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PiP & Ambroos De Schepper:
🎵 Sans Loup
#PiP #AmbroosDeSchepper
#Spotify

📦 Easy installation: pip install agentic-doc - batteries included with #LandingAI #API wrapper
📚 Handles 100 page #PDFs in single call with auto-split & parallel processing capabilities

I want to push back on the idea in the world of tech work that a PIP (performance improvement plan) is about getting rid of someone, that they're not intended to be survivable.
This is completely false. (I'm sure there's instances of it, of course, but the mode and vast majority are, in fact about performance improvement. Sometimes they're shadow layoffs, but that is cruel callous behavior that not everyone will exhibit.)
Now _most people do not survive the PIP process_. This is to be expected: if someone is in fact not performing, and more gentle remedies haven't worked, it's not looking good.
But here's where I get a bit spicy: most performance problems are constitutional problems with management and management style, not individual performance problems. However, since managers are as a class 'in power' somewhat, the individual contributor takes the fall for this structurally.
The intent of a PIP is not to get rid of people. It's to right performance.
However, as a system, PIPs do largely get rid of people who are constitutionally misaligned with management. Even when it's a management problem (and it usually is)

Timba found an abandoned baby mouse, & I am now a mouse mama. Apparently. If you need me, I’ll be putting a warm nest together for li’l Pip. #MiceOfMastodon

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The Black Seeds:
🎵 Pippy Pip
#NowPlaying #TheBlackSeeds
https://theblackseeds.bandcamp.com/track/pippy-pip-dub-deluxe-bonus-track-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/0VTuU6OEGVoyU7O8LqIpqO

Jakiś czas temu, zainspirowany #Fedorą, wyodrębniłem paczki .whl z Pythonowego ensurepip w #Gentoo (właśnie sprawdziłem — "jakiś czas" to 3 lata). Umożliwiło to nam aktualizowanie ich razem z paczkami pip i setuptools, dzięki czemu nowe środowiska wirtualne otrzymują najnowszą dostępną wersję, a …

i should have a counter on the wall i flip every time i use a new build system
so far this project involves:
- bazel
- xmake
- cmake
- ninja
- opam
- make
- pip
but i'm sure i've missed something

Time for the periodic check of my ~/.cache directory:
ccache: 4G
uv: 2.2G
pre-commit: 2.1G
rattler: 1.7G
mozilla: 1.1G
thumbnails: 1G
evolution: 550M
fotema: 511M
pip: 404M
Not assuming infinite space in home directory is overrated.
#Gentoo #Python

I thought I'd try out Open WebUI, so I installed it via pip. 20 minutes later we're at 8 gigabytes and compiling a bunch of code from scratch. Folks, it's just a simple chat-style web interface to LLM APIs. I'm wondering if the whole thing was coded by AIs who didn't care at all about footprint.

I watched the #BBC 10pm news last night, to find out what the Starmer regime had backed down on. It was at least 15 minutes into the reporting when they actually said what. We had to hear the little grey man three occasions first saying it was an embarrassing U-turn (who knew)?
Dreadful standard of reporting.
#PIP

Czas na okresową kontrolę katalogu ~/.cache:
ccache: 4G
uv: 2.2G
pre-commit: 2.1G
rattler: 1.7G
mozilla: 1.1G
thumbnails: 1G
evolution: 550M
fotema: 511M
pip: 404M
Kto by tam zakładał, że /home nie jest nieograniczone?
#Gentoo #Python

Analog Programmable-Photonic Information
Andr\'es Macho Ortiz, Ra\'ul L\'opez March, Pablo Mart\'inez Carrasco Romero, Francisco Javier Fraile Pel\'aez, Jos\'e Capmany
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21649

Analog Programmable-Photonic Information
The limitations of digital electronics in handling real-time matrix operations for emerging computational tasks - such as artificial intelligence, drug design, and medical imaging - have prompted renewed interest in analog computing. Programmable Integrated Photonics (PIP) has emerged as a promising technology for scalable, low-power, and high-bandwidth analog computation. While prior work has explored PIP implementations of quantum and neuromorphic computing, both approaches face significant l…

Working through slowly setting up my laptop with NixOS, I'm going GNOME Wayland cuz I know my laptop is old enough to not have too many problems with it and apparently PiP on Firefox is just broken, like fully broken, has been for up to 4 years.

A Simulation of the Fermilab Main Injector Dual Power Amplifier Cavities
Susanna Stevenson (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03312 https://

A Simulation of the Fermilab Main Injector Dual Power Amplifier Cavities
The Fermilab Main Injector accelerating cavities have sparking issues when they are run at voltages higher than those required by the PIP-II project. This is a problem Fermilab is working on as planning begins for the next upgrade to the accelerator complex. One of the methods being used to address the issue is the development of a CST Microwave Studio simulation to accurately model the PIP-II dual power amplifier cavities and identify which part(s) of the cavity is causing sparking to develop.…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Pip Blom:
🎵 Tiger
#PipBlom
https://pipblom.bandcamp.com/track/tiger
https://open.spotify.com/track/2cI7ekxAIw6zI5zNiof8RY

Good wishes and all power to the Labour rebels today. They won't vote to push 150,000 disabled people into poverty.
#UKPol #austerity #UKLabour

Switched my most updated #Django project to #uv this morning. I was using vanilla pip and venv and building #Python from source before.
—That was it? —
Seemed crazy too easy. It all just w…

I've had a lot of respect and liking for Emily Thornbury for years, regardless of differing affiliations and policy preferences. But for answering a question about the PIP bill saying "it's a big document, its all financial detail rather than organisational, I haven't read it properly yet and when I comment it will be an informed comment" (approx words, not a transcript) she gets a gold star from me.
Politician in "Saying they don't have an informed opin…

