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I ran into this in a Ruby on Rails test suite a few years ago and wrote up my findings here: https://gist.github.com/abachman/f97806e1c0fe8e4e1849e5f8412... tl;dr - ActiveSupport::…

they include a LÖVE demo in their documentation: https://dev.fennel-lang.org/wiki/CookbookPong

Immediate full screen fake virus scanner ad on Android. What's up, OP?

I had the same thought, "oh damn, I haven't heard about 'the c10k problem' in ages" :D (it was "solved", right?) Given the author, his history in the field, and the project, though…

Hopelessness is their tool, not ours.

No joke, I actually hit this condition in a test suite and ended up stumbling across the October 1582 date in a Ruby library. It wasn't until I searched "October 10 1582" on the We…

The concern is always leverage and conflict of interest. Is there something about you that you would do anything to keep covered up? Are you susceptible to outside influence? Can a…

what are/were Reddit's top two or three cached structures / things? guessing post bodies and link previews feels too easy. comment threads? post listings? was there a lot of nestin…

Absolutely! If it means you are unable to make any decisions or reach any conclusions which do not align with your -ism, then you're in a dead end.

No. Federal employees take an oath to defend the Constitution, not the current executive. Civil service in the US has been neutral politically and merit based for the last 140 year…

"Chatham House Rules" is not a problem that needs solving. I've only seen it used as a courtesy extended by peers to each other out of mutual respect. "We will have conversations a…

Maybe it was before your time, but Diablo was absolutely huge in its day. Like, "top 10 for the 1990s" huge. Created (or at least established or set the benchmark for) the action R…

the only moves available are: 1. Split an integer into two smaller integers. 2. Combine (add) two integers into a larger one. Both suggest that negative numbers are not possible.

In my top five, too. I have two copies right now, the second is a first edition I found at a free bookstore. I've given one other away, will probably send another with a kid when t…

This is the important question. We evaluated several horizontally scalable DBs and Cockroach was by far the slowest for our access patterns.

I like the, "if you slice, your sister gets to pick first" energy.

This is 100% accurate to my experience working as a software developer for the US federal government. Important humanitarian mission (I worked in the asylum and refugee org) filled…

I use this setup. My notes folder is a git repo, I have a private repo on GitHub as backup. Then two moving parts. a backup.sh script, which boils down to: `cd ${obfolder}; git add…

We can each have our very own Dixie Flatline construct.

> the ?? would help a little bit that's the only point of the operator. given: a = 0; b = 42; then `a or b` and `a ?? b` give two different answers, but take the same number of cha…

that's interesting. my example data did include the edge case that caught me out in part two, but didn't include it in a way that broke my first pass at a solution. funny piece is …

link to the Cory Doctorow story, "The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away", for anyone else who's interested: https://www.tor.com/2008/08/06/weak-and-strange/ …

the missing context from the previous comment is that Tao used GitHub Copilot to help with learning Lean. He's been writing about it as he goes, most recently: https://mathstodon.x…

There's a thin line between by-the-books malicious compliance "throw away all the keys" and "intentionally destroyed company property". You'd sure want "please delete all our infor…

you heard them, a literal potato from the ground. even a big old russet only has, what, like 32 bites?