rubyist5eva

Podcast experience on desktop is absolutely miserable. I just want a list of the most recent unplayed episodes in chronological order, is that too much to ask? Like jeez, it sounds like the most basic feature imaginable that should be part of an MvP for crying out loud.

Only reason I still use it is because it's easier to cast to my google nest minis than Apple Podcasts.

It's a bunch of smoke and mirrors akin to blockchain, bitcoin (and the entire web3/crypto space in general) - a whole bunch of hype and "evangelists" who keep saying it's going to change the world (and make them a whole lot of money in the process, how convenient!) but if you do look at it critically even at a surface level you realize it's just a bunch of really computationally expensive BS that isn't any better or more officient than existing status quo solutions.

What about lying and fabricating facts about the Israel and Palestinian conflict?

https://twitter.com/IsraelBitton/status/1624744618012160000

last year I made a custom build of Iosevka using the customizer on the website and building it on my machine, and I can't use any other font now. If you like the general look of Iosevka, but prefer certain glyph variants over others - highly recommended to look into creating a custom iosevka build for yourself

Reminding me of my younger days, during my lolbertarian phase where I thought people would do the right thing and have safety procedures in place because "market forces" would shut them down if people died. To be that naive again...

As I’m getting older I’ve basically had to swear off alchohol and marijuana completely. Even if I don’t get intoxicated (or stoned), I nearly always just feel like absolute garbage the next day (not hangover, just feel gross and groggy). Sometimes it’s lasted for days, even when I only have one drink or smoke barely enough weed to get a little buzzed. Fortunately I’ve also reached a point where I just don’t really feel good from being intoxicated either so I don’t really have a recreational incentive to do it anymore either.

I don’t know how these things affect other people’s “sober lives” but if it’s anything like that I don’t see how people can function when getting intoxicated semi-regularly. The cost-benefit just seems completely lobsided.

Of course not, they’re too busy coming up with their own Ponzi scheme.

> It's understandable that the external perception of the company is bad (and even sexist)

> They were adamant about hiring women.

So it seems like the perception is justified then.

I fail to see the value of an AI that basically just regurgitates something you could already find in a search engine, on top of just spewing out completely nonsensical garbage if it can't find something. All this AI chatbot crap just seems like a step-backward as a whole, not too different from cryptocurrencies and blockchain where it offers no tangible benefit over the status-quo, costs way more for worse performance, and is still outperformed by traditional systems.

> In my opinion, it would be beneficial if DEI initiatives were confidential and kept "hush hush" within a company.

They shouldn't exist at all. If DEI favored white people, it would be "problematic", and that tells you all you need to know. As if non-white people can't be successful on their own and need special treatment. Tokenizing human beings to get social-credit for your corporation is, frankly, disgusting and extremely racist.

Do you talk about your “senior engineers” this way to their faces? Using scare quotes to refer to the titles of your colleagues? Do you refer to them as minions too?

You sound like an absolutely insufferable person to work under.

> If you're running Ubuntu anywhere there's a bit of bureaucracy, like a government or large business

> businesses that can’t afford $500/year/server

Pick one

classic regulatory capture, thanks Trump!

As a "rails folk", we aren't all like that :)

anti-virus software is the most dangerous malware that exists, it extracts money from you while slowing down your computer and generally making your life hell for no next to no benefit whatsoever

the amount of productivity lost to useless anti-virus software is incalculable

Can tell it's AI generated because the "plot" makes absolutely zero sense, lol.

Buddy, have you ever heard of this thing called "cryptocurrency"?

Mercurial's branch management makes more sense. If you want to know which branch a commit originated from in git, good luck.

Many things in git, are frankly anti-patterns in any other sane versioning system - comitting partial changesets because of the index? gross. Rewriting history and force pushing? absolutely insane.