Estimation of Payload Inertial Parameters from Human Demonstrations by Hand Guiding
Johannes Hartwig, Philipp Lienhardt, Dominik Henrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15604

Estimation of Payload Inertial Parameters from Human Demonstrations by Hand Guiding
As the availability of cobots increases, it is essential to address the needs of users with little to no programming knowledge to operate such systems efficiently. Programming concepts often use intuitive interaction modalities, such as hand guiding, to address this. When programming in-contact motions, such frameworks require knowledge of the robot tool's payload inertial parameters (PIP) in addition to the demonstrated velocities and forces to ensure effective hybrid motion-force control. Thi…

A while ago, I've followed the example given by #Fedora and unbundled ensurepip wheels from #Python in #Gentoo (just checked — "a while ago" was 3 years ago). This had the important advantage that it enabled us to update these wheels along with the actual pip and setuptools packages, meaning new virtual environments would get fresh versions rather than whatever CPython happened to bundle at the time of release.
I had considered using our system packages to prepare these wheels, but since we were already unbundling dependencies back then, that couldn't work. So I just went with fetching upstream wheels from PyPI. Why not build them from source instead? Well, besides feeling unnecessary (it's not like the PyPI wheels are actually binary packages), we probably didn't have the right kind of eclass support for that at the time.
Inspired by @…, today I've tried preparing new revisions of ensurepip packages that actually do build everything from source. So what changed, and why should building from source matter now? Firstly, as part of the wheel reuse patches, we do have a reasonably clean architecture to grab the wheels created as part of the PEP517 build. Secondly, since we're unbundling dependencies from pip and setuptools, we're effectively testing different packages than these installed as ensurepip wheels — and so it would be meaningful to test both variants. Thirdly, building from source is going to make patching easier, and at the very least enable user patching.
While at it, I've refreshed the test suite runs in all three regular packages (pip, setuptools and wheel — we need an "ensurepip" wheel for the last because of test suites). And of course, I hit some test failures in testing the versions with bundled dependencies, and I've discovered a random bug in #PyPy.
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/42882 (yes, we haven't moved yet)
https://github.com/pypy/pypy/issues/5306

📊 Includes #SAST, #SCA (dependency scanning), and secrets detection capabilities
🔧 Easy installation via #Homebrew,

Fast magneto-acoustic waves in the solar chromosphere: Comparison of single-fluid and two-fluid approximations
M. M. G\'omez M\'iguez, D. Mart\'inez-G\'omez, E. Khomenko, B. Popescu Braileanu, M. Collados, P. S. Cally
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16460

Fast magneto-acoustic waves in the solar chromosphere: Comparison of single-fluid and two-fluid approximations
Context: The mechanism behind the heating of the solar chromosphere remains unclear. Friction between neutrals and charges is expected to contribute to plasma heating in a partially ionised plasma (PIP). Aims: We aim to study the efficiency of the frictional heating mechanism in partially ionised plasmas by comparing a single-fluid model (1F) using ambipolar diffusion and a two-fluid model (2F) that incorporates elastic collision terms. Methods: We use the code MANCHA-2F to solve the equations …

Minister finally admits that working-age benefits spending is stable, despite months of ‘spiralling’ claims
and suggested that the government needed to cut spending on PIP, even though disabled people were only claiming it because they were struggling due to the cost-of-living crisis.
– Disability News Service

Minister finally admits that working-age benefits spending is stable, despite months of ‘spiralling’ claims
A minister has finally admitted that spending on working-age benefits is stable, and is not spiralling out of control, despite months of claims from his own department and fellow ministers. Sir Ste…

Optimization Studies of Radiation Shielding for the PIP-II Project at Fermilab
Alajos Makovec (Fermilab), Dali Georgobiani (Fermilab), Igor Rakhno (Fermilab), Igor Tropin (Fermilab)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19763

Optimization Studies of Radiation Shielding for the PIP-II Project at Fermilab
The PIP-II project at Fermilab, which includes an 800-MeV superconducting LINAC, demands rigorous radiation shielding optimization to meet safety requirements. We updated the MARS geometry model to reflect new magnet and collimator designs and introduced high-resolution detector planes to better capture radiation field distributions. To overcome the significant computational demands, we implemented a well-known branching technique that drastically reduced simulation runtimes while maintaining s…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Pip Blom:
🎵 Temporary Love
#PipBlom
https://pipblom.bandcamp.com/track/temporary-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/1CxyjA465FayynUoYl1ucb

Trade Unionists Against the Benefit Cuts (UKPol)
Good letter, including both the principle of the thing and the likely outcomes in practice. Starmer & co should take note.
"We the undersigned are trade unionists opposed to the Universal Credit and Personal Independence bill, designed to restrict access to PIP and to reduce the sickness element (LCWRA) of UC. We believe this is shameful anti-worker and anti-working class legislation. ...
"Not only will these cuts cause increased financial hardship for some of those made vulnerable by a disabling society, but will also add considerable expenses and a much increased workload to workers in several sectors. This is because more people will be plunged into debt. More people will be served with eviction notices... Cutting incomes will push people further from work...
"The Disability Policy thinktank forecast that the cuts will lead to £1.2bn in extra costs for the NHS and local care services provided by councils, raising the alarm for both councillors and MPs whether the cuts will backfire even on their own economic terms."
Still accepting signatures:
#disability #benefits #unions #NHS #debt #UK #UKPol

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Pip Blom:
🎵 Temporary Love
#PipBlom
https://pipblom.bandcamp.com/track/temporary-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/1CxyjA465FayynUoYl1ucb

Replaced article(s) found for physics.acc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.acc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Optimization Studies of Radiation Shielding for the PIP-II Project at Fermilab
Alajos Makovec, Dali Georgobiani, Igor Rakhno, Igor Tropin