RobertKerans

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by RobertKerans 5y ago
"Ruby" is the name of the size of the type
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Apropos of nothing, but a few Christmasses ago the place I worked had a dedicated fibre line that some workmen doing gas line repairs sawed straight through, took out everything; I was just drone worker at the time & it was a beautiful
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
afaik there's nothing tying it specifically to GH (where the metatada is), and then the actual code is just in an S3 bucket, so in theory should be reasonably easy [ha!] to just host anywhere. In theory, I mean that's a massive lu
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Ah, back to normal now. Getting intermittent flickers on some of our apps but all seems solid-ish again
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Yep, S3 possibly the villain here
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Assuming crates.io is AWS-backed? Getting fun situation where direct dependencies of an application are downloading but then the sub-dependencies aren't.
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
It's more analogous to an alternative history where the Ruby framework most people used was Rack [directly], not anything built on top of it (ie Rails).
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Yes, that seems to be true (and is that % you've guessed maybe too low? Maybe far too low?). Even with that though, it's extraordinarily fine margins -- w/r/t the businesses that I mentioned, the majority of the income
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Well...yes, not necessarily fundamental, but it's the same class of problem cinemas and restaurants have (to pick two). What do cinemas mainly make money from? What do restaurants mainly make money from?
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
& Rust is surely a highly imperative language that has absorbed functional idioms (where appropriate), rather than something that falls under the banner of "functional language"?
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
You're likely literally doing the same thing with Webpack. There is only one complete implementation of the TS compiler in existence, so you have to use that to typecheck, it doesn't matter what bundler tool is used. If you need
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
It's not the same thing though, SWC is a different category of tool. Edit: though I guess if you include the sibling project swcpack, it covers the same ground. SWC itself doesn't though.
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Aye very similar at my last job -- got asked a month before that if I was happy, then got given a task with a slightly weird vibe about it that noone except the CTO (also my direct manager and the HR, was small company...) seemed to know I
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Ah, sorry, I misread that. GP has fair points though, whole situation in the UK is crazy, infects everything, it's an arms race
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Two (import + require, which, as import didn't exist, was necessary). Most current tooling is built to handle both (Deno draws a line under it by disallowing the older one)
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Practically, number of browsers + 2 (Node and Deno, and Deno is stretching the definition of practical at this early stage). Edit: + Electron + the JS runtime used for Windows ecosystem based on Chakra (not sure if that's still alive t
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
> Being valued at £2M doesn't mean you could sell all of them for that price or that the people living in them paid £2M for them But in London these houses do sell, normally very quickly (and bullshit apartments in shiny new block
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Caveat that this is second hand info based entirely on GameFromScratch (I've avoided playing with it because of his updates) -- he's recorded a new review on afaics every recent Lumberyard release, and currently seems answer is &q
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Of course it is, but neither parent nor anyone else is saying anything close to the mistake being effective documentation. There's a single missing word which needs to be added in, but the overall text is clearly writing to a target au
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Yeah, I think there's a fundamental problem with the implementation -- with small, single-file programs where the code can be written in a chronologically linear manner it works well. But with that there's no need for reordering l
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
I'd posit that there's a general principle underpinning this that is true for most things (not games, or art, but everything). This is a bit half-formed in my head, but: Computer tech makes certain important classes of things chea
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Always been that way, always will be I guess. Someone happens on a set of very specific behaviours they use to fix some aspect of their behaviour/health/etc. Sometimes delusional, sometimes not, sometimes fake, sometimes not. Norm
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Yes you are right, and it is this: > Simple/complex refers to a system or problem, while easy/hard refers to the difficulty of controlling the system or solving the problem. I do think the distinction is important. I did realis
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Meaning seems correct afaics? In particular any commenters who build software or engineer products should recognise this, making simple things is often very hard.
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
This is the critical point, most sibling comments are conflating the two [when in fact they are completely different]
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
It's not a consequence of that, what you're describing is a consequence of poor justification algorithms + no manual justification. For books, generally want block justified text without rivers, that's why you need a good twe
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
I'm slightly leery of that. But to be fair to the markets here, gov policy + protracted negotiations + lack of concrete information + conflicting guidelines surely made it impossible for a market to actually function properly. (to b
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
[UK specifically] not seems , it has gone back to normal (as in pre-pandemic).
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Yeah, fair as does depend on country (and region)
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
sorry, it just seemed a bizarre thing to comment on: yes the sales may have been higher, and anecdotally you may have seen longer pickup lines ( at what times? ), but you gotta understand why it reads as a joke, because regardless of abov

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