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3 mesi fadiscuss

Two things can be true: - police should enforce the law to reduce or address crime or infractions - police should have a standard of enforcement that corresponds with the way the court system should operate, which is that the state carries the burden of proving the crime

The right to demand a blood test or other mechanism of having the state own the burden of proof might be inconvenient but it's integral to a fairly operating system, just like the right to demand a lawyer or representation.

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5 mesi fadiscuss

I've been looking into rclone which can serve s3 in a basic way https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_s3/

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9 mesi fadiscuss

This is such a conflicting comment for me because I agree with so much but also have so many quibbles. That said I think that the other comments cover most things, I'll just comment on b: I don't think this is a problem that a language should solve or needs to solve, since there is a new flavor of the week of network protocols every few years. off the top of my head

- REST (mentioned, but what kind of REST? Rails style REST? Just plain http resource endpoints? - GraphQL (mentioned) - gRPC - SOAP - JSON-RPC - Thrift - CGI (ok not really in the same category as the above) - Some weird adhoc thing someone created at 3am for "efficiency"

I'm actually fine with most languages deferring to their respective communities, maybe building on core libs like https://www.erlang.org/docs/17/apps/inets/http_client to handle the transport layer.

As an aside, funnily enough you can get JVM <-> BEAM interop via https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/jinterface/jinterface_users_... I don't necessarily recommend it but it's possible

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10 mesi fadiscuss

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe you're interpreting this as if the rails app needs the same amount of is that exists in the described vite solution.

But in reality if you're using hotwire you can get away with almost no JavaScript at all comparatively. That's why stimulus is in vanilla js generally, it's meant for sprinkling behavior onto the dom vs controlling the dom.

So if you don't have a js framework that needs to control the whole Dom and doesn't need a gigantic optimization step or tree shaking or typescript or whatever, you can get away with a whole lot less than it you embraced those frameworks that _do_ want to own the dom wholesale.

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10 mesi fadiscuss

You can and should break that up because I'm probably going to want to see screenshots to ensure that the branding changes make sense in context and everything looks consistent.

How would you do this? You'd either

1. Create N pull requests then merge all of them together into a big PR that would get merged into mainline at once 2. Do the same thing but do a bit of octopus merging since git merge can take multiple branches as arguments. Since most source control strategies are locked down, this isn't usually something that I can tell my juniors to do

The point of breaking things down like this is to minimize reviewer context. With bigger PRs there's a human tendency to try and hold the whole thing in your head at once, even if parts of the pull request are independent from others.

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anno scorsodiscuss

One thing that I've wondered is why sorbet didn't choose to use the stabby lambda syntax to denote function signatures?

  sig ->(_: MyData) { }
  def self.example(my_data)
    ...
  end

Obviously this opens up a potential can of worms of a dynamic static type system, but it looks sufficiently close enough to just ruby. My opinion is that sorbet doesn't lean into the weirdness of ruby enough, so while it has the potential to be an amazingly productive tool, this is the same community that (mostly) embraces multiple ways of doing things for aesthetic purposes. For example you could get the default values of the lambda above to determine the types of the args by calling the lambda with dummy values and capturing via binding.

Personally having written ruby/rails/c#/etc and having been on a dev productivity team myself, I say: lean into the weird shit and make a dsl for this since that's what it wants to be anyways. People will always complain, especially with ruby/rails.

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anno scorsodiscuss

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2925001/

Not everyone has impeccable brushing habits and reducing cavities is a net benefit to public health like sanitation departments. I would be more interested to see a source as to why you think there's no benefit to fluorinated water when there are studies that are a quick search away for fluorinated water.

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anno scorsodiscuss

Not sure why you're being confrontational? I'm not the OP but it's clear there's some misunderstanding

The quote is: - neat - plausible - wrong

"Just get rid of the cancer" is - neat because it sounds obvious and tidy - plausible because we can and do cut out cancer - wrong because it ignores the nuance that cutting into a patient's body can have massive impacts on long term health. It can also be wrong because certain cancers have no tumor sites.

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2 anni fadiscuss

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2 anni fadiscuss

Generally agree with your points about how semver isn't really necessary. I suppose the benefit here would be that dep management tools like dependabot could automatically raise pull requests when a new version is released, which would be pretty cool. If only my peer engineers actually paid attention to dependency updates.

