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by ciconia 5d ago
It's not clear that Western armies are better either, as we've seen time and again in Iran, Afghanistan and Syria.
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Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK(theguardian.com)
9 points by ciconia 18d ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 21d ago
Who in their right mind would want to travel to a country where any random encounter with government thugs can get you thrown in a cage?
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by ciconia 21d ago
26 years ago I was a post-graduate student in the US, I arrived a couple months before the 9/11 attacks. The current US government, beyond its idiocy and incompetence, is just so hostile, not only to immigrants but also to its own citi
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by ciconia 22d ago
FWIW France has it right: there's no tipping, service is always included.
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by ciconia 23d ago
We still need more trees! Trees do not only act as carbon storage, potentially offsetting CO2 emissions. They also provide shade, which helps mitigate the effects of global warming. Through evapotranspiration they also participate in the wa
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by ciconia 25d ago
A while ago I took under my wing so to speak the neighbor's kid who plays the clarinet at the local music school, but apparently has listened to very little music (at music school he only gets instrument lessons and some music theory.)
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by ciconia 1mo ago
> How many lines of (effective) code do you write, and how has that changed with AI? I don't measure my productivity in loc. I also don't use ai to generate code. To me a productive day at work consists of letting my brain dige
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I'm Sorry, Dave(world.hey.com)
3 points by ciconia 1mo ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 2mo ago
EventMachine provided a event-reactor based concurrency model, but its API was so different and imposed a different style of programming (namely, callback-based) that it didn't really mesh with the "Ruby way" and most importa
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Building pi in a World of Slop [video](youtube.com)
3 points by ciconia 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 2mo ago
https://sqlite.org/useovernet.html
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by ciconia 2mo ago
Oh the horror: the US can't bully the entire world with impunity. Sad!
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by ciconia 2mo ago
How so? Svelte provides a bunch of (very nice, no doubt) abstractions for building web UIs, and there's a build step. In that regard, Svelte is no different from other JS frameworks.
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What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)(wozniak.ca)
275 points by ciconia 3mo ago|339 comments
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Still blazing after all these years: Mel Brooks at 100(theguardian.com)
5 points by ciconia 3mo ago|0 comments
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Rethinking Modularity in Ruby Applications(noteflakes.com)
19 points by ciconia 3mo ago|4 comments
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by ciconia 3mo ago
I got news for you: that private money - a big chunk of it comes from public funds.
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by ciconia 3mo ago
The experts on what? Zionist lobbying?
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by ciconia 4mo ago
Reactionary politics, greed, stupidity. Pick any three.
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by ciconia 4mo ago
I've been slowly transitioning from using an ORM to just plain SQL. It's so much simpler. Less magic, more explicitness, and more control. Also, much better performance. I think the thing is to construct your model around the diff
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by ciconia 4mo ago
> make developers 2x, 5x, 10x as productive on stuff that matters What does this even mean? Is this about speed of development? Is this about headcount? LoC? How are coding agents contributing to productivity in places like GitHub, Shopi
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by ciconia 4mo ago
> society is just going to stay stable and they're going to be safe? I think this ties in with the rise of racism over the last two decades. Historically, antisemitism has been instrumentalized by the elites in order to deflect anim
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Why and How to Run Local Models in Zed(zed.dev)
3 points by ciconia 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 4mo ago
To me the blocker with using coding agents is having to rely on a paid external service. Are there any local models that are good enough to be used for coding?
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by ciconia 4mo ago
I think it is hard for citizens to understand how precarious it feels to be an immigrant in the present political climate in the US and Europe. I'm a permanent resident in France, I'm white, I have a EU passport, I have a job, I&#
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by ciconia 4mo ago
I'm recently seeing more and more Ruby projects that are at least partly vibe-coded, and I'm kind of torn. On the one hand I appreciate that this allows people to create stuff that they maybe wouldn't have the time to do othe
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by ciconia 4mo ago
> Is this what the pinnacle of human is? Lazy and greedy? Apparently yes.
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by ciconia 4mo ago
I think the title is appropriate and is probably meant as a double entendre. The US does seem to be declining in many ways. Personally, visiting the US under the present government just feels too risky, they seem really hostile to foreigner
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Vision of destruction: Israel's assault on southern Lebanon(theguardian.com)
8 points by ciconia 4mo ago|0 comments

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