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One thing I think generics in Go is missing is the concept in Java. If you're taking a List[T] and all you want to do is to call list.size() then you don't care what type of list i…

It's helped, but that's runtime behaviour. The compiler can't help you with questions like "you didn't handle certain errors" or "the error you're trying to check can never occur".…

> What people want generic methods for is to do deeply nested call chains I don't see that as the only use of generic methods. The example in the article is a "Map" method that tra…

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People advocate for Go's error handling because it forces you to deal with errors. But in the cases I do want to catch a specific error, the signature only tells me that a function…

I never understood the convention of using single letter names for generic parameters. I guess this started in C++ and every language has copied that convention. I think that code …

The article gives examples of situations where projects have failed, and states a solution. > The [solution] is to organize the work into the smallest possible learnable chunks and…

I feel this article is saying people from UK/US/etc. want to maximize upside, and people from DACH (Germany etc.) want to minimize downside. I was a bit shocked when I talked to an…

> But if you have side effects and need something to happen exactly once it seems a lot more useful to communicate this, rather than pretending you did the thing. I think it depend…

> Because jj's conflict resolution is fundamentally better I don't know jj well so its merge algorithm may well be better in some aspects but it currently can't merge changes to a …

> keeping the old one around would be embarrassing On the other hand this is the company that sells a Mac Pro for $7k and it comes with an M2-based chip...

Macbook Nano will probably be supported with security updates for a lot longer. Apple try to provide updates for a certain number of years after the model was originally released. …

> Replacing human hesitation with machine confidence removes the one safeguard that has prevented nuclear war since 1945. Until militaries implement documented human authorisation.…

GH literally say in a parent comment: > we can (and do) take action against those accounts including banning the accounts

> You end up working for shitty Fortune 500 company, work on useless/mindless shit, grind for 8 hrs, collect paycheck, eat, sleep, and repeat. I used to think like this but what if…

This is research from Microsoft that goes into more detail: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

> Can anyone recommend a music discovery service that isn't garbage? I enjoy using last.fm, although it's not their focus these days. Sign up, connect it to Spotify or whatever you…

> As I dug deeper into these feelings, I realized I was feeling pressured. Except they're not saying this, I am. That's a great insight. Once you've realized that, I think the best…

Thanks. We're doing all that. But that doesn't help when you do "git rebase" and there's a large conflict which you have to resolve manually, caused by two people changing differen…

Im not sure I understand the readability benefits. Is code like line 286 here, which doesn’t align values in assignments, difficult to read? https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/blob/m…

Interesting. Yeah I did think maybe this could be solved by more tooling. But at my place it work it isn’t, at least at the moment. Perhaps I could change that. Do you have any inf…