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> stuck to why he thought it was bad for Bun to do this Quite the opposite. "When Jarred announced the Rust rewrite, we were ecstatic." > It’s definitionally an ad hominem against …

Coming from Scala to Kotlin, this is what I thought as well. Seeing `it` felt very wrong, then I got used to it.

As noted in the article: > This feature does have some limitations, for instance when we have multiple nested function calls, but in those cases an explicit lambda expression is al…

> explicitly written to do this In that case I want the signature of "this function pre-computes, then returns another function" and "this function takes two arguments" to be diffe…

The premise of this joke is dead since 2020, when ZGC was production ready.

> ditch ORMs ... make good use of SQL I think Java (or other JVM languages) are then best positioned, because of jooq. Still the best SQL generation library I've used.

https://github.com/peterklijn/hammerspoon-shiftit I use ShiftIt (a lovely project, but dead) reimplemented in Hammerspoon. It is very comprehensive.

I guess the answer has to depend on demographics. But if we are spitballing, it probably wouldn't be all bad for every country to have a Lee Kuan Yew.

I'd gladly pay for Premium (I'm already paying for YT Music, the price difference is minimal) if they allow turning off shorts. But they won't. They see time spent in app goes up w…

https://www.tiktok.com/@chloedav1s_ is the first account mentioned in the article. (Unless TikTok's UI is horrendously bad and I misunderstood) They are literally still images.

Your scenario is sth like: guy sees bad AI, good AI, and genuine content in his feed. Bad AI gives him confidence in his ability to detect slop, but he thinks the good AI is genuin…

I checked out one of the accounts mentioned, mostly to check if I can discern fake accounts. The content is just still pictures. I'd dismiss those whether or not they're AI. Well, …

Just for the record, another one of his PRs was torn to shreds. > some core developers (who are compiler developers by trade) are actually experimenting with and using these same t…

I guess it's really hard to write a sequel to Tron Legacy. Quorra came to life, then what? They're supposed to change the world. How? With a Q&A site? (Sorry I can't help myself wi…

> Most home cooks (I would bet millions) are not worrying about "the cutting experience" Indeed, and they won't buy the knife at this price anyway. My point is that not being dishw…

I don't think anyone who cares about the cutting experience would put a knife into a dishwasher.

Asked for numbers, got a link. Let's see. They can manufacture 80 GWh a year. To get through dunkelflaute with moderate renewable percentage we need tens of TWh. Not to belittle Te…

My question is a few math operations away from "how much batteries capacity can we deploy to support how much % of renewables in the short-medium term, while still having a stable …

Have you done the math of how insufficient battery tech is, if we are to go 100% renewable? I'm so tired of renewable proponents just use the thought terminating cliche "BATTERIES!…

On the spectrum between pure communism and pure capitalism, modern China is closer to the US than the US is close to pure capitalism. > has resulted in big changes The change was a…

The poverty reduction comes from the Chinese "Communist" Party adopting capitalism .

> Junie, which also benefits greatly from integration into the IDE. That is very plausible, I really want it to be true as a fan of IntelliJ and Kotlin. I used Cursor at work and t…

I seem to recall that they lamented on twitter the low amount of (monetary or code) contribution they got, despite how heavily they are used.

I'm very embarrassed to say this. Those code examples weren't non-compiling OCaml, but valid SML. Once I remembered the existence of the language (in my defence it was never mentio…

> straight/naive rewrite was ~3 times faster How much of that do you think comes from reduced allocations/indirections? Now I really want to try out OxCaml and see if I can approxi…