‘it’ is a welcome addition!
Does `it` conflict with Rspec's `it`? Surely they've thought of this, but to my eye it looks like it would get confusing.
Readit Newszachrose commented on Ruby 3.4.0 ruby-lang.org/en/news/202... · Posted by u/aaronbrethorst
zachrose commented on California is torn between clashing Anglo traditions? unherd.com/2024/10/califo... · Posted by u/youcould
Fair enough, although the Hispanic Latinos also predate the Scots-Irish and WASPs in California, so they've got to have at least some impact...
Yes, that’s exactly the connection that American Nations makes and the OP ignores
zachrose commented on California is torn between clashing Anglo traditions? unherd.com/2024/10/califo... · Posted by u/youcould
In general I think as a majority-minority state, applying a primarily UK-focused take on California misses a lot. The largest group in CA is Hispanic-Latino (40% of the population), and that's a group with neither Puritanical nor Scots-Irish background ideology. And 15% of the state is Asian-American... A very small percentage of CA descends from either Puritans/WASPs or Scots-Irish!
My read of Albion’s Seed and American Nations is that they’re more about how a regional culture was germinated and founded, under the idea that the culture (including legal and economic systems) is even more durable than a specific group. So it’s not exactly connected to current demographics.
zachrose commented on California is torn between clashing Anglo traditions? unherd.com/2024/10/califo... · Posted by u/youcould
Applying Albion’s Seed to California misses out on Spanish missionary culture and the shipping merchants who came from New York City, which does not have the same puritan roots as New England.
American Nations is a more recent book that describes more of the United States, though with less depth.
zachrose commented on The Lego Great Ball Contraption kottke.org/24/09/the-lego... · Posted by u/mhb
Reading that the GBC standard specifies 1 ball per second, it’s fun to imagine a module that puts 1,000 balls in slow moving storage, taking 15 minutes to warm up and cool down
zachrose commented on An approach to optimizing TypeScript type checking performance edgedb.com/blog/an-approa... · Posted by u/beerose
With such a broad definition of linter, wouldn't the type systems of all statically typed languages just be high-powered linters?
I’ve worked on several TS projects that don’t type check but still “compile” (emit non-TS JavaScript). To me that’s the difference between a linter and a compiler, and I wish those projects had stopped compiling when they could no longer type check.
Couldn’t make the Elm galaxy show up on my phone. Anyone know what accounts for the disconnected islands? I know Elm has a fairly closed-off core development process that could be part of it, but can’t otherwise tell…
Perhaps it's the versioning? Like in the way that libraries for Elm 0.18 are often (mostly? always?) incompatible with 0.19.
(N.B. 0.19 has been the latest version for almost six years.)
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I'm trying to understand this approach. Maybe I am expecting too much out of this basic approach, but how does this create a similarity between words with indices close to each other? Wouldn't it just be a popularity contest - the more common words have higher indices and vice versa? For instance, "king" and "prince" wouldn't necessarily have similar indices, but they are semantically very similar.
Maybe the idea is to order your vocabulary into some kind of “semantic rainbow”? Like a one-dimensional embedding?
I think it has to do with what you’re considering as artwork! There’s a traditional distinction between “fine arts” and “applied arts.”
Fine art, like painting, is almost definitionally not supposed to be touched.
Applied arts include fibers (knitting, weaving), ceramics, jewelry and metalwork, etc. Stuff that’s meant to be pleasing and functional.
Whether something should be touched is almost _the thing_ that moves a field from one category to the other.
Applied artists, and their product designer cousins, will spend a lot of time exploring and pursuing tactile qualities.