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by caspper69 2y ago
I make that mistake more often than I care to, but you are 100% spot-on. They are sum types, not product types. Thank you for making me walk the walk of shame!
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by caspper69 2y ago
Having reviewed the proposal (of course no guarantee that's what discriminated unions (aka product types aka algebraic data types) will look like), and it appears that it very much integrates nicely with the language. I don't susp
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by caspper69 2y ago
It has been in discussion for quite some time. I believe they'll get there soon: (example) https://dev.to/canro91/it-seems-the-c-team-is-finally-consid... In the interim, MS demonstrates how C# 8.0+ can fake it pr
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by caspper69 2y ago
I have points to burn, so I'll post, because I know this will scratch some folks the wrong way- apologies in advance. I use Windows. In fact, I like Windows. I know lots of (ok, more than 5) greybeards who feel exactly the same wa
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by caspper69 2y ago
Had we had better process isolation in the mid-90s, I assume web application development would mostly be Java apps, with a mini-vm for each one (sort of a qubes like environment). We just couldn't keeps apps' hands out of the cook
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by caspper69 2y ago
Well, back in my day, we used tabs for tabs. But then some folks came along about 15 years ago screaming about spaces, and they won, so now tabs are 2 or 4 spaces. The law of unintended consequences strikes again! Note: not meant to denigra
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by caspper69 2y ago
Thank you for the insightful post.
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by caspper69 2y ago
Interesting that their implementation is Apache 2.0 licensed, yet includes exceptions for LLVM and for GPLv2 licensed code/projects wrt patents. Does anyone know if the library's quality is on par with the GNU or Clang libraries?
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by caspper69 2y ago
Understood. It was hard to tell if he was only writing it from the standpoint of FM or if he was speaking more generally.
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by caspper69 2y ago
The article wasn't bad , but the examples felt a bit thin; almost like the author was reaching a bit to hit that magic number of 5. And you're definitely not wrong on the abstract subsection. I mean, essentially all he says is th
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by caspper69 2y ago
Thanks for the heads up.
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by caspper69 2y ago
After all the Ada threads last week, I read their pdf @ Adacore's site (the Ada for Java/C++ Programmers version), and there were a lot of surprises. A few that I found: logical operators do not short-circuit (so both sides of a
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by caspper69 2y ago
This is the problem with "common knowledge" and "everybody knows" and "gut feelings". Unless you work in an industry (such as academia, or farming, or auto manufacturing, or any of the other thousands of indust
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by caspper69 2y ago
This cannot be stressed enough: Space is big. Whatever you think big is, it’s so much bigger, that even thinking about it is mind bending and could induce vertigo. The nearest star, our Sun, could hold 1.3 million Earths. It only looks the
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by caspper69 2y ago
Hi Andy, it's been a long time since I pestered you. Glad to see Zig coming along so well. Congratulations on the progress! I'll apologize in advance for the long post. Wrt exceptions, you didn't elaborate. Exception handling
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by caspper69 2y ago
It's only fungible at the point of expenditure. Tax income is a dollar in hand that creates no liability; debt must be repaid with interest. Not sure I get your second point- I am aware of what is meant by the trust fund; actually, I t
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by caspper69 2y ago
The irony here is that nowhere in my original post did I claim there was no commingling of funds. In fact, I was trying to point out that our taxes were actually HIGHER than most people think due to FICA. Did I say these programs were cover
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by caspper69 2y ago
Excuse me, sir. Please don't just tell me I'm wrong without doing some research. SS: https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/factsheets/HowAreSocialSecuri... How is Social Security financed? Social Security
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by caspper69 2y ago
A big part of the failure is that the system is not entirely digital, and not entirely automated. People can still submit paper returns (and this is common for any businesses beyond a certain size- I've seen 200+ pages for a small-ish
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by caspper69 2y ago
Yeah, when you set up shop on someone else's sovereign territory, one day, at some point, you're going to have a bad time. The state's monopoly on violence is the ultimate tiebreaker, although as noted, there are many other w
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by caspper69 2y ago
Slightly pedantic nit: I know you're pointing out what "taxes" get you, but most people look at the tax brackets for income taxes and correlate that with the level of government services they receive. It's important to n
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by caspper69 2y ago
It usually wasn't intentional: https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html The system still has to disambiguate and support the prospect of it happening though.
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by caspper69 2y ago
I was never a Borland guy because I didn’t know pascal or c++ when they were big. But I (believe) I’ve heard stories that Microsoft was especially aggressive about poaching their talent. Things like pulling up in a limo with not-insignifica
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by caspper69 2y ago
True story- when XP was released, all of the people "in the know" (among Windows users) used Win2k. Nobody wanted to upgrade to XP. It was called the Fisher-Price OS because of the way they made the GUI colorful with oversized i
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by caspper69 2y ago
Been running Win11 for a long time; used to be on the Insider track, so the upgrade came early and automatically. No ads on the start menu. No bs notifications. OneDrive disabled and set to not auto-start. I did have to disable all of the &
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by caspper69 2y ago
Seemed safer to say than "everyone", because there's always exceptions.
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by caspper69 2y ago
Turns out, the masses don't want to actually learn. What they want to do is share what they think, and only read things that they agree with.
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by caspper69 2y ago
It was :)
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by caspper69 2y ago
That’s not surprising at all. You hate everybody, lol.
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by caspper69 2y ago
I'm sorry sir/mam, but that is simply not true. All you have to do is read comments from members of the Rust community online, in every public forum where Rust is discussed in any way. Understand, I am not trying to villainize a

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