this works great but in my experience sometimes you should add

  && sync

not sure why it's necessary only sometimes!

The kernel has a cache used for block devices.

If you want to be more targeted:

    blockdev --flushbufs /dev/sda

the title is really underselling it; as the post is very concise, i won't repeat it here but it's worth reading

i have heard about ai companies being fuelled by effective altruist rhetoric ("we must control ai to prevent mass extinction") but was unsure whether to believe it; this seems to slot right into that framing.

this blog post is mostly shadowboxing and showing off their llm-made software; kind of disappointing

Yeah, the holier-than-thou vibe-coder is a new cliche I'm not enjoying.

offtopic but i find it concerning that github has effectively prevented people from learning how to use git without a forge

fascinating how many people are displeased with the expansion of generics! i love go and this is some functionality i always missed.

it turns out "consumer agency" is ineffective and that people are actually very susceptible to having thoughts beamed into their heads

it's a fun hobby project and thanks for documenting it!

but it's a pre-bought circular screen, raspberry pi and a browser... i could use it to ask google the time, the clock is just a formality.

thinking about it a little harder, i guess the focus is not really the project and more so the watch faces.

crazy second sentence which makes the rest of the comment not make any sense

it worked for uv so i can imagine a competent team can do the same thing for javascript!

Surprised to see this is the only uv reference in the comments!

Feels like an obvious comparison to me, and a very welcome development for the JS ecosystem.

uv made me actually _enjoy_ working in Python again.

a single tool was the enabler of enjoyment? It seems enjoyment is a fleeting thing these days if that's the case

uv removes all the pain from python packaging. and if you ever used it for anything more than one off scripts you know it used to be a lot of pain.

manually activating venv, inconsistent python and dep versions, duplicate files taking up space, slow and broken tools, fragmented configs, global state, all of that is gone now. if you never experienced it you have no idea how bad it was.

not all of it was uv specifically (pyproject.toml was a proposal for some time before) but they cleaned it up. its the only reason i even think about python as an option for new projects.