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by chao- 2y ago
I became aware of Intertia from a Ruby shop some time in 2022, who had good things to say, along the lines of "We could not ship as fast as we do without it." At work we are exploring Inertia to migrate parts of a long-lived Rails
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by chao- 2y ago
Some people will see the situation "appease a person slightly; they will expect you to appease them more," as different from "permit one bad actor; you will find yourself surrounded by more". Specifically because one inv
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by chao- 2y ago
I had a similar, awful curiosity. Looked up the death of a friend. All of the details I ever learned (speeding, ran off road, jumped curb, hit a tree) are listed accurately here. The claim that only 1 out of 5 deaths is even recorded on thi
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by chao- 2y ago
Agreed. Most of these are fairly uncontroversial. A few will probably be new to some, particularly because users of Python are heterogenous and people find themselves with years of experience on projects that never upgraded their language v
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by chao- 2y ago
When I first realized that media discourse trivializes "The American Dream" as owning a house, I was in my early teens. In school we had just read a few essays from the 1920's and 1930's debating whether the American Dre
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by chao- 3y ago
I think we are using "autoload" to discuss different things, one of which is probably in line with what the article is about, and the other is not. And I may be the one misreading here! I take "autoloading" in the Rails
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by chao- 3y ago
I agree: don't autoload lib. Even better: Autoload discrete subdirectories in lib occasionally. Occasionally? If something is a library, why do you want autoloading anyway? The likely answer is that you are actively working on it, and
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by chao- 3y ago
In my mind, anyone setting out to create a package manager, or a new language that will need one, needs to at least match the functionality of Gems/Bundler or Hex/Mix. They've been around long enough that it feels like table
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by chao- 3y ago
I posit that the effect is real (see sibling comment about "horseshoe theory"), but that framing it as "wrap around" incorrectly centers the discussion on a single left-right axis. There are several other axes that gover
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by chao- 3y ago
The HOA in the neighborhood I grew up in mandated grass from a narrow list of types, and live oak trees. That's fine for about 15 years, give or take, but then the trees start to kill the grasses below them. This wasn't a groundbr
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by chao- 3y ago
Alternatively you can call Integer#even? or Integer#odd? directly: 4.even? # true 5.even? # false Or if you really want to use ===, it is possible with the slightly sillier (imho) use of Symbol#to_proc: case some_num
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by chao- 3y ago
A key difference is that we have identified a force-carrying particle for the electromagnetic force (photon), whereas we have not been able to prove a force-carrying particle for the effect we observe as gravity.
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by chao- 3y ago
> There's a useful gem that creates a data_migrations directory Would you please share this useful gem's name? I have hand-rolled some variety of this solution so many times that it feels like just a part of life, like doing t
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by chao- 4y ago
>is both wrong and boring. I'm not sure how someone's statement of personal motivation can be wrong? Here is mine: JavaScript doesn't suck. However I personally do "only use it because I have to", i.e. because
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by chao- 4y ago
Yes it is giving up, but not only. It is giving up and being able to get back to the actual work you want to be doing.
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by chao- 4y ago
Fabulous! Now it makes me wonder if it is worth the effort to attempt something similar with the semi-legendary "space cadet" keyboard: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeZTMuSUwAAOGde?format=png&name=... I&#x
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by chao- 4y ago
In what way does something becoming expensive (in this case housing) make it like a casino? And what would be a flip-side for that metaphor ("housing prices are remaining where they are, which is like {{thing}}")? Not disagreeing
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by chao- 4y ago
I moved my desktop into a 4U case* about six years ago and never looked back. Then I wanted to build my own NAS and--oh look at that I already have one rackmount chassis... I guess I'll get another and some posts? I did and it was also
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by chao- 4y ago
I have been driving home after midnight, coming from my where my parents live, a long distance away, and encountered a man who had climbed up into the elevated highway. It was straight and well-lit, but the best I could make out was that he
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by chao- 4y ago
I generally agree with the position that unit tests should be used with discretion, and that full coverage via unit tests often leads to thousands of low-ulitility or redundant tests, and so on. However I cannot agree with this: > They a
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by chao- 4y ago
I do not know much about sophisticated finance. Can you explain the meaning of this phrase, or sketch out an example, or provide links to assist my understanding? >A kid in a garage can build a financial primitive on top of a “blue chip
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by chao- 4y ago
>snap will just install broken package updates for you and is incapable of undoing this operation by design I no longer recommend Ubuntu for this reason to people looking to get into Linux for the first time for developer-adjacent reas
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by chao- 4y ago
>Microsoft ignoring AMD in their latest Surface lineup is a hint for the people looking for answers For those of us who are bad at subtext, could you elaborate further? What are the questions that this is the answer to?
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by chao- 4y ago
For most of that time, the Euro was worth more than USD. The exchange has been dancing around the parity line since June. It may still be roughly the same price in USD->EUR.
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by chao- 4y ago
Yes, and in Java, capital-O Object is primarily used as a class, not as an object that you work with directly! Alan Kay himself said he regrets coining the term as "object" oriented, and wishes he had emphasized "messages&quo
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by chao- 4y ago
Being self-satisfied when telling others to leave you alone (get bent, get out, piss off, etc.) is quintessentially American. Texas is to America as America is to the world. It is a difference of magnitude, not direction, and Texas has this
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by chao- 4y ago
Same. Firefox on Android. It just takes me to the image preview page.
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by chao- 4y ago
Over a decade ago, during my final year there, my university removed their trays. I simply took one from the servery prior to the date of their removal, and continued to bring it with me and happily use it for myself. I regularly had people
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by chao- 5y ago
As many liberal policy wonks (not a pejorative) will point out: the American people love their welfare benefits! A common claim is that "A majority of Americans support $POLICY! It polls so well!", wherein $POLICY is broadly a sub
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by chao- 5y ago
Yes, from my perspective, at least as of 2019. Every year or two since 2010 I have to stand up a new Python project, or upgrade an existing one. I'm overdue, but packages have never not been a nightmare by comparison. The last thing I

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