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by aeonfox 6mo ago
Looking at their misrepresentations and over-exaggerations regarding Erlang it now seems like a long lead-up to a sales pitch. Their motivation to exaggerate deficiencies in existing approaches is to lend chapter 7 more rhetorical punch.
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by aeonfox 6mo ago
True. And that the subtle bugs were then picked up by static analysis makes the safety proposition of Erlang even better. > Bugs that happen regularly in prod It depends on how regular and reproducible they are. Timing bugs are notorio
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by aeonfox 6mo ago
A real interesting read as someone who spends a bit of time with Elixir. Wasn't aware of the atomic and counter Erlang features that break isolation. Though they do say that race conditions are purely mitigated by discipline at design
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by aeonfox 6mo ago
As pointed out in the OP comment, it's basically 'money for jam' by the point he releases the source code: > It's an entirely different thing; he made a thing, sold it, and then when he couldn't sell more of it,
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by aeonfox 6mo ago
Well done
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by aeonfox 6mo ago
More succinctly, Carmack only contributes his code to OSS, but not his time , and shouldn't impose his values on the wider community that contribute both. > technically correct, but in context I think that's somewhat beside
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by aeonfox 6mo ago
I never said percentage. "<small_boutique_company> has filled 8 verified positions on <product_name>"
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by aeonfox 6mo ago
Add a visible count of how many verified applicants got verified jobs at the verified business. Higher count increases confidence.
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by aeonfox 6mo ago
Has a registered business that's been around longer than 6 months. Has a confirmed business phone number, called by a human that verifies another human is on the other end. Has a confirmed business address (mail them the confirmation c
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by aeonfox 6mo ago
> You could just as easily describe someone with bootstrapping experience as being like an FAA crash investigator who investigates take offs. Takeoff systems aren't analogous to prototype development. I don't know you'd b
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by aeonfox 7mo ago
Still nearly 14x the Pinto instead of 17x. Four fire fatalities for 34,438 vehicles is pretty concerning.
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
> I think the blame more rests on Apple for falsely representing the quality of their product There was plenty of other concerning stuff in that article. And from a quick read it wasn't suggested or implied the VO2 max issue was th
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
> Reading between the lines Tbf, and in support of your broader point, there's no reading between the lines, because genuine intent is indistinguishable from deception with this kind of stuff, because the latter imitates the former.
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
> But if traffic/views are what you care about, regular submission would do "better". Traffic and views can lead to comments and discussion. I was definitely looking for feedback. I think there's a minimum threshold
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
> it's visible in both places Yeah I corrected myself in another comment. But I find with submissions to `shownew` they don't enter `top` straight away, or at all. > You get a lot more traffic over a longer period of time W
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
As in you think it's as bad on HN as it is on PH? From what I've heard PH is basically dead internet.
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
I might have been mistaken, I think if you post to Show HN, it puts you on both shownew and new. I think in my case I saw Show HNs with less points and engagement on the top list, and somehow mine never appeared and I wonder if maybe there
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
It's a bit like ProductHunt. The only people that look at ProductHunt, are the people that post on ProductHunt—or at least that's its reputation. Though that's an unfair comparison, because I think on HN there is actually g
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
With Show HN vs a regular submission you're shoved on shownew, which gets a lot less eyeballs than new. If you get enough votes, you're supposedly moved from shownew to top stories, but somehow 5 votes wasn't enough for me (
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
The other flaw of the study is that it doesn't compare populations with no social media, to the ones with.^ Just because you're not on social media, doesn't mean you're not affected, specifically where bullying is invol
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
It's kind of beside the point. You could argue the change of mind/heart is unlikely, but if indeed they had changed, it would be better to encourage that. Perhaps they were lured by the money, or perhaps some jingoistic impulse,
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
You're missing my point. If all 'ethical' companies treat all ex-employees of 'unethical companies' as unemployable, they are effectively only going to work at 'unethical companies' regardless of whatever
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
The options are a) they have to decide between starving their family or continuing compromise their morals and increasing the capabilities of immoral company X, or b) a more ethically aligned company removes them from the resource pool of i
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
> Wouldn't it be better to just go with nuclear? But for economics. Renewables are simply the cheapest option for generation. For reduced land use, and hence reduced impacts (overall) on the environment and agriculture, nuclear win
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
The irony is that Scott Adam's himself wouldn't have been in favour of policing one's own thoughts. /tongue-firmly-in-cheek
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Type inference of all constructs in Elixir(elixir-lang.org)
5 points by aeonfox 8mo ago|0 comments
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
> The motorcycle is real, you can buy it. Pretty major point of difference though isn't it? They claim this will be out there in Q1 2026, giving a chance for sceptics and industry professionals to tear it down. If this is really t
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
I guess we can't really know that it's real until this guy gets hold of a whole bunch to test https://www.youtube.com/@WillProwse
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Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density(donutlab.com)
276 points by aeonfox 8mo ago|268 comments
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by aeonfox 8mo ago
> US seems outlier while rest of the world fatalities are decreasing Europe can be explained by pedestrianisation of cities, congestion taxes, separated bike lanes that encourage bike use, vehicle safety standards that—at least until rec

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