Wrote about why I think prisons and policing need to be radically reformed, but not abolished. TLDR on the latter point: nymag.com/intelligencer/2023…

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Ben Hughes · Sep 12, 2023 · 2:43 AM UTC

Ben Hughes@schleyfox12 Sep 2023

At @Airbnb, while we appreciated the flexibility of Ruby on Rails earlier on, it absolutely became unsuitable at scale (both traffic and organizationally) and we had to work miracles while replacing much of it with java microservices.

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@dhh11 Sep 2023

Gotta love the pivot from "it doesn't scale" to "you can't write real systems without types" as the new ding-dong argument against dynamically-typed languages like Ruby (and vanilla JavaScript and Smalltalk and...). rubyonrails.org

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Ben Hughes · Sep 12, 2023 · 3:03 AM UTC

Ben Hughes@schleyfox12 Sep 2023

Ruby’s still the language that I know best, and I have nothing but respect for how Rails completely changed the game on web dev (and it’s still a great way to get started quickly on a project). Other langs are more cost efficient and types make working on a large team better.

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Ben Hughes · May 21, 2023 · 5:27 PM UTC

Ben Hughes@schleyfox21 May 2023

I’d love to see the energy requirements for AI tasks (excluding training) expressed in calories.

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Ben Hughes · May 7, 2023 · 2:53 PM UTC

Ben Hughes@schleyfox7 May 2023

One of the adorable New York things I do is when I return to the city I dump out any water in my water bottle from elsewhere and fill up with NYC tap.

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