joshkel

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by joshkel 27d ago
I would guess that many devs' preference would be for a larger standard library, but not a kitchen sink. Personally, I'd be happy with a larger suite of utility functions (say, most of Lodash / es-toolkit - remove the need fo
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by joshkel 1mo ago
Anthropic's own explanation ( https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark ) is not that clear-cut: "When Claude proofreads text written by a person, what it gives back has generally only been lightly
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by joshkel 2mo ago
As explained by https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/magazine/testosterone-mas... , "Supplementing with testosterone sends the message to the brain that testosterone is in oversupply, shutting down the
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by joshkel 4mo ago
FWIW, it sounds like the judge may be open to ruling against such an action. From his decision at https://aboutblaw.com/blQg : > Even if Plaintiff had made a “vote dilution” or “one person/one vote” claim under the E
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by joshkel 4mo ago
> But nowadays prefer pyproject.toml, and most people use pre-built distributions (wheels) for their architecture from PyPI, so don't execute arbitrary code to install packages. Yes, and these are positive changes. But they aren&#x2
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by joshkel 4mo ago
I'm far from an expert, but this feels like an oversimplification. Python packages traditionally use setup.py to install code, and setup.py is all executable code under the installed package's control. Native Ruby Gems execute arb
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by joshkel 4mo ago
https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/05/16/musk-v-altman-week-3... has a good explanation of the legalities: "If the jury determines that at any time before those dates, Musk either knew — or had or should
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by joshkel 5mo ago
Reading this article has given me a profound realization: As a software user, I don't want the products I use to ship new features at "three, five, or ten times what they shipped a year ago," at the expense of "probabili
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by joshkel 6mo ago
Considering the many hundreds of technical comments over at the PR ( https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61478 ), the 8 reviewers thanked by name in the article, and the stellar reputations of those involved, s
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by joshkel 6mo ago
Appreciate the reminder (the lack of SemVer has thrown me in the past). In this case, 6.0 is a bigger change than normal: > TypeScript 6.0 arrives as a significant transition release, designed to prepare developers for TypeScript 7.0, th
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by joshkel 8mo ago
The main selling point for me is that it has proper data times for dates, times, etc. Most date/time libraries that I've seen have a only single "date/time" or "timestamp" type, then they have to do things
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by joshkel 10mo ago
In a follow-up tweet, Mark Atwood eloborates: "Amazon was very carefully complying with the licenses on FFmpeg. One of my jobs there was to make sure the company was doing so. Continuing to make sure the company was was often the reas
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by joshkel 11mo ago
pnpm doesn't execute lifecycle scripts by default, so it avoids the particular attack vector of "simply downloading and installing an NPM package allows it to execute malicious code." As phiresky points out, you're still
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by joshkel 11mo ago
The way you know is by running the full SQLite test suite, with 100% MC/DC coverage (slightly stricter than 100% branch coverage), on each new compiler, version, and set of flags you intend to support. It's my understanding that t
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by joshkel 11mo ago
Yes. Sardar Biglari, who's an activist investor and the CEO and owner of Steak'n'Shake, has been pushing for more control over Cracker Barrel for several years. He amplified some of the backlash against Cracker Barrel. https
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by joshkel 11mo ago
Would you still say it's a small API surface? State, memos, callbacks (which are just memo functions), effects, effect events, reducers, context, external stores, special handling for any tags that go in the `<head>`, form action
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by joshkel 1y ago
I assume you're referring to Web SQL? As I understand it, the argument against isn't just "there's only 1 implementation," it's "there's no standard and there's only 1 implementation," so th
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by joshkel 1y ago
For Git? Maybe not. For GitHub? IPv6 support would sure be nice: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539
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by joshkel 1y ago
> at least occasionally one should choose to do something one will regret. Not necessarily. My take was that the practice of choosing may well be more valuable than the harm of the occasional regretted choice.
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by joshkel 1y ago
The View Transitions API ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi... ) is intended to let you control transitions between clicks.
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by joshkel 1y ago
I'm not sure how much difference that bill's clause makes in practice. As I understand it (courtesy of the "Advisory Opinions" legal podcast, but any misunderstandings are my own), the problem is that, if the executive b
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by joshkel 1y ago
Belief within limits, yes. At least, I can only think of a couple of possible explanations for the event: 1. Cook only cares about pursuing profits, but at a shareholder meeting where shareholders were pressuring him to pursue profits, he l
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by joshkel 1y ago
That's not universally true, at least. From https://www.macobserver.com/news/tim-cook-rejects-ncppr-poli... : > “When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind,” he said, “I don't consider the b
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by joshkel 1y ago
The biggest difference I'm aware of is that ECharts has an add-on for 3D charts (echarts-gl). Chart.js doesn't have any 3D functionality. (Our project mostly uses Chart.js, so I'm more familiar with it.)
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by joshkel 2y ago
I mean, yeah, I said it was easy enough to work around. But it's an issue I've seen raised in a discussions of C code maintenance. (The typical conclusion is that using `-Wall -Werror` is a mistake for long-lived, not-actively-dev
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by joshkel 2y ago
In practice, C has a couple of significant pitfalls that I've read about. First is if you compile with `-Werror -Wall` or similar; new compiler diagnostics can result in a build failing. That's easy enough to work around. Second,
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by joshkel 2y ago
Yes. I don't remember Murderbot using the Rin disguise / persona later on.
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by joshkel 2y ago
Why do you say that? I don't have access to the books right now, but from what I remember, Rin is referred to as she/her, and random Reddit comments ( https://www.reddit.com/r/murderbot/comments/118s7
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by joshkel 2y ago
For what it's worth, Murderbot's "Security Consultant Rin" human disguise is apparently female.
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by joshkel 2y ago
Interesting. The way I was taught Python, you really, really don't want to use bare `except:`, because it catches _everything_: Ctrl-C interruptions, system exit, etc. Instead, you really ought to use `except Exception:` (where `Except

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