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by d3nj4l 6y ago
As soon as I feel comfortable maintaining a Crystal server in production I think I'll switch to it. Last I tried it, things broke and shards required some effort to maintain every version update. I'm eagerly looking forward to the
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
It doesn't do typechecks, no. You can use solargraph ( https://github.com/castwide/solargraph ) for that.
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
Personally, I think you should keep using YARD, because people are bound to be using Ruby <3.0 for a while. As an aside, thanks for solargraph! I can't recommend it enough.
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
RubyMine works great if you add yard type docs to your code.
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
You can read about the results of UBI experiments in Finland and Canada: Finland: https://www.kela.fi/web/en/news-archive/-/asset_publisher/lN... Canada: https://www.bbc.com/worklife
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
I'm Indian, so yeah!
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
Thanks for doing this. As someone looking into studying in the US next year, the recent ICE guidelines did make me a bit worried, and I know of quite a few friends who've decided to either give up, put it off for another year or look a
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
I think the title should include "India", since I don't know if everybody is expected to know that Chennai is in India.
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
How do you know the videos you've watched (and you've only posted one) are representative of every arrest? The OPB has interviewed protestors to find out, and they're a reputable, local news organisation. Why should anybody t
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
So you believe the feds should have the right to unilaterally abduct people off the street without reasonable cause, detain them for as long as they please before releasing them without making any record of the arrest or explaining the rea
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
This is blatant disinformation by omitting context. The CAA itself is discriminatory, since it does not apply to muslims, but in the context of the National Register of Citizens ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
Looks nice, though I'm not sure about the name. "Nihongo" is too generic, and you're not even very likely to find it by googling "Nihongo OCR". Maybe think a bit more about the name?
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
> Chinese workers earn way less Relative to cost of living and their median/top level income?
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
Their definition of "automation" isn't a binary toggle, but a grade scale based on expert research: > For our purposes, a key O NET job feature is “degree of automation,” ranging from “not at all” to “completely.” [...] (N
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
> What evidence do we have for being closer to AGI today than we were twenty years ago? None; I agree. But we have no evidence we are 20 years away from it either. The article I linked gives reasoning for why we shouldn't assume the
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
I definitely don't mean it as in "AGI is invented; humans need not apply", but in the point you've covered: > The article states no evidence that there's been any past effect of "increasing automation"
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
> There's no guarantee that your next job will be > 1. Fulfilling in itself > 2. Provide the same income >3. Provide the same secondary benefits (colleagues, hours, boss, etc) Given how the job market is trending in favour
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
I thought about this article in context of the recently reposted piece "There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence" [1]. While it may be true that we haven't been able to automate new kinds of jobs, maybe we ar
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
I understand your point, but that doesn't seem to be what the article talks about. From the linked article: > Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that for many years the media has been almost screaming that we entering
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
With solargraph I have great go-to-def when working with ruby in VSCode. It doesn't do well with jumping to def for gems/ dynamic methods, but a solid 80% of the time I can jump to/from references easily.
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
Another issue with writing rails is the "bug in production that would've been caught at compile" issue lots of people have. There's been multiple instances early in my career when I missed a nil guard somewhere that brok
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
Both the sokal paper and the first paper by the Boghossian group were published in open-access journals, of the same standard as the other fields. The only papers to be published in peer-reviewed journals are the last few by the Boghossian
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
I find these claims of the HN mods getting angry at people for posting certain viewpoints baffling. I've been browsing this site for a while and I've never seen that happen, and the only mod actions I've seen are against peop
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
Everybody loves talking about hoaxes in social science publications, but there is no shortage of such hoaxes in other, more "empirical" disciplines as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publ
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
If you're a ruby user looking for extra performance, try Crystal[1]. Everything you love + types compiled to native binaries. You can set up sentry[2] to autocompile and run every time you save, so the feedback loop is just as tight. [
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by d3nj4l 6y ago
The best of aphyr's series is Hexing the technical interview ( https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview ), which includes one of my favourite lines from any post ever: > “Og én,” you recite, s
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> The company shut down in the country after a court ordered it to cease delivering “nonessential” items during the pandemic. Here in India, Amazon has been required by law to sell and ship only essential items, nationwide from 25 March
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JS didn't have a pad method in its standard library, so you needed left pad to do that. Now you have padStart, so it's not really necessary.
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Did you even read the article? > In the past few days, workers tested positive for covid-19 at Amazon warehouses and shipping facilities across the country. > workers complain Amazon hasn’t provided them with enough information about
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Regardless of what you think about what working in a warehouse entails, the article itself states that the hazard pay was instituted for the warehouse workers for coming in during the pandemic. There is no way you can cut that pay while the

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