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by gwd 10mo ago
In this context, the the "slow programmer" option was the "no generics" option (i.e., C, and Go before 1.18) -- that is, the programmer has to re-implement code for each separate type, rather than being able to implement
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by gwd 10mo ago
The summary to me is here: > Almost all the models had a tech-heavy portfolio which led them to do well. Gemini ended up in last place since it was the only one that had a large portfolio of non-tech stocks. If the AI bubble had popped i
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by gwd 10mo ago
> For Go, I wouldn't say that the choice to avoid generics was either intentional or minimalist by nature. From what I recall, they were just struggling for a long time with a difficult decision, which trade-offs to make. Indeed, in
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by gwd 10mo ago
Again, you seem to misunderstand what this kind of forum is about. I gave my layperson's judgement and my reasons. If you don't agree with them, the thing to do is to point out where you think things are wrong, or add in your ow
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by gwd 10mo ago
Sorry, did I accidentally wander into a political action group working meeting, and you're mistaking me for the chairperson or something? If you have actual money and people working on this, don't take your cues form some rando o
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by gwd 11mo ago
Right; so according to your own assessment, for the "14+14 no extensions" thing , you're always going to have have "a minority of opinionated geeks" on one side, and "a minority of massively rich entrenched int
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by gwd 11mo ago
At some point I looked into it, and if the laws were what they are today, Disney wouldn't have been able to make Alice in Wonderland (1951) without paying Lewis Carroll's (d. 1898) estate until 1968. The Little Mermaid (1989) was
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by gwd 11mo ago
It's basically a compromise. Many people hate the current situation (90 years for works-for-hire, life + 70 for people), and would love to return it to something like 14+14. But is that realistic? The money behind not doing that i
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by gwd 11mo ago
> IP law was originally to protect artist and authors from the wealthy, but now it seems to have the opposite intent. I like Cory Doctorow's analogy: Artists are, to a large degree, at the mercy of big companies (publishers, music l
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by gwd 11mo ago
Siri does have a "Ask me some things I can do" feature, but the problem is it's way too big; most of the things are things I don't care about ("Ask me for a joke", "Ask me who won the Superbowl last night&
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by gwd 11mo ago
Auto-repeat is the thing that most mystifies me about shorts. I understand the idea behind auto-play, although I disable it; but who on earth wants to watch the exact thing they just watched by default ? Given the success of TikTok, the a
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by gwd 11mo ago
> The author may be unduly harsh on her father. He got to be publicly married and have a private gay life. If his wife had been content in a low-intimacy marriage, then that would be one thing. Some people are -- they have security, the
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by gwd 11mo ago
There's a sort of joke in academia, about the "least publishable unit" for a paper: Since "how many papers produced" is much easier to measure than "impact on a field", one way to try to game the system is
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by gwd 11mo ago
You mean to be sarcastic, but there's a good chance it may. When I was recovering from my first marriage, during which I was pretty heavily gaslit, having rational, analytical assessments of my wife's behavior by third parties wa
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by gwd 11mo ago
Let's say you know a secret, and you tell people who can use the secret to harm good people. Is there a difference between: - Going to them proactively to get some money - Telling them when they ask you right after they captured you -
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by gwd 11mo ago
There's judging people, and there's judging actions. - Getting married under societal pressure even when you're pretty sure you're gay: I'm willing to cut him some slack on this. - Having gay affairs while you&#x27
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by gwd 11mo ago
Read the pizza example, and was like "this guy is really clueless". Read the car example (car makers are incentivized to make cars unsafe!), and thought, "This ignorant fool needs to shut up." Car makers are incentiv
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by gwd 11mo ago
From the ruling: > 69. It is plain that the onslaught of sockpuppet trolling to which Mrs Schestowitz in particular was subjected was a truly appalling experience – the very antithesis of everything Tuxmachines and Techrights stands for
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by gwd 11mo ago
> There is a prevailing mentality that LLMs make it easy to become productive in new languages, if you are already proficient in one. Yes, and: I've found this to be mostly true, if you make sure you take the time to deeply unders
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by gwd 11mo ago
> omerta Unfortunately none of the meanings Wikipedia knows [1] seems to fit this usage. Did you perhaps mean "taboo"? I disagree that "unwrap()" seems as scary as "panic()", but I will certainly agree to s
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by gwd 11mo ago
Right, but the point isn't to make errors impossible; the point is to have them be 1) less likely to write, and 2) easier to spot on review. People's biggest complaints about golang's errors: 1. You have to _TYPE_OUT_ what to
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by gwd 11mo ago
> Yes, I always thought it was wrong to use unwrap in examples. And because it gets picked up by LLMs. It would be interesting to know if this particular .unwrap() was written by a human.
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by gwd 11mo ago
> This is the multi-million dollar .unwrap() story. While there are certainly many things to admire about Rust, this is why I prefer Golang's "noisy" error handling. In golang that would be either: feature_values, e
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by gwd 11mo ago
I do appreciate the visual "mea culpa": Your browser: Working Host: Working Cloudflare: Error
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by gwd 11mo ago
Yes, I read an account by a zookeeper who had been potentially exposed to rabies due to the negligence of a vet. He had to get the rabies vaccine to be safe, which would have been painful enough if all had done well; but then he had a bad
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by gwd 11mo ago
I remember reading somewhere once that baby raccoons are actually quite cuddly and tame; but that when they go adolescence, they have a hormone shift that makes them aggressive enough to be unsuitable as a pet. In the story a woman who had
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by gwd 11mo ago
I thought it was going to have something to do with this: https://princejs.com/
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by gwd 11mo ago
> Where I'm from, I would say that 75% of 6 year olds walk/bike to school alone, and 100% of older kids do. When I was growing up in the 80's in the US, I walked to school alone; but there was institutional support for tha
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by gwd 11mo ago
Georgism [1] but applied to copyright: If you want to extend your copyright past, say, 15 or 20 years, then you need to estimate the value of that copyright and pay tax on it. You can name any value you want, but someone can then buy it at
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by gwd 11mo ago
Um, no? Apple Music wasn't even a thing in the iPhone 4S timeframe. You used to buy music in the iTunes Store, and play it in the music player app. It used to be if you clicked the App Store, and you had apps to update, it would take

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