romellem

These are interesting results, but it reeks of LLM output. [ You made an interesting thing, why not describe it in your own words? I already read this all day.][1]

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov/post/3mpyd3esthc2m

Literally just had this same signal with PR review comments. Checked the status page, saw it was green, and (correctly) assumed “not for long!”

Some of these missing checks were why Flow was an attractive choice when weighing [Flow vs Typescript][1].

For example, it wasn't until Typescript 2.0 that we got null checks!

- https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t...

  function getLength(s: string): number {
    return s.length; //  Runtime crash if s is null/undefined
  }
  
  getLength(null); // TypeScript <2.0 would not error here

The experience you describe has been completely different from mine. I’m not a big poster, but I use Bluesky daily for:

- Sports

- Law

- Authors

- Comedy

- Video Games

- Programming news

- Other general news

Really feels like you are projecting a bit.

“Guns don’t kill people, etc…”

Is there a specific part of Node 22 that isn’t there in Node 24?

The overall message of the democrats has been "we didn't do it, but he had it coming".

Please give examples of this.

needs to be cancelled

In his one singular semester in college? Going to need a source for your fact there. Pretty sure no one has all the info yet.

Except all indications are the show was pulled because of pressure from the government. The FCC threatening “we can do this the easy way or the hard way” is not constitutional.

Smarter Scrubber video, for those that aren't familiar:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY

Should say "Made in America*", since:

  Not all of its parts are U.S. made: Other components come from China and other Asian countries. [...]
  The screen and battery come from China and the rear-facing camera comes from South Korea.

  Tariffs likely won’t affect his costs at his current production rates
  because he ordered a large batch of parts when he started and still has
  them in supply at his facility. Weaver says that a long-term tariff on
  imported electronics could make the Liberty Phone’s manufacturing cost
  more competitive, since the cheap components would only see marginal
  increases, and more components are likely to be built in the U.S. soon.

Also "more components are likely to be built in the U.S. soon" - says who? How much is "likely," and how soon is "soon?" Lazy reporting at the end with practically no push back from the WSJ writer.

[Simple is not easy][1].

[1] https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2017/01/02/simple-is-not-ea...

The company I work for does this. I recently pushed an update to a personal repo that just contained a keyword match (the push included a dictionary.txt file which happened to include the company name) which flagged a review.

Oh wow, totally forgot about [Yammer][1]. What a waste of time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_Engage

To remove the presidential pardon power, you'd need to [amend the Constitution][1]. Getting [two thirds of both Houses of Congress][2] to pass any amendment in the foreseeable future seems highly unlikely if not downright inconceivable.

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C1-3...

[2] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artV-1/ALDE_0...

Ah the old "make a bot post, then write about the bot post, then get called out as a bot, then make another post talking about getting 'falsely' accused of being a bot" play.

It's all so obvious!

/s

Related discussion

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35441211

hasn't been the case for years

For 10 years, actually. ES6 - otherwise known as ECMAScript 2015 - did in fact come out 10 years ago.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history#6th...

It truly did improve the JS landscape by an order of magnitude.

For those unfamiliar with the extensive features this brought to JS, here is a good list:

- https://rse.github.io/es6-features/

I largely agree with these, except for #4:

  Ship First, Refine Never
  
  Write good enough code that solves a user’s problem and only optimise when metrics demand it.

  Too often, we’re focused on perfectionism or premature optimisation, which prevents getting our code in the hands of users quickly.
  
  - Identify the critical components of your feature.
  - Deliver only those to the user.
  - Users just want to click the button, do the thing, and move on—anything else is wasting time.

Namely, talk to your customers, or use software to see how they are using your product. Often times, we don’t get something right the first time, so the idea that you’d aggressively deprioritizing refinement seems like a mistake.

Contrast Meta's stance with Costco's, when [Costco responded][1] to a shareholder that proposed Costco prepare a report on "the risks of the Company maintaining its current DEI roles, policies and goals."

  Our success at Costco Wholesale has been built on service to our critical stakeholders: employees, 
  members, and suppliers. Our efforts around diversity, equity and inclusion follow our code of ethics: 
  For our employees, these efforts are built around inclusion – having all of our employees feel valued and 
  respected. Our efforts at diversity, equity and inclusion remind and reinforce with everyone at our Company 
  the importance of creating opportunities for all. We believe that these efforts enhance our capacity to attract 
  and retain employees who will help our business succeed. This capacity is critical because we owe our 
  success to our now over 300,000 employees around the globe.

mostly useless comments about not having periods at the ends of lines

Oh my god, this sounds like a nightmare. I definitely would not be able to tolerate this for long.

Did you try to get them to change? Were you just not in a senior enough position for anyone to listen?

https://archive.is/eAYIL

Agreed. I’d pay for this (I pay for [Fork][1]), but never as a subscription.

[1] https://git-fork.com

I genuinely don’t understand. I really hope I am wrong, but I believe we are about to enter a post-truth state.

Being skeptical of abstractions is something I have been adhering to for a while in my career, and I have found it to be a successful strategy for long term project health.

This passage really connected with me:

Asymmetry of abstraction costs

There’s also a certain asymmetry to abstraction. The author of an abstraction enjoys its benefits immediately—it makes their code look cleaner, easier to write, more elegant, or perhaps more flexible. But the cost of maintaining that abstraction often falls on others: future developers, maintainers, and performance engineers who have to work with the code. They’re the ones who have to peel back the layers, trace the indirections, and make sense of how things fit together. They’re the ones paying the real cost of unnecessary abstraction.

I find this mentality to overlap with (the resurgence of?) discussion on DRY vs WET principles, with some other good links on this including:

* https://overreacted.io/the-wet-codebase/

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqfbAXCCVwE

Wow, the nostalgia. Thank you, that's it!! This must have been added since the last time I searched.

My favorite Winamp skin was a Jimmy Eat World skin for their album Bleed American (later [renamed][1]).

Sadly, I haven’t been able to find it on any of the archives. Does anyone remember this one?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_American

A law podcast reacting to the ruling:

- https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/ep-43-well-so-much-for-the-...

- (non-paywall link) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-43-well-so-much-for...

It has been a multi-year effort to get the DEA to reclassify marijuana, starting in 2022. It starts with the President telling the HHS to provide a new recommendation to the DEA, and the finally for the DEA to decide what to do on that recommendation.

- https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...