The fact that I don't have to "grok" mercurial like you need to git is actually a plus. Mercurial can do everything that git does (and more: check out changeset evolution in mercurial, it blows anything you can do with git rebase out of the water) and it doesn't require Ph.D. level knowledge in directed acyclic graphs to do it either.

Mercurial should have won, it's superior in every way. For pesonal projects I use Fossil, which is fantastic.

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I double checked with him just to make sure, and he confirmed with me that he can see the tip.

Friend of mine started driving for Door Dash recently and when he told me they can see up front what the tip is going to be I was just flabbergasted. That's not how it's supposed to work, at all.

As somone that use to write a lot of functional-style code (in ruby), and generally prefers functional style, and have created many many many "pipelines" like that in ruby code - I've actually started to "regress" to "status-quo" (as the article puts it) mostly because I work with developers that don't understand functional style and it just becomes point of contention in review that I just don't care about getting into anymore. I can see this same kind of thing happening with this operator in JS-land (I may be wrong, haven't written any significant javascript in years, but people tend to be stubborn).

I just write things as stupidly as possible now, and just do the second one even though there are nicer "ruby-ways" to do them - maybe this is "bad" but I find it easy to read and grok...and it doesn't cause arguments during review <.<

I find the fact that you can run this without installing by using docker, I immediately though of running runlike with runlike

runlike -p runlike

This looks like a pretty neat tool, but when I'm spinning anything up non-trivial I usually just write docker-compose files so I'm not sure what use case I would have for it personally.

These days I'm more often surprised when GitHub is actually working correctly.

I was vegan for 3 years and even then I couldn't stomach this garbage. Give me plain ground beef over this hyper-processed garbage any day.

The best "meat alternatives" were always the ones that didn't try to replicate taste and texture of meat and did their own things. Quinoa burgers are delicious.

You don’t have dedicated time for technical debt. You make fixing technical debt part of your estimates for new features.

I worked for Ashley Madison (or should I say, the company that runs it), so I have a somewhat twisted take on this article.

> Others will sign up for the site, use it a few times, forget they have a membership, and continue to get billed for it, sometimes for years.

It's shocking how much of the site's revenue comes from this. If dormant subscribers were all removed, AM would be completely wiped out. I'd wager a lot of dating websites are like this. AM had a few "subsites" and they all survived like this also.

> If someone joins the site and is successful, the site loses two customers.

This is where AM is devious because, in theory, everyone is cheating on eachother. If you're a cheater you're probably gonna keep your account to continue cheating. Brilliant.

The other devious thing that everyone already knows about knows about, is that there are actually barely any real women on the site. Most call them bots, but they are basically just automated accounts which is just built right into the monolith. Some of them are actually accounts from real women that just became dormant and aren't used anymore. Some are just fake accounts setup by the company. They got slapped by regulators for running bot accounts (among other things) after the big hack, but now they just use dark patterns to make everything look above board.

I am not endorsing their business model. I started working there out of morbid curiosity and because I was going to be working on things like increasing the security and privacy of the site - which seemed noble at the time - I was laid off during a restructuring. It is a seriously demented company to work for and feel that overall it is a stain on my career in hindsight, though it is an interesting ice breaker.

When they started charging for Docker Desktop I immediately uninstalled it and just installed the cli-client on my mac machine, and started running Docker itself in an Ubuntu VM and set the $DOCKER_HOST on the host machine and do everything in the CLI. The only reason I use $DOCKER_HOST at all is because I'm just too lazy to have an SSH session constantly open to the vm to run docker commands, otherwise I would just install the docker snap in Ubuntu and call it a day and use it directly.

My company is still small enough that we could use Docker Desktop for free, but I refuse to get sucked into such a shitty value proposition.

I question your competence if you can't run docker commands in a terminal and think $5 per month for a lousy electron app that wraps the commands with some buttons is good value. The fact they they are making $135M ARR and the company is valued at over a billion dollars is absolutely insane when superior alternatives that are Free exist.

I thought HN was better than upvoting the ramblings of random braindamaged redditors.