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Renting is actually a better deal, financially, in Israel compared to purchasing. Rent is cheaper than the mortgage payment, by hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars a month, in a society where the average price of housing is more tha
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People should look at the actual guidelines, not the flashy website: https://cdn.realfood.gov/Daily%20Serving%20Sizes.pdf In a 2000 calorie diet, 7-9 servings summed over fruits, vegetables, and grains vs. 6-7 servings summ
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Merge with Crystal meaning, recognize that both projects have more in common from a language and culture perspective than they are different, get the committers and steering folk to talk together, collaborate together, combine the work. Thi
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I see what you're saying, and I recognize that a coding agent will spit out something usable, but it still feels wrong. When a service provider puts out an SDK, they are responsible for it and are incentivized to update it when their
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> third party ecosystem is smaller... less and less relevant as coding agents get better I disagree. The problem isn't with getting an implementation for some favored sort algorithm, it's about integrating with external systems
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> Ruby really needs a plan If there was a plan to be had here, it would be to merge with Crystal and focus on building native apps for phones. Nobody is really happy with any of the options there - Dart/Flutter were close, but fail
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For a "YAML" lockfile, you could probably write a much simpler and much more performant parser that throws out much of what makes YAML complicated, in particular, anchors, data type tags, all the ways of doing multi-line strings,
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I think most people would disagree with you that armed members of an outlaw paramilitary count as civilians. And I also think that most people would disagree with you that the correct first sanction is on a country's banks, the consequ
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The key to a happy life is to learn how to reduce the amount of things you own and how to build strong relationships. Once you have enough to put a roof over your head and food on your table, more than that can only be used to purchase incr
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> can the right to kill coexist with the victim's right to defense? Yes it can, and it's ludicrous to suggest otherwise. Russia believes it has the natural right to reclaim what it considers to be Russian territory. Ukraine bel
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More to the point, "technology is neither good, nor bad, nor neutral, it just exists". Ultimately all tools can be used for good or bad purposes and what matters is the people who wield them. This is separate from the argument ove
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Rust's problem is similar to Go's - the language makes some very strong guarantees, and FFI breaks those guarantees, so trying to work with FFI in those languages "infects" the codebase and breaks the value-add of workin
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Bookmarked, I think this is a really good idea and could lead to some really small, elegant TUI code. But as a first release, I'm wondering if it maybe misses what Ruby really enables. The Hello World example has both init and initiali
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100%. With that said... there is a reason why ML went with Python. GPU programming requires C-based libraries. NodeJS does not have a good FFI story, and neither does Rust or Go. Yes, there's support , but Python's FFI support
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duckdb wouldn't help? https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/data/csv/overview https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/sql/functions/aggregates
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> They don't because too many people pirate games to make that a viable business Game piracy is fundamentally un-safe for players, since games are fundamentally executable code, where setup usually requires admin permissions, and p
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> capacity constraints make it difficult to have significant competition Thirty years ago, you would be correct. In the modern day, you could tie switch signalling to real-time auctions and let private rail's command centers decide
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> most of your time For hybrid workplaces wanting 3 days in-office, it's a little less than half > away from your family Yes, this is a trade-off. The choice is between whether your family will be crammed into a too-small-barely-
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While I do think capsule hotels are just too small, I do sympathize with wanting a lifestyle where you own an actual house on actual land in an actually quiet, rural environment, and occasionally commute into the city for work, sleeping i
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How do you prevent malware running on the pwned laptop from asking for an ephemeral cert to be issued? How do you know a human being is in the loop? Usually ephemeral sessions are up to 15 minutes (also to deal with misaligned clocks and un
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> almost everyone I know quickly gets sick of touching the yubikey for every git remote operation and just generates their own local SSH key to use for git since doing so is not forbidden Yes, that's the exact problem at hand. If yo
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Your browser is acting like a condom, in that respect (pun not intended). Yes, there are many cases when condoms are indicative of respect between parties. But a great many people would disagree that the best, most respectful relationships
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This is how you handle it as an individual developer, but in a corporate environment things get real difficult, real fast. You need to set up your VMs and Git host to only trust certificates signed by an SSH certificate authority, and you n
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If you think too hard about this, you come back around to Alan Kay's quote about how people who are really serious about software should build their own hardware. Web applications, and in general loading pretty much anything over the n
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You have to remember that companies are kind of fungible in the sense that founders can close old companies and start new ones to walk away from bankruptcies in the old companies. When there's a bust and a lot of companies close up sho
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(I support licensing) Licensing never happened because its effect is to reduce the size of the labor pool and restrict what the labor pool can do as individuals. Barring the very recent abberation of the glut of new grads and not enough jun
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> Like in what world is payroll not as important as your DBMS - if you can't pay people you don't have a business! Most employees, contractors, and vendors are surprisingly forgiving of one-time screw-ups. Hell, even the employ
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So your backups are written to the same disk? > datacenter goes up in flames > 3-2-1 backups: 3 copies on 2 different types of media with at least 1 copy off-site. No off-site copy. Whoops!
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> even the metrics that RDS gives you for free make the thing pay for itself, IMO. The thought of setting up grafana to monitor a new database makes me sweat. CloudNative PG actually gives you really nice dashboards out-of-the-box for fr
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> few days' work But initial setup is maybe 10% of the story. The day 2 operations of monitoring, backups, scaling, and failover still needs to happen, and it still requires expertise. If you bring that expertise in house, it costs

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