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by twic 5mo ago
jeberle made a completely factual reply to this, but people hate Java so much it's downvoted to dead.
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by twic 5mo ago
> The boring choice is the right choice. It always was. Right, absolutely correct, Java is a great choice, so why does this post keep going on about Go?
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Mo' Machines, Mo' Problems(theadjacency.com)
3 points by twic 5mo ago|1 comments
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by twic 5mo ago
I suppose you get into astronomy because you're interested in outer space. Your question is like asking a soil scientist about something you found on a pavement.
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by twic 5mo ago
There's a mild hybrid Qashqai. A friend of mine hired one and drove it into a bus.
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by twic 5mo ago
The traditional approach in Java has been to let those things happen in third party space, then form an expert group to standardise a shared API for them. That was done with XML parsers and ORM fairly successfully. It doesn't always wo
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by twic 5mo ago
A skilled programmer can write APL in any language.
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by twic 5mo ago
You don't have a refrigerator or freezer?
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by twic 5mo ago
Intelligence is knowing how to talk to anyone. Wisdom is knowing not to.
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by twic 5mo ago
Mercurial has serial numbers which work like this ("revision numbers"), but you can only see your local repo's serial number. There's no concept of a public revision number authority.
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by twic 5mo ago
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe worked like this, but badly.
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by twic 5mo ago
Or just rocking up to the nearest village with a thousand dollars in cash and asking where the pilot is.
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by twic 5mo ago
What? He completely misses Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Luckily that's pretty straightforward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41v3L0zCkNY
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by twic 5mo ago
A mistake was made early on even letting web apps see keystrokes like that. In a better world, modifier keys were used in a principled way from the start - only the window manager gets to see meta-anything, only the shell or GUI app gets to
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by twic 5mo ago
There are zero US pure-play AI companies which pay dividends, right? You have to go pretty far down the list of holdings (under "Holding details") to find any big bets on AI: https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/inve
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by twic 5mo ago
Mine was more: Day 1: we aim to demonstrate the role of myosin II in the initiation of adhesions in migrating fibroblasts Day 1047: we aim to get one preparation of fibroblasts to express GFP-myosin and survive long enough to film, just one
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by twic 5mo ago
VCs are, traditionally, people who made a lot of money in a lottery and think that makes them experts. It's virtually guaranteed they're idiots.
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by twic 5mo ago
Not long ago, a local mad church put a packet of pamphlets through my door, one of which was this magnificent tale: https://avesselofhonour.com/2023/06/28/48-hours-in-hell/ Some of those features show up
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by twic 5mo ago
Surely this can be solved with financial engineering. The memory makers build more capacity, but they finance it with something like floating-rate notes linked to an index of memory prices, or even catastrophe bonds or AT1s. Or more crudely
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by twic 5mo ago
Yes: https://gvisor.dev/docs/
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by twic 5mo ago
This doesn't work. For any number of significant bits, there are pairs of numbers one machine epsilon apart which will truncate to different values.
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by twic 6mo ago
Knowing where the transmitters are is vital. So wonder if you build in a positioning system to them. Each transmitter transmits a signal, but also rebroadcasts the signals it receives from the other transmitters on separate bands (these can
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by twic 6mo ago
You're completely right. I've got an idea for an investment strategy. We start a company, and issue shares. We use the money to buy Teslas, and hold them as assets. As the value goes up, the value of the company will rise. Then we
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by twic 6mo ago
Oh, so this isn't about the Modell's collapse? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/business/modells-bankrupt...
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by twic 6mo ago
My version of this workflow is, i take digital photos, and don't edit them. Turns out, it's fine! The photos aren't perfect, but no amount of editing could make them perfect anyway. They look like the thing they're a pic
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by twic 6mo ago
Having gone from multi-repo to monorepo recently, I'd say the opposite. A multi-repo lets you do those things incrementally. A monorepo forces you to do them in one go.
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by twic 6mo ago
A wise laptop manufacturer would choose a logo which looks the same both ways up.
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by twic 6mo ago
I think we need to see a few non-contrived examples, because i think in every case where you might take advantage of currying like this, you actually want to make it explicit, as you say. The flip side of your example is that people see a f
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by twic 6mo ago
I couldn't agree more. Having spent a lot of time with a language with currying like this recently, it seems very obviously a misfeature. 1. Looking at a function call, you can't tell if it's returning data, or a function fro
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by twic 6mo ago
OCaml has a neat little feature where it elides the parameter and variable name if they're the same: let warn_user ~message = ... (* the ~ makes this a named parameter *) let error = "fatal error!!" in warn_user ~mes

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