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by sparker72678 4y ago
I think he's saying threading issues are more likely to be found and fixed these days given the context in which most ruby libraries are running.
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by sparker72678 4y ago
To each their own. It was dickish of me to say, "it seems like he’d be a lot happier with something that isn’t Rails." For that, I'm sorry. The dry-rb approach isn't for me. That doesn't mean it's not going to
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by sparker72678 4y ago
I feel for the author, as it seems they are going through an existential crisis. That’s rough, to say the least. Sounds like they might be on a path to finding some help, though. I’d encourage the author to stash this one away and come back
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by sparker72678 4y ago
If you disagree with just about every Rails convention, just don’t use Rails. There are other options in the world. Ryan is a smart guy, but it seems like he’d be a lot happier with something that isn’t Rails.
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by sparker72678 4y ago
Do you find the type definition work to be better/easier than using model validations? I’ve found that I prefer that logic in the model instead of type def files, but hey, to each their own, of course.
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by sparker72678 4y ago
Yes
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by sparker72678 4y ago
While reading this paper I went off the trail to two other papers and learned that alcohol consumption increases attractiveness to mosquitos. TIL https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20209056/ and https://pubmed.
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by sparker72678 4y ago
> To draw an even smaller circle, is anybody still excited about Ruby when Rails isn't involved? I love Ruby, and I'm excited about where it is and where it's going. It's my go-to language for just about everything. I
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by sparker72678 4y ago
> If you can do it at scale without damaging the company’s reputation Everyone I know who’s worked for Amazon has said the money was great but everything else absolutely sucked. And they all held out doing whatever they had to in order t
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by sparker72678 4y ago
Not too long ago I got a new AC in my office, and attempted to do some automation (turn the temp up during the weekend, etc.) via an IR Blaster. At some point I ran out of patience and gave up trying. After reading this article I am encoura
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by sparker72678 4y ago
The alternatives are tremendously more expensive in both time and money (and I’m thinking engineer salaries etc. here, not just monthly service costs). For most businesses the savings in money and time are worth the risks you pointed out he
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by sparker72678 4y ago
> a northbound pickup truck, which was occupied by an adult driver and seven passengers, ranging in age from 6 to 15 years old (Additional information about the crash indicates that only 5 of the 8 passengers in the pickup were restraine
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by sparker72678 4y ago
These stories are terribly sad, and no doubt life-altering for the family members losing their loved ones. At the same time, these articles lamenting that "everyone has just gone back to normal" — what do they think we should be d
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by sparker72678 4y ago
> But I'm more amazed it was all built correctly by the lowest bidders on materials, sometimes mafia controlled, by the lowest cost workers sometimes still drunk and hungover from the night before. Kinda trippy to realize this is tr
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by sparker72678 4y ago
These scaremongering articles about "X is Contaminated by Y" are so tiring. With the sensitivity of today's testing tools, you can find at least a trace of absolutely anything in tap water if you want to. And sure, we should
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by sparker72678 4y ago
Just you? What’s your age? Any chronic health conditions? How risk tolerant are you?
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by sparker72678 4y ago
Then we can spend all day being chased by ads intended to bolster our discontentment and persuade us to purchase products and services we don't need.
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by sparker72678 4y ago
> Announced Friday by the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and enacted today, the rule will ban the export of two ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor materials, as well as some types of electronic computer
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by sparker72678 4y ago
Kinda burying the lede: > To a large degree, it appears the lack of regulatory oversight has allowed for the cheap installation of sub-standard solar panel systems, from the solar equipment and components used in the installation to the
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by sparker72678 4y ago
I got one recently that says it's coated with this: https://www.coatresa.com/en/whitford-fusion-coating/ "a coating system based on sol-gel technology, made without PFOA and PTFE" but I haven't
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by sparker72678 4y ago
1. Build tests (if you don't already have them) so you can refactor with confidence that you haven't created new problems. 2. Break into milestones so you can see progress. Celebrate the wins. 3. Find another developer to help out
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by sparker72678 4y ago
Exactly. Culture of actual personalization is just gone these days.
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by sparker72678 4y ago
Gosh, yea. There were a ton of these little editors that popped up around that time. I can't remember the name of hardly any.
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by sparker72678 4y ago
Somehow I doubt we'll see a similar ruling that Visa/MC can be sued for monetizing homicide via sales of firearms at Walmart et. al. (FWIW I don't think a payment processor should be on the hook for what a merchant sells, per
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by sparker72678 4y ago
You’re not wrong (Drive the 99, it’s ever starker), but most of these people aren’t living just to spite others. Without positive incentives to get these people to take their livelihoods elsewhere (or find new livelihoods), why are they g
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by sparker72678 4y ago
No doubt. Because all the instruments are active when observing, teams will end up with tons of data unrelated/unused in their own research. A treasure trove for future researchers for sure.
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by sparker72678 4y ago
The End of Night, by Paul Bogard, is a really enjoyable read on this topic. Touches on humanity's relationship with light, both pros and cons, without being dismissive, condescending, or patronizing.
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by sparker72678 4y ago
A lot of the companies selling LED streetlights to municipalities will claim improvements in light pollution, because you can, in fact, get many more photons per watt with LEDs than with high pressure sodium (or whatever your local incandes
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by sparker72678 4y ago
High quality glass diffusors so at least the light is more indirect?
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by sparker72678 4y ago
If you had pure copper conductors could you even get enough into a 1 meter space to conduct that much power? If we're going to need high temperature superconductors and fusion power, this isn't the first thing I'd use it for.

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