romellem

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by romellem 2mo ago
Counterpoint: https://sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/there-are-no-lossless-tran...
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by romellem 2mo ago
These are interesting results, but it reeks of LLM output. [ You made an interesting thing, why not describe it in your own words? I already read this all day.][1] [1]: https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov/post&#x2
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by romellem 5mo ago
Literally just had this same signal with PR review comments. Checked the status page, saw it was green, and (correctly) assumed “not for long!”
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by romellem 6mo ago
Some of these missing checks were why Flow was an attractive choice when weighing [Flow vs Typescript][1]. For example, it wasn't until Typescript 2.0 that we got null checks! - https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/
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by romellem 9mo ago
The experience you describe has been completely different from mine. I’m not a big poster, but I use Bluesky daily for: - Sports - Law - Authors - Comedy - Video Games - Programming news - Other general news Really feels like you are projec
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by romellem 11mo ago
“Guns don’t kill people, etc…”
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by romellem 1y ago
Is there a specific part of Node 22 that isn’t there in Node 24?
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Rails Needs New Governance(davidcel.is)
56 points by romellem 1y ago|44 comments
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by romellem 1y ago
> The overall message of the democrats has been "we didn't do it, but he had it coming". Please give examples of this.
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by romellem 1y ago
> needs to be cancelled
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by romellem 1y ago
In his one singular semester in college? Going to need a source for your fact there. Pretty sure no one has all the info yet.
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by romellem 1y ago
Except all indications are the show was pulled because of pressure from the government . The FCC threatening “we can do this the easy way or the hard way” is not constitutional.
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by romellem 1y ago
Smarter Scrubber video, for those that aren't familiar: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY
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by romellem 1y ago
Should say "Made in America*", since: Not all of its parts are U.S. made: Other components come from China and other Asian countries. [...] The screen and battery come from China and the rear-facing camera comes from South K
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by romellem 1y ago
[Simple is not easy][1]. [1]: https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2017/01/02/simple-is-not-ea...
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by romellem 1y ago
The company I work for does this. I recently pushed an update to a personal repo that just contained a keyword match (the push included a dictionary.txt file which happened to include the company name) which flagged a review.
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by romellem 1y ago
Oh wow, totally forgot about [Yammer][1]. What a waste of time. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_Engage
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by romellem 1y ago
To remove the presidential pardon power, you'd need to [amend the Constitution][1]. Getting [two thirds of both Houses of Congress][2] to pass any amendment in the foreseeable future seems highly unlikely if not downright inconceivab
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by romellem 1y ago
Ah the old "make a bot post, then write about the bot post, then get called out as a bot, then make another post talking about getting 'falsely' accused of being a bot" play. It's all so obvious! /s
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In Defence of TypeScript Enums(yazanalaboudi.dev)
19 points by romellem 1y ago|5 comments
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by romellem 1y ago
Related discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35441211
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by romellem 1y ago
> hasn't been the case for years For 10 years, actually. ES6 - otherwise known as ECMAScript 2015 - did in fact come out 10 years ago. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history#6th... It truly
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by romellem 2y ago
I largely agree with these, except for #4: Ship First, Refine Never Write good enough code that solves a user’s problem and only optimise when metrics demand it. Too often, we’re focused on perfectionism or premature optimisatio
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by romellem 2y ago
Contrast Meta's stance with Costco's, when [Costco responded][1] to a shareholder that proposed Costco prepare a report on "the risks of the Company maintaining its current DEI roles, policies and goals." Our success
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by romellem 2y ago
> mostly useless comments about not having periods at the ends of lines Oh my god, this sounds like a nightmare. I definitely would not be able to tolerate this for long. Did you try to get them to change? Were you just not in a senior e
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by romellem 2y ago
https://archive.is/eAYIL
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by romellem 2y ago
Agreed. I’d pay for this (I pay for [Fork][1]), but never as a subscription. [1]: https://git-fork.com
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by romellem 2y ago
I genuinely don’t understand. I really hope I am wrong, but I believe we are about to enter a post-truth state.
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by romellem 2y ago
Being skeptical of abstractions is something I have been adhering to for a while in my career, and I have found it to be a successful strategy for long term project health. This passage really connected with me: > Asymmetry of abstracti
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by romellem 2y ago
Wow, the nostalgia. Thank you, that's it!! This must have been added since the last time I searched.

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