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jade12on Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby

Here it is:

https://github.com/sorbet/sorbet/blob/master/gems/sorbet-run...

As you'll notice, `sig` doesn't actually do anything.

jade12on We Can Do Better Than SQL

Doesn't every major RDBMS support JSON out of the box these days?

jade12on Keeping master green at scale

From the first sentence of the abstract:

> monolithic source-code repositories

A monorepo is a monolithic repository

jade12on First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant

Lest anyone forget, the Centralia (coal) mine fire has been burning since at least 1962 and no one knows how to stop it. The Fukushima Daiichi incident really doesn't seem that bad to me, comparatively speaking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

jade12on Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages

Agreed. 200KB is far too small to effectively evaluate the offering.

A blank Ruby on Rails app is several times that amount, and the yarn.lock file alone is nearly 300KB.