Tom Hicks 🫀

We recently stopped using React to render map elements in @Felt Not only does this make Felt faster than ever, but it also makes it look even better and cleans up our code. Why did we do this, and how did we manage such a big change?

@tenebra99 @WaitingForPerot Yes, I'm good thanks! And good news on my son as I know you know a bit about him. his CRT-D device has narrowed his QRS to the point that he doesn't need it anymore - just has the defib function on now - no pacing, no resync, meds coming down...

@Hicksyfern @WaitingForPerot Glad to see you. I hope you're doing well.

You can’t dispute facts! “Safe and effective” my ass! This is crimes against humanity! People need to be jailed for what they did the population.

@HenryPaul1999 @benonwine It is. That's why you can see it.

@benonwine If the earth is illuminated why isn't the moon 🤔

'Apolo 8' (1968) 'Apolo 17' (1972) 'Artemis II' (2026)

@WaitingForPerot @AntrimHill just come to laugh at naomi wolf, and I can't believe this tired old lie is still being used by people. it's been debunked for...3? 4 years now? congratulations on your energy

@AntrimHill Facts?!? 🤣🤣🤣 You’re embarrassing yourself. That 1598 number is from a blog called Goodsciencing: • 74 yo team leader • 58 yo obese coach • 51 yo mom on a charity walk “Athletes” 🤣 You’re clueless, @AntrimHill — fact!

@Djevans71 @ShaunLintern @wesstreeting that's literally what RFK did for 5 months with a promise to figure it out once and for all and his answer is... something that is demonstrably untrue.

@Hicksyfern @ShaunLintern @wesstreeting Let's wait and see the studies untainted from big pharmas money. There is definitely something causing the raise in autism how about we do a deep dive and find out

”I’ve just got to be really clear about this: there is no evidence to link the use of paracetamol by pregnant women to autism in their children. None." - UK health secretary @wesstreeting

@GBates76034889 @ShaunLintern @W12Newman @wesstreeting kids are alive

@ShaunLintern @W12Newman @wesstreeting But theres evidence of over mass vaccination to autism. 18shots in the first 16 weeks of life? 3 lots of 6in1 - and you dont think this overdose of toxins causes issues? Speak to parents affected. Face facts. Kids are pharma cash cows.

@Dr_XYZ @ShaunLintern @wesstreeting you can go check his claims

@ShaunLintern @wesstreeting I don't think @wesstreeting is qualified to speak on this.

@Jason0850632788 @ShaunLintern @wesstreeting cool story

@ShaunLintern @wesstreeting I wouldn’t take any medical advice from anyone in our NHS and so called experts who lied about a pandemic and the so called vaccine

@Djevans71 @ShaunLintern @wesstreeting saying things that scientists and doctors say at appropriate times?

@ShaunLintern @wesstreeting Ah Wess that top scientist who specialises in what exactly

@JohnBaldLangLit @ShaunLintern @wesstreeting yes john it's called science

@ShaunLintern @wesstreeting And I've just got to be clear too. I'm not suggesting there is. Just that I've no way to check whether there is or not. Perhaps you have?

@matiasbaldanza @mrousavy but also if you're getting errors caught in CI that could have been caught in literal seconds before you committed it, you should probably consider whether there's a better way!

@matiasbaldanza @mrousavy like everyone's mind has been totally rotted by this notion that the hooks are part of the repo, therefore hooks bad. i just have my own script that runs, others in the team have different ones, some don't run any and that's fine.

git commit hooks are stupid and should never be used.

@GrumpyOldDoc what the fuck did I just watch?

@matiasbaldanza @mrousavy Yes let's wait 20 minutes to get a result back that I could have in...checks notes...5 seconds.

@mrousavy Mostly agree. Git commit hooks are paternalistic AF. The responsibility for code quality and enforcement should be in CI, not on each developer’s machine.

@karololszacki @isaac_ts_way @eevee9x @mrousavy Our TypeScript linting runs in 0.6seconds on hundreds of thousands of lines of code. What on earth are you doing?

@isaac_ts_way @eevee9x @mrousavy Linters can be fast, but that's reserved to compiled languages, especially those where you can compile (therefore reason about) just one fragment / one file. For scripted languages, possibilities explode fast and wide...

@mrousavy @LaughinOutLoudr @isaac_ts_way you know commit hooks exist as a thing without them being required by the repo? I run my own set of commit hooks. Some coworkers have theirs. Some have none.

@LaughinOutLoudr @isaac_ts_way you clearly never worked in open-source and it shows

@isaac_ts_way @mrousavy Please for the love of Zeus can we drop the notion that commit hooks equals them being forcibly run by anyone who checks out the repo? Also, removing things that other people might rely on without asking is a moronic thing to do.

I removed commit hooks from our repo at work without asking anybody. One of my teammates asked me why and I just said “they’re dumb. If you want checks do them in CI or manually instead of forcing everyone and wasting people’s time” It’s one of those things that a large number of people classify in their head as “good engineering” but in reality there is no upside to it

@kenwheeler GPT-3 was fine, actually

it’s funny watching the techno utopia guys unable to admit that models plateaued

We were very fortunate that he survived, as he received zero care for it in the UK. It was by pure chance that we moved to Spain where we took him to the doctor for something unrelated that it was discovered. They would have never found it in the UK, and he 100% would have died.

@PhilippaPr just seen your article on Jess's rule and wanted to say it would have helped my son who also received a bunch of "he's fine all kids are different" responses, who turned out to have a life-threatening (90% die within a year) heart problem when he was a baby.