innocentoldguy

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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
The electoral college is one of the ways we protect the rights of the minority. Without it, we’d be a democracy and that wouldn’t be good.
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
> Most of that doesn't deserve to be called an improvement. Hard disagree. The platform is objectively much better than it was under Jack Dorsey. > The algorithm isn't open enough that anybody can see if what it's doing
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "Nazi" and "arbitrary moderation." Can you clarify?
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
Nothing game-changing? How about: • Long-form content • Video streaming • Grok • Ability to edit posts • Bookmarks • Communities • Better verification system • Encrypted direct messages • Cashtag feature • Bold and italic text formatting •
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
How did Musk "fuck [Twitter] up worse than ever"? It has more functionality and is more stable since Musk bought it.
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
It's a name that accurately describes the ultimate goal of the technology. It's not there yet, and Tesla makes it clear that this is the case. I don't see an issue with it and it works exceptionally well as is.
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
I'm not surprised. I have owned multiple RAM trucks, a Toyota Tundra, and a Ford F-150 in the past and I like my Cybertruck better than all of them. It is quiet, fast, powerful, drives itself, has tons of cargo space, and its turn radi
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
Yes, it is.
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
It's called "Full Self-Driving (Supervised) Beta" and you agree that you understand that you have to pay attention and are responsible for the safety of the car before you turn it on.
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
I've been using a Kobo Clara Color for several months. I love the size and functionality, but the color isn't that big a deal since I'm not reading picture books. I used to use a Kindle Oasis, but I like Kobo's software
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
My issue with Google is biased censorship and too many garbage results. I have been using Kagi lately and the ability to blacklist domains I never want to see has helped increase the value of my search results.
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
I think "cannot do" is a misnomer. Shouldn't it be, "consciously designed not to do"? Server-side state management offers several advantages over in-browser state management, such as: • Better security and privacy.
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
I like the look of Elixir over Gleam for sure because: • Elixir allows for more flexibility and faster prototyping. • Elixir's ecosystem is superior and more mature. • Elixir compiles to BEAM bytecode whereas Gleam compiles to Erlang w
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
The reasons I reach for Elixir and Phoenix over any other languages and frameworks for web development are: 1. Excellent tooling (e.g., Mix, IEx, Formatter, testing, debugging, Credo, ExDoc, Livebook, etc.) 2. Excellent concurrency and faul
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
I've had the opposite experience. I've worked at several companies that migrated from Go to Elixir because the return on investment DID justify the effort. For example, Elixir allows us to do hot code deployments, uses a tweezer a
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
Same! I've had a lot of success training Python, Ruby, and JavaScript developers in Elixir and Phoenix. I've never had the "You can't find devs who know Elixir" problem that I occasionally see.
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
It looks like others have address the first 90% of your post, so I'll refrain from commenting on that. I am curious about your timer code, though, because the timer shouldn't be firing at all unless the task associated with it has
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
In my experience, Elixir is one of the easiest languages to pick up and get stuff done quickly. It has excellent tooling and deployments ARE 10X cheaper (if not more). I've never converted a project to Elixir and not had the associated
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
Elixir’s tooling is awesome, in my opinion.
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
Flame is so easy to use, as are most things in the Elixir world. I can fathom using anything else for web programming.
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
I don't mean to hijack a conversation about ReStructuredText, but if you're looking for a markup language that gives you more than Markdown, look at AsciiDoc rather than ReStructuredText. I have written technical documentation usi
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
I agree. Having worked a lot with both, I think Elixir is by far the better language, especially for web programming.
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
I've worked with strongly typed languages and duck typed languages. I've also worked a lot with Go and Elixir. In my opinion, the tradeoff between the elegance of Elixir's actor-based functional style vs. Go's warty impe
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
I hear you! I quit doing engineering work for companies, but back when I did, I'd take some complex code I'd written to interviews. I tell the interviewers that I'm happy to step through my code and explain it during the inte
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
I used to use tree explorers all the time, but once I discovered fuzzy-search file explorers, I never used a tree explorer again. It’s been too long for me to remember why I liked tree explorers before or why I stopped using them, so I’m cu
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by innocentoldguy 2y ago
This was a great interview. José touched on many of the reasons why Elixir is one of the most compelling languages in use today (concurrency, distribution, scalability, presence, etc.)
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by innocentoldguy 3y ago
True! I'm autistic and when I hired on at Amazon, HR told me about all the support and programs Amazon provided for people with autism. When my boss started harassing me over it, though, HR did nothing. The HR representative couldn&#x2
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by innocentoldguy 3y ago
I think this is funny. I worked on this team at Amazon for two years after successfully building an app similar to Dash Cart for another company using Elixir (which is still going). I repeatedly tried to convince Amazon to do Just Walk Out
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by innocentoldguy 3y ago
I can sympathize with you. The same thing happened to me at https://getskip.com . That company exists because of me and shortly after I finished all the backend Elixir work, they reneged on most of our agreements and then fired m
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by innocentoldguy 3y ago
While I think the article is interesting, I disagree with its results regarding Kagi. I like Kagi and rarely use anything else. Kagi's results are decent and I can blacklist sites like Amazon.com so they never show up in my search resu

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