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by barnacled 6y ago
Sure, but as I've said a couple times already, the issue is that the go team have indicated they _would_ accept major changes (they explicitly said they would on generics for a long while, which I suggest is just not true, and actually
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by barnacled 6y ago
No, not most, all. Projects like the Linux kernel are equally highly selective and reject code that they don't like big or small, but they do at least sometimes accept significant changes. As I responded in another comment, I accept th
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by barnacled 6y ago
The thing is I wouldn't mind that and maybe that is what a programming language needs, but they constantly suggest otherwise. The modules situation was pretty shocking to me. Just tell everybody this is how it is and it's all good
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by barnacled 6y ago
While I am a fan of go and like it's simplicity it does sadden me the degree to which it is a 100% google project on any significant change like this. It is not an open source project in the sense of most major open source projects and
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by barnacled 6y ago
While I think there's some sense in the analogy and you get real insights using new languages, I do find that 'beating the averages' article really unconvincing. Firstly there's the obvious observation that Y Combinator
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by barnacled 6y ago
Absolutely wonderful! This is getting ever more close to the joy of the original home computers, and a great setup for a kid to start with especially with the book provided. The RPi4 is also an impressive bit of kit. Bravo RPi foundation!
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by barnacled 6y ago
Could you give some more details in that? Interesting!
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by barnacled 6y ago
It does somewhat amuse me to see the degree to which people rationalise Apple's ongoing, consistent control freakery with excuses and justifications. Every time a story like this comes up the amount of people defending what they do rea
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by barnacled 6y ago
I think you misinterpret what I said, it is the edge case scenarios where fatalities tend to occur. Of course in humans that can be due to drunkeness or distraction or confusion, nobody is claiming human drivers are perfect, but if it is th
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by barnacled 6y ago
I think firstly it's going to be tough with long-tail edge case deaths to really be sure the numbers will be less than human drivers until self-driving cars are unleashed in sufficient numbers. Secondly, even if you're right (and
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by barnacled 6y ago
I am extremely skeptical of the boring project. The claimed money saving (a 10x improvement vs. every single tunnel digger in the world without any evidence to back it up?) the safety issues of a car breaking down in a tunnel or being broug
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by barnacled 6y ago
I like Filip Piekniewski's take on this [0] - deep learning is appropriate for environments where the cost of mistakes is low (or the errors are reversible) and you're able to 'average them out'. Self-driving cars are ab
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by barnacled 6y ago
The HBO show literally talks about an explosion 'equivalent' to a MT bomb. There has been ongoing misinformation about Chernobyl and a potential nuclear explosion had the melted core reached the flooded basement, e.g. https:&#x2F
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by barnacled 6y ago
"HBO’s Chernobyl gave us a raw glimpse of the devastating consequences a nuclear reaction can have." It really frustrates me when a show that contains many significant factual errors [0] (e.g. the exploding like a nuclear bomb thi
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by barnacled 6y ago
It strikes me as ironic that an architecture that used to pride itself on being RISC and simple is heading in the same direction as intel-levels of masses of specialist instructions. I don't mean this as a criticism, I just wonder if t
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by barnacled 6y ago
Personally I have found a rather different factor has been at play in my career - I have been in the industry for 15 years and made several side-steps, including working as employee #1 at a startup (which I cashed out from a buy-back), work