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faraaz98··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
I've been increasingly more interested in agriphotovoltaics. What is your opinion on utilising this system for agriculture
faraaz98··on The Llama 4 herd
I've been calling for this approach for a while. It's kinda similar to how the human brain has areas that are good at specific tasks
faraaz98··on There's too much content, so I built an AI knowledge assistant
Author here, You're right. That IS my goal though, to get rid of stuff I don't want quicker.

> Then I can take one glance at the summary and skim through the video in my first watch. If I find it interesting, I would watch it completely, else I discard it from my list.

faraaz98··on Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers
Who are you? Cixin Liu?
faraaz98··on Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI
Twitter fail whale was more skill issue that Rails shortcomings. If you read the book Hatching Twitter, you'll know quickly they weren't great at code
faraaz98··on Misty: A secure distributed actor language
Tldr for erlang users?
faraaz98··on Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates
It can also be caused by autoimmune thyroidism
faraaz98··on Building a browser using Servo as a web engine
On the URL bar. The URL shows when you click on it
faraaz98··on Detailed Data Analysis of Japan's J2 Football League
Fascinating! I'm looking to do an FM save in the J League. which team would you recommend?
faraaz98··on Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Daniel Levy

Like the Tottenham Hotspurs owner??

faraaz98··on I cancelled my Replit subscription
It's one thing to support your local grocer and totally different to support a company with multiple millions in VC funding, especially when they company doesn't even offer you much advantage (Lisp features)
faraaz98··on Spain cancels Pegasus spyware investigation because Israel is not co-operating
Those countries are monarchies, yes. I wouldn't call them dictatorships. Based on external optics, I'd say there's a few countries that are technically democracies but give off more dictatorship vibes than the 3 you mentioned
faraaz98··on They May Be Just Acquaintances. They’re Important to You Anyway
I've read somewhere that you're more likely to get a job through an acquaintance then a closer friend
faraaz98··on Phoenix Dev Blog – Streams
it does
faraaz98··on Benchmarking Ruby 2.6 to 3.2
I'd like to know this from a more informed person as well. My guess is that yjit is only now production ready, they've been building it for a while and enabled behind an experimental flag
faraaz98··on I wrote a Ruby extension in Zig
https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/
faraaz98··on I wrote a Ruby extension in Zig
It's been really interesting to see a Ruby article on the HN frontpage almost every week. I wonder what's causing that?
faraaz98··on News for Ruby 3.2.0
Compared to Rails, django will feel like fastapi

Imo

faraaz98··on Hanami 2.0
Well you can if you want. There's a lot of Ruby projects that are looking for contributions.
faraaz98··on Computer proof ‘blows up’ centuries-old fluid equations
Is it because maths is "incomplete" ala godel incompleteness theorem?
faraaz98··on Scaling Mastodon in the face of an exodus
I like Elixir but as of the latest Ruby version, you can use ractors. They aren't bound by the gil
faraaz98··on Making a DNS query in Ruby from scratch
Unfortunately no. There's been a sight increase in interest ever since Ruby 3 but something else is needed for a spark
faraaz98··on Making a DNS query in Ruby from scratch
Great post! I feel like Ruby can make a comeback if a lot more people use it for more than just Rails
faraaz98··on Ask HN: Was it worth it for Go to add generics
If people aren't making too much noise about a language feature then I just assume it was implemented right
faraaz98··on Get in zoomer, we're saving React
As soon as I saw, "you should listen to your elders" being used as a reason to read this article, i knew it wouldn't be high quality
faraaz98··on AppLovin bids $17.5B to acquire Unity
Great opportunity for Godot to take up space in 2d and low scope 3d games
faraaz98··on Ask HN: Why do companies not list your weaknesses in rejection emails?
No I was very unprepared, even I could tell
faraaz98··on Ask HN: Why do companies not list your weaknesses in rejection emails?
Job descriptions shouldnt be a complicated puzzle then. I once interviewed at a company and mid-interview I could see I was struggling, interviewers were super nice though helped me solve the problem they gave.

No wonder i didnt get the job, but rejection email said they thought I am a good engineer. I replied if they can tell me where I can improve. They did so politely.

Few months down the road, I improved and applied again. I got the job

faraaz98··on GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial
Have you tried tabnine?
faraaz98··on How one guy ruined Hacktoberfest (2020)
Back in uni, I just made 4 PRs into my own projects, apparently that was enough to get a t-shirt and stickers

I don't participate in it anymore

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