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> “X has lasted a long time so it will last more” is so obviously wrong. Smarter people than you and I have thought about this problem and come to the opposite conclusion: https://…

"I made my max bid $500.00, but I'd have paid $500.01!" "I made my max bid $500.01, but I'd have paid $500.02!" "I made my max bid $500.02, but I'd have paid $500.03!" …where does …

Mhm! Exactly! In the system those other languages use, once you see the variable’s declaration: User activeUser …you’ll always know that `activeUser` contains a User value – someth…

Sure! Let’s say I want to enforce that a variable only ever holds an integer. Rather than put the conventional prefix and the name together, like this: var intValue = 3; …I separat…

Not all phrases’ meanings are derivable from the literal definitions of the words that make them up.

> […] it shouldn't take long at all for people to learn the highly consistent naming conventions that tip you off to what type of data is being handled. I’ve used languages with an…

No, we don’t mind. Go ahead.

> Luckily, since type constraints are part of the signature of the method and there is no ambiguity, I am allowed to make this overload. This isn’t the case. It’s allowed because t…

What makes that "most likely," other than that you thought of it?

> How does one put a dollar value on a $10-30 GPT-4 pro subscription? I’d estimate it at somewhere in the region of $10–$30, personally.

> - Translate feature doesn’t have a copy button Sure it does. It’s labeled “Copy Translation”. It’s the first button under the translation for un-editable text. > - Multitasking (…

Is the answer (ROT13 for spoilers): V vzntvar gung vg pbhyq abg or orpnhfr Frg erdhverf gur rkgen fngvfsnpgvba bs Rd, evtug? After looking it up: Nu, lrf, ohg Beq. Vagrerfgvat ubj …

> What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal political agenda? If this is what you are worried about, Ame…

You’re responding to a comment containing a method call `thing.makeThingDoerForTest(1, 2, 3)` and saying “That's the trick - it is not test only code.” Can you square those for me?…

Where are you from that you consider all of these groups to have the same pronunciation?

> First of all, please do not ignore this email, this is not a scam attempt nor am I trying to sell anything, I am just alerting and looking for help closing down a security issue …

Did you look into where the Executive Director and the Head of Finance & Funding live? (Cardiff, Wales and Oxford, England, respectively.)

> if you don’t have an explicit type hint in a variable declaration, even readers that are using an IDE have to do TWO jump-to-definition actions to read the source of the variable…

I want superiority de-coupled from technical expertise in the minds of the people who have the latter. Taking his personal struggles out of kernel development and onto Hacker News …

> No, they had the option of having a real conversation in private about what we could do to improve the overall situation. Abusing others individually in public, but expecting a q…

Sure, but at the time that Apple made the decision, they had $0.0 trillion in billings and sales.

But if you’re constantly pinging the container (as suggested above), it will never scale to zero.

You clicked on a video from Real Engineering titled “How Nebula Works” hoping to get answers to legal and financial questions? I think videos with titles like “How Internal Combust…

> The BSL doesn't make it closed source […] Yes, that’s right! > But BSL doesn't disqualify software from being open source. No, that’s wrong: https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.ht…

> […] changed from liberal to conservative for the first time in its existence. Not at all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochner_era