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#RustLang / Cargo support in #Gentoo has received a lot of optimizations over time.
Does that sound like a good thing? I'm afraid it isn't: it's just saying how *bad* the ecosystem is, that we have to keep adding hacks to make it even remotely usable.
For a start, we immediately gave up on packaging the dependencies separately. After all, we're talking about a humongous effort, creating thousands of Gentoo packages whose only purpose would be delivering sources that would be only linked statically into executables. Lot of effort, lot of space waste, no gain. Instead, every Rust package carries a huge list of crates it needs, and a humongous Manifest listing yet another set of copies of checksums for these crates.
We are strongly relying on mirroring crates on Gentoo mirror infrastructure. Why? Because crates.io is uselessly slow. On top of that, Portage normally does fetching in series, so grabbing hundreds of crates takes half an eternity. In fact, I've even made #PyCargoEbuild use aria2 to fetch new crates from crates.io in parallel to work around this.
I have recently added a hack to unpack crates in parallel, because even unpacking all of them is awfully slow. Ironically, the crates that seem to take most of the time to unpack are these responsible for Windows support.
PyCargoEbuild also has a function to repack all dependent crates into a single tarball that we redistribute. Why? Because some packages have so many dependencies that listing them all makes ebuilds and their Manifests humongous. For every package like that, *all* Gentoo users suffer a significant growth in repository size, even if they are never going to use the package in question. So instead of listing and fetching crates, we fetch a ready-made crate tarball. Which is also much smaller than all crates combined, and therefore faster to fetch and unpack (though I haven't compared this to parallel unpacking).
Oh, perhaps I should have mentioned first that Cargo is one of the few ecosystems that simply cannot be packaged without creating dedicated tools to prepare and update the ebuilds.
But yeah, Rust is awesome.

Eh, some good vocabulary in here
> Elle coanime également le balado Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 (Nouvelle fenêtre), qui décortique l’emballement Š propos de l’IA.
«balado» — podcast
«décortique l’emballement» — dissects the hype
Attention @…
Ne vous méprenez pas : les robo…

Ne vous méprenez pas : les robots conversationnels ne sont pas conscients
Le lancement récent du grand modèle de langage Claude 3 a ravivé des discussions au sujet de la conscience de l'intelligence artificielle (IA). Cela est dû en partie au fait que Claude semblait philosopher à propos de sa propre conscience dans des publications virales et que l’entreprise qui l’a créé, Anthropic, a affirmé que Claude manifeste des degrés de compréhension et de fluidité « quasi humains ».

Manifiesto por una web humana https://humanewebmanifesto.com/

TSMC's swift response to the earthquake highlights the readiness of Taiwan's chip sector, and experts say Japan's chip industry is similarly well-prepared (Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/hokhmKyRr7

Taiwan quake highlights risks and readiness of Asia's chip sector
Manufacturers apply lessons from past to keep industry humming

Manifiesto por una web humana https://humanewebmanifesto.com/

#FreePalestine Suisse
Manifestation Š Lausanne demain samedi 23 mars 16h devant la cathédrale
> Le gouvernement suisse reste complice par son silence. Il ne se positionne toujours pas pour un cessez-le-feu permanent, ignorant les cris de détresse qui s’élèvent de Gaza et les voix qui s’élèvent dans son propre pays. Il ne prend aucune mesure concrète contre Israël, même face aux preuves accablantes de violations flagrantes des droits humains et du droit international.
https://renverse.co/infos-locales/article/manifestation-nationale-pour-exiger-un-cessez-le-feu-immediat-et-la-fin-du-4415

The Dance of Logic and Unpredictability: Examining the Predictability of User Behavior on Visual Analytics Tasks
Alvitta Ottley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07865

The Dance of Logic and Unpredictability: Examining the Predictability of User Behavior on Visual Analytics Tasks
The quest to develop intelligent visual analytics (VA) systems capable of collaborating and naturally interacting with humans presents a multifaceted and intriguing challenge. VA systems designed for collaboration must adeptly navigate a complex landscape filled with the subtleties and unpredictabilities that characterize human behavior. However, it is noteworthy that scenarios exist where human behavior manifests predictably. These scenarios typically involve routine actions or present a limit…

HiRA-Pro: High resolution alignment of multimodal spatio-temporal data: a process physics driven approach
Abhishek Hanchate, Himanshu Balhara, Vishal S. Chindepalli, Satish T. S. Bukkapatnam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06888

HiRA-Pro: High resolution alignment of multimodal spatio-temporal data: a process physics driven approach
We present HiRA-Pro, a novel procedure to align, at high spatio-temporal resolutions, multimodal signals from real-world processes and systems that exhibit diverse transient, nonlinear stochastic dynamics, such as manufacturing machines. It is based on discerning and synchronizing the process signatures of salient kinematic and dynamic events in these disparate signals. HiRA-Pro addresses the challenge of aligning data with sub-millisecond phenomena, where traditional timestamp, external trigge…

La neutralité comme instrument — le #manifesteNeutralité21 prend le contre-pied d'archaïsmes mythologisés sur "la neutralité" suisse. C'est bien.
Après cela, il reste une question ouverte: est-ce qu'on prend les droits humains au sérieux comme critère de politique étrangère, ou on s'aligne sur le moins-disant des pays de l'#OTAN en la matière?
#neutralité21 #Neutralität21 #neutralità21 #SuisseEnEurope #ThomasCottier