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In your estimation, how much graphic violence should my operating system show me on a routine basis?

I would not be very happy if every time I called math.Min, I was also, under the hood, calling reflect.TypeOf.

Yes. It would be short-sighted to dismiss them out of hand, and it's possible that generics will provide a level of expressiveness and readability I haven't anticipated yet. I'm fa…

It's entirely possible that, through some strange quirks of circumstance, I've managed to avoid every problem space that would make me wish for generics. In spite of that, it's unl…

Would you use generics to write the same implementation of min/max for integers and floats?

I have never needed generics in Go, and I've probably been using it since 2017. I've never even once had to resort to any interface{} trickery to express what I want, and I've writ…

Most Zoomers have already accepted that they are not going to have children or live very long. I think following their example is the best one can do on an individual level. It’s b…

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What problem is this solving? NYC doesn't have a problem with people either not being able to drive or not knowing where they're going. We have workable (for an American definition…

Less a "late response" and more the start of keeping a promise made by Jobs in 2010 to make FaceTime an cross-platform product supported by open standards, that was hampered by var…

It has a built in 2FA generator. It supports many more kinds of secure data than passwords and credit cards. It has specific entry types for bank accounts, passports, reward progra…

Lewinsky has never been married. Clinton was the adulterer.

Explain the ethical line that was crossed.

You're confusing Joel/StackOverflow for Jeff Atwood, who posted on the forums while designing Discourse. Atwood was lambasted for not understanding the SA forums culture before mak…

> I bet it would take less than a minute to get banned for bring up freenode on libera. I'll take that bet. Give it a try.

"What people say they will do when there's no cost associated with an action and what people will actually do once a cost IS associated with the same action are frequently 2 differ…

I believe by "no free documentation" they are referring to the 90s, where MSDN was a subscription service, hence the "long time coming" comment.

The riots last summer didn't involve insurrectionists violently invading the seat of power of the legislative branch with live ammunition intent on disrupting the peaceful transfer…

Where do you see in the article that they aren't current Google employees?

There are plenty of unique and interesting posters on Mastodon. mastodon.technology is full of vintage computer experts, BBS operators, people working to revitalize Gopher as an al…