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841.
by zem 2y ago
I only just discovered that he didn't invent or at least own the company that made the grill. Not being American, I had no real idea who he was outside of it.
842.
by zem 2y ago
that looks superb to me! I'm tempted to contribute a patch to generate documentation from the tooltips now.
843.
by zem 2y ago
Chambers would like a word or several
844.
by zem 2y ago
yes but resetting the environment before each test is one way to deal with them
845.
by zem 2y ago
on one hand I suspect too much code has explicit and implicit global state for this technique to be useful; on the other hand using this from the beginning might prevent introducing that sort of global state in the first place.
846.
by zem 2y ago
it's not even remotely progressive; it's the standard "white man's burden" horseshit that was prevalent at the time, positing that englishness was a higher state of civilisation that indians needed to be educated to
847.
by zem 2y ago
that's not the point I was making - gp was wondering why someone who didn't even know typescript compiled to javascript and ran atop a javascript engine would care that it had gotten 10x faster.
848.
by zem 2y ago
microsoft has historically been great at programming languages. qbasic, visual basic, c#, and f# are all excellent.
849.
by zem 2y ago
if typescript code execution got that much faster it might be a reason for someone to look into the language even if they knew nothing about it.
850.
by zem 2y ago
i'm not saying mono doesn't need contributions, i'm saying that microsoft in particular has no real reason to contribute to it. it's not part of their .net strategy in any way, and it wasn't even their project to be
851.
by zem 2y ago
why should microsoft have any responsibility to contribute to mono? they've done their bit in handing the project over to winehq.
852.
by zem 2y ago
be warned that night watch is perhaps the least standalone of the discworld books, though. to my mind it is unquestionably the pinnacle of an already brilliant series, but it builds upon the earlier watch books.
853.
by zem 2y ago
yeah the tiffany aching subseries is perhaps the most consistently good one. loved every book in it.
854.
by zem 2y ago
yes, but people have an email account already. if they could use that to interact with my git forge that would be ideal.
855.
by zem 2y ago
as someone who finds the whole forge interface a massive improvement in git collaboration workflow I was fully prepared to find the author's arguments against a lightweight self hosted forge unconvincing. but the "need to create a
856.
by zem 2y ago
> Soon you'll be seen by others as a car mechanic. Maybe a reliable car mechanic. But reliable car mechanics don't get paid a lot. this argues for a messed up reward system for the company, not the engineer. all sufficiently la
857.
by zem 2y ago
I'm usually very good about just not eating the random snacks and candy in the office kitchen, but every now and then they bring madeleines into the rotation and I can't resist those :) it's always a mild relief when they&#x2
858.
by zem 2y ago
am I so unusual in just skimming past and ignoring the AI search results? I didn't think a majority of people outside the silicon valley tech bubble were all that keen on getting their questions answered by a chatbot
859.
by zem 2y ago
I've been to several great restaurants with "china" and "burma" in their names. also "siam" and "thai" but not actually "thailand" that I can remember.
860.
by zem 2y ago
seriously, just ignore the AI, and create the human internet you want to see.
861.
by zem 2y ago
julia evans is really good at doing that. can recommend her blog, both for knowledge and for inspiration: https://jvns.ca/ .
862.
by zem 2y ago
can we put the "your" back in the title? it's currently unfairly ungrammatical.
863.
by zem 2y ago
gothic architecture, gothic literature, and the goth subculture are three very different uses of the word, all of which likewise have nothing to do with the original goths. (tangentially, there are amusing tshirts saying "if you'r
864.
by zem 2y ago
living in another insanely high rent city, people talk about the cost of housing a lot, but one thing that doesn't come up enough is the cost of commercial real estate. you simply can't afford to run a small business that caters t
865.
by zem 2y ago
if your project is a library no one can use it without a similar patch
866.
by zem 2y ago
as another gen-xer i was similarly bemused by the repeated references to the font as ugly, so it did kind of make sense to think that the issue was the author not having grown up with it quite as ubiquitous
867.
by zem 2y ago
do that a few more times and pretty soon you're taking real money
868.
by zem 2y ago
at the least i was super productive during the pandemic, as was my entire team at work. commuting really saps my productivity.
869.
by zem 2y ago
as your codebase and number of collaborators get larger, it's super useful to have the type checker be able to tell you "hey, you said your function arg could be a time or an int, but you are calling time-specific methods on it&qu
870.
by zem 2y ago
I continue to think it was a big mistake not to add syntactic support for type annotations into the base language. python did this right; annotations are not enforced by the interpreter, but are accessible both by external tools as part of

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