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by nick_ 5y ago
If this was HN front page bingo, we'd have a winner.
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by nick_ 5y ago
It's been found internationally already. Also there's a 0% chance that those ten detected cases are the only actual cases.
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by nick_ 5y ago
Every time I read about the insane achievements of a language like JavaScript, I am reminded of how disappointing it was to watch. Maturing JavaScript was a lateral move that cost, what, a billion man-hours? The new cross-plat runtimes and
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by nick_ 5y ago
LSP is just a generalization of the implementations IDEs have had for decades.
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by nick_ 5y ago
You have to give up arguing. The PHP dev will look at a Model T DIY'd into "The Homer", and beside it a 2016 Toyota Corolla. The PHP dev will argue, sincerely, that The Homer is just as practical of a daily driver as the Coro
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by nick_ 5y ago
I like this approach. My understanding of my metabolism (and I suspect most others') is that if I eat a fair amount all morning, my body is fueled up and can therefore spend energy without worry of conservation to survive starvation. I
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by nick_ 5y ago
This is a great ability actually. That said, I think I'd prefer the addition of structural inheritance to the existing nominal inheritance. Also, algebraic types.
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by nick_ 5y ago
Changing the code changes the code. In any popular language, if you have some method whose single argument is being implicitly upcast by a caller then you add a more specific overload on that arguments inheritance hierarchy, the caller will
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by nick_ 5y ago
That's right. Additionally, this worked back to C# 4 or 5, I think?
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by nick_ 5y ago
A lot of people in the industry were turned off of Microsoft. Also academics tend to have FOSS-adjacent philosophies. IMO this really became a passion/pathology in the 2010s when it became viable and quite easy to live M$-free. Another
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by nick_ 5y ago
HN front page is regularly 95% hot takes disguised as technical blog posts, or pretentious/esoteric JS/Rust libraries.
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by nick_ 5y ago
Mr. Zodiac creates spooky mysteries even still...
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by nick_ 5y ago
RedisGraph may be an option for you.
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by nick_ 5y ago
They're saying that Python has gained a reputation for being the language for complex data analysis, but in fact it is objectively "unsuitable to large parts of the job".
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by nick_ 5y ago
"wOrK lIfE bAlAnCe"
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by nick_ 5y ago
Sure, but then what will philosophy/science types talk about at dinner parties?
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by nick_ 5y ago
Windows file search is so bad. Also bad: this morning my router was acting up and I would get intermittent connection. I normally hit the Win key and start typing the name of program I want to launch, but the start menu was seemingly locked
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by nick_ 5y ago
Touchable UI elements should always be closer to the user's typical hand placement. It is frustrating that virtually all mobile UI designers opt for placing controls away from fingers.
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by nick_ 5y ago
I have this pet theory as well, at least for myself. After being quite sick for 3-4 weeks at 28yo and losing 12-15 lbs, I noticed that since then, my energy levels never returned and my ability to lose weight changed from pretty easy to nee
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by nick_ 5y ago
I agree that could happen, but a parser would have to be coded pretty strangely to disable these basic ARC optimizations. I don't imagine a parser needing to hold and release references beyond the call stack. In this vein, both Swift a
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by nick_ 5y ago
Yep. It's the same performance ceiling. Borrow checking is not the panacea its made out to be. It's just enforcing single ownership. What part of scanning through some immutable array of bytes to-be-parsed would be so definitively
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by nick_ 5y ago
Swift has all of these things. It also has the exact same performance ceiling as Rust.
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by nick_ 5y ago
What makes Rust especially good at protecting against parser vulnerabilities?
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by nick_ 5y ago
His ivermectin stuff is pretty wild. Also, he and his brother have (IMHO) quite obvious inferiority complexes about their academic careers. So much of what they both say boils down to how the academic system doesn't respect their intel
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by nick_ 5y ago
Totally agree. It may help to remember that a tech nerd community might produce great insight on tech content, but nothing novel on social matters.
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by nick_ 5y ago
ITT: Typical rampant status quo bias, social zero-sum thinking, and conflating the freedom to incite violence online in 2021 with the freedom to publicly criticize theocracies hundreds of years ago.
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by nick_ 5y ago
That's... the point of the bill. People will stop seeing their participation in online hate-speech as a viable use of their time.
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by nick_ 5y ago
Have you checked out RedisGraph extension for Redis?
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by nick_ 5y ago
I have read a couple of times that an HSV infection (super common) can get into the brain and cause dementia. Just trying to help here, but maybe they could try an HSV antiviral?
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by nick_ 6y ago
Rust is a No true Scotsman of programming languages.

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