Yup, the longer you wait to update something, the higher the cost to eventually do that. I hate the “if ain’t broke don’t fix it” adage because of this. If I am the one who will eventually need to update it, you bet I will be “fixing” it more often than I have to.

never heard of this person, but an editor in chief writing like that must be a recession signal

For most things. The only exception I see is if you have really over dimensioned memory, or have a very predictable load so that having the extra reclaimable space won’t make a difference.

https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html

yeah, swap is definitely still useful and it gets used by the kernel well before the main memory is full

it’s not, because it takes swap usage into account, so you can benefit from swap without risking a frozen system

direct link to the policy

https://forge.rust-lang.org/policies/llm-usage.html

the only times I had OOM killer kick in, the machine was already frozen for a long time trying to swap things in and out and whatnot. So I started using earlyoom - it’ll just nuke that memory hogging process out of existence before it takes the whole machine down.

This is so annoying and exhausting. Today I gave up linking a bank account with a broker via plaid because they wanted access to all my transactions.

I’m not in this area, but from what I remember from undergrad, real world systems have too many variables to simulate. It quickly becomes a combinatorial problem, not a reasoning one.

free to make numbers up

if $1 is not installed after that, wipe your hard drive and start over

I still like doing cat file.txt | grep thing because I often re-run it to find something else like cat file.txt | grep thing2 - and if I do that with grep, the pattern sits awkwardly in the middle instead of at the end

what I do feel is how slow poetry is for resolving dependencies

I used poetry for years before uv, but uv is just a better tool. If openai enshittifies it, I have no doubt it’ll be forked instantly.

yes, and give uv a try

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/

uv init + project management commands uv add, uv remove, uv sync, uv run my_spaghetti.py, …

you probably don’t need pip or uv pip commands

and here’s how to use it in docker

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/docker/

It’s right, you shouldn’t be using requirements.txt in 2026

how many hours per day on avg? Just curious

any computer science course teaches those things

It’s not a real thing because it’s virtual? Or not being regulated makes it not a real thing?

maybe on krypton code monkeys are licensed and everyone else is just doing engineering