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by jaynetics 1y ago
It's not hard to do this as a human, at least if that human is trained in gathering and transforming written information. What makes a huge difference here is the ease and speed. I recently did a similar analysis of my HN posts. I have
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by jaynetics 1y ago
Yeah. I think the analogy with electrical wiring is quite illuminating. Few software errors have a similar risk profile as faulty wiring. Maybe if a calendar or messenger or such is buggy, that's enough of a nuisance to switch, but I
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by jaynetics 1y ago
This is very true. But perhaps the more important filtering is on quantity as opposed to neutrality? Perhaps filtering out a large amount of news, even with some bias, is the lesser evil, as compared to news outlets that depend on stirring
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by jaynetics 1y ago
Of the top 10 HN posts atm, 8 are closely related to software, one is about tech but not computers (Coventry Very Light Rail), and just one is really non-tech (My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle). Is that too much non
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by jaynetics 1y ago
That difference in spike sizes is interesting. I guess hardly anyone outside the US uses Truth Social, so that alone could perhaps explain the different impact of a US event on traffic. Or is there also a lack of organic baseline activity o
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by jaynetics 1y ago
I think some more white collar jobs might be affected, not just creative ones. There is a substantial amount of jobs where the end result needs to be of a certain quality, but all context can be inferred or provided up front, and checking a
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by jaynetics 1y ago
Reminds me of "Gadsby", a 50.000 word novel without the letter "e": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
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by jaynetics 2y ago
These and some other colors were specified in the PC-99 standard in 1999: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_System_Design_Guide#Color...
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by jaynetics 2y ago
I agree to all your points but the stat stands out in particular: > 762 vs 20k hits That's impressive! I guess the difference is smaller here in Berlin as we have a lot of rails shops, but internationally speaking, your stat might w
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by jaynetics 2y ago
As others have pointed out, there are many use cases for ruby. It's probably the best choice for scripts (rake, optparse, fileutils, ...). There's embedded stuff (mruby), music (Sonic Pi), cross-platform GUI apps (e.g. glimmer), g
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by jaynetics 2y ago
_1 is also a bit of a footgun. It becomes an array of all block params IF the block has an arity > 1 AND no other block param (e.g. _2) is referenced anywhere within the block. It's an unusually half-baked feature by Ruby's sta
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by jaynetics 2y ago
You can already get rid of it with the freezolite gem. https://github.com/ruby-next/freezolite
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by jaynetics 2y ago
Its a safety thing, and it's probably difficult to use it effectively with rails. E.g. in a project with lots of dependencies, things can break if two libs patch the same class after an update. A worse scenario: malicious code could be
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by jaynetics 2y ago
> deep-freezing large object trees added noticable lag. Makes sense, because we iterate over large structures, multiple times per code path. Yes. The main issue is that objects can reference each other in various ways, and we need to che
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by jaynetics 2y ago
Regarding from_json, there's an even shorter version built in: `JSON(my_string)` Regarding redefinition of methods, Ruby can emit warnings when that happens (and you can make those fail your build for example). https://alche
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by jaynetics 2y ago
> In my own projects most of my Ruby classes are data objects that I freeze (along with their instance variables) immediately after creation As of Ruby 3.2 you can use the Data class for this. Its instances are immutable by default and t
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by jaynetics 2y ago
I don't think the existence of bad company politics refutes the idea that passion might be a differentiating attribute among all of these groups of employees. A dev can be passionate 20h/week and solve cursed bugs and architecture
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by jaynetics 2y ago
Like this one in Jurassic Park? https://youtu.be/URVS4H7vrdU Funnily enough, the slow rendering is kind of a plot device here.
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by jaynetics 2y ago
Did you have to work around some rough edges of the language in that job? To me it feels like it never quite reached maturity, although in a better world it would have gotten more support and conquered all territory that is now ruled by the
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by jaynetics 2y ago
Quite a few of these rams have been found. It seems the design of the front, with three horizontal edges, remained almost unchanged for centuries. Wikipedia [1] has this to say about the rationale: > The blunt edge of the ram and the pat
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by jaynetics 2y ago
This seems to show an (ongoing) increase of some energy prices in Germany after Sep 22: https://media.aroundhome.de/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/w_800... I mean, the sentence in the article is very vague.
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by jaynetics 2y ago
> which is trivially disprovable, not least because the pipelines were not transporting any gas and hadn't for a while. This doesn't disprove anything. Energy prices could still have surged for multiple reasons, e.g. because co
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by jaynetics 2y ago
I guess the ARD take is intentionally more on the side of infotainment. There's also this WSJ article from a few days ago which purports to know some very specific facts and even to have quotes from participants of the operation: http
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by jaynetics 2y ago
This is a nice article, but I don't think it works as a counter argument to GP. Deep fake shenanigans are way more scalable and thus more likely to affect average people than these elite spy techniques.
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by jaynetics 2y ago
Do you people have FB accounts? Drug sales really make up a notable portion of ad slots recently.
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by jaynetics 2y ago
What are some of the bugs when using Range with Time?
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by jaynetics 2y ago
Copilot is pretty good now. It will be interesting to see how much classical code completion matters in the long run and which languages will work best with AI.
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by jaynetics 2y ago
As someone who uses Ruby as well as plenty of other languages, I agree that it can feel awkward not to have "go to source" work reliably, but in the greater scheme of things, it's not a big drain on time to do the occasional
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by jaynetics 2y ago
> in German schools they teach material critical of "The American Dream", could be because they're afraid of brain drain As someone who went to school and has kids in school in Germany, I'll say "citation needed&
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by jaynetics 2y ago
This does make me wonder how much language preferences are really shaped by lofty philosophical arguments about different paradigms, and how much is in fact unconscious physical resistance: The awkwardness of typing the language on a given

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