symbol-mason

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by symbol-mason 11mo ago
You're deeply concerned about US war crimes, but you support a peace deal which specifically gives amnesty for Russian war crimes? Whataboutism leads to such odd rhetorical distractions. This isn't a deal about Gaza, Afghanistan,
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by symbol-mason 11mo ago
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars ended with the US famously achieving few to none of its long-term war goals and a huge public and international sentiment against further regime change adventures. If those resisting the US occupation had give
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by symbol-mason 2y ago
The general answer is "represent it in the type system". That's typically via discriminated unions like Rust's Result, or something which emulates it (such as OneOf or Dunet for C#, although it will be a native part of
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by symbol-mason 2y ago
The examples in that article (CreditCardExpiredException, SuspiciousActivityException, CardTypeNotSupportedException) show why no other languages follow Java's concept of checked exceptions. Those are examples of business logic or con
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by symbol-mason 5y ago
Inline C/ASM is literally a different language. System.Runtime.Intrinsics is a library. Just because this one benchmark used the library in a C-like style doesn't mean that's required. There are many simpler implementations
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by symbol-mason 5y ago
Well the fastest C# entry for n-body looks like a translation of the C/C++ versions. It is a meaningful result that the primitives of the language allow for it to hang in that company. The absence of a Java version using numerics is
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by symbol-mason 5y ago
You're looking at pretty old results, round 18 was in 2019. I also don't think that boutique web frameworks say much about the strength of the underlying language or runtime (e.g. look at just.js). What in the Java world is in th