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They seem to be much less active on hot days compared to cooler days in my experience - though I can't say why. I've definitely observed a difference over the years though. That sa…

The benefit is that floats are allowed to be unboxed values - without NaN-boxing, you must heap-allocate them. The tradeoff is that immediate/unboxed integer values end up being sm…

AIUI, that is what the MIR formalization work is about, and it seems to be moving along fine. My impression is that covers essentially all the interesting parts of Rust worth speci…

Nobody is out here arguing that privacy is important because they want to make it easier to get away with things that are immoral or criminal. The importance of privacy is in retai…

> There is a separate concern around denied data environments in the software realm but that is not on many people's radar. Most software devs would not know where to even start to…

That's surprising, I have a '23 X6, and the built-in navigation is actually really nice. The maps have more detailed information than both Google and Apple Maps in many areas. I al…

At least to me, the difference is that one is ostensibly an explanation of how the AI arrived at the joke, the other is a post-hoc explanation of the joke.

> It really sucks the heat out of it. One of the problems with halon, and the write-up mentions this, is that it is super effective at starving the fire of oxygen, but has zero eff…

> Some societies optimize for the individual. If 8 lights is better for me then I get 8 lights. The experience gor other drivers us a "them" problem not a "me" problem. > > Other s…

I'll disagree only a tiny bit here: To me (also a compiler engineer), a transpiler is shorthand for source-to-source translation from one language to another at a similar level of …

> In 2008 gas cost as much as it does now and fast food did only pay $8/h Did you deliberately pick the time where the cost of gas skyrocketed before eventually coming back down to…

It it apparently _is_ an actual problem, which is why an attempt at solving it is being made. A black market for reservations is bad not just for customers, but for the establishme…

So the NY government shouldn't be trying to solve problems for NY residents? Make it make sense.

You might not need to go to college, but you're going into significant debt if you do, so now one has to decide which disadvantage they want to start their career with: no degree, …

> To my understanding, no it doesn't, as the value is resolved when the function pointed is created, not when the underlying function executes, which the code you linked shows too.…

The example you've given here does not work the way you think it does. I would agree however that the mechanics of closure environments is simpler in Erlang due to the fact that va…

Ah right, good point - I was trying to remember the exact behavior, but couldn't recall if an error is raised (and when), or if the underlying module is just replaced and "jesus ta…

Erlang absolutely has closures, you are mistaken. What you are referring to are "function captures", which bind a function reference as a value, and there is no environment to clos…

My reading is that they were evaluating leaders on their introversion/extroversion, intuitiveness, and overall success. So you could have both introverted-intuitive and extroverted…

BZ2 was one of my favorite games for quite some time after it released, just a blast to play. I had been really into BZ98 before it, and didn't think a sequel would be able to matc…

iOS does support a form a call screening, called live voicemail, which transcribes the message being recorded by the caller and lets you pick up the call if you want. iOS also supp…

Those aren't the only failure modes - you can have two sets of servers partitioned from one another (in two different data centers), both of which are reachable by clients. Do you …

Pretty disappointed to not find sources for the compiler yet, which is the part I'm by far the most interested in. Hopefully that will follow this release soon!

I wouldn't read too much into the syntax - the Haskell-like definitions are just a succinct way to describe the AST representation for the toy call-by-push-value language the post …

This is said so confidently, but clearly with little to no experience with the military or the VA to back it up. No vet is receiving benefits without something to back up their dis…