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Completely true, but Mojo approaches the problem from a different angle. Where Julia aims to blend fast and slow code seamlessly, Mojo's solution is to have a set of opt-in semanti…

No, this is not splitting hairs. This is the author using the straight up wrong terminology. Regex can’t match HTML, and aren’t NP-complete. The fact that the author believes that …

This article misleads you by conflating regular expressions with specific implementations like PCRE, which also does non-regex string matches. Annoyingly, the article does a good j…

Yes but the question is why Ruff has not released v1 yet. They’re clearly used in production and the entire purpose of v0.x is to signal a project is early in development and is ex…

But being non-inclusive by speaking to a particular cultural reference frame is not the same as being racist.

But that’s exactly what the inflation measures of the BLS is - someone doing the math on what all these things cost.

Why is the government measured inflation not the same as real inflation?

Their outages are probably not due to their code though. It’s probably their infrastructure that can’t keep up. So seeing failures of infrastructure doesn’t really tell you anythin…

This sounds horrifying. It’s one of those stories that makes me think in just how many ways our bodies or minds can break or malfunction in terrifying ways. Any one of us could, ri…

But surely, whether or not the Internet mob moves on has no bearing on what actual lessons to learn from this saga. Will the vibe rewrite turn out to be a disaster or are LLMs alre…

I would guess that the continued success of Rust have shown that we don’t have to live with the user-hostility of C in order to write system programs. Therefore, people are underst…

The boring answer is that I don’t use huge dependencies that takes minutes to compile, and I don’t lean on the LSP - I tend to put more effort in reading the code. In my experience…

You work for sandwiches and coffee, and not for a decent salary?

When people treat you badly, you confront them. If they won't change behaviour and you don't have any recourse, you avoid them. You *don't* compromise your own morals, and you *abs…

Yeah I’ve seen this too. It’s difficult for me to tell if the complaints are due to a legitimate undisclosed nerf of Claude, or whether it’s just the initial awe of Opus 4.6 fading…

I have used Julia for my main language for years. Yes, it really does solve the two language problem. It really is as fast as C and as expressive as Python. It then gives you a bun…

China is not - Chinas coal consumption is stagnating with about zero growth from 2024 to 2025. China is far more serious than the EU about the green transition. Despite being poore…

Juniors are not as capable of delegating to AI as seniors are. Delegation to AI requires code review, catching the AI when it doesn’t follow good engineering practices, and catchin…

Would they really be intercepted though? IIUC, no country on Earth has an appreciable number of antiballistic missiles, and the success rate isn’t great.

Nope. Funnily enough no one can agree on why - if you ask five people, you get six answers. My own take is that Julia didn’t since the two language problem as much as was defeated …

But I can move freely to Germany and get employed there as an EU citizen. Or, my competitors in the job market do, leaving more jobs for men And taxes pain in Germany also goes to …

That is because The Atlantic is not a monolithic hive mind, but employs journalists of different persuasions, who each cover their story from their own world view. So what you’re s…

It's more like automated, industrial stuff is cheap, while land and human labor is expensive (and thank God for that!) Some old stuff is now cheap: Grain, oils, clothes, steel, hea…

If you use Claude Code, it will take you half a day to learn to use Codex, and like 30 minutes to start being productive in it. The switching cost is almost zero. Just go test out …

For the people comparing the dependence on US tech to US dependence on ASML: It’s not the same. US software providers can shut down their software services in an instant, paralyzin…