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by byroot 11mo ago
> I understand that rails thrives as a DSL, but to me having a method such as .month on an Integer, is simply wrong It's not that different from `1.times` or `90.chr` which are vanilla Ruby. > HashWithIndifferentAccess HashWithIn
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by byroot 11mo ago
> can be any of latin-1, UCS-2 or UCS-4, as described in PEP 393 My bad, I haven't seriously used Python for over 15 years now, so I stand corrected (and will clarify the post). My main point stands though, Python strings have an i
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by byroot 11mo ago
> There must surely be programs doing a lot of string building or in-place modification that would benefit from non-frozen. The point is that the magic comment (or the --enable-frozen-string-literal) only applies to literals. If you have
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by byroot 1y ago
I haven’t seriously used Python in over 15 years, but I assume the comparison is against using a preforking server with 1+ process per core. The question is whether 1+ thread per core with GIL free Python perform as well as 1+ process per c
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by byroot 1y ago
It has nothing to do with literature. It’s just a not so subtle way to claim he’s innocent and that he’ll get his revenge.
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by byroot 1y ago
Over 85% of people sentenced with 2 years or more await their appeal in jail, at least initially. I personally agree with you that shouldn’t be the case, but given Sarkozy made his entire political career about being tough on crime and hars
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by byroot 1y ago
> I'll have to read more into this, but it says he just "conspired" to do it, whatever that means. The court couldn't prove beyond reasonable doubt that the money was used for his campaign. However they were able to p
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by byroot 1y ago
Seems so yes https://rubycentral.org/news/ruby-central-statement-on-rubyg...
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by byroot 1y ago
Ruby Central side: https://rubycentral.org/news/ruby-central-statement-on-rubyg...
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by byroot 1y ago
That entirely depends on what these transactions are meant to do. I always find these debate weird. How can you compare one app’s TPS with another?
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by byroot 1y ago
Yes, the need isn't exactly the same. `load_async` use case if for known slow-ish queries, hence for which you want actual parallelization on the server. Since that discussion on the forum, I talked more about pipelining with some othe
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by byroot 1y ago
> after Ruby Central was threatened to have their funding revoked from Shopify So you take the original allegations at face value, even though they only rely on second hand reporting of anonymous testimonies, yet you don't want to
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by byroot 1y ago
Author here. > at which point the only claims made are fairly vague allusions to there being more to the story with even a hint at what that might be. The goal of my post was mostly to provide "character evidence". It's no
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by byroot 1y ago
Funny because Airbnb was one of the examples I had in mind when I wrote this (but granted it's been a long time since I heard about the state of their infra, so might be outdated by now).
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by byroot 1y ago
The only public repo is a static website.
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by byroot 1y ago
> He pointed that out when he wrote the article. Did he point out how it ended, and how he spent the better part of two years having public tantrums about it on Twitter? Disclosing that you worked somewhere isn't relevant. Worse, it
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by byroot 1y ago
I dropped the entirely because I am on mobile. We don’t have multiple first hand accounts. All we have is second hand account being relayed by someone with a massive axe to grind against Shopify. There are a lot of truly committed Rubyists
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by byroot 1y ago
So it is unsubstantiated.
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by byroot 1y ago
That's a particularly one sided account of the events. Ruby Central wanted to oust one or two specific maintainers because of a rocky relationship (whether it was warranted or not is not my point). It later backfired when a majority of
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by byroot 1y ago
> a hostile takeover forced by Shopify through Ruby Central. That's entirely unsubstantiated.
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by byroot 1y ago
That’s not the only thing though. E.g. the collect PII, so I assume there are regulations to abide by etc.
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by byroot 1y ago
Not to my knowledge. But I may have missed something. My understanding is that having a legally enforceable contract help dissuade malevolent actions (easier to sue for breach of contract? But IANAL). As for copyright attribution, I doubt i
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by byroot 1y ago
https://rubygems.org/policies
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by byroot 1y ago
There are two different things, GitHub access, and gem ownership (permission to publish packages). Based on previous posts, they did revoke everyone GitHub access, but with the intent to give it back to some maintainers after they signed so
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by byroot 1y ago
They are talking about the rubygems.org package hosting service...
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by byroot 1y ago
They didn't. They initially left him as owner of the bundler gem after they removed 3 other owners, indicating they wanted for him to continue to be a maintainer. He posted on the rubygems slack that he left and is conditioning his ret
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by byroot 1y ago
> not really about the current events? It's exposing events that have been somewhat of an semi-open secret among Ruby maintainers for a very long time. The link with the current events is that so far, neither Ruby Central nor Shopif
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by byroot 1y ago
hsbt (no caps) isn’t a Shopify employee. He’s one of the most active Japanese Ruby core committer, employed by ANPAD, and also part time contractor for Ruby Central, and one of the most active committers to rubygems/bundler.
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by byroot 1y ago
He's specifically among the 3 people still owner of the bundler gem [0], they were 6 just a few weeks ago [1] [0] https://rubygems.org/gems/bundler [1] https://web.archive.org/web/202508240333
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by byroot 1y ago
They haven't been contracted by Ruby Central since May by their own account: https://bsky.app/profile/duckinator.bsky.social/post/3lz7lec... The other people I know who had their accesses removed have re

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