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New comment by ramy_d in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

ramy_d — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:27:43 +0000

"Someone! Think of the shareholders!"

New comment by ramy_d in "Popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging"

ramy_d — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:18:00 +0000

Where is the study? What constitutes a lot?

ETA: This press release relates to this study published Sept 3rd 2025 https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214023 https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-09-11-toxic-artificial-swee... https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/sugar-substitutes-not-s...

  Adults under 60 who consumed the most artificial sweeteners — averaging 191 milligrams daily — experienced a 62% faster decline in memory and thinking skills compared to low or non-users.

191 milligrams a day would be like two 355ml coke zeros a day according to https://www.coca-cola.com/ca/en/brands/coca-cola/products/co...

New comment by ramy_d in "Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones"

ramy_d — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:33:15 +0000

It's interesting but I wish I could still Swype on it

New comment by ramy_d in "RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes"

ramy_d — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:15:24 +0000

I'm looking at something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Dc6QNWiIs and I feel like they are doing totally different things. Both harvest tomatoes, but these are totally different approaches.

New comment by ramy_d in "Private Equity's New Venture: Youth Sports"

ramy_d — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:11:23 +0000

It really doesn't get more sensible and sustainable than kids playing team sports and parents witnessing this part of their lives. The blame here is squarely on PEs like black bear nickel and dimming parents. How do you pull the plug on that? It's so gross.

New comment by ramy_d in "Small changes that made our daily stand-ups more useful"

ramy_d — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:03:34 +0000

that's insane. how many of you are there?

New comment by ramy_d in "I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation"

ramy_d — Sun, 25 May 2025 13:36:31 +0000

thank you, I was going to ask about this. It's not a crazy amount...

New comment by ramy_d in "A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant"

ramy_d — Sat, 17 May 2025 06:39:39 +0000

Seconded. My home server does many things, one of which is homeassistant.

New comment by ramy_d in "Syria just hosted its first international tech conference in 50 years"

ramy_d — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:37:59 +0000

Seems like they are featuring some speakers on their instagram https://www.instagram.com/sync_sv/?hl=en

New comment by ramy_d in "What I mean when I say that machine learning in Elixir is production-ready"

ramy_d — Thu, 09 May 2024 15:56:39 +0000

I think WhatsApp is still using Erlang and they are biggest messaging app in the world. Discord is using Elixir but it's more niche. I think if you look at use cases where they excel, you will find them there.

New comment by ramy_d in "Goodbye, Twilio"

ramy_d — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 18:51:51 +0000

what's the alternative for something straightforward like that?

New comment by ramy_d in "Google declined to review an extension because they can’t find a Kindle to test"

ramy_d — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:31:28 +0000

  Their security team should vet all of these devices, create environments where it's safe for them to be on the network, and ensure they're kept up to date also?

Yes? How else would they test anything?

New comment by ramy_d in "The Charles Mingus CAT-alog (1972)"

ramy_d — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:52:20 +0000

Does toilet training your cat introduce a significant health hazard through toxoplasma gondii into the surrounding environment? It's so hard to tell if your local wastewater plant takes care of this...

New comment by ramy_d in "Fortnite’s cash cow is Playstation, not iOS, court documents reveal"

ramy_d — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 07:11:23 +0000

how are they forcing anyone?

New comment by ramy_d in "A few notes on message passing"

ramy_d — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:16:17 +0000

  two process working with a shared actor share that state

I think this is where I disagree. They may share an actor but the state of the actor belongs to the actor. To say they share it implies they can always change it independently but that's not the case. Actors don't trample on each other's internal states. For example a simple mutex semaphore pattern fixes your race condition.

New comment by ramy_d in "A few notes on message passing"

ramy_d — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:06:48 +0000

No I agree, there's ways of getting a global shared mutable state, but they are explicit and not a structure of the language itself IMO.

New comment by ramy_d in "A few notes on message passing"

ramy_d — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 23:54:30 +0000

Erlang has a bunch of tools to help enforce determinism or at least suss out concurrency issues. For example: you can specify multiple receive statements to process your queued messages in a specific order, there is also a process manager (pman:start()) that allows you to explore concurrency related events, and not to mention Mutex Semaphores as a pattern to mitigate those issues.

There doesn't seem to be a real solution to deadlocks. I got the oreilly book in front of me and it's basically saying: be careful, but don't worry.

And I don't think erlang has a shared mutable states. In fact a google search for "erlang shared mutable state" has you as the first result.

New comment by ramy_d in "Mindsets to Avoid as a Senior Software Developer"

ramy_d — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:57:21 +0000

yeah I would say in principle this makes sense but in practice a junior will typically say "this is beyond me but you're the senior so if it works, it works!"

It is an opportunity to go through the code and concepts at least.

New comment by ramy_d in "Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?"

ramy_d — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:26:34 +0000

https://deadline.com/2021/02/avatar-the-last-airbender-franc...

New comment by ramy_d in "Fooling Around with Foveated Rendering"

ramy_d — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:22:43 +0000

wow, is there a video of this? sound really interesting