gleenn
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Clojure dev from California.
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- gleennMaybe you should send it enough mail to fill it up and the it would reject emails? Send a bunch of emails with large attachments and avoid getting marked as spam.
- Clojure also has the threading macro -> and ->> which are great at converting exactly the same type of code into a stream of modifications instead of breaking out everything into variables. Naming things can be very useful sometimes but sometimes it is entirely gratuitous and distracting to have
let input = read_input(); let trimmed_input = input.trim(); let trimmed_uppercase_input = trimmed_input.uppercase();
...
The extra variable names are almost completely boilerplate and make it also annoying to reorder things.
In Clojure you can do
(-> (read-input) string/trim string/upcase)
And I find that so much more readable and refactorable.
- Yes, but China or one of the many other countries that don't respect US patents could care less.
- Same with flying they say. But how free are you if the government snaps its fingers and removes every reasonable mode of transportation unless you sacrifice your privacy? The cameras (which are 100% opt-out by the way, tell them NO) in airports are rammed down are throats as well. How am I supposed to privately move?
- The data is the key though. How did they effectively scrape the data? Does every restaurant have a website? I bet half rely on Google Maps. So IMHO you are too optimistic because regularly and effectively getting the data is the hard part, not the model.
- I didn't have to have any biometrics taken, just answered a bunch of questions. Flew out of Las Vegas.
- I found out recently that you can adjust your Tesla headlights electronically from the computer screen inside and it was quite easy. I was regularly getting high-beam flashed by people because I think the stock Tesla settings have the lights too high.
- Which makes Clojure extra tempting because there is a bit of a infectious way to get Clojure i to corporations when you are always just handing the ops guys a "Java" we app bundled as a jar but secretly inside it's all Clojure compiled classfiles that work perfectly run on many JVM-based web servers with no additional effort.
I think Rich even alludes to this fact in one of his talks where it would be disallowed to run Ruby/Python/Rust whatever but it's Java then it's a know entity.
- I think this is a very negative idea to promote: that laws should can be subverted. Everyone should believe that laws work and when they don't we should work to fix that, not assume that it can never be fixed.
- Isn't that something Rust is particularly good at, controlling the mutation of shared memory?
- Double Jeopardy is disallowed in the United States, they would have to be convicted on new crimes.
- Fun article but the title is definitely overstating the huge amount of functionality lost if you replace Kafka. Immediately on my mind would be durability and broadcasting.
- The police chumminess is super dystopian. I definitely went with E2E encrypted cameras because I also think it's so crazy people just hand all that data over without realizing how powerful it is and how much personal privacy they are throwing out the window.
- When I worked at a restaurant b2b company that helped pay invoices I learned how razor thin margins most operate on. We even ended up giving out effectively a payday loan to one when they asked for assistance but jeeze those businesses struggle sometimes.
- FTA: "As hard as the job is, diagnostic accuracy in the E.R. is high overall. But a recent systematic review of published research estimated that 5.7 percent of E.R. patients will have at least one diagnostic error and 2 percent have a setback as a result."
I feel like scrutinizing the industry for a 2-3% error on an obviously difficult problem is exactly why we pay so much in the United States for health care.
- Glad to see more articles out using AMD hardware acceleration especially for matrix math. More diversity in this space is welcome.
- Twitter also
- Very interesting conclusion directly from the human study you linked: "Marijuana use is correlated with lower BMI. As legalization and prevalence of the drug in the U.S. increases, the prevalence of obesity may decline. However, clinicians should view this outcome along with the known health risks associated with marijuana use."
- This is an awesome idea, and it's cool to see it broken down by language so you can quickly find things you could actually help on (instead of slowing down a project as a newbie in any specific technologies). In the back of my mind it's hard to connect how these applications or tools help. Reading a few titles unfortunately gives me the vaguest of ideas of who or what I'm helping though (even if the second drop down lets you select "solving hunger" etc etc, I still don't see how or why or where this project is used without digging in. Even then, I randomly picked one and this was the best summary I got /from inside the git rep/ - "CREDEBL SSI Platform This repository host codebase for CREDEBL SSI Platform backend." I really wish everyone spent a little more time actually writing titles and descriptions that gave even the smallest amount of additional context. I feel like most of us programmers have our heads in the technology so quickly that even as an empassioned technologist with 30 years of experience I have not even the slightest clue what that project does or the problem it solves. This is so true for things as simple as git commit messages to readmes to whatever. The project meta-data is important. Fill those little text boxes in with a bit of substance. The AI overlords will thank you as well as your future self in a few years when you don't have the context front-and-center like you did when you threw this project together.
- I don't think adequate studies have taken a look into the long term effects of all the solvents and oils they use aside from the nicotine. Intuitively, this just seems like a terrible idea putting non-water-soluble vapors into your lungs but I am definitely not a doctor.