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Google Inbox was amazing and I still mourn it regularly. The features they backported into gmail do not capture its essence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbox_by_Gmail

Another related but semantically distinct package with great developer ergonomics is the FRP library React -- https://erratique.ch/software/react/doc/React/index.html Very satisfyi…

I appreciate the insight, and on closer reading the post clearly states that realistically only Zig and Rust were ever considered anyway. Since you're here, could you comment on th…

Interesting that OCaml was flexible and expressive enough to be used as a prototype testbed but not chosen as the implementation language, especially given the maturity of both. I …

One form of JavaScript interop. Instead of being able to write bindings directly to native code, you had to pass messages through "ports" instead. https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/…

That chart stops in 2023.

The article doesn't really discuss education outcomes at all, that is something you brought up. It sounds like we agree that there is an issue here. I'm suggesting that there are o…

Nationalized social media bans and restricted device usage while in a classroom are different things. Why would TikTok ever belong in the classroom? Of course if even educational u…

There is growing acknowledgement that this is related to laptop usage in classroom. Countries are recognizing this and rolling back policies, citing PISA rankings. https://www.bbc.…

I'm not a farmer, but you are welcome to ask a no-till farmer for their experience, or do some reading. Heck, you could read the article that we're commenting on where scientists h…

What's the point of this? You are saying that you will not accept any new information that goes against your belief system. The evidence is there. Read something. Watch a video. Th…

What an odd response. We have centuries of evidence for minimal disturbance agriculture supporting civilizations. What evidently does NOT work is the quite new practice of industri…

As someone who's been observing how the media treats cycling in this city closely since the dark days of Ducan Gay, this is absolutely what is happening. Thank you for posting this…

Bought any RAM lately? Phone? GPU in the last decade?

My understanding is that the high calcium content in their water supply formed a lining on the inside of the pipes which largely prevented any exposure.

Monopoly, network effect

So just misquoting the author intentionally then? You should pick some of the substance of the article to take issue with instead of jumping to be a victim. They clearly read it if…

You've read that paragraph backwards. They are talking about LLM enthusiasts dunking on people who aren't using.

What modifications to infrastructure are you anticipating needing?

Can you speak more to the difference between the two experiences?

People conjure various reasons for why things are different now, but routinely omit the changes in class talents and gearing. At launch there was zero spell damage or healing on ra…

They are planning to enforce access to these sites with the same mechanism. https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/consultation-cooperation...

this is the syntax for variable binding in ocaml. Hazel appears to be written in ocaml and mentions being "ml-like" on the site