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by lmm 11mo ago
Not my experience. For example the "official" way of achieving the equivalent of sum types (the visitor pattern) is so verbose that idiomatic Java tends to use the equivalent of a "single table inheritance" style instead
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by lmm 11mo ago
I think allowing the definition of open source to be muddled would be a big mistake, especially now that some entities are trying to whittle away users' rights while continuing to benefit from the positive vibes of open source. The OSD
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by lmm 11mo ago
As I said on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46214609 , that statistic doesn't mean what you think it does. The article I linked doesn't have figures for Tokyo but it has Shanghai which is comparable; there a
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by lmm 11mo ago
Yes, that's what a tragedy of the commons looks like. An individual in a given city will have a shorter commute by car. But the more people who are using cars, the worse everyone's commute gets.
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by lmm 11mo ago
> You do realize that they get frozen only because of the fiat system regulations/laws? Well, sometimes. Sometimes they get frozen because the exchange operator decides to take the money and run.
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by lmm 11mo ago
> So, written in C/C++? Not in the sense that people who are advocating writing new code in C/C++ generally mean. If someone is advocating following the same development process as Chrome does, then that's a defensible pos
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by lmm 11mo ago
Any evidence for that impact? While the prospect of displaced traffic was very much hyped, the data I've seen is that there's very little of it.
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by lmm 11mo ago
What does the size of the state have to do with anything?
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by lmm 11mo ago
Neither of which is required to use the road in all cases.
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by lmm 11mo ago
It's a tragedy of the commons. For an individual, private car is faster, but the resulting traffic ultimately makes things slower for everyone. Public transit in Tokyo is faster than private cars in car-oriented cities.
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by lmm 11mo ago
> Average commute in Tokyo is 45 minutes to an hour one way: https://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/2014/08/05/231455 . Average commute time in Dallas is 26 minutes one way: https://dallas.cult
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by lmm 11mo ago
The MTA does not overpay when you compare to other employers in central NYC. It's an extremely expensive city due to housing policy failures. As for commercialising the stations, does the MTA try to do so and fail, or are they forbidde
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by lmm 11mo ago
Almost all rail in Japan is subsidized, directly and indirectly. Yes the single line that is the Tokaido Shinkansen is immensely profitable; even then, JR Central does not pay market-rate interest on even the portion of the construction deb
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by lmm 11mo ago
Whenever the public has heard about the language it's always been Python.
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by lmm 11mo ago
Zig at least claims some level of memory safety in their marketing. How real that is I don't know.
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by lmm 11mo ago
Firefox and Chrome already contain significant amounts of Rust code, and the proportion is increasing.
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by lmm 11mo ago
> There is another, I think different, form of "source available" that I've seen a bit lately, similarly from corporate/commercial sponsors: the source code is released under an OSI approved license (e.g. BSD, GPL lic
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by lmm 11mo ago
Newer web servers have already moved away from C/C++. Web browsers have been written in restricted subsets of C/C++ with significant additional tooling for decades at this point, and are already beginning to move to Rust.
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by lmm 11mo ago
> Obviously not Is it obvious? I haven't heard of new projects in non-memory-safe languages lately, and I would think they would struggle to attract contributors.
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by lmm 11mo ago
The people who are hiring tradesmen are disproportionately the rich.
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by lmm 11mo ago
Not in NYC where less than half the population has access to a car.
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by lmm 11mo ago
> There's still a working Eclipse plugin? For Scala 2, yes, or there was the last I looked. Still the best Scala development experience by some margin, sadly. > Metals uses directly the compiler for all code intelligence so it&#x
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by lmm 11mo ago
> even your description beats almost any programmer's first pass Sure, but having access to merely mildly superhuman programming ability still doesn't make using C a good idea.
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by lmm 11mo ago
> entire files with no memory errors How do you know? I can believe that they didn't show memory errors in a quick test run on a common architecture with a common compiler, much like most human-written code in the training corpus.
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by lmm 11mo ago
Idiomatic Rust prevents many classes of logic errors. Just having proper sum types eliminates many (perhaps most) common logic errors.
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by lmm 11mo ago
> But if you look carefully, you will notice that it doesn’t struggle with undefined behavior in C. Or with making sure that all memory is properly freed. Or with off-by-one errors. Doubt. These things have been trained to emulate humans
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by lmm 11mo ago
Politics. That's all it is.
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by lmm 11mo ago
The main two ways people get injured in earthquakes (at least in Japan) are a) gas fires b) things falling on them. And being outside but near buildings is a good way for things to fall off those buildings onto you.
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by lmm 11mo ago
They still exist. Tend to be pretty competitive on price, although they must be losing out to online shopping in a lot of places since they don't offer any showroom advantage.
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by lmm 11mo ago
> If you want to fight back against that, my experience has been that giving terrible estimates or refusing to give them at all will not result in more autonomy or authority. In my experience giving terrible estimates or refusing to give

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