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Time to try out Antigravity, I guess.

See the links I listed above. None of those features solved a language problem as large as the lack of sum types. It baffles me that they even spent time on them before providing a…

Yep, this is exactly the approach we take. It works ok-ish, but it’s far from elegant. In our case ‘read’ is ‘Switch’. I think it’s a fairly common pattern in C# these days.

> We're discussing Windows and all its ad-ware/invasive changes, and someone brings up C# I brought up C# because the article discusses a Microsoft Windows design philosophy that I…

Yes, very clunky. One of the big issues with this approach is that switch expressions still require a default branch because there’s no way in C# to express a completely closed set…

Here are some. I’m not saying these are all completely useless, but all of them should have taken a back seat to sum types. - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-…

They're doing the same thing with C#. The amount crap they have added to that language over the years is mind boggling - yet, we still don't have sum types which is the one thing t…

Ah - that's good to hear. Thanks for the extra information.

> Kodak aims to conjure up cash by ceasing payments for its retirement pension plan. I assume this means payments to retirees. It's a good reminder that (if you can help it) you sh…

Related: Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, or file for bankruptcy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44901330

This will make you feel better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152

Exactly. See also recent SalesForce comments along these lines.

Happy new year from the US South y’all.

Seems to be back up now.

I wonder if this is related to the NHC outage? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41771629

The National Hurricane Center website has been returning "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" for a while now.

Is that unusual? Nothing in the article compares it to other fires. Honestly curious. Also, this was a little ironic… > The Tesla truck, driven by an employee, was headed to the co…

I eagerly await the release on Apple Books.

C# has default interface implementations now, that can be used to create mixins... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/advanced-top...

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