tomtheelder (u/tomtheelder)

tomtheelder commented on Gleam v1.9 gleam.run/news/hello-echo... · Posted by u/lpil

juped · a year ago

Gleam is nothing like Erlang or Elixir (its copying of Rust is so slavish it even has a toml file driven build system) and Erlang and Elixir are not split (the only place where they even sorta are is rebar vs. mix).

I don't particularly want to gatekeep "Rust fans who just want to write lots of Rust" off OTP. Let them have Gleam. Maybe they'll figure out how to lifetime-annotate binaries?

tomtheelder · a year ago

Gleam and Rust are really not alike at all aside from the most superficial ways. A couple bits of syntax, and the use of toml are about all I can come up with.

tomtheelder commented on Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals ft.com/content/1201f834-6... · Posted by u/kvee

voidfunc · a year ago

Do people honestly think Americans don't have rich social lives? Just because we socialize differently doesn't mean it isn't rich. Most Americans seem to prefer church groups, and small friend and family gatherings at their homes rather than going out and mingling in urban entertainment districts and bars.

tomtheelder · a year ago

I'm an American and it definitely seems like we are in a significant and worsening loneliness crisis. I have no idea to what degree any of it is unique to Americans. Social connectedness, socialization rates, and companionship have all been declining for quite a while now. Lot's of potential causes and theories about it. [1] is a decent overview.

Like personally I'm doing great, and so are a lot of people I know, and I'm sure you as well. But I think a lot of Americans are struggling badly with their social lives.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9811250/

tomtheelder commented on The Northeast is becoming fire country newyorker.com/news/the-le... · Posted by u/gregorymichael

bcrosby95 · a year ago

Some of our worst fires in California were the summer after winters with extreme rain events.

If you have a dry season, you can have a fire season, and the wetter your wet season, the worse fire season will be.

tomtheelder · a year ago

The Northeast doesn't have a dry season, and I don't think anyone seriously thinks it's going to develop one. It just has occasional dry periods because precipitation is pretty chaotic, and is getting more chaotic due to climate change. When one of those happens there's some fire risk, like has just happened. "The Northeast is becoming fire country" is just unabashed scare mongering.

tomtheelder commented on Wonder is acquiring Grubhub about.grubhub.com/news/wo... · Posted by u/endtwist

deprecative · a year ago

We say shopping at Whole Foods, Walmart, and Kroger.

tomtheelder · a year ago

Local grocery stores have basically been extinct for decades- and realistically that isn't that surprising given they mostly sell commodity products. We don't need to let restaurants suffer the same fate.

tomtheelder commented on Monorepo – Our Experience ente.io/blog/monorepo-ret... · Posted by u/vishnumohandas

memsom · a year ago

No offence, but you might be a little confused by how complex your actual delivery is. That sounds simple. That sounds like it has a clear roadmap. When you don’t, and you have very agile development that pivots quickly and demands a lot of change concurrently for releases that have very different goals, it is not possible to make all your ducks sit in a row. Monorepos suck in that situation. The dependency graph is so complex it will make your head hurt. And all the streams need to converge in to the main dev branch at some point, which causes huge bottlenecks.

tomtheelder · a year ago

The dependency graph is no different for a monorepo vs a polyrepo. It's just a question of how those dependencies get resolved.

tomtheelder commented on Monorepo – Our Experience ente.io/blog/monorepo-ret... · Posted by u/vishnumohandas

memsom · a year ago

Good for you. For us, because we have multiple projects going on, pulling the code in different ways, code that runs on embedded, code that runs in the cloud, desktop apps (real ones written in C++ and .Net, not glorified web apps), code that is customer facing, code used by third parties for integrating our products, no - it just doesn’t work. The embedded shares a core with other levels, and we support multiple embedded platforms (bare metal) and OS (Windows, Linux, Android, iOS) and also have stuff that runs in Amazon/Azure cloud platform. You might be fine, but when you hit critical mass and you have very complicated commercial concerns, it doesn’t work well.

tomtheelder · a year ago

I mean it works for Google. Not saying that's a reason to go monorepo, but it at least suggests that it can work for a very large org with very diverse software.

I really don't see why anything you describe would be an issue at all for a monorepo.

tomtheelder commented on Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/Jimmc414

JohnFen · a year ago

Cast iron is the best. The hardest part of cast iron is all of the nonsense people believe about cast iron, leading them to think it's inconvenient and, worse, that gets them to actively make cast iron problematic.

tomtheelder · a year ago

I still have a cast iron skillet, but I mostly stopped using it once I got some carbon steel pans. In my experience they beat cast iron in nearly every way. I only use my cast iron now if I need a huge amount of thermal capacity (like pre-heating it to make pizza on or something) or for the presentation value.

tomtheelder commented on Rust needs a web framework ntietz.com/blog/rust-need... · Posted by u/dcminter

rtpg · a year ago

I think this is a legit sort of reasoning, but in an interesting way it's something where OCaml could fill the gap. It has its ergonomics issues, but I think the issues are basically the same/worse in Rust (except I guess Rust's macro system is better).

I say this as a Rust enjoyer, but I take the pain because I _really_ want what I'm working on to be fast.

tomtheelder · a year ago

I like OCaml a lot as a language, but the tooling is very, very poor by modern standards. Poor enough that I think it’s a total blocker on wider adoption.

tomtheelder commented on YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup techcrunch.com/2024/09/30... · Posted by u/blinding-streak

diggan · a year ago

This is true for every VC no? And the whole idea behind VCs? They aren't exactly only aiming to fund the startups they think 100% will be successful, as then they wouldn't fund anyone, so instead they spread out the risk to catch any surprise winners.

Does anyone really look at the line-up of funded startups from a VC and think they're all winners?

tomtheelder · a year ago

For sure- it's just that YC didn't used to operate like that. They have morphed from an interesting higher-touch incubator whose involvement was a strong positive signal into a scattershot VC, but not everyone realizes that so being "YC backed" still carries more prestige than is warranted.

tomtheelder commented on Notes on the Crystal Language wiki.alopex.li/CrystalNot... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

bandauo · a year ago

It seems that Clojure ticks all this boxes

tomtheelder · a year ago

JVM is a hard dealbreaker for a scripting/glue language.

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