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by pstuart 2mo ago
Sure oil is always an intention for anything in the Middle East (except for Israel feeding the desire for the Apocalypse). I just did a search to confirm my assessment and it points to Bibi playing Trump, along with America's best frie
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by pstuart 2mo ago
In the past, yes. Because this admin has only one person who calls the shots, it was started because he wanted it. Reports indicate that Bibi played on his ego, and recent "success" in Venezuela gave the illusion that "regime
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by pstuart 2mo ago
I see a lot of overlap between Go and Rust -- with Go's "advantages" being simpler code to reason about and more ergonomic concurrency. As Rust and its ecosystem mature and LLMs get better and cheaper, I imagine we'll se
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by pstuart 2mo ago
And your point is? They didn't know how to do it "correctly" -- it took outside help from Philip Wadler (who helped with Generics in Java) to make it work acceptably. Of course the core team were a big bunch of dumb old stupi
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by pstuart 2mo ago
I'm confused by what language regression you are referring to. > Now developers will waste time migrating the code to stdlib Why? If it works now it works. Refactoring tools exist, and LLMs make this trivial. You just seem to hate t
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Core members of the language team (Robert Griesemer and Ian Lance Taylor) argued for generics from the very beginning. The team resisted because they didn't know how to do it without sacrificing speed of compilation. Rob Pike did a lot
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by pstuart 2mo ago
I find language wars tiresome at this point. There was no claim that it was a frontier language, or even that it was a great language. My point was that the Go authors do try to consider the impact of enhancements to the language, which I t
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by pstuart 2mo ago
My goal is to be pragmatic about the issue (and everything else). When I started with it I saw it as the love-child of C and python. Then saw it as a successor of Java. I recognize that Rust will win this contest (although my understanding
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Fair enough. Primeagen did a video recently renouncing his love of Go over the concerns you've raised. That said, I'm assuming much of this "wobbly" functionality will live in libraries and will not be common in day to d
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Sounds like a win to me. I'd assume that many PL decisions come with with costs of either implementation or readability, and Go's conservative evolution takes that into account. Disclaimer: not a PL designer, just a codemonkey. It
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by pstuart 2mo ago
TIL. TY.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
That is part of their MO for sure. But the sloppy test data sneaking through is a plausible excuse. And right after I just wrote that another scenario came to mind: resistance from low level insiders "accidentally" letting it happ
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by pstuart 2mo ago
There has been outrage. It's yet another tragedy of the commons. Water pricing should be revisited to be closer to its true value -- and while food production should be recognized as essential, even that has to be rethought: is growing
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by pstuart 2mo ago
NASA is working on it: https://www.nasa.gov/spacecraft-oxygen-recovery-scor/
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by pstuart 2mo ago
> becoming friends requires time, work, and a mutual desire for friendship FTFY ;-)
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Perhaps that can help it better understand how to apply those guardrails?
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by pstuart 2mo ago
I've long promoted this idea as well. They should be insured, backed by the union's pension plan. They have zero skin in the game. The other thing that would help immensely would be to revisit qualified immunity. Conceptually it
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by pstuart 2mo ago
We collectively deserve this. The warnings came, but it was framed as "future generations will face these problems", and we collectively kicked the can down the road. I say "collectively" because many of us don't de
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by pstuart 2mo ago
I kind of experienced that but the relationships were more superficial than I'd have liked. If the "shared interest" is happy kids together it doesn't directly translate to the adults shared interests. But then again, ma
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by pstuart 2mo ago
As the commenter, I'm assuming that my contention was "contentious". But it was true and commenters showed up to validate my assumption.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
I left the Democratic party in disgust at the turn of the century. I vote blue because a 2-party system forces me to, but I have no respect for Dem leadership. I don't think Trump could have done the same thing in the Democratic party:
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by pstuart 2mo ago
> genetically distinct individual of the species Homo sapiens Well yes, in principle . But is a Blastocyst a person or potential person? > paved the way for dehumanization and injustice Oh, that ship sailed a long time ago and it has
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by pstuart 2mo ago
It's not clear if you're just trolling or don't understand the problem. It's real, and documented: https://mississippiriverdelta.org/learning/explaining-the-gu... If it's a thirst for librul te
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by pstuart 2mo ago
> I'll pick on the US As you should. The current administration is partially owned by the fossil fuels industry and is literally paying to destroy existing and planned renewable energy sources. The agricultural runoff problem is a
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by pstuart 2mo ago
That verse prohibits murder. Whether abortion constitutes murder depends on fetal personhood, which is the entire question.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
I'm arguing in good faith and welcome valid criticism. Please note that I'm not trying to troll (the bit about God doing abortions may seem like it but that point stands on its own: if an abortion is the cessation of the developme
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by pstuart 2mo ago
I think he's an idiot savant in this regard (and others). When he claimed he could shoot somebody on 5th Ave and not lose a vote I remember the collective shock (including my own), but he proved to be prescient in this regard. Hate spe
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by pstuart 2mo ago
This is obviously a contentious issue, but it's important to understand why. Catholics are "pro birth" in general, but it really doesn't have much in scripture to support it; there is of course the "Quiverfull"
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by pstuart 2mo ago
They are a real news organization. Even after losing federal funding they deliver the news without editorial. Perhaps editorial bias but that's inherent in all outlets. Question: if the news reports something you don't like, is it
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by pstuart 2mo ago
My understanding is that you can buy a US Senator for ~ $50K cash in pocket, but with inflation maybe that's gone up too.

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