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by ciconia 3y ago
There's this paradox where, on the one hand humanity is convinced it can overcome any problem nature throws at us, and can completely subjugate nature; and on the other hand, human beings are tragically grossly understimating the impac
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Advanced I/O with Ruby and Polyphony(rubydoc.info)
4 points by ciconia 3y ago|0 comments
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Cookpad to discontinue Ruby interpreter development(twitter.com)
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by ciconia 3y ago
Note that use of the verb "hope" and the adverb "eventually". At this stage it's pure speculation. Besides, the act of recycling in itself comes with its own problems: energy use (it would be interesting to have an
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by ciconia 3y ago
> It was a fast, dynamically changing situation, everyone was getting sick... I think one could say a lot of the reaction of governments around the world was knee-jerk, "let's copy what that other government is doing" kind
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by ciconia 3y ago
> Remote is a great lifestyle, not a way to build a great company. The two are not necessarily mutually-exclusive. What's wrong with scheduling interactions, or simply working asynchronously? Yes, it's a bit slower, but why do
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How Humans Are Killing Our Planet and Creating Climate Change(youtube.com)
5 points by ciconia 3y ago|0 comments
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Apartheid(thisisapartheid.btselem.org)
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Ruby previews pure Ruby JIT compiler(infoworld.com)
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Doughnut (Economic Model)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ciconia 3y ago
> Reading is much faster than writing. Not in my experience, especially not reading code someone else wrote.
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by ciconia 3y ago
> How many times do you need to write a CRUD app from scratch? Personally, I really don't mind doing this. And each time I get a little better at it. I much prefer this to having an AI agent write code for me that I then have to aud
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by ciconia 3y ago
Frankly, no. I much prefer interacting with humans than with machines, and I emphasize interacting . A machine does what you tell it - it will not enlighten you, will not surprise you, will not create new knowledge.
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by ciconia 3y ago
What is the reasoning behind this whole AI business? I mean, apart from making something cool that sort of simulates human intelligence (and that's quite a stretch IMHO), what's the point? Is this driven by laziness, greed, or wha
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by ciconia 3y ago
I would say there's a difference between a fir Douglas plantation and a multi-species forest. The two are not ecologically equivalent. At least around where I live (department 71 in France), there are less and less forests and more and
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by ciconia 3y ago
There are multiple factors causing the decline in bird population, but I'd like to focus on a single one: deforestation. Trees provide so many different functions for birds (as for other animals, and for humans too), both directly and
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by ciconia 3y ago
I cannot say much as to the numbers in the article, but it is obvious to me that the use of AI will increase the overall energy use of computing. What's more interesting, I think, is revisiting the customary reasoning in the technology
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by ciconia 3y ago
https://archive.ph/4c1r0
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by ciconia 3y ago
https://archive.ph/GSYnS
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by ciconia 3y ago
My feelings exactly. I've immigrated to France with my family about 10 years ago. I always say to my French friends who complain about their country: "you have no idea how lucky you are to live in this country. I do!"
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by ciconia 3y ago
> From what I understand of the code, you can send fibers to other fibers with the "<<" operator. You can pass any data between fibers using "receive" and "<<", including fiber refs. > In my o
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by ciconia 3y ago
No. libev provides a nice abstraction over different operating systems, and has good performance. I don't think coding a whole new backend against kqueue is worth the effort.
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by ciconia 3y ago
On non-Linux systems it just uses libev to for I/O readiness and for timers, and uses normal syscalls for the actual I/O.
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by ciconia 3y ago
> That's assuming Polyphony is aiming to replace most or all of it. Not really. Concurrent-Ruby implements a lot of different concurrency patterns. Polyphony has a much smaller scope, though I imagine you could reimplement a lot of
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by ciconia 3y ago
> I am interested in how concurrency can be represented elegantly and efficiently This was the main driving force behind the development of Polyphony. I've been exploring all the different ways of expressing concurrent operations: c
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by ciconia 3y ago
I haven't really had time to explore the usage of Polyphony in Rails apps. Personally, I don't use Rails in my work, and instead develop custom Ruby apps. I believe there's a place for Ruby development work without any connec
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by ciconia 3y ago
Further work on the Polyphony docs is in the pipeline.
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by ciconia 3y ago
No, Polyphony has a design that diverges from the model proposed by the FibeScheduler API. Note that the FiberScheduler API included with Ruby is only an interface, not an implementation. Polyphony uses io_uring on recent Linux kernels, or
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by ciconia 3y ago
I'm the author of Polyphony. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have.
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Lack of snow condemns Italy's Po to a desperately dry summer(apnews.com)
9 points by ciconia 3y ago|0 comments

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