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by schneems 4y ago
I think having fines be a major funding source distracts from the purpose of the enforcement. They’re supposed to be there for public safety, not for making sure there’s a Christmas bonus. There are countries where traffic fines are based a
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by schneems 4y ago
> write series that stand in their own right. If that’s your end goal, then the current model serves you well. Getting rid of cliffhangers won’t stop your shows from randomly getting cut. Just give you slightly less headache when they ar
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by schneems 4y ago
> It’s now created a system where creators should be afraid to make a series that dares to end on a cliffhanger I don’t see that as a bad thing personally. But I’ve 100% avoided watching some series that I know have been canceled. I’m wo
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by schneems 4y ago
I wish Ruby had stable sort By default.
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by schneems 4y ago
“Now if you feel that the bare minimum is enough, then okay. But some people choose to [commit] more and we encourage that, okay?” - Mike Judge, Office Space
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by schneems 4y ago
I’m a maintainer of the currently most popular Ruby web server (Puma). It’s mostly written in Ruby. Chris Seaton (RIP) gave a talk at RubyConf this year that talks about rewriting stdlib in Ruby for truffleruby. The difference is now jit se
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by schneems 4y ago
That’s interesting. This is really interesting: a REPL for Rust https://github.com/google/evcxr/blob/main/evcxr_repl/README.... .
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by schneems 4y ago
> Any programs which promote heat pump installations above a certain scale must either include huge investments into grid robustness or mandate that all heat pump installation must include fuel-based backup heating sufficient for a week
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by schneems 4y ago
In my ideal world all engineers get to do the work they find interesting that also helps meet team demands. In the interest of not fostering resentment or loss of energy in those contributors I’m wondering what kinds of incentive, goals, me
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by schneems 4y ago
> If our population is dumb You cannot out-smart emotional manipulation. Most people who get caught up in cults believe they are too smart to fall for a cult. > Does the news media not "psychologically manipulate people to get th
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by schneems 4y ago
It’s not personalized at all when I tried it about a year or so back. I signed on and in my intake explicitly said I wanted new shorts and I live in Texas so don’t need jackets. They sent me a jacket and some shoes and shirts and no shorts.
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by schneems 4y ago
I added the syntax error detection in 3.2. I hope it’s helpful!
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by schneems 4y ago
Write a program to show me where that mistake was made. > Intent is lost because there is a mistake. The signal is reduced but not gone. In a language like Ruby I can tell you plus or minus a few lines exactly where the problem is.
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by schneems 4y ago
Thanks for the note! I enjoy using slim in my views though prefer scss to sass. I think for many of those tools either misindentations raise an error (like failing a yaml schema validation) or result in incorrect but observable behavior (co
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by schneems 4y ago
In Rust it’s clear when the logic of the “if” is over because it’s always followed by a curly and it’s pretty easy to detect if you missed the curly. Im not saying that more syntax is always better, but sometimes that extra bit that seems
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by schneems 4y ago
I’m the creator of syntax suggest, the syntax error detection library that ships with Ruby 3.2 I’ve switched my perspectives on whitespace significance. It makes for shorter source code but comes with a signal to noise problem. If there’s a
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by schneems 4y ago
To paraphrase my understanding of your position: a suicidal trait picked up by an entire species is a totally neutral trait that somehow neither provides advantage nor disadvantage and still hasn’t been lost and the reason that it provides
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by schneems 4y ago
So that advantage should be observable and the question answerable, hence the article.
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by schneems 4y ago
I’m excited to see my syntax suggest gem as a default gem
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by schneems 4y ago
If you like sci-fi the “bobiverse” series that starts with We Are Legion (We Are Bob) is good and use cryogenics as a central part of the setup. One question it explores: what exactly might people in the future want to do with the conscious
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by schneems 4y ago
Whether you think he would or not he’s not given me any reason to trust him about anything ever again. As a bonus he did get me to quit my Twitter habit after over a decade. Now that I’ve built up a good size list of people to follow on m
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by schneems 4y ago
He has access to the databases. There’s no independent way to verify the results.
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by schneems 4y ago
Paul Graham just got suspended for posting to a link to his blog and telling people there was a link to mastodon there.
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by schneems 4y ago
I used to love unless, but now I prefer `if !`. Sometimes when I read `unless` i manually make the conversion in my head. The only problem i've run into is standardrb thinks otherwise and I've not mustered up the energy to bikeshe
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by schneems 4y ago
I think you're wanting to honor him. I think there's a way to do that that also doesn't glamorize or encourage or increase the odds of future suicides. I found this post to be helpful: https://www.healthyplace.com&
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by schneems 4y ago
Between the childhood information and username, it seems like you're related to Chris. Are you related? I appreciate the little detail. It seems he's always been ahead of his time. Know that he's had a huge impact on the Ruby
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by schneems 4y ago
> In the end I feel like I have wasted his time, because it was a different problem Every issue is an investigation. It's normal for the breakage to be in some place non-obvious. Don't beat yourself up over it or let it hold yo
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by schneems 4y ago
I find some of the best advice for adults is found in advice for handling small children (I've got two kids). The new research/trend is to try to praise behavior rather than outcomes (or in addition). The other bit is to focus on
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by schneems 4y ago
I had lunch with him on Wednesday and wish I said more. I also worry about the hidden pressures of praise. A overly critical inner life can interpret it as “I like you as long as you are useful” which is of course not the truth. I have appr
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by schneems 4y ago
> Slightly tangential That's a little more than slightly. I've got no clue what in the article brought that up for you or how you're relating it back.

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