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Our backend is primarily in Scala and has been for over a decade. My take is that Scala 2 -> 3 was a massive hit to the language's momentum. It came at a time when the language's p…

Did MoonBit add support for some kind of shared memory concurrency like threads? I remember discovering the language, being very excited about it, and then learning it is single-th…

Agreed. There was a period of time roughly 10-15 years ago where symbolic operators in Scala were very en vogue. That fell out of style in a big way and I haven't encountered symbo…

Not confident it's quite that straightforward. Here's a presentation from Meta showing a 6-12% increase in diff throughput for above-median users of agentic coding: https://www.you…

It's Jujutsu based, but I imagine East River Source Control https://ersc.io/ may be building a GitHub competitor.

From my perspective the two biggest challenges of the Scala 3 migration were macros and poor tooling support. Macros were an experimental Scala 2 feature, but were used all over th…

Compiler error messages improved significantly with Scala 3. IIRC there was a dedicated effort with Scala 3 to improve error messages and make them more actionable. Scala 2 error m…

Isn't the table sorted alphabetically?

Based on my reading of the table, the PurpleAir II sensors seemed to be the best of the sub $300 for PM1.0 (field R^2 of 0.96 to 0.98) and PM2.5 (field R^2 of 0.93 to 0.97). The PM…

PurpleAir also makes an indoor air quality sensor that measures particulate matter: https://www2.purpleair.com/products/purpleair-pa-i-indoor Not sure how it compares with Awair or…

One thing I'm not totally clear on after reading the article is which AWS account the AWS KMS resides. Is it Slack's AWS account or the customer's?

Similar experience with Dota 2 and ESL on Facebook. The experience was horrible. Viewership was bad. Doesn't seem like anyone was happy about it https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/…

>I don't understand why they wouldn't do it, though. I see no plausible explanation. Money seems like a good reason. If a tiny fraction of your sales and a large fraction of your b…

Several years ago, I ran into the exact same nausea with the Source engine as the GP, but when I increased the FOV the problem went away. I've run into nausea with other games that…

I imagine there are climates that are better for grass or certain species of grass that are very drought tolerant. However, in my experience, not watering a lawn will kill it. I ha…

If you only have 20% of your time available to write code, then I would much rather you do not review code in which the person who wrote it had 90% or more of their time to write c…

This is exciting to hear. I look forward to hearing more.

I understand that both kube2iam and kiam exist and they're both fine. I am interested in Amazon/EKS directly supporting something. Hopefully we will see something soon via CRD or o…

> we need to set up a way to manage AWS IAM credentials to Kubernetes pods... In a production system, this should be done using a tool such as kube2iam or kiam... I am curious if A…

Google did a bit of work on converting Closure annotated JavaScript to TypeScript. It's called Gents and it's part of the Clutz project https://github.com/angular/clutz/tree/master…

Lucidchart and Lucidpress are large projects that are almost entirely TypeScript on the frontend. The team really likes it. We use TypeScript and Angular that is compiled using Tsi…

Thirded. There are some exciting things happening in the Scala build tool space right now. We're migrating everything to Bazel right now, including our Scala code. Bazel + Scala is…

Is it, though? There are so many other ways that someone might not be a good "fit." Maybe you found another, slightly better candidate who is willing to accept a lower offer. Maybe…

What do I do when I quit my current job, move across the country, and then get fired 30 days later? I would likely never accept an offer at a company that tells me up front there i…

It would be great if many of the games worked like that. Sadly, in my experience, you can report/block someone and then immediately be matched with them again. This is especially t…