As an aside, instead of an auto incrementing build number I'd suggest the git sha since it's: 1. Already there and points to a specific version of the code in the repo 2. Globally unique 3. Can assist with reproducible builds (i.e. 6afed54 was acting weird, let's build it locally and take a look) 4. Gives you an easy diff target to dump "release notes". Just diff to the previous and dump the merge commit messages.

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2 anni fadiscuss

If you're encountering these problems at scale where scale is up to the reader, I can promise you that you're already writing SQL. You might have already started from the beginning by writing direct SQL, because that's something that rails also allows you to do against a model. Apart from juniors, I don't think I've ever met anyone who actually said that they wanted to avoid writing SQL in all cases. The reality is that it's far more useful and efficient to burn cpu time than dev time, and ORMs general tend towards the latter than the former in the favor of generally being a fair bit more legible (depending on the writer).

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2 anni fadiscuss

I actually went through this exact exercise recently, but this library didn't show up in my searches for a good rust actor framework, so take that with a grain of salt. It looks very similar to the interface provided by actix at first blush, not sure how supervision works. My take is that most of these frameworks tend to solve with the same(ish) solution, so pick the one that has the best api. I liked ractor, although not having &mut self eventually wore me down. I swapped a small side project to use Stakker instead and while at first the macros intimidated me, the implementation really impressed me in terms of performance and API characteristics. It really feels like there's just enough there and no more.

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2 anni fadiscuss

This is somewhat anecdotal as well, but what I find interesting reading this is that a possible treatment for epilepsy that's tried is the keto diet. Going through this with a family member now, the doctors have recommended only if the first line medicine doesn't work because it's such a pain in the ass to maintain if you're not fully into the world of meal prep (doc's words, not mine).

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3 anni fadiscuss

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65551215/get-docker-cpu-...

Been a bit but I do believe that dotnet does this exact behavior. Sounds like gunicorn needs a pr to mimic, if they want to replicate this.

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/8485

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3 anni fadiscuss

Elixir is strongly typed, elixir is not statically typed

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3 anni fadiscuss

We do have this in a way with healthcare.gov, since the marketplace allows consumers to view multiple insurers rather than those tied to their jobs. However these plans are still pricey, I put in some dummy data with a higher than average income (60k) and got plans at 280 per month at the bottom of the barrel. Seems to me like it's a good step in the right direction but the marketplace doesn't have an actual market driving force to reduce prices even with the 11 million plans selected for 2023. Having worked in healthcare billing processing software, this lines up, insurance companies really don't give a shit about reducing prices to compete since consumers at the point of billing are always a captive audience (if you don't have it and you have an emergency, you're fucked)

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3 anni fadiscuss

It's not secretly a salary cut, it's an explicit salary cut relative to the cost of living and everything else. After all, your money is worth less now than it was a year ago if there's no cost of living increase? I'm sure the initial circumstances of salary negotiations for a position took into account current economic factors. I'm much less likely to want to stick around at a company that cannot compete with living expenses with a general 2% increase YoY. That screams stiff/cheap or that the company is on the cusp of folding.

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3 anni fadiscuss

Should the opposite should also hold true then, we should dismiss staunch capitalists that continue to believe in that economic theory in spite of the atrocities perpetuated by most capitalist societies against people in adverse conditions? Seems a bit knee jerk to dismiss things wholesale.

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4 anni fadiscuss

> This is against the site's rules.

I apologize, that was a knee jerk reaction because I've never seen the assertion that 2+2=4 is racist before, only that math can be used inaccurately (purposefully or by accident) in racial contexts. I was a bit taken aback by the assertion and should have engaged differently.

> Funny how you build up a straw man. I never claimed any of that.

This isn't a straw man, I'm not building up some contrived argument here; the original comment was that "2+2=4 is racist" is a rallying cry for [some not insignificant number of math teachers].

> For example the Wall Street Journal. And hundreds of similar articles.

I did find this Opinion while googling, and read the parent Op-Ed (https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-leftists-try-to-canc...) and then followed through to the framework but I just don't see anything about the manual they were talking about in that Op-Ed in the works cited (seems like all references to the manual have since been removed). So I dug up the wayback machine on the page to see the context in which they were using the "A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction" manual.

