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crummy commented on JSDoc is TypeScript culi.bearblog.dev/jsdoc-i... · Posted by u/culi

crummy · 3 days ago

> For packages typed with JSDoc, CTRL/CMD clicking on a function will take you to actual code rather than a type declarations file. I much prefer this experience as a dev.

ok i didn't think about this, that's an underrated benefit

crummy commented on “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill nber.org/papers/w34524... · Posted by u/mhb

dfxm12 · 14 days ago

Speaking of "average", every political debate moderator should ask the candidates where they shop and how much milk and eggs cost. Ask them how much it is to fill up their car's gas tank. I don't necessarily think sortition is the answer, but I have more faith that the so called "hopelessly biased and ignorant average person" would address issues that affect me than I do with hopelessly biased and ignorant people like Trump, Johnson, Thune, Schumer and Jefferies, because I know they're only looking out for themselves.

crummy · 14 days ago

this (sometimes) happens in New Zealand:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350541328/watch-national-le...

crummy commented on Roblox Requires Age Checks for Communication, Ushering in New Safety Standard corp.roblox.com/newsroom/... · Posted by u/urbanshaman

Aloisius · a month ago

That Surgeon General's Advisory also warns against video games.

As did the Surgeon General in 1980 who warned kids were addicted to video games body and soul.

crummy · a month ago

wow, you're not kidding.

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/10/us/around-the-nation-surg...

crummy commented on NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again gothamist.com/news/ny-sma... · Posted by u/hrldcpr

supportengineer · a month ago

They could have gone down the path of being a service with a monthly subscription. Instead of making the customer become the product.

Imagine an alternate universe where, since you were paying them, they kept you safe and secure online, and kept the bad actors away.

crummy · a month ago

assuming they were able to acquire customers and dominate the world with that business model, would that have prevented them from doing algorithmic feeds and promoting clickbait and poisoning politics and the rest?

sure, people would have been able to cancel their monthly facebook subscriptions if they didn't like that stuff. but we can effectively do that now just by not using it.

crummy commented on Ask HN: How do you managing staging database content? · Posted by u/crummy

alganet · 2 months ago

It depends on where the rest of the team is.

Have they gone through the experience of having a persistent staging environment that slowly drifts from production (1)? If they haven't, they can't possibly understand why that is a bad idea. I'll just go with the flow until they realize. Maybe I'll hint at the possible issues sometimes.

Have they figured out that copying prod is a bad idea (3)? If they haven't, same thing. They can't understand why that sucks and why that's not true reproducibility.

Finally, (2). Fixtures! It's also a journey. There are so many things that can go wrong. Knowing those things depends on having gone through those journeys with a persistent staging and production copies.

There is no relief from the pain. No magic bullet. No product or solution that will ever solve this. You have to go through those stages. If you're lucky, someone will guide you through them (in practice). The journey can be sped up, but I haven't seen a shortcut that works (like forcing the team to adopt a practice without them internalizing it).

crummy · 2 months ago

If you go with (2), and you add a DB column in a PR, I suppose you include a script to update staging with the new content at the same time?

crummy commented on Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/jbm

Rebelgecko · 2 months ago

Is this the patent equivalent of letting your website's cert expire?

crummy · 2 months ago

More like letting the domain expire, and someone else snapping it up before you can renew.