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At least in ruby theres mayor code bases using stripes sorbet and the official RBS standard for type hints. Notably its big code bases with large amounts of developers, fitting in with the trend most people in this discussion point to.

this sounds so different from rubys new JIT that - i think - came in around the same time and is bringing huge performance benefits.

team size sounds similar but it's mostly full time people from shopify and other interested parties (see https://railsatscale.com/2025-01-10-yjit-3-4-even-faster-and... and similar)

I agree. It seems like an effort to criticize issues of late stage capitalism without sounding like a socialist.

There’s also strong overlaps with Varoufakis’ “Technofeudalism”, I.e. construction companies living in autodesks fiefdom.

While is share the praise for Ruby's hash I find the argument that it might be daunting for a developer (of any persuasion) to pick between a `SortedList` and `Dictionary` worrying.

Looking forward to the CCC talk of somebody using a homemade low powered xray machine to retrieve the code without cutting the note.

Besides the badly written smart contract I'm also struggling to grok what exactly is Dutch about this auction. It's not that the price of something keeps dropping until somebody makes a bid.

Instead everybody pays the lowest bid? Does everybody get a token as well? Why would anybody bid more than the reserve im this model?

  Many systems using other “preferred languages” also
  implement some form of GIL (e.g., Javascript’s V8 machine,
  CPython); we don’t hear complaints about it, because these
  languages have a rapport for heavy lifting and parallel tasks.

weird game theory view here, would you not be incentivized to never finish the book because people might be waiting for that 1.0 moment to cancel their subscription?

As much as i like lunduke usually, i find it a bit unreflected to just say "we are stupid for banning our founders" without acknowledging anything they might have done wrong. I do agree that the pitchforks approach to public disagreements should not be our (or anybodies) default. But "leave our founders alone" is not a policy I'd personally subscribe too either.

Also vaguely poking fun at therapy as if it was a punishment for something is just plain immature.

They avoid mentioning it in the blog, but besides the charge per usage (minutes), there's also a flat 15USD fee per user/month: https://circleci.com/pricing/

what's missing to bring my private t470s on par with my work macbook is "hybrid sleep". the macbook seems uncannily smart of sleeping when i close the lid, then eventually hibernating, so that even after a whole weekend unplugged it has an almost full battery when i open it on monday.

meanwhile the sleeping t470s drains the battery by keeping the RAM alive and eventually runs out. the arch wiki has some content on this, but it did not make me hopeful to get it to work

Re #18: It exists, it's called mutation testing, and it's awesome (I only know the Java variant called http://pitest.org)

hope the space dust does not wipe off the writing on the front: "this is not a laser powered bullet to destroy your planet, should totally just fly past, we did the math"

Isn't 11 a LTS again?

thanks for the info and the edit :)

I think you're right, when actually using it for production software it's probably wise to not be a trailblazer :)

For me this wish for a comparison (that I'd love to be objective and in god spirit of course - naive?) is probably coming more from "shopping around" between projects. Or just when seeing a new thing on HN and wondering if I should investigate adding this particular thing to my toolbox.

Obviously no OS developer owes anybody an explanation, but man would I appreciate if more projects had a "why you should use this over related projects" (like e.g. pendulum does https://github.com/sdispater/pendulum/blob/master/README.rst...)

something in the lines of fitness coach + nutrionist + physiotherapy (aka "actually helping people") OR lumberjack in the far north (aka "i've had enough of all this" :))