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sanderjd commented on Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover   joel.drapper.me/p/rubygem... · Posted by u/bradgessler
shadowgovt · 3 months ago
If they can just consolidate control of the supply chain, they don't have to spend the eng-hours replacing their open source dependencies and/or forking them for internal maintenance.

It's the kind of thing that can be the net cheapest option in the long run (see also: Facebook creating and open-sourcing one of the most popular JavaScript interactive-UI frameworks, resulting in them having control of that ecosystem).

sanderjd · 3 months ago
Seems like a much riskier move to me. Maybe this will just blow over and it will all work out for them, but I wouldn't feel certain of that outcome if I were them.

Agreed that if they had created and fully controlled the whole thing from the start, like your Facebook example, that would make more sense. But this aggressive addition of a new owner and removal of existing owners and maintainers seems very hostile and risky to me.

sanderjd commented on Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover   joel.drapper.me/p/rubygem... · Posted by u/bradgessler
jamesgeck0 · 3 months ago
DHH aside, most of this drama was over a decade ago.
sanderjd · 3 months ago
Ha yep. I remember a lot of this drama from my early days working with rails. But my impression is that none of this mattered and has long been water under the bridge. (I didn't know until reading about this current episode that there is new DHH drama.)
sanderjd commented on Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover   joel.drapper.me/p/rubygem... · Posted by u/bradgessler
sanderjd · 3 months ago
The confusing thing to me about Shopify's role in this - assuming this reporting is accurate - is that if they think having a dependency on open source infrastructure like this is an existential threat, then you would think the solution is to do their own work to break that dependency, not to throw their weight around in this public and dramatic way.
sanderjd commented on This map is not upside down   maps.com/this-map-is-not-... · Posted by u/aagha
strken · 3 months ago
Steady on now: there's an interesting psychological effect going on. A well known art exercise is to draw a subject upside down, particularly a person or a scene with a clear usual orientation.

When you take something you're very familiar with and turn it upside down, you see all the details - volume, shape, distance between points, geometric similarity, colour - with fresh eyes. With art, it becomes easier to draw a human figure because it discourages symbol drawing. With a map, I find it helps me realise how close certain points are to each other, how small politically significant regions are, which lattitude different climate bands sit at, and so on.

A mug is a pretty boring object which we're all used to seeing upside down and which doesn't have many interesting features, so of course turning it upside down will not reveal anything interesting.

sanderjd · 3 months ago
This is all very interesting, but I'm sorry, personally I just feel the same as the poster you replied to. I don't experience this as anything weird, I just experience it as if I'm looking at a map from the top.
sanderjd commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes   bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
klipklop · 4 months ago
The irony about getting treatment for ADHD is that medical providers make it very hard to get the proper medication and treatment. People with ADHD are horrible at following through and handle rejection poorly. So the worse the ADHD is, the less likely somebody will be able to actually get treatment for it. A lot of people suffer because doctors fear losing their license like so many did during the pain pill debacle. It's a risk for them to prescribe a stimulant, but zero risk to tell you to eff off.

As many have said in this thread, most doctors will tell you to go away or give you Welbutrin (which works poorly, if at all). I feel for your struggle.

sanderjd · 4 months ago
Yeah, requiring a check in every month to keep getting a prescription always struck me as an ironic requirement when treating people with ADHD.
sanderjd commented on OCaml as my primary language   xvw.lol/en/articles/why-o... · Posted by u/nukifw
noelwelsh · 4 months ago
I saw a talk by someone from Google about their experiences using Rust in the Android team. Two points stuck out: they migrated many projects from Python, so performance can't have been that much of a concern, and in their surveys the features people liked most were basics like pattern matching and ADTs. My conclusion is that for a lot of tasks the benefit from Rust came from ML cicra 1990, not lifetimes etc. I feel if OCaml had got its act together around about 2010 with multicore and a few other annoyances[1] it could have been Rust. Unfortunately it fell into the gap between what academia could justify working on and what industry was willing to do.

[1]: Practically speaking, the 31-bit Ints are annoying if you're trying to do any bit bashing, but aesthetically the double semicolons are an abomination and irk me far more.

sanderjd · 4 months ago
Yeah I was initially drawn to rust because I loved ocaml but wished it were more practical.
sanderjd commented on Ford Aims for Revolution with $30k Electric Truck   thedrive.com/news/ford-ai... · Posted by u/01-_-
homeonthemtn · 4 months ago
A truck for who though?

If the truck is intended to tow, it will need a reasonable range to be useful.

If it's just intended to be a shiny large vehicle for suburban people buying their way to an identity, then we might be talking.

sanderjd · 4 months ago
I feel like it's the same target market as the Maverick, but the (certainly smaller currently) subset of that market that prefers the drivability of EVs.

I think if they can actually pull off this vehicle at this price point, it will be nice, though maybe still not successful.

But I'm very happy to see US carmakers trying to figure out how to do cheaper EVs. I hope others will follow suit (and that Tesla will get their heads out of their asses and work on this too).

sanderjd commented on Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity   metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-... · Posted by u/dheerajvs
oytis · 5 months ago
What I like about IDE wars is that it remained a dispute between engineers. Some engineers like fancy pants IDEs and use them, some are good with vim and stick with that. No one ever assumed that Jetbrains autocomplete is going to replace me or that I am outdated for not using it - even if there might be a productivity cost associated with that choice.
sanderjd · 5 months ago
Excellent point. But I do think that forcing people to use IDEs for productivity was a thing for awhile. But still agree that the current moment is a difference in kind not just in scale.
sanderjd commented on Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity   metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-... · Posted by u/dheerajvs
fingerlocks · 5 months ago
No one is claiming 10x perf gains in vim.

It’s just a fun geeky thing to use with a lot of zany customizations. And after two hellish years of memory muscling enough keyboard bindings to finally be productive, you earned it! It’s a badge of pride!

But we all know you’re still fat fingering ggdG on occasion and silently cursing to yourself.

sanderjd · 5 months ago
Huh? Most people use tools like vim for productivity...

I agree with you that AI dev tools are overhyped at the moment. But IDEs were, in fact, overhyped (to a lesser degree) in the past.

sanderjd commented on Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity   metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-... · Posted by u/dheerajvs
Avshalom · 5 months ago
Linus did not show up in front of congress talking about how dangerously powerful unregulated version control was to the entirety of human civilization a year before he debuted Git and charged thousands a year to use it.
sanderjd · 5 months ago
This seems like a non sequitur. What does this have to do with this thread?

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