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901.
by wavemode 2y ago
Japan is kind of a special case, as the country in general is depopulating.
902.
by wavemode 2y ago
Reminds me of: https://xkcd.com/2205/
903.
by wavemode 2y ago
I'm generally more skeptical when reading takes and predictions from people working at AI companies, who have a financial interest in making sure the hype train continues. To make an analogy - most people who will tell you not to inves
904.
by wavemode 2y ago
> That would've had the added benefit of being backwards compatible (which new keywords are not).
905.
by wavemode 2y ago
Well, there's nothing stopping the language from having builtin functions and constants in the standard library that are handled specially by the compiler, the same way this echo keyword is. That would've had the added benefit of
906.
by wavemode 2y ago
Even aside from Next.js specifically - when did it become okay that visiting a website fires off dozens of HTTP requests? Back in the day the server would just render the site and return it in one request. It seems nowadays we are causing b
907.
by wavemode 2y ago
Unfortunately I think the current AI hype cycle will die down before AMD ever gets a chance to benefit from it in terms of stock price. AMD is not undervalued, rather it is Nvidia that is overvalued.
908.
by wavemode 2y ago
I once submitted some code for review, in which the AI had inserted a recursive call to the same function being defined. The recursive call was completely unnecessary and completely nonsensical, but also not wrong per se - it just caused th
909.
by wavemode 2y ago
As others have mentioned, it is extremely rare for chess grandmasters to play until checkmate. In many cases, when the game is clearly lost, it can even be seen as disrespectful, and a waste of your opponent's time.
910.
by wavemode 2y ago
What relevance does Ukraine joining NATO, a defensive alliance, have to Russia? (Unless they are planning to attack again, which would mean the "peace deal" isn't actually worth the paper it's signed on, and is just a wa
911.
by wavemode 2y ago
> You hardly hear NSA doing such accomplishments anymore To be fair, that could also mean that they've been successful at keeping their covert operations... covert.
912.
by wavemode 2y ago
> I suspect this'll unblock the Chromium team making a very substantial refactor of the networking layer I'm curious as to why you suspect this. Have they stated so?
913.
by wavemode 2y ago
This has been my suspicion for a long time - OpenAI have indeed been working on "GPT5", but training and running it is proving so expensive (and its actual reasoning abilities only marginally stronger than GPT4) that there's
914.
by wavemode 2y ago
"Made life a lot easier" wasn't my experience. I always found early CSS much more fiddly than tables, and less capable in many ways. It's funny looking back at this SO question from 2009, and its answers: https:/&#
915.
by wavemode 2y ago
The direct answer to your question is that the idea of "responsive" web design gradually took over when smartphones became popular. People liked the idea of not needing to create a separate mobile version of their frontend, and in
916.
by wavemode 2y ago
To be frank - no. Systems with horrendous performance and uptime still tend to sell perfectly well. Especially when your customers are enterprise users.
917.
by wavemode 2y ago
I wish MacOS had done what Windows does where Ctrl is for application shortcuts and Meta is for OS-level shortcuts. On Mac it is just the wild west.
918.
by wavemode 2y ago
You're glossing over the nuance. Selling bread for a profit is of course what any bread business will try to do. But only some bread businesses would be willing to increase profits by switching to cheaper ingredients, flimsier packagin
919.
by wavemode 2y ago
the difference being that with integers you never end up with rounding errors when doing addition subtraction or multiplication (only division)
920.
by wavemode 2y ago
Your score on an IQ test is reflective of your percentile amongst all IQ test takers. That is, if 50% of takers did better than you and 50% did worse than you, then you score a 100 (regardless of the actual number of questions you got right
921.
by wavemode 2y ago
There are technical limitations, sure, (getting an AI to parse a screen and interact with it via mouse and keyboard is harder than it sounds - and it sounds hard to start with) but the main limitation is still economical. Does it really mak
922.
by wavemode 2y ago
Agreed, stating a deadline on something that is still just an idea, is weird and aggressive. Usually, a deadline is used to communicate "I have already decided I'm doing this, and received approval/consensus to do it, so now
923.
by wavemode 2y ago
I take the opposite view. The semantics of visual programming are very simple compared to text-based programming. This makes it more amenable to AI autocomplete, not less. A visual IDE could just convert the blocks to text, then prompt the
924.
by wavemode 2y ago
I will echo the sentiment of some other commenters - you have to decide who you're selling to, and flesh out the product more to suit that customer. If you're selling to non-developers? They don't know what npm is. They don&#
925.
by wavemode 2y ago
Representatives with term limits. It blows my mind that someone can be a career congressperson. It creates precisely the same adverse incentives as being a career president. Your whole focus becomes making sure you stay in power. Which for
926.
by wavemode 2y ago
Then... look it up? If someone saw "go funcName()" for the first time, would they know how it worked without looking it up?
927.
by wavemode 2y ago
No, Rust definitely does add some additional complexity on top of the inherent complexity of ownership. Despite what some people think, Rust's borrowing rules are actually extremely simple. So simple that they reject a lot of safe prog
928.
by wavemode 2y ago
Evaluating the quality of snakebite antivenom feels like a classic example of: https://xkcd.com/937/
929.
by wavemode 2y ago
Which countries have solved it, and how? I'm genuinely curious.
930.
by wavemode 2y ago
Rust does feature panic recovery as well: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.catch_unwind.html

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