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by rkangel 1y ago
Oban is great, but for most cases you don't need it. In languages with a less good concurrency model we are used to needing some form of library or system to manage "background jobs", but in Elixir you can just spin up some G
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by rkangel 1y ago
How do you represent an empty list with this approach?
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by rkangel 1y ago
I'm in the UK, basically at sea level, and I also find that pasta always takes longer to cook than the packet instructions. They'll say anywhere from 5-8 minutes usually, and I've never had it be done in less than 12.
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by rkangel 1y ago
Or Fedora, which tracks kernels pretty closely (e.g. this Fedora, running the normal update channel is on 6.16)
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by rkangel 1y ago
> Trains are all very well but they've been around nearly 200 years and have yet to bring on a traffic free utopia. Cars will always have a purpose. But if you go to somewhere like The Netherlands, they are much less relied upon - i
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by rkangel 1y ago
> MCU-class footprint (fits in 16 MB RAM) That is absolutely not an MCU class footprint. Anything with an "M" when talking about memory isn't really an MCU. For evidence I cite the ST page on all their micros: https:&#x
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by rkangel 1y ago
Did you miss: > numpad input module You can literally add a physical numpad if you want: https://frame.work/gb/en/products/16-numpad?v=FRAKDM0001
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by rkangel 1y ago
Shipping binary artifacts isn't inherently a bad thing - that's what (most) Linux Distros do after all! The important distinction is how that binary package was arrived at. If it's a mystery and the source isn't availabl
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by rkangel 1y ago
It's not a "fun" name like Grout would be, but it makes up for it - I know exactly what "MapLibre Tile" is just from the name.
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by rkangel 1y ago
It is true that the Swiss have more money to spend on rail, but this makes a compelling case that we aren't spending our money as effectively. A lot of people have spent a lot of time (accurately) pointing out how badly HS2 has gone an
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by rkangel 1y ago
It's not a commit per change - all changes made since the last commit are in a new commit. You then usually do one of two things: - Decide your changes are perfect, so add a commit message to this one and then create a new one on to to
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by rkangel 1y ago
Two reasons: I don't use a tiling WM, and tmux[1] does an excellent job at the tiling features. I do the majority of my work physically at a Linux (Fedora) desktop, but I also work from home SSH'd to that desktop. Being able to ju
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by rkangel 1y ago
I think you mean "packed" structs. Otherwise you've got padding in your communication protocol. If you do this you also need to be careful of byte order.
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by rkangel 1y ago
If other people agree with Lia Siu about supply chain resiliency, presumably what will happen is that they buy from both. Maybe they buy more from Taiwan, but the effective price will be somewhere between the two.
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by rkangel 1y ago
> US sports tend to have less meaningful "regular" seasons, which just seed "play-offs", which themselves often have "Best of X series". Except if you look at the NFL - the most popular sport in the US by f
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by rkangel 1y ago
I think there is a "best" p-value, and I don't think it's the "highest" p-value. You don't want it too low, because then quality becomes meaningless. You do want to give good results to good teams. But the
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by rkangel 1y ago
In a similar vein, we used "Kinder", which is like Tinder except it's for choosing baby names - it shows you names that both you and your partner swiped right on. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kinder
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by rkangel 1y ago
These numbers are true, but you'd be amazed and the number of organisations that have containers that are just based on ubuntu:latest, and don't strip package cache etc.
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by rkangel 1y ago
I had not heard the "CT scans cause 5% of cancers [in the US]" stat before, it makes for interesting reading. That's incredibly high!
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by rkangel 1y ago
To me, this is the strongest argument for a centralised health system, such as the UK NHS. When you have one organisation responsible for health as a whole rather than just treatment, you can make better decisions. The usual example I give
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by rkangel 1y ago
This was more interesting for the tangled.sh platform it's hosted on. Wasn't aware of that!
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by rkangel 1y ago
I was really pleased to see that - that's the way to introduce premium tiers as your business evolves. I love Beeper, and have got a couple of colleagues on it. The only feature I'd like - the ability to mute a conversation for a
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by rkangel 1y ago
I need to watch this video, but I'd argue that the debate is over on typing. You can make all the theoretical ideas you want, but JS and Python have added typing, it has been received enthusiastically and it has been beneficial. Real w
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If they distribute the one with optimisations, then they need to make the source available.
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I do something very similar, although I'm still on nix-shell. It works really well.
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The agents are separate from the models . Claude Code only allows you to use Claude, but Aider allows you to use any model.
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by rkangel 1y ago
I think the closest in wide use is probably Go. The BEAM is set up for "Erlang like languages" (or maybe it's the other way around). Writing Elixir, still feels a lot like Erlang because of the underlying semantics of how it
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by rkangel 1y ago
This article misses a point that I really like knitting - that it is a lot like executing software. There are a small number of knitting techniques - knit, purl, a few increases and decreases etc. Knitting patterns give you sequences to app
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For myself, I mostly knit a lot of socks. Padding around the house in winter, in woollen socks that I have made myself is very satisfying.
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The best knitting patterns I've seen do both. If you look at the classic Elizabeth Zimmerman Baby Surprise Jacket* it has the pattern both in the "keep doing this, increasing each row until you've got 25 [27, 29]" stitch

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