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by Lio 2y ago
I'd go with Unforgiven (1992). He was perfect as the sherif. One of those morally ambiguous characters, that you warm to but know is really a bad guy (much like the Clint Eastwood's lead character). (...to be honest it's a t
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by Lio 2y ago
Gen-X was the first generation to grow up with home computers not Millennials. Everybody I knew growing up had an 8 bit computer of some sort. Spectrums, ZX-81s, Beebs, C64s, VIC-20s and Amstrads were everywhere. They were followed in the m
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by Lio 2y ago
I've read that a few times now and I'm trying to decide what I think they are actually asking for. It's a bit too vague to pin down. Mozilla does not need a world wide royalty free licence to use anyone's content if the
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by Lio 2y ago
By all means use Django if you specifically want to work in python but otherwise if you really want a Rails-esque framework why not just use full stack Rails? You get much out of the box with Rails 8 now like deployment, caching, job queue,
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by Lio 2y ago
> LLMs can consume images, Not very well in my experience. Last time I checked ChatGPT/DALL-E couldn't understand the its own output to know that what it had drawn was incorrect. Nor could it correct mistakes that were poin
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by Lio 2y ago
If the old metric is right, that it is ten times harder to debug code than to write it, having something that writes buggy code 100x faster than you can understand it is a problem. Especially given that you can ask an LLM to optimise code a
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by Lio 2y ago
So the Gorton font is as American as apple pie? …i.e. British! :P (Sorry couldn’t resist) I think I have this font indelibly burned into my brain from a childhood of using 8-bit computers.
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by Lio 2y ago
> first popular 8-bit home computer Are you claiming that the Atari 800 was the first popular 8-bit computer or just the first popular Atari computer? It may depend on where you lived but the Atari 800 was neither the first or most pop
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by Lio 2y ago
> I did not mean any ill will and apologize if that was how it came across. Oh not at all, no I didn't think that. I'm enjoying the conversation. It's interesting that you mention Smalltalk as I believe that some of the
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by Lio 2y ago
Moving the goal posts? Perhaps I misunderstand what you are asking. Python is the not the worst in class scripting language. For example perl and TCL are both slower than python. Originally you just asked, "such as" [which dynami
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by Lio 2y ago
It's interesting that RBS support is used by IRB for type completion. There is also work to settle on an inline form of RBS so I could see it taking over from Sorbet annotations in the future.
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by Lio 2y ago
Python? Ruby with YJIT, JRuby or Truffle Ruby usually beats python code in benchmarks. I haven’t seen a direct comparisons but I wouldn’t be surprised if Truffle Ruby was already faster than either elixir, erlang or php for single threaded
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by Lio 2y ago
As an amateur (who did a bit of paid work in his youth) I still look at photos I like and wonder what lens was used. I don’t really care about the brand or model but I like to know the settings. Ie aperture used, max aperture, focal length,
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by Lio 2y ago
My comparison is always with good ol' Vim Wiki[1], which still works great with NeoVim. I'd add that to the list for comparison too. 1. https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
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by Lio 2y ago
I love ActiveSupport features like this. These are the little things that give you real polish when prototyping. They're not hard to implement on their own but the fact that Ruby on Rails gives you them for free out of the box is prob
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by Lio 2y ago
I’m sorry but Corbyn was a terrible choice as Labour leader, and I vote Labour in that election! He was unelectable for a variety of reasons. Here’s three: Wanting to pull out of NATO and instead appease Putin. Lying about being forced to s
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by Lio 2y ago
Which party, with a realistic chance of being first past the post, could you vote for that wouldn't bring this in? This is Hobson's choice as far as I can see. I don't think there's anyone you could currently vote for th
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by Lio 2y ago
I don't think the UK government would try to put Apple out of business if they don't comply it's more likely that they would just get heavily fined until they do so. The most likely outcome, I would guess, is that Apple just
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by Lio 2y ago
Nice work Adrian. Out of interest are there any plans to support embedding Mermaid diagrams in the same way as Github supports?
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by Lio 2y ago
> But what if you want to use React? Then just use React. There's nothing stopping you and it's well supported. You can use either https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails or https://github.
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by Lio 2y ago
I love seeing the (1840) in the title. For a split second it makes my pre-coffee brain think, my god that’s an old post!
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by Lio 2y ago
I don’t know about the US but in the UK they did it ostensibly to catch shoplifters. We have a major problem with “professional” thieves stealing because the big chains don’t want to pay cashiers anymore. You see a screen with your face on
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by Lio 2y ago
I like this idea. My fantasy course would start with a BBC Micro - 6502 BBC Basic with its inline assembler. Then move on to an Acorn Archimedes - 32 bit ARM which was designed as a direct replacement for 6502. Finally move to Raspberry Pi
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by Lio 2y ago
I still refer to the * operator as “splat” after a presentation I saw him give in London in 2007. _why is most definitely gone but not forgotten.
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by Lio 2y ago
Yes absolutely, although I don't see anything wrong with sticking to Go either if you know and like it. Rails 8 just gives you so much out of the box for a small start up that it would be my personal choice. Having Hotwire for PWAs wit
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by Lio 2y ago
I've found Rails over the last few versions to be very easy to upgrade. Where I've had problems it's been 3rd party libraries that try to force alternatives to core behaviour like ActiveModel but then break their own API a ye
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by Lio 2y ago
That's a dangerous precedent to set. The initial claims might be legitimate but I worry that trumped up claims would soon escalate into an excuse for state sponsored piracy from other parties.
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by Lio 2y ago
The UK just used a nuclear-powered sub to escort a Russian spy ship out of its waters and away from undersea infrastructure: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjv7qgpw28o
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by Lio 2y ago
I’d just call that “constructive dismissal”. Which is legally dubious in a lot of places. Some of the return to office drives look a bit like constructive dismissal to me. i.e. an attempt to encourage workers to leave without making them re
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by Lio 2y ago
Unless spammers get better at detecting LLMs themselves that will make them easier to tie up so that maybe a win if there is some cost in do so. If the spammer’s LLM costs more to run that the decoy LLM it may be possible to make still be p

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