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Well, I just lost the game. That was a pretty good streak of like 8 years.
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servers r cool
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want: "strong" typescript.
no `any` at all. only `unknown`.
only casting is downcasting.
call a function an "api" -> types are external only. internally `unknown`.
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Fuck the war.
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So if I'm reading this right...
Literally all politicians: Pandemic's over. Party time!
Literally all experts in epidemiology, immunology, etc: New variants about to drop. Hunker down, mofos!
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Then, if you need pointers, and can get access to their values via other means, then you can hack those in yourself via the equivalent types for your system.
Such hack. Very crash.
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Best I can think of is: assume no pointers at all, but leave space in the spec for runtimes to opt in, based on their security model. Node.js gives you mostly unfettered system access, so maybe it's okay for it to have real pointers? Maybe not. I dunno.
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That would be a pain for interop w/ native code. Native-side Copies with real pointers in them? Now you've doubled the data.
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Right, so I did a little thinking on the notion of buffer-backed objects (structs) in JS, as a language feature.
The biggest issue I can see is pointers. For a bunch of security reasons, you can't have *real* pointers. So, what then, a hidden pointer map?
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10000 internet points for whoever makes a vim plugin that lets me make and read comments on PRs in-line in the editor.
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Folks talk about how the Discordification of OSS communities is ruining everything, but no one talks about the VSCodification.
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I took a 3 hour nap this afternoon and had a coffee right after. Sleep tonight is gonna be difficult.
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*finding. What a typo.
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Never gets old, funding this in a real store.
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I'm in the flagship Macy's. Silently judging everyone in here without a mask.
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People are getting chatty about async context and data made a thing that can help debug when that stuff goes wrong while ( does a lot on this kind of work for ' core )
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The answer is no.
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"tests should tear down their state so that running arbitrary/many tests in the same process is fine"
...is all fine and dandy until your codebase makes it basically impossible to even understand what the state is. Testing tools shouldn't pretend every codebase is perfect/ideal.
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Screw it. It's shawarma o'clock.
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All tweets from everyone today: "don't forget, decisions in tech are all tradeoffs". Arguably tautological and obvious AF, but still worth repeating over and over again.
Your choices are not my choices and that's a-ok! Neither of us has to be "wrong"!
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Twitter has got to get better at rendering reply trees. It's just awful right now, and only seems to consider linear threads. When your data structure is a tree and your UI can only render linklists, with trees as an afterthought, you have a UI problem.
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Some of the best ways to invest in crypto, in no particular order:
openssl.org/support/donati
donate.torproject.org
bouncycastle.org/donate/index.c
(and many more!)
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They put kids in cages for this in the United States
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BREAKING: An 11-year-old Ukrainian boy is hailed as a "real hero" after trekking 700 miles to safety in Slovakia with only a plastic bag, passport, and telephone number written on his hand. He โwon everybodyโs hearts" with his smile and courage 
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The situation at Chernobyl seems a tad scary.
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big thumbs down to RSS feeds that contain only links to the content, rather than the content itself.
even worse is a "preview" of the content.
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These new processors are pretty cool. I still don't like the idea of tying a processor to an operating system though (or vice versa). It does not sit well with me.
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Don't go all-in on *any* technology.
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Apple has gotten even more passive-aggressive toward you if you chat with people who use Android. The desktop Messages app shows previews of sent/received URLs that use iMessage, but if SMS was used, your sent links get no preview. This broke in the last few months.
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Right now I'm packing this whole thing into the `message` property on a JS Error, so that it always shows up in a test runner. There ought to be a better way to do this.
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I'm finding more and more use cases for long/detailed error messages in Node.js.
What if we normalized/standardized a `detailedMessage` property containing multiline super-helpful error messages, with ANSI diagrams even.
Building support for it into test runners would be cool!
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TIL
git blame --ignore-rev abc123def
useful when operating on something with refactor/styling commits obscuring the real source of some code.
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Sippy-cup lids solve this problem entirely for folks who can use them. For folks who can't, it should be trivial to design a sippy-cup lid that can also take a straw.
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Paper straws are a marketing gimmick, not actual progress for green causes.
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Anyone wondering why Bandcamp would sell?
They were VC funded. This is what happens when you take VC money. You're not able to structure in a way that would block their exit, and they will insist eventually if they can find or get given an offer.
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This is the kind of thing that makes me really worry about whether crypto is a cult: "Everyone who disagrees with me is in the pay of a conspiracy to discredit the thing I believe in" is *exactly* what I used to hear from Scientologists.
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Now it's an open secret that you are one of those journalists that get paid for "exposing" Tether and whose accusations are worthless and backed by nothing 
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what's the current best-in-breed and still-maintained CLI colors library for Node.js?
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cool!
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