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by nvm0n2 3y ago
When Java was new it was pretty radical though. At least in the category of mainstream corporate languages. Who else was offering things like an advanced speculating VM, stable/documented bytecode, a huge stdlib, a cleaned up C++ like
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I'm told COBOL itself doesn't actually. It's not hard to learn and lots of cheap workers in India will do it for you. The job security is knowing the mainframe tech stack in general, and the specific ways it's used in sp
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Yes but was NIO really usable for most tasks? Even with things like Netty to plumb it all the way to web server frameworks, databases and so on took a while. Like if you wanted to do SSL+async then a lot of manual work was required before L
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Both the essay and Orwell's preface address this question directly. They say it wasn't wartime loyalty because the same people were perfectly willing to criticize their own government much more harshly than they'd criticize t
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Probably a phishing/malware scan gone wrong then. NYTimes has Twitterbot in its robots.txt which might be related? Even if it's deliberate, I don't see how people can complain. Google has outright blocked Breitbart for years.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Yes, but there's little growth to be had there. I think the Java guys don't want to be the new COBOL, they'd like new apps to be written in Java too.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
A good step forward and nice that it's in the next (Oracle) LTS version. But is it too late? NodeJS started cleaning up by pushing async-for-all over a decade ago. Then Go came along and did the same thing but with a simple statically
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Language-level coroutines derive no direct benefit from Loom but it also doesn't hurt them. The benefit is you can just stop using those language features, or if you already have them in wide use, you can just wrap all your code in run
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
This thread is going nowhere, you're both in denial: - <example of bad predictions> It has to come from actual scientists! - <example from Hansen> I don't believe you, you must be making it up. - <citation> Still
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Whole industries get wrecked by this dynamic. I heard a story once about a well known bank. They tried to develop a new customer facing e-banking system (or was it a trading system, customer facing anyway). They started by outsourcing it to
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Perhaps, yes. At some point it becomes an argument over words: is it conservative if you're so radical no proposal is considered good enough, so you default to rejecting everything? Is there even such a thing as radical conservatism or
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
You guys don't seem able to decide if he never said it and Reiss made it all up (an extraordinary claim), or if he said it but it doesn't matter. It'll probably be another goalpost move but let's try again. Take the Hans
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
That's a huge goal post move. Hansen has never denied making the prediction, only over what timeframe he said it would be over, so your doubt is misplaced. He did really say that. Your dates are all off by the way. The interview dates
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Here: https://web.archive.org/web/20110202162233/https:/www.salon.... While doing research 12 or 13 years ago, I met Jim Hansen, the scientist who in 1988 predicted the greenhouse effect before Congress. I w
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
How can that be, when the most "anti-racism" obsessed country in the world is the USA which is also the most capitalist, and China/North Korea strongly restrict immigration and China even runs concentration camps for the Uigh
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
James Hansen, an actual climatologist, was predicting in the early 90s that New York would be partly underwater by 2010 and battered by gale-force winds so strong the windows would be boarded up. When that didn't happen he claimed he&#
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Yes, they block nuclear even though it has minimal / no impact on the landscape compared to the alternatives. This is inconsistent with Smith's explanation. Noah Smith publicly advertises himself as being on the left, so of course
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Remember that the machines require electricity, so you have to also include the land needed by the power generation and transmission equipment. And assume that the power comes only from CO2-neutral sources (very dubious assumption). And the
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Why can't they raise prices? I'd probably pay more for it.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Sam Altman has said that ChatGPT is break even on compute. Maybe he meant ChatGPT Pro, not sure, but the idea they're bleeding money because of the number of users doesn't seem to be the case. Obvs that's still a recipe to lo