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Honestly half the reason I argue for rubocop is to avoid having readability discussions with other devs when I don't have strong opinions. I've discovered that I am nonplussed by patterns that leave other devs downright emotional and it's just not worth the effort to discuss, especially when 99% of readability issues (eg naming) are absolutely undetectable to rubocop. Having a consistent style allows splitting styling and, erm, more fruitful readability discussions.

Anyway remember you're writing code, not poetry. The inclination to act as if you're writing the latter without any kind of cost/benefit analysis is a major reason I dislike working with ruby devs. If only I were actually writing for powerpoint slides rather than for concrete business ends!

If ruby's float's are exact, how do they translate arbitrary literals to IEEE 754? Surely the vast majority of literals are not representable with IEEE 754, so any exactness of these floats would solely exist in comparison between floats, not with literals.

Lunch debt is also used to separate children from parents: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/07/20/school-d...

The black panthers used to serve free breakfast to schoolkids for a reason.

What exactly is bootcamp if you don't install windows? I know I need it to dual-boot my mac with linux but it's not clear why.

In practice, external batteries are so cheap these days and easier than ever to charge your laptop from with usb-c, it's less of an issue than it used to be. It certainly holds up with phones and smaller devices, though.

I'd think the best argument for a thicker MBP would be greater cooling potential anyway.

I wouldn't describe the return to feudalism as innovation....

I've found it has uses with pairing.

Otherwise yea I agree.

Node has done a lot of work in defining a runtime outside of the browser. I'm guessing much of this work would need to be done with spidermonkey in order to match common functionality. It'd also help out an electron equivalent for gecko, too.

It's difficult to characterize this as inherently bad, though. We could end up with three competing engines and major browsers, plus a long tail of webkit browsers. That's a pretty decent scenario for the rest of us.

Icon theming must be the only type that's left after the demise of APE.

Well of course AirBnb is "better placed"; they're ignoring local zoning. It's probably an indication airbnb has a negative impact on the places you're visiting.

It makes me very annoyed they aren't selling a minimal laptop version. I really don't get why they're doubling down on forcing the touch strip onto their laptops when nobody is demanding this and, thankfully, no competitor wants to acknowledge such a feature or the software burden requiring that hardware implies.

Email would let me participate without having to sign up with github.

Anyway, email has threading, at least. At the very minimum github needs to step up and acknowledge how terrible issues are for communicating.

Fairly would imply a long, long bill of carbon debt corporations owe us. I don't see any carbon tax plan recuperating this debt.

Saving is destructive. Why would you want to trigger this automatically?

What is "easier" about having to deal with github than your email?

Github has needed a non-web-app interface since 2007. It's good to see real competition and not just another clone of github's, erm, interesting design choices.

Describing a school like "Harvard" as selective is trivially equating "arbitrary and biased" with some kind of semantic merit. Realistically, if you get into harvard you are lucky, wealthy, or usable for marketing. They have no desire to convince you otherwise by simply increasing their allowed student number, especially to compete internationally—by numbers, they are mostly effective via attracting people, not through education.

I don't think the PPC emulator ships with osx anymore.

Did the initial versions of osx recognize fat binaries or was that explicitly introduced later?