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Ruby 4 will have real packages(twitter.com)
3 points by shioyama 2y ago|1 comments
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Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Good For(znetwork.org)
2 points by shioyama 3y ago|0 comments
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by shioyama 4y ago
This a thousand times. > And while they are the primary workhorses of research, there are large swathes of their graduate student careers where they are not particularly (or often negatively) productive. Um, hello. This happens in indust
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by shioyama 5y ago
So true and so sad.
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by shioyama 7y ago
Sorry, I disagree with the reference to academia: the median quality of academic conference talks is abismal in my experience. Sure they are more technical, but they are also that much less engaging, and target a much more narrow audience
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by shioyama 7y ago
"Consumers seem to believe that products cannot become more sustainable without becoming more expensive." This unfortunately prevalent belief is extremely destructive. If people believe it must cost money to be environmentally fri
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by shioyama 7y ago
I wasn't the only author on those gems, the others are (mostly) still active. Not sure how orphaned gems are handled, though.
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by shioyama 7y ago
> I think a primary issue with code is that the kind of people who like to explain it tend to think it has something to do with engineering, or an expression of a deeply objective scientific method. It seems to me that it has far more re
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Teaching Technology in 2019(fo.am)
2 points by shioyama 7y ago|1 comments
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by shioyama 7y ago
I actually ended up going further and removing me as author from gems I don't actually maintain anymore, which brings down my exposure considerably. It's actually not as easy as it could be to remove yourself as an author from a g
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by shioyama 7y ago
Yes it does, and I do this with my gems, but it's not widely used and I'm sure virtually none of the users of the gems I author probably take advantage of it. https://guides.rubygems.org/security/ > Howeve
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by shioyama 7y ago
I'm an author of gems with a total of more than 4 million downloads. I just setup 2fa now after seeing this.
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by shioyama 7y ago
I'm Canadian, I used "North America" because I wanted to include Canada. Not in reference to "arrests" but in reference to attitudes about giving children freedom, which are very similar in my experience. > Count
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by shioyama 7y ago
This is one regulation in one state. Do you think that even impacts things like dirty diapers, one of the items that was strewn over the news? Of course not. If you're thinking people are paying ~ $1,200/container to ship plastics
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by shioyama 7y ago
Sorry, we'll just have to agree to disagree. I live in Japan, so I'm speaking from direct daily experience with a local school system (not international school). But I completely disagree with your statements about "Asia&quot
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by shioyama 7y ago
Thanks, and to respond to another sibling comment: this may be rare in statistical terms, but it is more than real enough to motivate a very clear pattern of behaviour among parents (not allowing kids to roam freely, etc) I speak from exper
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by shioyama 7y ago
This is a common response, but I reject it. The over-protection in the U.S. goes way beyond actually protecting kids from violent crime. It's rooted in some kind of pathological paranoia. Even with its low crime rate, I think it coul
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by shioyama 7y ago
> My close friends kids in Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Shanghai and Beijing spend most of their time in extra tutoring or music or painting or dance classes or something else where they have to excel. Of course this happ
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by shioyama 7y ago
No, I mean what I wrote, "as young as 5". > All of the kids I knew from that area of the world, as young as elementary school, spent every second either studying for school or practicing piano/violin. Sorry, but "that
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by shioyama 7y ago
Completely agree, cars are the main thing that worry me as well (in the city).
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by shioyama 7y ago
> Which I think is more of a problem than helicopter parenting in America Sorry, as a parent in Japan, I beg to disagree. The system here has lots of problems, don't get me wrong - and I really don't like the "juku" (
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by shioyama 7y ago
> Kids need time with their friends away from parents. I'm so glad I was able to grow up in the (sadly last) "be home for dinner, be back by dark" generation. Completely agree with your comment, but "sadly last"
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by shioyama 7y ago
Do you have any source for that claim? Here's a quote for landfill rates: $40/ton. Do the math yourself, plastics aren't heavy. Much cheaper than sending it in a container across the world. Unless somebody is paying at the
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by shioyama 7y ago
> you get paid to accept trash shipment Why would anyone pay someone to accept a trash shipment? Why wouldn't you just dump it at source? > you get paid to accept trash shipment, you pretend to process it (on paper) and then you
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by shioyama 7y ago
If you're interested in this topic I highly recommend Adam Minter as better source on this stuff. He adopts a strictly economic perspective on the recycling trade which makes way more sense. https://www.amazon.com/Jun
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by shioyama 7y ago
Ok, please explain why in the world businesses in Malaysia would buy garbage just to dump it? That doesn't make ecomonic sense. In fact (prior to the ban at least) there was a huge industry in China recycling plastics. It's not
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by shioyama 7y ago
This is exactly what I was going to point out. Sending something that the buyer didn't ask for is fraud, and should be treated as such. That doesn't mean that all (or even most) such transactions are fraud.
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by shioyama 7y ago
> The present dumping ground of choice is Malaysia. Use of the term "dumping" makes me seriously question the article's storyline. Plastic garbage is not "dumped" in Malaysia, it is sold to buyers in Malaysia.
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by shioyama 7y ago
More: https://www.creativereview.co.uk/jellyfish-and-geometry-figu...
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Maru: Plaid's Experiment in Interactive Music(pppolymer.net)
2 points by shioyama 7y ago|1 comments

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