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by bborud 2mo ago
If Google News is the shrimp boat, then what is Google Search?
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by bborud 2mo ago
This is also why people eventually leave languages. Satisfy everyone’s wishes for long enough and you get lots of different styles of doing things and … «wow look at that much simpler language over there; let’s try that instead»
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by bborud 2mo ago
You rarely get anything for free. Look at exceptions in Java, for instance. In theory the mechanism is there to guarantee that errors will be handled. In practice there are multiple schools of thought — several of which purposefully circu
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by bborud 2mo ago
I think the examples are both bad along different axis. One occupies more lines, the other results in _more_ and uglier syntax. They’re both bad. So the question is which axis is worse. While the first occupies more lines I suspect I’d sp
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by bborud 2mo ago
I agree with you that it would have been nice with Result and option types in Go. But as someone else pointed out, unhandled errors are very rare in practice in Go because every Go project tends to use static code analysis tools that catc
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by bborud 3mo ago
I’m not sure what I expected the first time I met him, but I wasn’t too surprised that he was actually easy to get along with. Most intelligent people actually are in real life. Yes, he could be harsh online, but he also had a sense of hum
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by bborud 3mo ago
The immature 1980s industry was a lot more fun than any decade since. The problem with the future is that when it arrives it tends to bring amazing things, but they are still executed in a way that is disappointing, annoying and clumsy. I r
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by bborud 3mo ago
You are skipping a few layers here. Like those who know stuff like «crumbling asbestos air ducts in schools may be a bad idea». Why do so many grown-ups fail civics 101 so blatantly?
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by bborud 3mo ago
You kind of exemplify that drawing on this very topic where a bunch of people sit in a boat that is sinking stern first and the people in the bow section are expressing zero concern because their end isn’t under water. This is why we get pe
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by bborud 3mo ago
Well, zero repairs so far. And I live in a place where BMW sent two engineers and a test car to verify that, indeed, the roads here rattle cars to bits. They were not getting ripped off by people pretending their beemers broke.
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by bborud 3mo ago
You're thinking about the stability? That's all down to very low center of gravity.
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by bborud 3mo ago
Reading through the comments I somehow doubt that many have owned or ridden a Vespa that was built in the last 10 years or so. I've had a 300cc Vespa GTS for a decade now (alongside a few motorcycles) and the thing that is the most str
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by bborud 3mo ago
This is a really weird take that does not resemble any modern Vespa. Are you sure you looked at a modern Vespa and not some old 2 stroke thing? Also, the range is pretty good. About 160 miles on a full tank, which no electric motorcycle o
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by bborud 3mo ago
You do understand that you look somewhat ridiculous when engaging in the very behavior that the accusation of wooden matter up one’s rectum implies? You are arguing my point for me by way of self-parody.
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by bborud 3mo ago
I am flabbergasted. How self-absorbed does one have to be to be offended by someone re-using sections of a paper one has done earlier in a later paper? No, seriously. If I write 5.000 words on a topic and then re-use 500 words I myself ha
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by bborud 3mo ago
I’ll grant you that there are good arguments in favor of your position. PHP, and then later JavaScript have both filled the world with more fragility and chaos than was necessary.
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by bborud 3mo ago
The same morons who think that re-using something you have written before in academic work without quoting yourself is (self-)plagiarism for which you should be sanctioned? (Yes, they are morons because no reasonable person would think this
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by bborud 3mo ago
But surely the death of any large chunk of PHP leaving the stage is cause for applause and boisterous shouts of joy?
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by bborud 4mo ago
This even extends to how some standards are written: deliberately complex and poor work just to make it frustrating and ensure a high barrier of entry. And of course there are either no test suites or testing against them costs a fortune. T
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by bborud 4mo ago
You offer no concrete explanation of how AI will magically remove the language barrier. Have you ever taught a class? How, in practice would you make language go away? In concrete terms. Exactly how do you envision interaction between te
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by bborud 4mo ago
So let me see if I get this: we need AI in Norwegian schools so immigrants don’t have to learn Norwegian or English, or else child protective services will take away their children? It isn’t so much that you and I disagree. It is more tha
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by bborud 4mo ago
So now you are arguing what? That the AI tools, that so thoroughly failed to educate you on education, should be used to teach immigrants in their mother tongue? And keep in mind, if you move to a country you kind of have to accept that th
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by bborud 4mo ago
One can certainly wish, but I am inclined to believe that RAM use isn’t just about sloppy programmers. I think it is, to a significant degree, about the kinds of problems we solve now that we have more RAM. And not all exorbitant RAM use is
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by bborud 4mo ago
The the only conclusion I can draw from that is that you know nothing about education and even less about Norway. FYI: all Norwegians learn at least one foreign language in school. It is mandatory. That means you have to, in case that’s a b
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by bborud 4mo ago
So I take it you have some expertise in teaching? At what level? K-12? Middle school? What, in your professional opinion as an educator, should schools do about AI in schools?
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by bborud 4mo ago
Of course, the tunnel will be in non-euclidian space. So it is shorter on the inside than on the outside :-)
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by bborud 4mo ago
Ask a Norwegian to dig a tunnel and they will turn into a gopher on meth. We are the undisputed champions of tunnels in terms of tunnel density. Show us a piece of rock and we'll put a big hole in it. However. Ask a Norwegian to fix
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by bborud 4mo ago
It isn't so much about platform owned by political opponents as platforms now being political and/or that we always have to assume they come with a political agenda.
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by bborud 4mo ago
> things could be worse That's always true for all regimes at all times so it is a pointless NOOP-argument. The attitude you communicate is essentially that "the small people" do not matter. It is precisely this attitude
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by bborud 4mo ago
This is just thoughtless and sloppy of those who added this to the RFC. Adding complexity for zero real gain is poor discipline when it comes to protocols.

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