hannibalhorn

In the real world project section, compile times vs tsc7 were 1-3s less. Sometimes the percentages are far more impressive than absolutes.

Did not know this had happened, but does seem PHK (the original author of Varnish) is now with of the Vinyl Cache project, so this is not just a typical fork.

If there's a language that does this right, all ears? But I havn't seen it -

The use case described is for a small one off script for use in CI, or a single file script you send off to a colleague over Slack. Very, very common scenario for many of us. If your script depends on

    a => c
    b => c

You can pin versions of those direct dependencies like "a" and "b" easy enough, but 2 years later you may not get the same version of "c", unless the authors of "a" and "b" handle their dependency constraints perfectly. In practice that's really hard and never happens.

The timestamp appraoch described above isn't perfect, but would result in the same dep graph, and results, 99% of the time..

That's an interesting link and an argument I hadn't seen before.

In my "real world" usage, I've found "bash strict mode" incredibly useful, especially when scripting things that others will be modifying. It just avoids all of the "somebody forgot an error check", "there's a typo in a variable name", etc., type errors. And pouring through logs to figure out what actually went wrong in CI/CD is brutal.

Looking at the examples:

- I don't generally do arithmetic in bash, that's a sign of "time to change language" - Also generally use `if ...; then ...; fi` instead of `test ... && ...`

If you do the advanced type of scripting that somebody who writes a Bash FAQ does, I'm sure `set -e` can be annoying. But once you learn a couple simple idioms y(covered on the original "bash strict mode" page) you don't have to know much more to have fairly robust scripts. And future maintainers will thank you for it!

I do the same. Sounds like arrow is being implemented as an alternative, and you'll have to explicitly opt in via a dtype or a global setting, so numpy isn't going away.

I've been really impressed with what I can accomplish with lima-vm, beyond just "replace docker desktop". The latest pre-release supports Virtualization.framework, including virtiofs.

Perl actually predates both of those!

I really like the overall design and ethos, but a new project without typehints, pydoc, and at least some tests just isn't the kind of thing I'd bring into my stack. Hope it gets a little bit of polish!

Even well managed funds can result in someone getting the shaft. My dad's pension (Delphi Salaried) was cut to 50% of what it was supposed to be after the events of '08, and it was funded to something like $0.86 on the dollar, above the national average.

The hourly workers (i.e., unionized) still got 100%, which was pretty unfair.

That makes total sense, and glad to hear that it could be on the table when the time is right!

My gut reaction was that as a browser extension, you would have the ability to add airlines that refuse to participate in the current travel sites, e.g., Southwest? But I don't see them in the results...

I actually gave it a try, and couldn't successfully signup due to the phone number check, even though my name is on the line. Figure I've wasted a couple hours on it in total. Unnecessary friction.

Usually the disabled get the hardware through insurance or grants - in Texas, the state provides grants for assistive communication devices out of a fund sourced from a phone bill tax. My dad's Tobii i16 came out to ~$15k. Ex-USA, I'm sure the cost of these things is ... unreasonably prohibitive.

I'm actually kinda excited to find PyGaze, we might play with it and see if I can tweak a few things to improve his experience.

So the "invention" is stackable trays on a cart? :-( I guess it's not just software patents that have become problematic.