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2101.
by 9rx 2y ago
We have already discussed the semantic implications. What else are you trying to add here? I think it went over my head.
2102.
by 9rx 2y ago
I don't know, but why do we find this struggle to differentiate between fact and feeling so often here?
2103.
by 9rx 2y ago
I have no mind formed when it comes to anything related to politics. I'm not sure how anyone reasonably could. There is so much information, and even more information not accessible, that making a mind is completely beyond grasp. If on
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by 9rx 2y ago
If someone can reasonably consider it food, fair to say that is food for the sake of this. Like I said, I haven't met the food I don't like yet. It is impossible to know how I feel about the foods I haven't yet met. There is
2105.
by 9rx 2y ago
The charitable interpretation (see first comment) stands, though. It remains that the motivation on the internet, like the motivation in a comedy club, is not a reflection of the motivation found elsewhere. The venue is significant.
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by 9rx 2y ago
> we all have foods we like and dislike For dislike you mean like rotten or spoiled food? I'm not sure I've met food in proper edible condition that I didn't like.
2107.
by 9rx 2y ago
> The whole point of an argument is exploring ideas and learning something new Exactly. Which is why argumentation becomes boring once you are at the point where you feel there is nothing left that you can learn. Not only does it becom
2108.
by 9rx 2y ago
> I am open to someone making such a point Someone else is not you presenting an argument. You making an argument about what you know about 1+1=2 is what is boring. Let's be real: You're not going to do it. Why would you? Y
2109.
by 9rx 2y ago
> "making up your mind," a phrase that does not appear in the than the original article and would not fit with the framework of understanding expressed therein While it does not explicitly appear, a mind cannot be changed if
2110.
by 9rx 2y ago
> I am not holding onto my “already made up” position that dearly. Perhaps this is just semantics, then? I wouldn't make up my mind until there is effectively no chance of there being an alternative I've overlooked. I'm
2111.
by 9rx 2y ago
> If you’re not changing your mind, it’s likely you’re not actually having an argument If you've made up your mind (even if, theoretically, it could be changed) why would you have an argument about it in the first place? Discussi
2112.
by 9rx 2y ago
> Why don't you spell it out? The earlier comment already spelled it out. Hence why it wished you luck as we knew you would not be able to deliver. Yet right on cue you hilariously tried anyway. I take that you haven't actual
2113.
by 9rx 2y ago
Clickbait is appealing. This sounds like the opposite.
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by 9rx 2y ago
> Good luck? Have you done basic programming with rust? Have you? I am sorry that the good luck did not shine upon you. With the types remaining intact, I modified the (pseudo)code: match getFile(fileName) { Some(file)
2115.
by 9rx 2y ago
> Tests don’t catch everything. Again, they will catch your runtime errors if your behaviour is covered. If your behaviour isn't covered, then you're just shifting the problem to the program doing the wrong thing instead of c
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by 9rx 2y ago
> The only things I can think of which Go did that seemed blatantly wrong in that era would be the lack of generics and proper enums. Typescript added "improper" enums several years later. Which is especially interesting as i
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by 9rx 2y ago
> Or that whole iota thing. What is the whole iota thing? For what it is, the iota design is really good. Languages like C and Typescript having having the exact same feature hidden in some weird special syntax look silly in comparison
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by 9rx 2y ago
> It seems their revenue in 2024 exceeded $3B. With a loss of $5B. A viable business model needs more than revenue. It also needs profit. It is not unusual for a business with visions for profitability to accept losses for a while to g
2119.
by 9rx 2y ago
Relationships don't need to be "true" to be useful.
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by 9rx 2y ago
Traditionally, Scripts are programs that carry out a specific task and then exit. If failure occurs, it is usually on the operator to fix the issue and run the script again. I agree that bash, AppleScript, Python, etc. are geared towards th
2121.
by 9rx 2y ago
> If your program has runtime errors then that means you can deploy it to production and catch your errors in production. That questions: Why are you allowing your programs to be deployed when tests are failing? This is not a realistic
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by 9rx 2y ago
> It was intended to be a systems language to replace C++ More specifically, it was intended to replace the systems that Google wrote in C++ (read: servers). Early on, the Go team expressed happy surprise that people found utility in
2123.
by 9rx 2y ago
So they're scripting languages?
2124.
by 9rx 2y ago
But you[1] are willing to spend money, so you can pay someone else to worry about that. [1] Based on the original comment. If you personally are not willing to spend money, your reply doesn't fit the conversation.
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by 9rx 2y ago
Relatively speaking, that is also how much of the rest of the free world feels about the USA (even before Trump). But people are willing to move there anyway because: $$$.
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by 9rx 2y ago
> It’s designed for people who don’t have much experience with programming. Exactly. It follows the same basic "loop, variable, function" programming model as Java, C++, Haskell, PHP, Ruby, Rust, Python, LISP, Smalltalk, basi
2127.
by 9rx 2y ago
> Doesn't make any difference in practice meaning you never had a runtime error while running go? I am not sure I have written enough Go to comment there, but I have worked extensively in other languages where runtime errors are p
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by 9rx 2y ago
Success/failure isn't a function of merit.
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by 9rx 2y ago
> No he's saying go is designed for people like you. Stands to reason. It is true that I do spend my time on the engineering side of the industry. While I have great appreciation for the brilliant languages, they don't offer
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by 9rx 2y ago
> Why even allow for a runtime error here? Why not? It doesn't make any difference in practice. Without a complete type system you must write tests to ensure that error conditions (to stay with your example, although this also app

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