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The number of times I've had to explain how the JVM heap works...

The point is that the realities of not being able to deploy in lockstep erode away at a lot of the claimed benefits the monorepo gives you in being able to make a change everywhere…

> - There is a difference between things that are actually the same (or should be for consistency (such as domain facts, knowledge) versus ones that happen to be the same at the ti…

They’re not talking about the squiggly line. The word return/retunr gets highlighted in slightly different colors based on whether the highlighter is picking it up as a keyword or …

Unfortunately the page repeatedly crashed and reloads on my iPhone 13 mini until it gives up.

Two problems I’ve encountered with magic links: * Mobile email clients that open links in an embedded browser. This confuses some people. From their perspective they never stay log…

I’m pretty sure it’s just using Ruby for rake, which is a task runner. So Ruby is only needed for the build process.

You need to be careful with some circumstances. I recently had to fix up a case where someone had tried this with a recurring local date. Something needed to happen at 4am local ti…

Having click and drag not be limited to a line is actually useful for ringing around a completed ship. You can tap a number clue on the outside to fill in the missing water, which …

https://tour.gleam.run/functions/function-captures/ https://tour.gleam.run/functions/pipelines/ These took me basically no time at all to find. Are you looking for something else f…

repl as a name kind of describes the requirements for something to be a repl - it has a read-evaluate-print loop. It would be more confusing to say that something with a read-evalu…

Managed to get to 80 after about an hour while watching TV. Wish it would tell me which ones I’m missing, manually cross referencing seems like a bit of a pita. Fun though.

> Pro tip: use "win the lottery" instead to avoid the negative connotation of injury or death. I very much appreciate the attempt to reframe it positively. But personally, if I win…

Ironically Rubocops style guide recommends against chaining the safe navigation operator.

The towncrier approach is similar to what we do at work. We have the addition that the individual changelog files say their scope (major, minor, or patch), and we use that to autom…

It has role and aria attributes, so I think it actually isn't that bad. It's just ` ` is an awfully long way to spell out ` `.

For me this occurs when I put my phone on landscape.

Some symbols I can think of that Ruby uses that python doesn’t: $ for global vars @ for instance vars :: for namespace stuff => for map key, value separator {||} for blocks .. and …

I think your comment about how and why this is a problem specifically for the Catholic church is valid. But to cover a couple of verses quoted in point 2, just in case it is helpfu…

Have you tried the document scanner feature in the notes app?

The problem with YAML as a configuration format can be boiled down to two things: 1) significant whitespace; that one is obviously subjective 2) encoding types in the document When…

It’s been a while since I did any C#. How do I write a function that returns something that encapsulates the operations to perform on the stream that I can then compose with other …

Never said you did. I was just explaining that you aren't "using someone else's padding and margin classes".