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I enjoy my copy of RESearch’s Ballard https://www.researchpubs.com/shop/p/research-89-jg-ballard-l...

See first post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870988

According to projections this year will hit 300 GWh in the US https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-manufactur...

generate a story where there is not much of a story. What is unfortunate is this has gotten upvoted and is now part of the noise.

Ah memory lane. I created the "speaker head" characters and lead the redesign of the WinAmp web site back in 2004. Good times. Through Odopod in San Francisco https://x.com/WebDesi…

This but attached targeting a 3D printer.

If you see a fraud and do nothing you are part of the fraud.

True, but with visual art there is what is correct and what looks correct. When things are moving and the area small no one is going to notice. But now that is problem is solved a …

Something, well may things, kill about Microsoft. The Office suite have a wonderful API and loading a JS app with an an interface in the apps works great. We took an Elm app from o…

Lewes Delaware has the Cannonball house which was struck in the 1812 bombardment. Delightful town and beach, worth a visit.

I switched back to 4.5 Sonnet or Opus yesterday since 4.6 was so slow and often “over thinking” or “over analyzing” the problem space. Tasks which accurately took under an minute i…

Remember having to write detailed specs before coding? Then folks realized it was faster and easier to skip the specs and write the code? So now are we back to where we were? One o…

Look up Sean Bell - not a stop a frisk, just an open fire. Once, my wife and I were stopped, but not frisked, and cited for riding bikes, on a sidewalk at 2AM on a stretch of Atlan…

We have some tests that ensure the interface is correct - that the correct type of args are passed say from a batch process to a mailer and a mail object is returned. For these tes…

This is our experience. We have added Sorbet to a 16 year old Rails app. It is a big win in avoiding errors, typos, documentation, code completion, fewer tests are required, etc. A…

We have been adding Sorbet typing to our Rails application and it is a positive enhancement. It’s not like Ruby becomes Haskell. But it does provide a good deal of additional safte…

And use a single px invisible gif to move things around. But was Space Jam using multiple images or just one large image with and image map for links?

And moms are the gate keeps of their kids friends.

Speaking of compiling Ruby. And Stripe coders who have used the Sorbet compiler? https://sorbet.org/blog/2021/07/30/open-sourcing-sorbet-comp...

And won’t the authService.register function also error if the user already exists? Or will it allow double registering the account? There are deeper problems here that a Result typ…

Something that the type system should do is "make impossible states impossible" as Evan Czaplicki said (maybe others too) We have started to use typed HTML templates in Ruby using …

Many years ago a 4.5 hit when I living in Berkeley, about 2 miles aways and I thought a truck ran into my house. No rolling - just one giant jolt.

Nothing worse than starting off a talk and bombing.