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by dagw 2y ago
Yea, sounds like cross platform AOT compiled C# not being mature and performant was a big reason that C# was rejected. One other thing I forgot to mention was that he talked about how the current compiler was mostly written as more or less
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by dagw 2y ago
Why is the TypeScript team moving to an entirely different technology A few things mentioned in an interview: Cannot build native binaries from TypeScript Cannot as easily take advantage of concurrency in TypeScript Writing fast TypeScrip
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by dagw 2y ago
You can write slow code in any language, but you cannot write fast code in any language.
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There is an interview with Anders Hejlsberg here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGza4oIleY The question comes up and he quickly glosses over it, but by the sound of it he isn't impressed with the performance or supp
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by dagw 2y ago
TL:DR; - Native executable support on all major platforms - He doesn't seen to believe that AOT compiled C# can give the best possible performance on all major platforms - Good control of the layout of data structures - Had to have gar
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by dagw 2y ago
Sales seem to have stalled. Q3 2024 was strong, but then dropped off quite dramatically in Q4 2024 with no indication that Q1 2025 will improve, despite price cuts and generous financing deals. Basically there seems to be a small, dedicated
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by dagw 2y ago
I did history GCSE as well in the mid 90s, and from what I can recall it was only 20th century history. I'm also pretty sure that the curriculum was split into several modules and the school got to pick something like 3 out of N modul
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by dagw 2y ago
That's not actually what this study finds, or even what it was trying to study. What it does find is that a majority of users of social media _believe_ that social media does them more harm than good, which is subtly but distinctly dif
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by dagw 2y ago
if the majority of them are for privacy, there is absolutely no reason for them to vote against it That's not how politics works. Most politicians belong to political parties, and sometimes you have to vote against your personal conv
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by dagw 2y ago
Americans like cheap The data doesn't bear that out. Look at the best selling cars in the US, not many cheap cars on that list. Now compare it to the best selling cars in Europe, almost only cheap cars. Top 3 car in the US are Ford
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by dagw 2y ago
I suspect the answer to these questions are the same. When different companies are developing the OS, the drivers and the hardware it is much harder to get everything to play together nicely.
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by dagw 2y ago
At ~60k a pop who can spend that on a small bus? They seem to be super popular among trades people and as commercial vehicles. I have to admit I hardly ever see them in 'passenger' configuration.
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by dagw 2y ago
I have never paid less than $20k for a new car. I have never bought a new car.
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by dagw 2y ago
Aren't US SC judges picked by the president? They're nominated by the president, but approved by the Senate. There have been cases throughout history where a nominated judge doesn't get through the approval process. Of cour
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by dagw 2y ago
My laptop before getting my M2 MPB was a top of line ThinkPad P series with all the best on paper specs. As long as I was running benchmarks on it while it was plugged in and I didn't care about fan noise, performance was fine. Once y
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by dagw 2y ago
I expect my build tool to respect the JVM/Python versions I've set (looking at you Poetry...) and fail if they can't find them For what it's worth, uv does this if you tell it to. It's just not the default behavio
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by dagw 2y ago
uv works like poetry, rather than pipenv, in this regards.
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by dagw 2y ago
I've worked like you described for years and it mostly works. Although I've recently started to experiment with a new uv based workflow that looks like this: To open a notebook I run (via an alias) uv tool run jupyter lab
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by dagw 2y ago
In addition to all the benefits others have mentioned, biggest benefit for me was that with uv you can easily bring your own build system (scikit-build-core in my case). Poetry comes with its own build system that didn't work for my ne
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Anything that makes it easier to make a script that I wrote run on a colleagues machine without having to give them a 45 minute crash course of the current state of python environment setup and package management is a huge win in my book.
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by dagw 2y ago
Why did they do that? Why not have smaller venvs for separate projects? What's a 'project'? If you count every throw away data processing script and one off exploratory Jupyter notebook, that can easily be 100 projects. Cer
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by dagw 2y ago
Isn't using VsCode for a non-Microsoft language going to be difficult Python is pretty close to a 'Microsoft language' these days. They've hired several Python core developers to make sure windows is first class citize
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by dagw 2y ago
Java was abandoned en masse by the younger generation We tried. Java was fine, JBuilder was fine. When they instead started pushing J2EE, EJB and all the other acronyms I've forgotten, this 'youngster' realised he'd ne
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by dagw 2y ago
being sent by a method called 'SMS' which isn't very reliable, particularly when phone signal is poor... Not that it is relevant to overall point, but this is the exact opposite of my experience. I've been in plenty of
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by dagw 2y ago
The K1000 is generally considered among the best film SLRs ever made, especially for the price, and easily falls into the top 0.1% category in my mind. There's a reason why it was in continuous production for 20 years with hardly any c
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by dagw 2y ago
I think the point is that a 60% increase of a small number is still a small number. If you spend $15 a month on rice and then that goes up $23, it's still a small part of your overall household budget. I think it is clear that this is
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It will be interesting to see how this affects the Japanese rice farmers. The prices are high because the farmers don't have 'enough' rice to sell and thus have to raise the price to get the total amount of money they need fo
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I have never heard of a Nordic restaurant that closes in those months Lots of restaurants in that mainly cater to lunch guests close for at least a few weeks during those months, since 90+% of their customer base are away and they get ver
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by dagw 2y ago
Good news is that AI is equally adept at turning long polite business speak emails into short, blunt, and sweary emails, so you can choose what you prefer.
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Eventually I read some actual documentation... For the best of both worlds make the LLM first 'read' the documentation, and then ask for help. Make a huge difference in the quality and relevance of the answers you get.

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