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by wk_end 2y ago
Weren’t concepts supposed to fix this? Apparently they made it into the 2020 standard. I haven’t touched the language in many years - did they not help?
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by wk_end 2y ago
A verbose enough type - and C++ has plenty of those - is indistinguishable from line noise. There are places where having an explicit type annotation can improve readability, places where it harms readability, places where it doesn’t make m
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by wk_end 2y ago
This is hand-wavey, but that can't be true: less complex type systems manage to express all kinds of interfaces correctly all the time (sometimes at the cost of verbosity, but that that’s usually a good trade-off is the point). You&#x2
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by wk_end 2y ago
There's a cultural problem in the TypeScript ecosystem, I find, where people are impressed (with both themselves and others) when complex interfaces can be expressed in the type system, and tend to embrace that instead of settling for
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by wk_end 2y ago
It’s an established practice in journalism to describe accused who haven’t been convicted as “alleged” criminals, regardless of how damning the evidence is. The legal basis of this is a fear of libel lawsuits. But I think even when a libel
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by wk_end 2y ago
Although it should be noted that the anesthesia thing was dumb and bad. So maybe policy by mob justice isn’t a good thing. https://www.vox.com/policy/390031/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shi...
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by wk_end 2y ago
Finally, INTERCAL’s COME FROM statement has a practical use.
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by wk_end 2y ago
IANAL but I'm not sure if this is accurate. You're, of course, allowed to consume PressTV but AFAIK I don't think there's any First Amendment protections for non-citizens outside of the US.
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by wk_end 2y ago
It’s not very nice to call someone a butthead, but to sue over it just sort of makes their case.
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by wk_end 2y ago
How do you check it? Take the example of case law. Would you need to formalize the entirety of case law? Would the AI then need to produce a formal proof of its argument, so that you can ascertain that its citations are valid? How do you kn
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by wk_end 2y ago
I mean, him first? I definitely implied this, but admittedly others on this thread have made this more explicit: he doesn't really say anything here; he leans on other canned RAII-bad arguments without addressing Lina's points ser
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by wk_end 2y ago
The author of this is the VP of Community for Zig; his only professional experience, according to LinkedIn, is in similar advocacy roles. It's an incredibly bad look for the Zig community then, in my opinion, for him - somewhat sarcast
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by wk_end 2y ago
Could you elaborate a little bit? I also don't quite like it, although I'm not sure if it's for the same reasons as you. It's nothing so bad that I'd go out of my way to comment that it "really turned me off&
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by wk_end 2y ago
A comment like this makes a lot of subtle assumptions. That there's a fixed budget of time/money - exactly X hours/dollars will be allocated to the book, one way or another. That the improvement to the quality of the content
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by wk_end 2y ago
It’s sort of a foundational principle of the American system that power will always overreach, and adversarial checks and balances are always required to keep power in line. Saying it’s ridiculous to teach kids about their rights is, in tha
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by wk_end 2y ago
Immer does this for JS/TS. https://immerjs.github.io/immer/
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by wk_end 2y ago
Also available for TypeScript: https://gcanti.github.io/monocle-ts/
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by wk_end 2y ago
I mean, all the intern did was comb through some documents in his native language. I’m sure if he weren’t there, they would’ve just hired a translator (much cheaper than lawyers). Not to disparage the work they did or anything. The really r
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by wk_end 2y ago
The title is a little inflammatory. The critique is specifically about Ocaml’s handling of let-bindings. AFAICT OP thinks the syntax sucks because: 1. there’s no marker to indicate the end of let scopes 2. functions are bound with the same
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by wk_end 2y ago
If I’m writing a hash map module that’s generic over what it accepts, and later someone else is going to want to use it with Foo keys, how am I able to write my hash map such that the hash function for Foos are in scope in my hash map modul
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by wk_end 2y ago
I find the problem of ad hoc polymorphism so interesting. It’s clearly a desirable feature, but we’ve been trying for nearly fifty years and still don’t have a solution that everyone’s unambiguously happy with. Compare that to, like, lexica
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by wk_end 2y ago
You've seen, with your own eyes, a large enough sample of the genesis of the thousands of forest fires that California has per year to draw that statistical conclusion?
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by wk_end 2y ago
I don't really identify as a libertarian myself, but I'm friends with several people who do and sympathetic enough to the idea that I find your accusation of paedophilia pretty distasteful.
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by wk_end 2y ago
Any serious libertarian would say it (like most things) is absolutely none of the government's concern, at least with regards to consenting adults. There's probably a range of views when it comes to kids, though. Conversely, they
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by wk_end 2y ago
This review is pretty dead (hah) on. I’d been trying to crack Grim, off-and-on, basically ever since it came out; each time I was foiled by the clumsy interface and inscrutable game design. It’s not as player hostile as the old Sierra adven
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by wk_end 2y ago
An article assessing the state of tech in 2024 is a bit remiss if it's not mentioning AI, for better or for worse. Regardless of your feelings about it, it makes things these days feel very different from the stagnation described in 20
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by wk_end 2y ago
Whenever I read Ed's posts - well, the two I've read, this one and the one he did on Google Search a few months back - I can't help but feel like "this kinda guy who's allergic to BS is exactly the sort of CEO I&#x2
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by wk_end 2y ago
IMO it really ought not to be. It's exposing - and critiquing, if a bit too forcefully and perhaps not exceptionally well - aspects of the corporate culture of one of the biggest companies in tech. Seems very relevant to HN. But: HN pr
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Proto-Korean-Japanese: A Reconstruction of Common Origins of Japanese and Korean(etd.ohiolink.edu)
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by wk_end 2y ago
This is heavily tilted. The Japanese conviction rate is high, but this is largely in part because the authorities are extremely reluctant to try cases unless they have a slam-dunk case. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F

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