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by eestrada 2mo ago
Here are the generated docs. I tried to be thorough with these right from the beginning too. https://rubydoc.info/gems/async_futures https://rubydoc.info/gems/async_futures/index
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Show HN: AsyncFutures – A Ruby gem for asynchronous/concurrent code execution(rubygems.org)
1 points by eestrada 2mo ago|1 comments
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by eestrada 3mo ago
That's pretty much true of HTMX too (which is what GP mentions using). I mention Hotwire Native (different from plain Hotwire) because it makes it easy to wrap a web app as a mobile app. Then you can replace performance critical parts
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by eestrada 3mo ago
Can't vouch for it's effectiveness, but Hotwire Native might meet the needs for mobile paired with plain HTML. Despite the name, it doesn't seem that using Hotwire for the web UI is necessary to use Hotwire Native. I could be
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by eestrada 3mo ago
Time to invest in a small Faraday bag to keep in the car.
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by eestrada 4mo ago
There was a hidden benefit in the old way: it avoided people making effort for things that weren't important. It took effort to make signal cut through noise. When it was low effort, it was obvious it was just noise and could easily be
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by eestrada 10mo ago
I haven't had to deal with this in open source, but I have had to deal with coworkers posting slop for code reviews where I am the assigned reviewer. I've noticed that slop code has certain tell tale markers (such as import statem
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by eestrada 1y ago
Although I'm not wild about the new `io` parameter popping up everywhere, I love the fact that it allows multiple implementations (thread based, fiber based, etc.) and avoids forcing the user to know and/or care about the implemen
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by eestrada 1y ago
The best anti malware on any version of windows has always been to not run windows.
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by eestrada 1y ago
I bring up raw milk because it is minimally processed (I don't even consume it personally). I used it as an example because it shows how much plastic is embedded in the food chain and ecosystem by looking at one of the least processed
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by eestrada 1y ago
The most disturbing is "Raw Cow Milk from Farm in Glass". It still is loaded with plastic, even though it is one of the least processed things on the list. My only question is was the cow milked by hand or by machine? The tubing i
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by eestrada 1y ago
I use it on my own docs to remove extraneous details. I often write too many words in early drafts and LLMs summarize my writing faster than I can (although I don't know if they do it better than I would/could). Then the next vers
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by eestrada 1y ago
And that increase in LLM usage has resulted in an enormous increase of code duplications and code churn in said open source projects. Any benefit from new features implemented by LLMs is being offset by the tech debt caused by duplication a
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by eestrada 1y ago
In light of this, employee referrals and in person interviews should become increasingly important. Sadly, most corporate executives will learn the wrong lessons from this and instead use this as an opportunity to push RTO even more.
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by eestrada 1y ago
I mostly like Vim because it is available everywhere and in the terminal. In its default configuration it isn't the most powerful IDE, but it is vastly more powerful that any other default experience in any other text editor (IMO). It
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by eestrada 1y ago
My understanding is that TIOBE is primarily based on number of search engine results. Other results like number of active (a commit within the last 6-12 months) open source repos or number of new repos in a given language are other metrics
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by eestrada 1y ago
I miss the old internet. I'm pretty sure anyone old enough to have experienced it misses it.
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by eestrada 1y ago
I had one job at a pinball company where my coworkers and I didn't get paid for a couple months. I quickly found work elsewhere. Thankfulfully my backpay did eventually come, but I wasn't going to stick around to see if they would
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by eestrada 1y ago
I tried AI code completion via Amazon Q. I quickly turned it off; half the suggestions were noise that took more time to review than actually writing it myself. The one good use I have found is using it to tighten up my writing in design do
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by eestrada 1y ago
I tried graveyards and swing shifts in my twenties. I only did it for a year, but it wrecked my sleep schedule for years afterward; I struggled with insomnia because of it. Not sure there is any age where this works. Some people can handle
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by eestrada 1y ago
Good point. That sounds about right.
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by eestrada 1y ago
I think paid oncall could work if oncall is voluntary. The more oncall sucks, the less likely team members are to volunteer because the pay isn't worth it, then the company/team needs to pay more as an incentive to get people to v
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by eestrada 1y ago
Not a dishwasher story, but related. We bought a whirlpool washer and dryer set and hated them. The set was one of the few name brand models without WiFi "features" added on. But they were still terrible. The one highlight is that
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Show HN: Psyllium, a Ruby Gem to make Fibers behave more like Threads(github.com)
3 points by eestrada 2y ago|0 comments
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by eestrada 2y ago
It is mentioned in the article, but then quickly dismissed: people seeking income via creating new businesses after being laid off during the lockdowns. I think there is a secondary effect here. Many people remember how many jobs were deeme
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by eestrada 2y ago
I neither approve nor disapprove of this message.
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by eestrada 3y ago
My (poor) understanding of quaternions is they are like a vector with a rotation angle around the axis of the vector. This is probably incorrect on many levels. But it was a simple enough explanation that it made sense to my brain why this
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by eestrada 3y ago
In the USA, corporations just do stock splits or run a corporate vote to issue more shares. Also many large tech companies use stock as total compensation for employees, so the "selling" of stock can be indirect as a form of reven
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by eestrada 3y ago
I apologize for not being clear in my comment. None of my musing was meant to allude to public policy or law. It was about what an individual (or group of individuals) could choose to do with a corporation to avoid perverse incentives in th
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by eestrada 3y ago
Specular higlights are view dependent and the specular higlights seem to react properly when tumbling the virtual camera. It seems reasonable that it would be possible to do a reverse calculation to determine the location and intensity of l

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