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by benzible 2y ago
In case you're wondering where this is coming from, see: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-new-trumpist-maga... ( https://archive.is/ymp9I )
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Elixir v1.17.0-RC.0 released with type inference(elixirforum.com)
11 points by benzible 2y ago|1 comments
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by benzible 2y ago
This release introduces gradual set-theoretic types to infer types from patterns and guards and use them to type check programs, enabling the Elixir compiler to find faults and bugs in codebases without requiring changes to existing softwar
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by benzible 2y ago
Your immediate acceptance that a timeline that represents the best spin of a deep-pocketed company in full crisis PR mode proves the story "false", full stop, no caveats is... I wouldn't say mind-bending, but quite credulous
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by benzible 2y ago
I don't think the main issue with News Corp is that they're "old" media.
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by benzible 2y ago
New battery-backed induction stoves from Channing Copper and Impulse Labs are meant to eliminate the need for an electrical upgrade... https://www.batterytechonline.com/trends/why-a-battery-assis... > One barrier to
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by benzible 2y ago
Is there a list of supported languages?
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by benzible 2y ago
> Even something as simple as a JSON encoder--which is rock-solid in every other language I've used JSON will be built into the next release of the BEAM: https://erlangforums.com/t/erlang-otp-27-0-rc3-released&
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by benzible 2y ago
See https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-sca... for a thorough exploration of why lab grown meat will never happen... > Humbird likened the process of researching the report to encountering an impenet
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by benzible 2y ago
I was there too and I remember thinking that lots of universities must have humor newspapers as funny as The Onion. Nope! BTW Dan Vebber also wrote a strip for the Daily Cardinal and wrote for The Onion. He went on to write for Buffy and a
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by benzible 2y ago
I need a tool to generate a video with the Simpsons comic book guy reading the parent post. "You see it’s not _for_ any of you..."
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by benzible 3y ago
Want to see a truly embarrassing comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36885688
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by benzible 3y ago
From a recent post by a fly.io employee in their forums [1], in response to being asked "do you expect it to be ready for production use this year?"... >Coming very soon, we’ll be moving to public alpha (which in our world, com
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by benzible 3y ago
I agree that no one should just accept it, but credible people including ex Boeing execs don't dismiss the possibility.. > Discussing Swampy’s death and the whistleblower lawsuit he left behind, the longtime former Boeing executive
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by benzible 3y ago
Note that part of SerpApi's product seems to be indemnification from liability. On their pricing page, the Developer plan specifies "No Legal US Shield" and the Production plan specifies "Legal US Shield". From th
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by benzible 3y ago
Exactly... > The students were also shown photographs alongside descriptions of various crimes and asked to assess the age and innocence of white, black or Latino boys ages 10 to 17. The students overestimated the age of blacks by an ave
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by benzible 3y ago
Ha, Giant Steps was the first thing I tried as well. Not bad, certainly has some way to go.
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by benzible 3y ago
> So Mark Zuckerberg shows up at Harvard in 2003, and the university still hasn't gotten the facebook online. [...] But Mark is a programmer. He looks at this situation and thinks "Well, this is stupid. I could write a program
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by benzible 3y ago
Homer knew this already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn65Bg_mBEU
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by benzible 3y ago
Lots of reasons... * some return, even if negligible, for investors and the feeling of having done right by them * decent hiring bonuses - so, some financial compensation even if the founders' equity was worthless * reputation: they ge
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by benzible 3y ago
"Fig team will be joining Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon has acquired Fig's technology!" does not have the ring of "getting rich". Seems like acquihire + asset sale, quite possibly for a negligible price, and
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by benzible 3y ago
> some freight trains are just too long to pull over onto a siding. Exactly, and in addition to the blocking passenger trains they're at greater risk of derailment [1] and in some communities, particularly rural poor communities wit
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by benzible 3y ago
Another major cause, maybe the single largest cause: freight train interference. > Federal law gives passenger trains the right of way but freight train operators ignore this. [...] Federal law requires passenger trains be given priority
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by benzible 3y ago
It gets worse... https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-orb-worldcoin-tools-f...
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by benzible 3y ago
In fact it's not a "known risk". It's an active area of research, with at least some findings contradicting your assumptions, e.g.: > Our findings suggest that the traditional hold-up view whereby unions discourage in
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by benzible 3y ago
The header at the top of their Getting Started is "This Is Not Managed Postgres " [1] and they have a managed offering [2] in private beta now... > Supabase now offers their excellent managed Postgres service on Fly.io infrastr
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by benzible 3y ago
Related, from Molly White's excellent review of Chris Dixon's Read Write Own [1]: > RSS is dead, he repeats endlessly throughout the book.[...] It's profoundly weird to read RSS's obituary as a person who checks her v
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by benzible 3y ago
You could just say "that doesn't jibe" because that's the actual phrase and "jive" in this context is an "eggcorn" [1]. It also may be more common than the correct usage at this point so I'm prob
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by benzible 3y ago
It's right in the second sentence: > These newly revealed paleoclimate records suggest that sea surface temperatures (SSTs) began rising in response to industrial era fossil fuel burning around 1860. (Also, "jibe": https:
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by benzible 3y ago
The threat cited Tan's threatening tweet - certainly not "unrelated". > Stochastic terrorism refers to political or media figures publicly demonizing a person or group in such a way that it inspires supporters of the figur

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