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by coldtea 6mo ago
Because maybe they're wrong, and what they think is "inadequate for their efforts" is just due to their overengineering stupidity.
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> and to me Bun was less interesting because a.) it seemed like a much-less-ambitious Deno I don't know, I've followed Deno, and it appeared to me an incredibly low ambition from the get go.
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> Nokia is hardly a footnote, they even own UNIX birthplace nowadays. It's not exactly the pinnacle of corporate achievement owning a non-relevant for decades labs. Might as well own the birthplace of ENIAC too. But also not very r
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> Kinda yikes, not going to lie. I wonder if it's a setting on his side, or Apple in their infinite wisdom think they know better and just put the compressor/limiter knobs at eleven and call it a day. The waveform seems to me
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by coldtea 6mo ago
GitHub is. Git doesn't care one way or another.
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by coldtea 6mo ago
I know why: you have ADHD.
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> Let's not be overly dramatic about that period. Apple was not days away from going bust. They were months away from filing bankruptcy. They were still a multi-billion dollar company even then. So? No shortage of "multi-bill
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by coldtea 6mo ago
Nothing wrong with "grep with various regexes". And in my experience it hardly ever "misses the big picture". When it misses is small stuff I'd miss myself quite often anyway.
969.
by coldtea 6mo ago
Yeah, just not in any measure that actually counts for quality of life. Also what's "America" and what's "Europe"? Should we jump with joy if one or another is "richer" in some aggregate sense? If Bil
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by coldtea 6mo ago
Most people who say this didn't/can't happen to them, are the worst cases...
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> Are you not confusing GC (freeing memory) with the memory allocator ? No, you're missing the fact that the allocation of memory and the GC go hand in hand, because you need it so for optimizations. They are designed together to c
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by coldtea 6mo ago
Get that goat out already
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> Is Python's GC bad, or are there cyclic reference issues? Both can be true. The first can even be wholly or partly due to the second. On addition, the way it does it via RC causes fragmentation, poor locality for caches, and gene
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by coldtea 6mo ago
It's the same, on steroids.
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> As far as I know, java has 7 GC implementations, none of which are perfect, all of which have drawbacks Compared to Python's, all of them are beyond perfect. And 99.9% of the time you don't even need to use anything but the
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by coldtea 6mo ago
You're not a customer of a business when you cost them $2 for each $1 they make out of you. At best you're their VC subsidised target demographic.
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> responding to incoming emails / voicetexts. You need an AI for that?
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by coldtea 6mo ago
Manliness is the confounding factor.
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> a man who I praised fulsomely in a blog post 20 years ago, for his coverage of the genocide in Darfur But apparently don't care for him when the genocide hits closer to home.
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by coldtea 6mo ago
Even that is fun. A little tedious, but straighforward, no compiler magic.
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by coldtea 6mo ago
Why send the review to us? Give it to another AI to read.
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> Python has a quite random collection of stuff, and it's often quite low quality and people don't use it anyway. I wouldn't say it is close to Go. People who came into Python for ML and Data Science, and just care for th
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by coldtea 6mo ago
So overworked like the West but their lives actually improving?
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> I'm talking specifically about understanding the business domain and problem you are trying to solve. And that's what people use AI everyday to help with, so?
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by coldtea 6mo ago
Not atm, but does it matter? Is it similar, even if much simpler, of the sort of process that goes on there too? That's the important question.
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by coldtea 6mo ago
Yet, a nicer request wrapper is not the be all end all of batteries, and Python covers a huge spread of libs
987.
by coldtea 6mo ago
Why the hell would he "worry about garbage collection"? That kind of thing is a cargo cult fear. Garbage collection is not an issue for 99% of programs. And for those that it is, there are ways to mitigate the issue (e.g. there ar
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> If performance is the main difference, whatever that means, then basically Go should be reserved for when Rust and other lower level langs cannot be used due to some other constraint? Or when performance is the main but not the only d
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> Go is statically typed but the type system leaves much to be desired. Not that much. Looking at Rust or Haskell complexity, I don't really desire it.
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> Go has a huge stable standard library no other language even comes close to Well, Java and Python do.

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