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I feel like the internet used to be "cool that way", but it's not anymore. You don't do stuff for "engagement", but you probably want some audience and feedback, otherwise why both…

It seems like this project tries to replace various battle tested and widely adopted things like sdkman, serialization libs, build systems, HTTP servers and web frameworks. Even if…

I don't know anything about the author, but they seem rather humble, not giving "do you know who I am" vibes at all, the writing is very humanizing, raises many good and relatable …

Most international broadcasters have left the shortwave band quite some time ago, unfortunately. I think it is still easy to find BBC, China Radio International, Romanian radio, Ra…

> quirky California college radio stations I listen to SomaFM ( https://somafm.com/ ) and FIP ( https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip ), they have online streams by genre. When something …

Normally you don't want to format automatically generated code, you adjust the code generator instead.

The text on all pages looks very much LLM-generated, and I think all "user comments" there are fake too. (Edit: I mean "what people said" sections.) I like the idea of the site, bu…

It is obviously AI-generated, lots of filler text that communicates nothing of substance. Disappointed to see this on the front page, what a waste of reader's time.

Usually when someone decides to share code with the world, they don't want to publish the actual development history. They publish the first version that is ready to go public as t…

Isn't it normal for the initial commit to be large?

I have a similar experience, I learned English much later than my first programming languages, and picking up some keywords and basic APIs was never an issue (it was BASIC and C/C+…

Scala and Kotlin have 'tailrec' annotation/modifier, though not as sophisticated as you describe.

You mention it was 8 years ago, at that point a typical Java dev would be already using Spring Boot for requests and deserializing JSON to POJOs (with Jackson under the hood).

I get your point, but the natural numbers do not form a ring or field.

It looks like a parody of LLM delusion, but the PR is oddly specific to be just trolling, and the author also submitted his work to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4598241…

I am doing backend in Kotlin, but I must admit that Java has been catching up quickly, and it seems like Kotlin has been shifting its focus to Kotlin Multiplatform. Modern Java is …

A vector is always a vector -- an element of something that satisfies the axioms of a vector space. The author starts with the example of R^n, which is a very particular vector spa…

I had a similar experience. When I bought a device with faulty electronic components on Amazon, I wrote a negative review, and almost immediately I was notified that it had been fl…

One factual thing that looks off is "the UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets". I'm not in the UK and not following closely the situation there, but "thousands", really? Ge…

It is used for things like "Foo x = new Foo()" where the type is obvious.

> humans decided they were "prime", i.e. most important, based on arbitrary considerations No, not arbitrary considerations. The term goes back at least to Euclid who investigated …

Oh I think you're right and both took it from Common Lisp, which largely predates namespaces in C++ and R.

C++ also uses (::), by the way. R probably borrowed it from C++.

> you still need a higher % of trustworthiness than LLMs can provide for parts of the business and data layers For many domain-heavy systems, it's not even the trustworthiness; jus…