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by apta 7y ago
The only thing golang has going for it is "goroutines". Now that all other popular languages are getting some variant of async (e.g. C#) or green thread implementations (e.g. Java), it will be tough to advocate for golang for new
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by apta 7y ago
> As someone who currently mostly programs in C++, lack of memory safety barely makes my top three concerns. Isn't having a UB-free JVM a noteworthy goal though? Especially if it gets used in life-critical systems such as avionics o
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by apta 7y ago
I find Zig's approach to generics to be very cool. Types are a first class citizen, so you basically get generics out of the box. Combined with Zig's `comptime` makes for writing very cool code. This solves lot of things you'
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by apta 7y ago
Income tax is the government being lazy and stealing from their citizens, instead of thinking about what businesses to invest stocks in for example in order to generate revenue.
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by apta 7y ago
I highly recommend taking a look at Zig[0]. It's coming along quite nicely, and has a quite unique take on systems programming. [0] https://ziglang.org/
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by apta 7y ago
Having some communities support it does not contradict that it can still be an unpopular opinion. For example, consuming alcohol is a socially acceptable practice in practically all Western nations. There are studies showing the strong corr
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by apta 7y ago
> They also provided drugs and alcohol to the participants before offering paperwork. Maybe the participants shouldn't be taking the drugs and alcohol to begin with?
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by apta 7y ago
How does someone forcefully get another person in a different city drunk?
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by apta 7y ago
Like getting drunk and killing others, or smoking in public places and hurting everyone around them? Yea, they should do what they want.
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by apta 7y ago
I still don't see the issue. They want their employees to be drug free. Athletes already undergo drug testing for example.
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by apta 7y ago
It's been shown in studies, such as https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hvac-systems-spre...
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by apta 7y ago
Perhaps, getting drunk is a deliberate decision in general. People should face the consequences of such (and we already see it).
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by apta 7y ago
This isn't sufficient. Smoking's effects lingers on the smoker for quite a while after they smoke. So even if they leave the company premise and come back, there's still the effect of third hand smoking. This was studied and
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by apta 7y ago
Smoking can easily be detected without a urine test. The disgusting smell lingers on the smoker after they smoke for example.
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by apta 7y ago
Both should be prohibited. The sooner society agrees to this the better.
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by apta 7y ago
It's quite ridiculous if that's the case. Someone getting him or herself willingly into an addiction (especially nicotine) should not constitute a "disability". Unless they're classified as mentally disabled since t
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by apta 7y ago
Canada is like 1/10th the size of the US's population. These things don't necessarily scale linearly.
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by apta 7y ago
Does it matter? If you're hitting two birds with one stone so to speak what's the issue here?
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by apta 7y ago
Good start. Hopefully more companies and work places follow with similar policies.
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by apta 7y ago
Abuse? Second hand smoking is a thing, it's the smokers who are doing the abuse, both to themselves and others.
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by apta 7y ago
> but I’d still like you to answer my question. It was implied in my answer. Smoking and vaping have nothing but negative outcomes. Driving to get somewhere on the other hand, has both a benefit and a risk. We're also constantly imp
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by apta 7y ago
Your argument has a fallacy. Smoking is not only bad for whoever smokes, but is also bad for anyone near him/her, as well as the environment. There is literally zero benefit from it, let's stop with this "adults can do anythi
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by apta 7y ago
> programs written in Go are consistently in the top tier for reliability. Citation needed. It may simply be that those code bases are doing relatively trivial work compared to large programs in other languages, where bugs are more likel
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by apta 7y ago
> I for one have never seen a JVM desktop > or business app Practically every large site you use (Google, Amazon, FB, GitHub, Apple, Twitter, and many more) are using Java/JVM in the backend in some non-trivial capacity.
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by apta 7y ago
https://cl4es.github.io/2019/11/20/OpenJDK-Startup-Update.ht...
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by apta 7y ago
Money, greed, and ignorance are at play here. If they truly "cared about the children", they'd ban smoking altogether.
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by apta 7y ago
> But you're right, adults should be free to be idiots if they like. This is the mentality that ended up getting society down the drain. No, "adults" (many of whom aren't mentally) shouldn't be allowed to be idio
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by apta 7y ago
> Isn't this going to make the argument for making teens smoke cigarettes so they can get access to vaping with nicotine? Then simply apply the same to cigarettes. Only current people who smoke can buy them, this paves the way to el
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by apta 7y ago
It is perfectly possible to have a "super developed functional government" which doesn't forcefully claims a percentage of its citizens incomes.
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by apta 7y ago
Actual solution: don't allow any donations by corporations (or anyone) to political offices.

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