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by hosh 4y ago
That's a matter of what fits better with the structure of how you think internally, and not necessarily that there is an objectively better way for self-documentation. For example, I can totally see how imperative-first would mess up p
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by hosh 4y ago
In Ruby (and Crystal), I tend to use `unless` for guards at the top of the method, or returns. These are typically `return foo unless baz`. When I write Elixir, `unless` gets awkward in a functional style of programming, and Elixir has guar
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by hosh 4y ago
It is not all about cost-benefit. You say there is a difficult time transferring knowledge from other languages when they see the `unless`. That's fair. My response to that is that, to idiomatically think in Ruby is write code that rea
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by hosh 4y ago
That's how I see it as well. Also, if you need to tag on more conditions, convert it to an `if` The `unless` is idiomatic to the Ruby way of thinking.
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by hosh 4y ago
While both IT and engineering jobs in Big Tech involve computer technology, IT tends to be a cost center while Big Tech’s engineering groups are profit centers. (Or supposed to be). It would be interesting to compare the unemployment number
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by hosh 4y ago
It’s a great read! Maybe you can combine Rust and Elixir by speeding things up with Rust NIFs.
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by hosh 4y ago
One niche platform is Sandstorm. Because of the way it is architected, a single “grain” is started up for a single document. So fast startup and small footprint is very useful, even if it is still a web platform. As much as I like Elixir, i
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by hosh 4y ago
Yup. And it can be mitigated somewhat by isolating workloads that might crash BEAM, while using dist erl so nodes can still communicate with each other. Rust is an exciting option for NIF, but those backends are not written in it.
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by hosh 4y ago
It builds on top of Nx, Numerical Elixir, which allows for models to be compiled for cpu or gpu. Done this way, the model does not have to run by executing BEAM bytecode. Additionally, Liveview and Livebook enables the equivalent of Jupyter
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by hosh 4y ago
I'm about your age now. I had great working memory when I was younger. I can tell mine's has gotten significantly worse since my late 30s over what seems like a gradual decline. Part of that is age. Part of that is that I have dep
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by hosh 4y ago
I’ve raised a tween who became a teen step child. I also grew up as a teen in the 90s. I was accessing porn via gopher and usenet when I was around 10. Netscape wasn’t even around back then. The dotcom boom did not really ramp up until afte
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by hosh 4y ago
Experience works in a learning process if, and only if, there is awareness of consequences, and the developing brain is capable of linking actions with consequences. If there is a long feedback cycle, it is doubtful an adolescent is going t
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by hosh 4y ago
The doxxing, deep fakes, and generative AI will come later in life.
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by hosh 4y ago
Azad has this description of imaginary numbers that really tickled me: “numbers can rotate”. I remember my high school teacher teaching imaginary numbers in the trig class, and one of the other kids asked what they could be used for. This w
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by hosh 4y ago
For most of my years in primary education, math was easy. Until it was not. I ran headlong into the idea of "instantaneous rate of change", and I was confronted with the existential crises that there is nothing inherently concrete
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by hosh 4y ago
> But where is the Category Theory? I have no idea. I don't think I have really yet to grok the ideas around categories and morphisms. I'm very slow at learning this stuff. I do know that each of the small number of intuitions
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by hosh 4y ago
In Ruby and many other languages, you have this idea of a string concatenation: "foo" + "bar" -> "foobar" "foo" + "" -> "foo" That makes it a monoid. Instead of talk
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by hosh 4y ago
Bamboo is a grass, and very fast growing. Some of the running species are vigorous enough to be considered invasive outside its native ecosystem. (The running bamboos spread via rhizomes, a couple feet deep, making them extremely difficult
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by hosh 4y ago
I never heard of Jimmy Kimmel and I don’t know of either of their connection with the Semantic Web. I do know Paris Hilton is a savvy businesswoman who created her own business empire while cultivating a celebrity image that makes her look
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by hosh 4y ago
I think I am more interested in “decentralized” in the sense of local-first, federated (not p2p), community-supported, resilient web. That does not require blockchain. It’s also too bad that the mindshare for “Web3” pushed out “Web 3.0”, th
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by hosh 4y ago
In Tantric philosophy (at least according to Christopher Wallis in Tantra Illuminated ), the concept of rasa (usually translated as aesthetics) describes the experience of someone experiencing art. It’s not the modernist idea of “this i
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by hosh 4y ago
Our civilization already has trouble agreeing on facts. And this is another step to further blur that. The article has positive things to say about protecting protestors, but I see a tool used to blatantly manufacture facts. Might as well m
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by hosh 4y ago
I have many time commitments as well. I would love yt set aside some time on this. I’d implement this in Elixir though. I enjoy it, and Elixir has some good stuff for dealing with errors in a distributed system. Put some effort into release
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by hosh 4y ago
I had been doodling ideas about a distributed forge. It would allow for a local-first environment. Updates can be broadcast on something lile ActivityPub, and some automatic way to pull from Githuv. Discussions can go there, though git-bug
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by hosh 4y ago
Montessori is a very different approach. Plenty of Asian tiger moms who care about education, but they don’t necessarily use the Montessori approach, at home or otherwise.
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by hosh 4y ago
There was this NPR piece talking about Texas letting anyone graduating top of their high school to get college tuition. It didn’t matter how good the school itself is, compared to other schools. It turned out that the kids who want to do we
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by hosh 4y ago
There’s a lot that could be say about it, but I think John Taylor Gatto said much of it. The current system does not really do the literacy thing well either. There are also some exciting things happening in the unschooled and regenerative
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by hosh 4y ago
Do you guys optimize for local-first? Can I drop in to start editing without having to wait for network lag or sync? Is multi-device syncing rock solid? Can I add pictures and links to other entries? Can I import my existing Evernote notes?
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by hosh 4y ago
The problem is that the effort to do collaborative editing creates a lot of other problems. I want to be able to just start typing, on my phone. Instead, I have to wait for it to sync. If I am in a place with bad reception, that will take a
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by hosh 4y ago
> All of these things have one thing in common: distrust. Some movements come from the distrust of governments or taxation, others come from the distrust of central services. How about resiliency? Participation from community members? It

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