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ah Portland, where the young go to retire and live on the sidewalk... lovely place!


hmmm... it's almost like they should build more dense housing or something


yeah but plenty of people contribute to open source because it leads to being able to make a good, solid living.


I believe the main selling point is portability and flexibility. Anything written in a language that can be compiled to wasm can now be turned into a web service.


stop looking at it :)


Isn't typing in Python also determined at runtime (aka strong dynamic typing)?


What means "strong typing" is very well defined. But most understandings I found do not allow implicit null returns to be "strong" typing. Also: the "strong" thing is at odds with the "dynamic" thing, you cannot have both.


No, it's not "very well defined". It's actually pretty poorly defined and has a variety of contradictory definitions attached to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing


That what I tried to type, somehow I forgot to type "not"... Thanks for setting that straight.


I haven't been part of the Ruby community in a few years - Market demand forced me out of full time Ruby/Rails and into React/JS/TS land. Is Pry still a thing? I remember being able to drop into IRB via Pry within a running Rails process was extremely powerful and (IMHO) way better than any debugger I have ever used.


Yes, the Rails console runs pry. It is indeed very powerful. My only gripe with it is that when you modify your code, you have to run ‘reload!’ and wait for the entire shebang to rebuild itself. This is opposed to Lisp REPLs where you can send individual expressions into the image with a simple key chord. But again, most of the value is there.

>Market demand forced me out of full time Ruby/Rails and into React/JS/TS land

Same, what a terrible fate we’ve met.


I refused to go all into the React/JS/TS and since I had some leverage to choose the tech I chose Elm for the front-end in my new job where I inherited a Java code base (that's now mostly Kotlin).


Also the fact that biofilms had developed is evidence to further support that. If you wipe a surface that’s covered in a biofilm it’s going to be very visible that it’s filthy. This is just pure negligence.


You might not be able to see the surface in question.

Here’s a manual for an ice machine:

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/documents/pdf/hid_manual.pd...

See page 19. I don’t know whether 10 minutes of exposure to 100ppm sanitizer will kill a biofilm adequately. Even “ppm” is vague. 100ppm of (active) hypochlorous acid is quite high and ought (IMO) to sterilize things effectively. But the recommended sanitizer is Stera Sheen Green Label, which, like most powdered sanitizers, is based on dichlor. 100ppm free chlorine worth of dichlor also adds about 90ppm of cyanuric acid, and cyanuric acid buffers hypochlorous acid, such that 100ppm FC + 90ppm CYA is a much worse disinfectant than 100ppm FC by itself.

Also, what disinfects the tubes between the filter and the reservoir?

(Why isn’t chlorine dioxide used for this purpose more often? It’s supposedly much better than chlorine for killing biofilms. Possibly less damaging to plastics as well.)


I worked in restaurants all through college, you absolutely must clean the ice machines frequently. Sounds like they assumed they were self cleaning or just were not cleaning them often or thoroughly enough.


Just spritz them with water mist and they’ll be fine!


Working on that for my fortress now but I have managed to flood the caverns with a river I've redirected...


Sounds like Fun was had! I’m guessing you were going for a proper waterfall? In the future you could try a Dwarven Mist Generator. I like to put them above high traffic areas so everyone has to pass through it constantly.

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Mist#Ring_gen...


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