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by arethuza 1y ago
Any everything is O(BB(n))
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by arethuza 1y ago
Well, that world would also have CLOS - maybe the AMOP would be treated with the same reverence as the GoF design patterns book... ;-)
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by arethuza 1y ago
When would that fail - if the resulting time is before the minimum time or after the maximum time?
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by arethuza 1y ago
To be fair those "weird patterns" weren't really Java itself but the crazy culture that grew up around it when it became "enterprise".
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by arethuza 1y ago
It actually looks like they have decided not to add virtual threads to .Net: https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/2398
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by arethuza 1y ago
Sorry about getting sidetracked there by my SOAP rant - I completely agree with your point.
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by arethuza 1y ago
"nor have they been humble about their place in the world" To be fair - which country has ever been the most powerful in the world and humble about it. The UK certainly wasn't - and after more than a century still hasn't
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by arethuza 1y ago
The GDP of the USA overtook that of the British Empire in 1916 (which is actually a lot later than I was expecting): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_British_Empire
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by arethuza 1y ago
My main complaint with SOAP was how leaky an abstraction it inevitably is/was - it can look seductively easy to use but them something goes wrong or you tried to use it across different tech stacks and then debugging would become a nig
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by arethuza 1y ago
"objects should be a bit more decoupled from their state" Do you mean allowing the "class" of an object to be changed - CLOS can do that. Mind you it's a long time since I wrote any code using CLOS and even then I&#
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by arethuza 1y ago
Here in Edinburgh, I cancelled an Uber recently and hailed a passing black cab because it was obvious from looking at where the Uber car was that it was effectively lost - I gave up when I could see it going in a circle. Uber is a great ser
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by arethuza 1y ago
"Science advances one funeral at a time.” Max Planck
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by arethuza 1y ago
You seem to have stumbled onto the secret of the Inebriati: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmp_--Oow5o
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by arethuza 1y ago
Thanks - that's one of the most interesting comments I've seen about LLMs. Makes me want to try training a model to sing "Daisy, Daisy..."
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by arethuza 1y ago
"society has fallen" In the real world things seem to be pretty much the same as they have been for most of my life (and I am 60 in a few months). Online, yes some people behave like monsters and occasionally some of that bleeds a
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by arethuza 1y ago
"Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up." Danny DeVito My wife is a lawyer so I collect amusing statem
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by arethuza 1y ago
I have a far bigger problem with adults having calls in public places with their phones on speaker... should they be "restrained" as well?
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by arethuza 1y ago
HN Guidelines say "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait"
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by arethuza 1y ago
HN title is wrong - the article title says "...across police forces in England".
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by arethuza 1y ago
What if a lot of that advertising is from AI companies that are likely to fail in any downturn - didn't advertising drop fairly sharply during at the end of the dot-com bubble?
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by arethuza 1y ago
Well where I am (Edinburgh) we have a superabundance of culture at this time of year - very little of which has anything to do with religion?
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by arethuza 1y ago
Look at the UK experience in Northern Ireland - not something to be emulated.
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by arethuza 1y ago
"it feels like Europe is post-religion" You say that likes it's a bad thing?
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by arethuza 1y ago
The UK version: https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/roundabouts.html I think the main difference is the expectation that you start signalling, if appropriate, before joining the roundabout. My main complaint (OK one of my main
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by arethuza 1y ago
I used to work for an industrial company that had a lot of plants which, by the nature of the work they did, were often extremely hot - a lot of them had urine colour charts in the toilets to try and warn people about dehydration.
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by arethuza 1y ago
"Going/been anywhere nice recently" is a pretty good one in the UK - most people have some kind of holiday and I don't follow football and my interest in cars is probably limited to my occasional bouts of incandescent ra
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by arethuza 1y ago
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
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by arethuza 1y ago
Even more than agriculture?
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by arethuza 1y ago
Sounds a lot like payroll...
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by arethuza 1y ago
My own view is that the most likely form of interstellar travel will be something like that used in Greg Egan's Diaspora - with upload communities sending themselves in relatively small ships and choosing whether to experience the jo

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