I've had a colleague call it out 'Is this AI slop? Please write your opinion'. I don't think I could do that myself, but I really appreciate that they were drawing attention to it

I think 'do not spark joy' is the perfect description. Does it significantly ruin my day? No. Do I just feel a little bit less content with the world when my clean diff has an extra noop deletion and insertion? Yes.

Interesting too that javascript (but not json) seems to allow it. And a comment on that page highlights javascript's _sparse arrays_ which I'd never heard of [0]

[0] https://dev.to/damil/beautiful-perl-feature-trailing-commas-... ctrl-f for 'sparse'

What a great idea to include tree sitter

> Unfortunately, Shrink Ray has no principled way for me to express this. Fortunately, I have no principles, and use unsafe hacks like this

I really appreciated the humour in this article. I've always wanted to use creduce, but it looks like Shrink Ray is easier to set up and get running (pip install, set up a harness, run)

I remember a Planet Money episode, but I can't find it now. Maybe it was NPR instead

I've effectively dropped reddit because they've made the mobile web version near-unusable (and I find old.reddit.com difficult on mobile). Honestly, it's an improvement in my life. I don't know how I found myself spending so much time on it for so little benefit

yeah same. old.reddit still works okay sometimes but it is annoying for regular use

the mobile options are terrible.

happy to be done w/ it tbh.

I've always loved this project, I've used it a lot for making my scripts into internal tools for everyone in the team, even non-technical staff

> people using them feel more productive but take longer than using GUIs

I hope that this isn't the case for me poking around in vim, using ctags etc. But sadly it may be true.

That's really surprising that they could survive with such a small range! How are they counted during their migration?

There are traditional methods like electrofishing and tagging. But there are also non-invasive methods such as environmental DNA where you can detect organism prevalence from DNA shed into the ecosystem. Our platform was built specifically to help share that type of science for restoration and remediation projects: https://www.ednaexplorer.org

That's amazing thanks for sharing it

There's an organization of volunteers who walk the streambed during spawning season and mark nests with colored tape on nearby branches. I assume while they're doing that, they also count the fish somehow? They also put a trap near the end of the stream at certain times of the year and count the fish in the trap - the fish are obviously released from the trap afterwards.

That's really interesting, I didn't think you'd be able to spot nests from the shore like that

Well in an interview I guess something like "Of course we shouldn't allow C-strings in general outside of syscalls and argv, but for the purpose of the exercise...." And now you've shown that you know what you're talking about and that you won't be difficult to work with.

I don't think it was clear in 1994 that not passing the size of a string was a sin

Oh 100%, I was responding to the parent who's response was 'No'. Even if you have 100% ban on strcpy and z-strings you're forced to use them in certain cases (like argv), and I was pointing out that sometimes we engage with certain conceits in a job interview, and by refusing to engage with it you're giving out a signal that you'll be difficult to work with