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Jeff Dean ... and other senior employees pledged to “neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade, or use of lethal autonomous weapons.” Google signed the classified deal, yet they remain.

I think he could have stopped the deal, yet he did not. He remains, yet I think he should not.

Is Jeff Dean still considered a saint at Google? If so, how come this doesn't change that? The amicus was enough?

I think it's weird to say crap like "So and so was a stinky manager" and then be like it's not a personal attack!

I liked Zed Shaw. I liked Ted Unangst. They made solid technical points and they were kinda mean about it. They didn't act like butter wouldn't melt in their mouths at the same time.

“Jarred was a stinky manager”. Is this professional criticism?

It’s white text on black bg for me. But to answer your question- reader mode!

The language doesn't, but I'd say the language integration isn't the tricky part of this kind of cross-cutting-concern code. In JS you could imagine a function that decorates classes in some way, or React HOCs, etc. (We don't do HOCs anymore because we have a new kind of kludge, but we used to.)

The tricky part is as someone mentioned elsewhere in the thread: the attribute doesn't account for interactions well. You might want it to alter its behavior in different situations but the whole point is that it's cross-cutting and treats everything the same. (And I would say, even though I just called React hooks a kludge, that they are less cumbersome in this respect than HOCs were.)

Hmm, I think you’re not ever supposed to say anything negative about Ukraine.

Sometimes foreign aid is good, other times it's bad.

Remember that webcomic of the org charts of different companies? Microsoft's was a bunch of separate groups with guns aimed at each other.

I was pleased to see Congaree on here. It really does suck that bad.

For #1, holding the option key makes the x immediately appear on all of the spaces.

Hope they don’t auto-close this one in two weeks

The dystopia of searching for video clips and finding them? What?

I’ve worked in two places now with Ruby Sorbet servers. Ruby always drives me nuts how things are just in-scope and we don’t know why or where they came from.

I certainly wouldn’t want to go back to working in dynamic languages without typing on top. That takes too much brain power, I’m too old for that now.

I would say Sorbet seems more “basic” than something like Typescript. It handles function calls matching signatures, potential nulls, making sure properties actually exist, that kind of thing. Whereas TS can get quite abstract, and at times you’re fighting to convince it that a value actually is the type you say it is.

TS is very powerful and expressive, to the point that it’s possible to do computation within type code. I’m not convinced I always need that power, or that it’s always more help than hindrance.

Oops you forgot this part:

Here we account for the influence of three main natural variability factors: El Niño, volcanism, and solar variation.

Whoops! Whoopsies! Oopsy doodles!

Indeed, if only it were as simple as “{n} rows”.

I18n / l10n is full of things like this, important details that couldn’t be more boring or fiddly to implement.

If I may suggest two artists besides the great Fela Kuti: William Onyeabor (try "Tomorrow") and Dizzy K Falola (try "Sweet Music").

I didn’t see the source graph thing, but the Grab episode always seemed odd to me. He wrote these breathless rants about how epic it all was, then quit after a year or so. I just figured the long hours eventually stopped being awesome.

Man we better hope the solution to that problem is working code. Otherwise we better start working the fryers or something.

From what I can tell, he was insufficiently enthusiastic about immigration. And, you know. You can't be saying that stuff.

I can't agree, it's been nice to have these people off Twitter. They don't contribute much and their shrillness got really old.

Yeah. I don’t want to see “wow look at how pretty this markup is”. I want to see “look how flexible and easy to change this is, without redoing everything”.

If you’re not talking about change, the other stuff is pointless.

I gather by the mention of fascism that the correspondent is a bad person. So it makes sense that Russell told him to get bent. But, that is all that he's really saying here.

I can only guess this is noteworthy due to the parties corresponding because it isn't very interesting outside of that.

It would only take you a weekend!

Not only that, but if the trial works that way, you can repeat it any time you need to record something. The app probably dropped a prefs file somewhere (the old-style Mac XML preferences files), delete that and go again.

This would actually be easier than just paying.

Hey, if you can know that your users are not adversarial and are capable of writing queries, I say let 'em! The problem is really in that last bit.

Man, this guy is still doing it. Good for him! I used to read his books (compendia of his syndicated column) when I was a kid.

We have the editor plugin configured so we can see lints in-editor. But the rules are not yet sufficiently configurable for us to use it in CI. It seems they have their own rule-config schema, and it doesn’t expose everything you might need.

For example the banned import rule- you can list specific imports to ban, but you can’t configure a pattern. The actual lint rule supports patterns already but biome’s config doesn’t accept a `pattern` property.

I'm afraid you are too late! For you see, I have already depicted you as the impatient and stupid toddler, and myself as the rational, mature adult.

I was with you until “immediate societal collapse”, what?

Perhaps that is a clue!