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> but isn't this undermined by the lack of memory safety? Yes, in my opinion, but from Zig's success you can see some people are willing to trade safety for a simpler language. Dif…

All models are wrong, some are useful. I found his explanation useful while knowing it was not correct

> Despite e-fuel makers promising a major scale-up this decade, it will make an “unnoticeable dent” in transportation emissions, says Oates at BNEF. “This is down to a combination …

This is a misunderstanding of what stock buybacks are. Companies do not buy their stock from themselves. They buy the stock from participants in the market. Following your example,…

> I prefer to take advantage of the fact that without a proper shebang the file will be first executed by the shell I know that bash does this, and possibly other shells, but it do…

> When using jsx in the server you're extremely limited. You cannot just use any html tag unless the framework has a specific solution for it. Doesn't look like that's the case in …

One very curious thing I ran into today: this morning I woke up and when I checked my phone, the (Spanish) Wikipedia page for Cleopatra was open on my browser. I didn't myself open…

> IO-blocks-UI This is one of the things that _are_ addressed by the project. Regarding your broader point, I don't know if adding a new language would/will help emacs or not but i…

Do you think the average kindness of a person is positive? Or negative? If positive, and not knowing who your kidney is going to, donating a kidney is positive in expectation

I don't know that this definition is very precise. For example, the kind `(->) r` (which you can roughly understand as the class of all functions that go from a fixed type `r` to o…

OS X is not built on Linux. Its lineage comes from a different Unix

How do you know?

The iPhone one seems mostly positive

Neurons in a Petri dish learning to play pong https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03229-y