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CEO's statement: https://www.reddit.com/r/webflow/comments/1mcmxco/from_webfl...
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With some effort, you can also take an existing windows installation and remove the extras yourself, without resorting to LTSC. One popular tool: https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
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well, in a way you're defending against bugs and vulnerabilities by reviewing code
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Single compilation unit does not imply that the results of the compilation of the different parts of that unit cannot be cached.
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Yes, the exact same problem is present in languages where "errors are just values". To solve this, Rust does allow you to just Box<dyn Error> (or equivalents like anyhow). And Go has the Error interface. People who list out
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1y ago
It pollutes type signatures. If some method deep down the call stack changes its implementation details from throwing exception A you don't care about to throwing exception B you also don't care about, you also have to change the
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1y ago
> It ultimately resulted in a loop counter overflowing, which recomputed the same thing a billion of time (but always the same!). So the visible effect was a request would randomly take 3 min instead of 100ms. This means that multiple go
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1y ago
> Manticore Search was forked from Sphinx 2.3.2 in 2017. What was the reason for the fork, and in what ways does Manticore Search differ from Sphinx today?
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1y ago
There are a large number of companies using Elixir, in small or big ways: https://elixir-companies.com/en/companies Elixir also does not stand alone - the storied history of Erlang/BEAM in mission-critical distrib
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1y ago
If John Skeet of all people is confused about something in C#, that probably means it's objectively confusing behavior.
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The hedonist will complain that, the hedonic treadmill means humans can't get any happier by having more. I would flip it around: the hedonic treadmill means people get to experience the same amount of happiness regardless of their lot
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https://archive.ph/JpxTy
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1y ago
cute stack names have gone downhill since LAMP
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There's just one feature Zig lacks, which would have allowed for full automation of interface definitions. In Zig you can programmatically construct data types with compile-time programming, but such types aren't allowed to have m
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1y ago
To be frank, I take precisely the opposite view. Most people solve novel problems every day, mostly without thinking much about it. Our inability to perceive the immense complexity of the things we do every day is merely due to familiarity.
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To be fair, "copy"right has only been needed for as long as it's been possible to copy things. In the grand scheme of human history, that technology is relatively new.
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"Inefficient" implies the money is being burned or something. It's flowing into the pockets of people who work in the financial services industry, who then spend it on other things. The economy isn't zero-sum. And the in
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1y ago
You could have clicked the link embedded in the very text you're quoting, to read an explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_feminism
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Yes, Go interfaces are row-polymorphic, in the sense that they allow you to write functions that operate on any struct which has a field with a certain name and type. This utilizes the fact that structs implement interfaces implicitly in Go
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1y ago
Most of the comments by everyone in that thread are sarcastic, and the tone of the thread is lighthearted. Pike genuinely doesn't seem to care for syntax highlighting, though understands that his is a minority opinion.
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Well, that's obviously because the people using the software aren't the customers. The customers are the ones signing the checks. I actually think it's the right approach for a tech business - your main landing pages should m
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1y ago
LLMs are trained and fine-tuned on real conversations, so resembling a real conversation doesn't really rule out hallucination. If the story in OP about getting a company's private financial data is true (i.e. the numbers are corr
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1y ago
The thing a lot of people haven't yet realized is: all those AI features jammed into your consumer products, aren't for you. They're for investors. We saw the same thing with blockchain. We started seeing the most ridiculous
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Well... I guess we'll see.
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> The whole "prevent double free" claim is completely bogus. The way I interpreted the author's intent was that, the logic of error handling (something C sucks even more at) can be greatly simplified if your cleanup routin
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Giving advantages to the better participants is a practice common across a variety of racing sports. The idea being that, if you could earn an advantage by doing worse, then in a race where you know at a certain point that you can't me
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High level languages are easier to optimize because they are starting with more de-optimizations. Haskell can be optimized to perform stream operations on unboxed integers, precisely because integers are boxed to start with! Whereas the cod
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The programming language in the background of this website appears to be Odin.
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> But deep down I know that I don't belong here, and that Japan would prefer to be a homogenous society without expats like me. And I hold no hard feelings toward them for that. I get what you're saying, but I also marvel at ho
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1y ago
> Very few places on earth are like that I mean... there are fewer than 2 billion total vehicles on Earth, so I'm guessing it's not THAT uncommon to not own a car. Unless we're arguing that people simply didn't social
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