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MattyMc

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Professional math nerd, aspiring computer nerd. I love making things that 'I' want, in the hopes that other people will find value in them too.

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Anyone who doesn't understand this is an idiot imo

I don’t think that’s true. Avoiding this mistake requires knowing that an ultrasound may not detect calcification. For a patient reading their own report, I don’t think that’s intuitive. I would expect most people to read “no calcifications” and assume that their joint has no calcifications.

No Calls 2 years ago

#4: They want to build trust

For my business (micro-SaaS EdTech), the value of building trust with my customers cannot be understated. Further, I don’t believe i can effectively build trust with my customers in the way the author describes; without meetings.

[dead] 2 years ago

“Free”… for non-commercial use.

Is it ethical to say a software is now free for only a learning license?

A Writer's Ruby 3 years ago

Nearly all the first comments express that the justification to include Rubocop with a default rule set in Rails 8 contradicts DHH's criticism of languages such as Go which have a built-in linter, therefore dictating style rules to programmers. DHH criticizes Go's approach as totalitarian while shipping Rubocop with Basecamp's rule set.

Rubocop is a linter (etc) whose rule set can be easily customized and to include it in Rails wouldn't be possible without _some_ default set of rules. DHH addresses this apparent contradiction directly, too: "Not such that I, or anyone, can mandate what style your codebase ought to be written in, but such that you can find and enforce your own." I'm reading: A linter/formatter will be included in Rails 8 with a smart default rule set, and it can be easily customized. I don't see any contradiction.

I'm highly aligned with this decision as it could help alleviate a recurring pain point at our tiny company: managing code formatters and linters in our IDE (Solargraph, Rubocop, Ruby LSP, etc). Further, I'd expect excellent documentation on how we can customize the rules to best suit our purposes, too.

Bard Extensions 3 years ago

I think you're referring to Canada's Online News Act, which would require companies to pay news outlets for the content they share or repurpose. I'm a Canadian familiar with this story, and Google's opposition to it.

It surprise me if Google would limit Bard in Canada because of the Online News Act. Wouldn't the importance of driving adoption of Bard be much larger than the impact of having to remove Canadian news?

Llama 2 3 years ago

Does anyone know what's permitted commercially by the license? I saw the part indicating that if your user count is "greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta."

Does that imply it can be used commercially other wise? This is different than Llama's license, I believe, where they permitted only research use.

It's a term that Firebase uses. From [their documentation](https://firebase.google.com/docs/database): "The Firebase Realtime Database is a cloud-hosted database. Data is stored as JSON and synchronized in realtime to every connected client."

I believe "realtime" in this case pertains to the synchronization of data amongst clients through websockets. This is how I've seen the term "realtime database" most commonly used.

As someone who operates a small tech company (<5 employees), I can't relate to using all these products. However, our needs are different than the author's. Given that they're paying $800+ USD/month, I suspect their monthly revenue and the time saved from these tools justifies their cost.

adrianthedev: THANK YOU for implementing a one-time fee. It actually make using this realistic for us.

Quick question: Do you have support for front-end frameworks (i.e. React)? I did try to crawl the docs to find out.

We have a Rails monolith, but we're unique in that we have a highly interactive educational app with a boat load of javascript. Our mantra has been: use React only if we absolutely have to. I realize we're unique in this regard.

Totally cool if not; just thought I'd ask. Great work on the project!