> A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction (https://equitablemath.org/) is an integrated approach to mathematics that centers Black, Latinx, and linguistically diverse students in grades 6–8, addresses barriers to mathematics equity, and aligns instruction to grade-level priority standards. The Pathway offers guidance and resources for immediate use in planning their curriculum, while also offering opportunities for ongoing self-reflection as they seek to develop an anti-racist mathematics practice. The toolkit “strides” (above) serve as multiple on-ramps for educators as they navigate the individual and collective journey from equity to anti-racism. It is a collection of resources to help grades 6–8 Black, LatinX, and linguistically diverse students thrive in mathematics education.

Ok so generally seems like they're recommending the usage in primarily POC or mixed classrooms where the considerations for teaching might be a bit different due to a multitude of factors.

Now digging into the manual a bit, the titles are definitely inflammatory but the content is honestly fairly humdrum (quotes taken from the first chapter https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...)

• Teach rich, thoughtful, complex mathematics. • Teach rigorous mathematics, understanding that rigor is characterized as thorough, exhaustive, and interdisciplinary. • Use mistakes as opportunities for learning. • Recognize mistakes as miscommunicated knowledge. • Allow for engagement in productive struggle • Teach students of color about the career and financial opportunities in math and STEM fields. • Encourage them to disrupt the disproportionate push-out of people of color in those fields. • Invite leaders and innovators of color working in STEAM fields to meet your students. • Rely on teamwork and collaboration as much as possible. • Teach mathematics through project-based learning and other engaging approaches. • Provide multiple opportunities for students to learn from and teach each other. • Intentionally include mathematicians of color. • Expose students to mathematicians of color, particularly women of color and queer mathematicians of color, both through historical examples and by inviting community guest speakers. • Teach students of color about their mathematical legacy and ancestral connection and mastery of math. • Honor and acknowledge the mathematical knowledge of students of color, even if it shows up unconventionally. • Give rightful credit to the discovery of math concepts by mathematicians of color. Reclaim concepts attributed to white mathematicians that should be attributed to mathematicians of color.

Which all seems fairly reasonable here to my eyes. I will 100% agree with any assertions that the titles are very standoffish and even straight up accusatory but the content of the manual really seems like something good teachers should strive for. So to conclude I don't think that 2+2=4 is racist is really a rallying cry, the literature cited everywhere seems to talk mainly towards the teaching methodologies employed.

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4 anni fadiscuss

> The rallying cry seems to be that "2+2=4 is racist".

Source? This is such a wild claim it has to be made up. A cursory google search brings this article: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/teaching-math-throu...

Which is distilled down to "teachers teach math in a way that is topical to the current environment, such as BLM protests which is really nothing new. You might disagree with it, sure, but to say that this is "the wokes" teaching 2+2=fish, that's frankly ridiculous.

In fact, the only thing I can find reporting on "2+2=racist" is this Washington Examiner article deriding a math teacher from NYC for her tweets (article here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/math-professor-claim...) which sounds _awful_ but it's a single person tweeting, and it seems to be in relation to using "math is pure and objective so it always must be neutral" as a defense for situations where data/statistics/algorithms presented show a clear bias. Which I think generally is an agreed upon phenomenon-- depending on the sampling and interpretation of the data, folks can come to _wildly_ different conclusions, especially if data was accidentally omitted.

Best example of this phenomenon is facial recognition software, which can perform very badly when deviating from the sample data. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2019/12/nist-study-eva...

> For one-to-one matching, the team saw higher rates of false positives for Asian and African American faces relative to images of Caucasians. The differentials often ranged from a factor of 10 to 100 times, depending on the individual algorithm. False positives might present a security concern to the system owner, as they may allow access to impostors.

...

> However, a notable exception was for some algorithms developed in Asian countries. There was no such dramatic difference in false positives in one-to-one matching between Asian and Caucasian faces for algorithms developed in Asia. While Grother reiterated that the NIST study does not explore the relationship between cause and effect, one possible connection, and area for research, is the relationship between an algorithm’s performance and the data used to train it. “These results are an encouraging sign that more diverse training data may produce more equitable outcomes, should it be possible for developers to use such data,” he said.

All the other sources I found on google were either think tanks, facebook posts, or spam sites.

ETA: even in the most pessimistic reading of those tweets, I'm personally hard pressed to find that one person tweeting means that all math teachers everywhere are trying to take math down to "2+2=racist"