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> GCs are slow, memory hungry and, generally, a waste of time. There's no need to get upset. The person you're replying to is a language expert; they're not tearing you down. GCs h…

Your logic is sound. The GP aimed to paint you as a fool because he apparently identifies with Codeberg and is unhappy that you’ve raised an objection he can’t easily dismiss.

IIRC, ralfj was insinuating that Java was memory unsafe and arguing about it with experts on HN not too long ago. But I think he was coming off hot from the T-spec debacle so I und…

Andrew Kelley is a strong advocate for the LGBTQ and has railed against ICE in Minnesota. I’ve only heard the woke/anti woke framing from Lunduke on the right, and a few Rust fanat…

I stopped paying for Kagi after ~2 years. Search quality worsened over time; my brother and I would trade screenshots/complaints of irrelevant results for basic keywords. Internati…

Agreed. I’ll also make an observation based on this thread: the idea of computation as a fundamental law is most believable (and desirable) to people who like computers and want to…

IIRC, one of the highest profile North Korean defectors said that Jimmy Carter's interference in Bill Clinton's Korea strategy basically gave North Korea another decade to build an…

If he had left that coupling at 1.0, I’d agree that would be careless. But he didn’t; that one expedient choice was reversed before mass adoption. IMHO, you may be confusing “care”…

But couldn’t they have lived in Seattle before moving? I don’t follow your logic.

Using local labels to communicate to an (inter)national audience is a bit foolish, I think. In SF, we have a wealthy clique who are locally labeled as “progressives” and who are al…

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It’s ironic to say the GP overreached and then accuse him of injecting an agenda. Particularly on a blogpost that leans towards the GPs understanding, not yours.

> When he gets home at night, he argues for hours on Italian forums about which type of oven is best. The Italian forums are, to him, the ultimate source of oven-truth. This detail…

The GP (Jonathan Pollard) has been using the “Xe” pronouns on other people since about 2015. I think he’s also edited/argued for unusual pronouns on Wikipedia as late as 2025. I do…

An adorable widget. I believe it’s inspired by the “I Spy” books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spy_(book_series)

You’ve misinterpreted “bonkers” to mean “idiotic”. That failure of charity is on you, not the GP.

imho, one big reason why Data Science as a big org lost clout in tech companies was a tendency to treat DS as gatekeepers of data. Outsourcing the responsibility of stat thinking g…

Almost all the screenshots in this article are “hello world”…

“No” is a straightforward answer to “areweguiyet” in Rust. Many well intentioned and well-invested projects with no winning GUIs means we’re not there yet. Saying “almost” or “yes”…

Billing statements disguised as marketing nudges is a cromulent business practice until the SaaS start sending bills to collections. I think the author is being kind, both to thems…

At the 0:10s mark of the video, the ex-stabber makes a move on the mayor and gets in the bodyguard's face, trading words. The SFChronicle reporter noted that critical detail you've…

It's in the public record. https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-mayor-bodyguard... https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-mayor-bodyguard... The reporter's findings c…

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