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by joshkel 2y ago
The FTC rule banning noncompetes was blocked by the courts: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/21/g-s1-18376/federal-judge-toss... As explained by the FTC, "A district court issued an order stopping the FT
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by joshkel 2y ago
As I understand it: Meltdown lets a process read from kernel memory. There are several variations of Spectre. The first variant ("Spectre V1") lets a process read its own memory; the second variant ("Spectre V2") lets a
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by joshkel 2y ago
Yes; you can see a collection of the high-pressure comments at https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline . (E.g., "Submitting patches here has no purpose these days… It is sad to see for a repo like this." "You i
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by joshkel 3y ago
There's a good write-up of the shortcomings that the new config file is trying to address here: https://eslint.org/blog/2022/08/new-config-system-part-2/ E.g., faster and simpler file access from re
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by joshkel 3y ago
Carbon and Cpp2 are both "C++ successors," broadly speaking. However, they take different approaches in their design: Carbon is a brand-new language that's designed to have seamless interoperability to C++. Cpp2 is C++, jus
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by joshkel 3y ago
According to https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2021/p23... , it's an "unadopted feature being explored." There's more information about the proposal at htt
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by joshkel 3y ago
As someone who uses Jest and alternatively enjoys and is frustrated by it, this isn't all Jest's fault. Node is just now releasing fixes for [significant memory leaks]( https://github.com/jestjs/jest/issu
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by joshkel 3y ago
In addition to the other comments - TypeScript deliberately takes a "good enough" approach to improving JavaScript, instead of designing an ideal but incompatible approach. For example, its handling of function parameter bivarianc
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by joshkel 3y ago
A small addition: Structural typing means that TypeScript normally allows extra properties, but in contexts where you're immediately declaring and using a type, TypeScript will complain. For example: `const user = { name: 'Bob&#x2
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by joshkel 4y ago
https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/cs142-spring12/week...