eh7n3nvuvhc6yw7c5473e84hwccewvn5s9ur85amsw39fspeqzyqggzsyqv5v2a4gk0a638m47wed3aa8d6junhncnt6pkjalyn2fzuhzcgv4 *me* Playing around with computers, trying to make some pretty colors happen.<br/><br/>*me, later* I want 18 colors for this, and that&#39;s a 54 dimension optimization problem. Oooh, this will be a fun weekend project!<br/><br/>*me, much later* This is proving surprisingly difficult, but it&#39;s an interesting problem to think through.<br/><br/>*me, much much later* Yea, this is literally weighted constraint satisfaction... which is NP-hard. 2025-06-24T22:38:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz7ftg54rljmaswq78gc8zfjuks7mvelgy6ct0ej7spls6vyze90szyqggzsyqv5v2a4gk0a638m47wed3aa8d6junhncnt6pkjalyn2fzu937wmd OH: *talking about version numbers*<br/><br/>Me: v1!2-alpha_3.r-2_dev-99999+whatever.it-takes_to.do.this is a valid version number. 2024-12-11T14:01:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszmqh5wl9gl8yt3asru82v4m4dkwwt60yg02z8uz09c8mq6xeq7sczyqggzsyqv5v2a4gk0a638m47wed3aa8d6junhncnt6pkjalyn2fzugyx3vd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs05ljf85fsp2krecryg0y443nndg4yx334rmduhylfcpermvvv3hs57pues'>nevent1q…pues</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I forget who it was, so I can&#39;t credit this appropriately the person who told me once that more than half of what people call Python packaging problems are actually Python bootstrapping problems.<br/><br/>And, like, I paused because the answer wasn&#39;t an obvious no. 2024-10-25T18:07:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs97y8pfuxplhnrffl693sz7ysehgr2yc6x57hnccnf3ryys7s6azgzyqggzsyqv5v2a4gk0a638m47wed3aa8d6junhncnt6pkjalyn2fzu0nrk3g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0kyjn6m8e5qxycqz4tqzps7jvqmusnpr805ngmgzr933c63pemssf7fw7f'>nevent1q…fw7f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&gt; UV python uses python.org/downloads<br/><br/>Wait, no -- it does not. It uses python-build-standalone. 2024-09-16T20:40:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdlrs55yxdmdr39uwjzt64mrf22xlv4s9hqrluzxrzmvchd8sschczyqggzsyqv5v2a4gk0a638m47wed3aa8d6junhncnt6pkjalyn2fzu8ggfsg <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1zgmxv6u4uudnn5q8hjlphcy073patfm0u0cxzmh2ex6hlmzp8eqq4jdan3" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Hynek Schlawack</span> (<span class="italic">npub1zgm…dan3</span>)</a></span> Do you have automation for cross posting across different micro-blogging platforms? 2024-09-09T19:23:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw237s6pfqp4fjzawyv3kjteqrm5hanwk8v5nmeg7jpng6lpuatpqzyqggzsyqv5v2a4gk0a638m47wed3aa8d6junhncnt6pkjalyn2fzusjfmq5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd0zsluujexycdclar58k8huasts0kf8t0wxmh9l767f8sz527mxgshtgdx'>nevent1q…tgdx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yea, single executable distribution is *great*.<br/><br/>Rust&#39;s achilles heel seems to be that it&#39;s using dependecies as additional source code, which leads to long compile times (coz you gotta compile all your dependencies + variants that come off of that in your code) as well as causing complications when using the build systems that expect a &#34;source code -&gt; reusable binary&#34; relationship for each individual piece in that system (eg: the kind that Debian/Fedora have). 2024-09-08T10:34:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxwkuxx2m3xstacfrznp670euygtnltxgjt4ej6fycfv9tzc589kczyqggzsyqv5v2a4gk0a638m47wed3aa8d6junhncnt6pkjalyn2fzujqfe0g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfl8ztqcpkly0g28rfxhl2yu6r7mul2eq87uupuxs7ypvwlmv5xxc5d6elc'>nevent1q…6elc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I find it easiest to describe this as &#34;there is an executable that runs the code&#34; vs &#34;the code directly run on the underlying &#39;hardware&#39;&#34;.<br/><br/>Standard caveats apply around &#34;it&#39;s a property of the implementation&#34;, room for arguing about &#34;code&#34;/&#34;run&#34;, and &#34;There can be more software been the executable and the physical CPU&#34;, etc. :) 2024-09-08T08:13:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0afa7jf84zmdhajrt459pswu407570yv9554j0n34g5m6fx3hyyszyqggzsyqv5v2a4gk0a638m47wed3aa8d6junhncnt6pkjalyn2fzum9rasp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0gtyqrzcwj9zu03nj920s9vt5y728l5ukfj3dd3zw2nmpku938escgqnpj'>nevent1q…qnpj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>FWIW, they&#39;re not saying we can&#39;t do it. They&#39;re saying we&#39;re choosing not to do it in this case.<br/><br/>It feels like they want to pull this in other cases when as many people are not looking and they&#39;re not being scrutinised. 2024-08-20T20:04:41Z