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by brabel 11mo ago
Yes, I always thought it was wrong to use unwrap in examples. I know, people want to keep examples simple, but it trains developers to use unwrap() as they see that everywhere. Yes, there are places where it's ok as that blog post expl
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by brabel 11mo ago
Notice that INTELLIJ uses its own UI framework, really, which I don’t think has much Swing left in it after all these years. And Kotlin is the main language for a decade now.
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by brabel 11mo ago
Every Java app these days bundles a JVM . It was made easy with jlink like 10 years ago. Only parts of the JVM are included so it’s lightweight.
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by brabel 11mo ago
Yep, it's hard to believe it exists for free and with not a lot of ads when you have a good ad blocker... though the content creator's ads are inescapable, which I think is ok since they're making a little money in exchange f
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by brabel 11mo ago
Bummer, I thought for a second that we had found a magic bullet for all our concurrency problems!
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by brabel 11mo ago
It would be a lot more constructive if you reported a bunch of corner cases where this doesn't work rather than just dismissing this as a toy.
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by brabel 11mo ago
Doesn’t that constitute impersonation, or is it allowed since it’s supposedly obvious to be parody?
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by brabel 11mo ago
Yeah but is that a practical language people can use instead of C and Rust? I’ve always heard of it only as a research language that inspired rust but nothing else.
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by brabel 11mo ago
Which ones?? Before Rust, to my knowledge, no language had an actually practical way to use lifetimes and borrow-checking so that both memory safety and concurrency safety (data races, which is huge) were solved, even though the concepts we
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by brabel 11mo ago
The other side of that is that sometimes you just can't win, no matter what. You may end up wasting your life trying and trying anyway. Recognizing when to stop trying is just as important, I think.
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by brabel 11mo ago
I tried to contribute a bug fix to a Common Lisp project and found this exact issue. In CL you can trace methods but if the call hierarchy is several dozen levels deep with multiple type overrides and several :around, :before and :after com
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by brabel 11mo ago
Yep. Look at IntelliJ. It just copied VsCode when it already had a great UI where things were easy to find and consistent. Now it’s got meaningless icons and hides important stuff by default, making it modern but far worse than before. Than
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by brabel 11mo ago
The copilot plugin with Claude models (Sonnet models) is very integrated in the IDE, and so is Jetbrains AI (even more integrated than Copilot) which I believe can also use those models. So I wonder what's the actual difference.
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by brabel 11mo ago
Theres a plugin for Claude Code and you can use Claude models from Copilot in IntelliJ. Are those options worse than Zed, especially considering other comments about Zed missing basic editor stuff?
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by brabel 11mo ago
I have 64GB of RAM and between IDE, some Docker containers and a local LLM, that started feeling like too little already. It’s just never enough, we always find creative ways to use every byte that’s available. Oh and the browser (any brows
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by brabel 11mo ago
The desktop app is very good for quickly attaching pictures and documents, or receiving them, I find it harder to do that on the phone app , and a web app just doesn’t work very well when you want it open all the time. Same with Slack, havi
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by brabel 11mo ago
If you have a product and a team working on it, it’s tempting to just keep adding things to the product. You can’t just sit around fixing bugs, they say. When that is precisely what customers would want. Can’t make upsells though and when y
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by brabel 11mo ago
I agree with you, once you have a terminal emulator like the one described in the post you are close to reinventing eMacs. Many have tried over the years, no one succeeded so far.
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by brabel 11mo ago
I saw it. That’s how I know it.
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by brabel 11mo ago
I live in Europe and I am not sure what’s so terrible about us falling behind the US. Are people going hungry? Having a hard time finding a place to live? Traveling to nice places?? Not even that in my view. We live a happy fulfilling life.
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by brabel 11mo ago
Mutation should be an advanced topic in programming teaching. Even in procedural languages. It should be seen as an optimization technique you only use when analysis has shown that to be the only way to solve a difficult bottleneck. Using m
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by brabel 1y ago
That may be, but I was born only 40-something years ago, so I haven't had the pleasure to see that other than in Lisp.
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by brabel 1y ago
That looks a lot like Common Lisp LOOP macro!
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by brabel 1y ago
> Nice way to put it! But I oppositely believe the world needs more tech that treats professionals as experts, not kids. That’s how it was until around the turn of the century. Who needs types, we’re adults after all. Memory safety and g
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by brabel 1y ago
> I think OP wanted to have a proof that the submitter can demonstrate understanding of both the system and the code in the PR. LLMs are really good at writing these. IF they think this will prove the author is human, they're mistak
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by brabel 1y ago
It will be more interesting to see if and when AI becomes better than humans at coding, which seems to be coming close to reality, some projects may start accepting only AI contributions :D.
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by brabel 1y ago
Doesn't that code ignore errors even if it runs out of retries? Don't you want to log every Exception that happens, even if the transaction will be retried? This code is totally rotten.
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by brabel 1y ago
It was my second console after the Atari. It was a huge upgrade and we loved playing on it. The Mega Drive a few years later was my next one. In low income countries like Brazil they apparently still sell them new but licensed by a local ma
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by brabel 1y ago
A UI is by definition a view of some mutable state.
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by brabel 1y ago
I can run anything on my Mac the way you described: go to security settings and tell it know what I am doing. Is that changing somehow?

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