james-mcelwain

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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
I don't think OP is referring to meaning in an existential or epistemological sense, but rather discussing workaholism as a "practical" avoidant behavior for those who put off dealing with some kind of dysfunction or trauma.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
Good. Drones are incredibly annoying and have already ruined many things like a pleasant day in the park. I don't want to live in a future with huge drone fleets buzzing around every time I step outside.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
Are you seriously arguing against event loops as a category? Blocking in non-blocking code is going to be an issue whether the language is C or JavaScript (duh).
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
I'd expect the tooling will improve over time. This obviously isn't an immediate solution for running Clojure in situations where cold starts matter, but in general I think many of the improvements coming to the JVM in the next fe
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
> Clojure’s slow startup time on the JVM makes it unfeasible for serverless functions GraalVM could totally change this.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
> I don’t know how non binary people would feel about this and would like to hear more from them. That it reeks of biological essentialism and is exclusionary by its nature.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
Taxation isn't bondage.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
I'm not sure about other container solutions, but Docker isn't a black box at all. It's fully introspectable -- I often dump a container's file system to see what's actually included.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
Besides referential integrity, foreign keys may improve the query plan (depending on vendor). But either way, I can't imagine any reasons why you wouldn't want constraints to ensure you database is in a consistent state. There can
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
They are similar to Kotlin's sealed classes, except there's no concept in Kotlin of an object "consuming" itself, which is necessary for maintaining safety in the API. For example, in Kotlin, if a method on state A retur
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
In actual Rust APIs, opening a file returns a result, which needs to be handled or unwrapped in order to operate on the file. All resources in Rust are implicitly like your Python with example -- when they go out of scope and destructors ru
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
You're acting as if we can't do anything about power of Facebook. It's absurd to to conflate making Facebook take editorial control of their platform with making it the state censor of an authoritarian country. Regulating and
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
I'm only familiar with the US. If I had to speculate, it's probably better in countries with better bike infrastructure. I know personally I only break traffic laws when I feel it's subjectively safer for me as a cyclist to
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
It's not an interesting point because this topic has already been studied. Cyclists break traffic laws at roughly the same rates as motorists.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
Right, I'd be sympathetic to this liability argument if they weren't extracting profits and neglecting maintenance. Obviously the fire issue is bigger than a single utility, but their actions here leave them little public good wil
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
Here's how it works in Rust. You can imagine this working in Java with reified generics: https://gist.github.com/rust-play/214adf5bd15b18ec2d5c63d97f... .
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
I believe they mean static methods as part of the interface signature, e.g. to define constructor/factory methods. AFAIK there are issues with how Java handles dynamic dispatch that prevent this.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
Unfortunately, making policy isn't a matter of epistemology. If we prevented ourselves from making any kind of decisions due to uncertainty about our empirical claims, we would be stuck in a kind of ethical paralysis that would prevent
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
I'm not saying it's not marginal, but if you spend time around audiophiles, they make lots of claims that aren't just "marginal" but simply not based in reality. I would not spend $2000 on a keyboard, but I believe
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
Differences in headphones are real. Spending 20k on a custom tube amp is not. I wouldn't really consider nice headphones to be a prime example of audiophile gear, tbh.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
Yes, this is what I'm saying. I'm not suggesting that the margins of quality are worth a 5x price point (it's not), but it's not quite the same as some of the voodoo beliefs among audiophiles that a 20k tube amp makes an
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
The key difference being audiophiles often fail A/B tests comparing audio quality. You would definitely notice how nice an expensive mechanical keyboard feels. Whether you think that is worth luxury pricing is another story, but the
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
This is how it's commonly done in Clojure, and not a problem in my experience. You can define the keys that are relevant: (defn foo [{:keys [bar baz]}] ;; do something... ) (foo {:bar 1 :baz 2}) This isn'
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
Kotlin.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
x ?: y is shorthand for x != null ? x : y
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
Or my preferred (gross) version: void async function main() { // code }()
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
Despite other deficiencies, JavaScript devs are generally pretty good at writing async code, for the simple reason that you get burned suuuper quickly if you try to mutate state outside of an async context when doing things like adding clic
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
5% is not typical. The highest strength vape juice sold in most places is around 24mg/mL or 2.4%. Most "old-school" vape users smoke something more like 12mg.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
> What if your result set doesn't really match any of your models? Pick one arbitrarily. I don't want to sound like the ORM defender, but I'm not sure I understand. This sounds like a deficiency of Ruby and the ActiveRecor
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
What net neutrality? Net neutrality was repealed over a year ago.

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