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"Ruby" is the name of the size of the type

Apropos of nothing, but a few Christmasses ago the place I worked had a dedicated fibre line that some workmen doing gas line repairs sawed straight through, took out everything; I…

afaik there's nothing tying it specifically to GH (where the metatada is), and then the actual code is just in an S3 bucket, so in theory should be reasonably easy [ha!] to just ho…

Ah, back to normal now. Getting intermittent flickers on some of our apps but all seems solid-ish again

Yep, S3 possibly the villain here

Assuming crates.io is AWS-backed? Getting fun situation where direct dependencies of an application are downloading but then the sub-dependencies aren't.

It's more analogous to an alternative history where the Ruby framework most people used was Rack [directly], not anything built on top of it (ie Rails).

Yes, that seems to be true (and is that % you've guessed maybe too low? Maybe far too low?). Even with that though, it's extraordinarily fine margins -- w/r/t the businesses that I…

Well...yes, not necessarily fundamental, but it's the same class of problem cinemas and restaurants have (to pick two). What do cinemas mainly make money from? What do restaurants …

& Rust is surely a highly imperative language that has absorbed functional idioms (where appropriate), rather than something that falls under the banner of "functional language"?

You're likely literally doing the same thing with Webpack. There is only one complete implementation of the TS compiler in existence, so you have to use that to typecheck, it doesn…

It's not the same thing though, SWC is a different category of tool. Edit: though I guess if you include the sibling project swcpack, it covers the same ground. SWC itself doesn't …

Aye very similar at my last job -- got asked a month before that if I was happy, then got given a task with a slightly weird vibe about it that noone except the CTO (also my direct…

Ah, sorry, I misread that. GP has fair points though, whole situation in the UK is crazy, infects everything, it's an arms race

Two (import + require, which, as import didn't exist, was necessary). Most current tooling is built to handle both (Deno draws a line under it by disallowing the older one)

Practically, number of browsers + 2 (Node and Deno, and Deno is stretching the definition of practical at this early stage). Edit: + Electron + the JS runtime used for Windows ecos…

> Being valued at £2M doesn't mean you could sell all of them for that price or that the people living in them paid £2M for them But in London these houses do sell, normally very q…

Caveat that this is second hand info based entirely on GameFromScratch (I've avoided playing with it because of his updates) -- he's recorded a new review on afaics every recent Lu…

Of course it is, but neither parent nor anyone else is saying anything close to the mistake being effective documentation. There's a single missing word which needs to be added in,…

Yeah, I think there's a fundamental problem with the implementation -- with small, single-file programs where the code can be written in a chronologically linear manner it works we…

I'd posit that there's a general principle underpinning this that is true for most things (not games, or art, but everything). This is a bit half-formed in my head, but: Computer t…

Always been that way, always will be I guess. Someone happens on a set of very specific behaviours they use to fix some aspect of their behaviour/health/etc. Sometimes delusional, …

Yes you are right, and it is this: > Simple/complex refers to a system or problem, while easy/hard refers to the difficulty of controlling the system or solving the problem. I do t…

Meaning seems correct afaics? In particular any commenters who build software or engineer products should recognise this, making simple things is often very hard.

This is the critical point, most sibling comments are conflating the two [when in fact they are completely different]