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For code, often contractors and partners are only given scoped access to relevant projects.

Mnesia, if you’re using Erlang or Elixir.

For a while the preferred templating engine for .erb files was “erubis” which is the Japanese pronunciation for Elvis

Notepad++ has incredibly easy to use macros with the record/play buttons in the toolbar. It is my preferred tool for quickly munging text files especially ones where you want to ch…

The way the author defines loops is so broad that every single 90s game I can think of has them.

I am seeing information about the attacker that show he was being influenced by Rationalist thinkers - he posted about “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” by Eliezer Yudkowsky and…

I know what it means to be under material poverty in this hell of a country. Even so I think this is another poisoned chalice. We are where you export your garbage to, whether mate…

I am a lower caste Indian one generation removed from being farmhands. I have seen my parents go without for decades until I became successful. I still think this is utter cruelty …

The brink of world war 3 over fucking goodhart’s law. We are not a serious species.

I have worked extensively on Elixir in the past and had a decent enough time, some warts aside. How different is programming in Gleam in the day-to-day apart from type safety?

Great article but I’d say you’re optimizing for the wrong metric here. For in game playthroughs, offense > defense and especially speedy offense beats anything else. I’d state it a…

The other thing keeping me on iTerm is Ghostty lacking tab support in quake mode

Dictionaries are not specs for the English language, they are wikis. Twenty years later when “delulu” (a word popular enough that my 65 year old father regularly uses it) has falle…

> The old growth engines (microtransactions, live service games, season passes, user-generated content, loot boxes, eSports hero shooters, etc.) also no longer work, as neither gen…

DBeaver is somewhat clunky, yes, but for me that's a minor downside since it acts as a Swiss army knife, regardless of what DB I'm trying to access. That saves cognitive load from …

I use a similar technique with ebooks on my phone.

I managed to slowly claw it back by completely changing my reading method. I download ebooks on my phone and read in 5-10 min chunks throughout the day (where I’d normally be using…

I’d personally go with a single function like “convert_object_type” and pattern match into different clauses such as “convert_object_type(obj, from: m, to: mm)” and so on.

At my firm we’ve standardized on import being used only for a short list of well known first/third party modules (e.g. Ecto.Query and Plug.Conn). Application modules can be aliased…

Which of the current AI code generators do you find most useful in your workday? How have you integrated them into your workflows?

Sadly, this curse is nearly inescapable if you want to play modern online multiplayer or PVP games. MOBAs, MMOs, shooters, racing games, etc. are almost all like this now.

Yes. I'm Indian, lower-caste (not Dalit) with a surname that does not reveal it, working in India. One of my most vivid memories is hearing colleagues at my first job (a large mult…

Surnames are often caste signifiers.

The average size of an agricultural holding was 1.08 hectares (2.67 acres) in 2015-16 and declining over time [1]. A lot of Indian land is small farms with houses clustered among t…

The practice of assigning electoral symbols to each political party is also very useful for differentiating them. https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/india-election-party-s...