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The Astral Codex Ten post[1] linked in the sibling comment is interesting. [1] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo...

You can have that with generic functions, although Go's lambda syntax is too verbose. The slices package has DeleteFunc, which is kind of the opposite. I don't know why they have F…

I don't get why this is a big issue. This isn't some recurrent decision to be made. It's something a lead decides once and the project follows. That's it. Many companies have style…

Bad example. Ruff's formatter has the same style as Black. It's documented as a "drop-in replacement". The difference is mostly performance. In any case, that's a single decision t…

> You can still have memory leaks And deadlocks. "Fearless concurrency" helps a lot, but logic bugs are still possible.

It's JIT only, and it needs to be in a particular shape to be effectively compiled. It's mostly for numeric code, but there are many other cases where native code would be better.

Haskell has significant indentation and anonymous functions.

I trust the type system more than vibe tests.

I'm familiar with Ai2. I've used their resources extensively over the years. However, no one is using Olmo for "serious" work, and the name is only known to a small subset in acade…

Is there any relevant model that meets that "open source" definition?

Wouldn't most frontend JS in Web page sources be minified?

Python with a strict linter and type checker (eg ruff with the right lints on and ty with its stricter settings, or strict pyright if performance isn't too bad) works very well. Mo…

Gleam has been stable for over two years, so maybe it's been long enough that LLMs have internalised the documentation. Given it's a language that doesn't really contain any ground…

This lawsuit is trying to enforce an existing EU regulation.

That's wrong. Both Claude Code and Codex have C-p/C-n as down/up.

> On Darwin, it returns $HOME/Library/Application Support Which is not the behaviour most people would think is sensible, especially for CLI programs.

You can't feasibly read all posts about AI in the world and analyse each one individually with the level of care you prescribe. You have to apply some heuristics to decide what to …

If you fervently posit a theory but its predictions fail, why would anyone believe it?

How do you usually collaborate with other authors? I don't know your area, but it's common to use Overleaf to collaborate on papers, and you're stuck with LaTeX there. I wrote the …

What if you're on Windows where it's much less convenient? Also, latex and others substitute that for the proper dash, so one might do it out of habit. Also also,it's en-dash, not …

Zero pay? These would be PhD candidates; surely they have a stipend?

Regarding the water thing, David Foster Wallace once said this: There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods…

It still uses Arc. The original implementation was written in Racket, then rewritten in Common Lisp and run on SBCL.

Equalling the Roma (and insisting on using a slur to refer to them) to wolves that need to be shot is mild?