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Kotlin and Rust are modern languages that were designed much later and not so hastily, so they have less warts than JavaScript as a result.
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A standard textbook reference is Diamond, Shurman, A First Course in Modular Forms, Springer GTM vol. 228.
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The nostalgia hit me, I remember before Dreamweaver, there was Netscape Composer, W3C Amaya, and similar software.
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I do 100+ searches a day, but that would easily drop to ~10 if I don't count searches where I know from the beginning that I am going to click on the link to Wikipedia / GitHub / some other familiar website. With the rise of
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There are lots of use cases when you want references to reliable sources written by real people instead of AI slop. Science, law, technical documentation, etc. If you ask an LLM for the sources, it is happy to generate bogus citations for f
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> social shaming that cut so deep that the message you wrote is still burned verbatim into their memory after all these years Oh my, this reminded me how some 20 years ago I was a high school kid and dared to install a more nerdy Linux d
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I was just pointing out (mostly to other users who read this) that the alleged dose is immense and would be overwhelming for most people. Wasn't questioning your experience, only asking out of curiosity about the kind of source and for
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There are many hints at psilocybin not being different to LSD, some researchers opted for psilocybin for trials just because it was less known to the wide audience and had less cultural baggage than LSD. There are some comparisons, e.g. ht
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500µg is an immense dose, unless you have tolerance. Tabs usually have much less than the claimed amount. What was the source and form that makes you think 500µg is accurate? When it's 250µg or more, it's so overwhelming that many
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I think "pop punk" is a good term, for me it's about the sound and delivery, it has nothing to do with commercial success, being "posers" etc. I think it's kind of evident from the music itself why someone who
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> The problem is, programmers can't dictate what JSON should look like in the wild. Not JSONs in general, but a sane API would never return something like that. > We used to have strict typed XML. Nobody even bothered. Nowadays t
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It visually separates digits in numeric literals.
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> GP just meant that they had a bunch of interpreted language OOP developers (probably Java or C# or something like that), and they wanted them to start writing code in an AOT-compiled language (yes, I know about Graal native image; not
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> I have found his reaction videos tedious with the excessive commentary I don't follow any of the mentioned youtubers, but their stuff occasionally appears in my recommendations. I don't understand the point of videos where so
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I chuckled when it said that curly brackets are bad because they don't look nice when rotated by 90 degrees. > This is just like debating why call a builtin type is “int” instead of “Int”. It's even a bit worse because any text
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His newer videos are probably okay, but his 90s interviews have questions like "do you still want to commit suicide?" [1], "from my research I got rumors that you slept with such and such person..." [ibid.], "there
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Could you elaborate? What do you mean by this link?
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All three of them are trying not to break their character, and it's uncomfortable to watch. Many of his questions are inappropriate and disrespectful, I'm more surprised they could stand 15 minutes of this before walking off.
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I think researching a guest for an interview is more about understanding what they are doing and trying to convey, less about digging into obscure facts. Obscure facts may be interesting, but not when it's 100% of the interview. His ne
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I'm on your side. He has met lots of interesting artists, but most of his interviews are devoid of value, don't communicate anything, uncomfortable to watch, he often comes off disrespectful and patronizing. The bombardment with f
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The links to "The Power of Prolog" are broken, the correct URL is https://metalevel.at/prolog
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Clojure has a good collection library with immutable/persistent data structures, but as a language it allows side effects and has some mechanisms to manage them. It is also possible to call any Java method from Clojure. Clojure does no
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> When I last looked into Lean, I was highly unimpressed, even for doing math proofs. I remember exploring different proof assistants for the first time in the 2000s. Back then, only people with a background in logic were involved, and m
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Not a JS dev, but I think proper reactive JS shouldn't do that.
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When Chrome was released, Internet Explorer was not the monoculture browser, and 1/3 of the users had Firefox installed.
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I recall a story about a private mailing list with ~1000 participants, where someone was leaking all the messages to the public. To quickly catch the responsible subscriber, the admin used binary search and selectively altered the messages
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> As far as I know, the full weight of topos theory isn’t even needed for algebraic geometry The original topos theory developed by Grothendieck and his collaborators in the 60s is quite pragmatic and served to define cohomology theories
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Bare categories do not give much insight in pure mathematics either, it's just a common language; interesting things are categories with lots of extra structure like toposes, derived categories, infinity-categories, and so on.
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The quotes from the CEO are misleading, implying MongoDB is document-based and PostgreSQL is 100% relational. This is not true, PostgreSQL has had JSON support for quite some time.
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I thought that the page about a service for padding strings was some kind of satire ("I promise I won't put it on npm, won't unpublish it, and I definitely won't rewrite it in Rust"), but apparently the website trie

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