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What Is the Difference Between a Block, a Proc, and a Lambda in Ruby? (2013)

https://blog.awaxman.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-block-a-proc-and-a-lambda-in-ruby
5•Tomte•6h ago

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vidarh•1h ago
Separating out blocks this way is pretty meaningless. Blocks are a syntactical construct that can be optimized a certain way, and is in MRI.

You can obtain a value of a block by naming it, and when you do, what you obtain is a proc.

A Ruby implementation could if it chooses make any block a proc, because you shouldn't be able to tell the difference without extensive contortions (e.g. you could iterate over ObjectSpace and show that a block causes the creation - or not - of an object of the Proc class). And in-fact my (woefully buggy and incomplete) Ruby compiler prototype does just that.

The PRODUCTIVITY J-CURVE (2020) [pdf]

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w25148/w25148.pdf
1•simonpure•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

https://www.remoteswe.fyi
1•xitang•3m ago•0 comments

Use cloud and get rid of your sysadmin. (2010)

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2010/04/use-cloud-and-get-rid-of-your-sysadmin.html
1•mooreds•6m ago•0 comments

TestDesiderata

https://testdesiderata.com/
2•todsacerdoti•6m ago•0 comments

EUV Photoresists: The Next Generation? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabClB_93RA
1•mfiguiere•7m ago•0 comments

How I Got Gemini to Figure Out My Nephew's Name

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/May/gemini-figured-out-my-nephews-name/
1•BeetleB•7m ago•0 comments

SoarXiv: Soar through ArXiv paper space

https://soarxiv.org/
1•lmcinnes•10m ago•0 comments

There Are People Who Can See and Others Who Cannot Even Look

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/there-are-people-who-can-see-and
1•crescit_eundo•10m ago•0 comments

How Nvidia Ruins Everything [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHz8Z0rEIMA
1•zdw•13m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to implement a national "do not email" list

1•tonymet•13m ago•2 comments

Hymn of Breaking Strain

https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_strain.htm
2•Townley•17m ago•1 comments

Not All Vision Pro Owners Feel Total Regret

https://slatepad.org/2025/05/18/not-all-vision-pro-owners-feel-total-regret/
2•goranmoomin•20m ago•0 comments

Six Remote Fijian Schools Get High-Speed Internet

https://maitvfiji.com/six-remote-fijian-schools-get-high-speed-internet/
1•andsoitis•20m ago•0 comments

The paper that got LLM started. It was in 2003, in Montreal

https://twitter.com/jxmnop/status/1924207755956478400
2•ksec•22m ago•0 comments

Designing interaction, not interfaces (2004)

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Designing-interaction%2C-not-interfaces-Beaudouin-Lafon/409388ab6a828604784d1c14454dc9ad7a87ff9d
1•RetroTechie•26m ago•1 comments

Landauer's Principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
3•simonpure•27m ago•0 comments

Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, study

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-emit-faint-extinguishes-death.html
2•pseudolus•30m ago•0 comments

China begins assembling its supercomputer in space

https://www.theverge.com/news/669157/china-begins-assembling-its-supercomputer-in-space
2•turadg•31m ago•2 comments

AI job interview: Job hunting was already hard. Then came glitching HR robots

https://slate.com/life/2025/05/jobs-ai-job-hiring-character-interview.html
2•spenvo•33m ago•0 comments

Benchmarking Crimes Meet Formal Verification

https://microkerneldude.org/2025/04/27/benchmarking-crimes-meet-formal-verification/
1•snvzz•37m ago•0 comments

The Case for AGI by 2030

https://80000hours.org/agi/guide/when-will-agi-arrive/
2•doitLP•39m ago•1 comments

The Universe Is 'Suspiciously' Like a Computer Simulation, Physicist Says

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-universe-is-suspiciously-like-a-computer-simulation-physicist-says
2•cpncrunch•41m ago•1 comments

WebCheckr Releses New tool for seeing if your site needs improvement

https://webcheckr.tech
3•kowskiiocode•47m ago•0 comments

It pays to use AI on the sly at work

https://www.ft.com/content/f8cac59b-b467-4c83-86fe-6fae065559b5
1•alceufc•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bluesky Analytics

https://theblue.social/analytics
3•hboon•49m ago•1 comments

AI Hedge Fund

https://github.com/virattt/ai-hedge-fund
3•fdefitte•57m ago•0 comments

Consequences of the Moosbauer-Poole Algorithms

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05896
1•hughgrunt•57m ago•0 comments

The value of llms.txt: Hype or real?

https://mintlify.com/blog/the-value-of-llms-txt-hype-or-real
1•mooreds•1h ago•0 comments

The Role My Parents Never Expected: Raising My Sister's Kids

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/magazine/grandparents-families-children-kids.html
1•mooreds•1h ago•0 comments

Vieta Jumping

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieta_jumping
3•redbell•1h ago•0 comments