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No, the point of Pin is to wrap types that CAN move. If the type were !Move then Pin wouldn't be needed.

And yet even that little exercise produces significant differences in outcome compared to doing less.

The healthcare system in the United States is deeply, horribly broken. Recently, my wife was going to be out of the country about a week-and-a-half. Her prescription for a medicine…

Refusing to answer questions IS one of the rights that the US government mostly honors.

No I can't! I wasn't (until reading this thread) aware of the deletion policy, so I certainly couldn't have discovered where the configurable setting is and adjusted it.

What a mix! Yes, it is American exceptionalism (and quite foolish) to make the claim that "This could never happen in the US". No, the American government is NOT more authoritative…

Originally, you'd communicate by mail, but some people didn't write things out in plain language; they used coated messages. That was why the government decided to ban mail, and si…

The "mistake" was not in providing a way to represent "no data", it was in providing no way to represent "this definitely HAS" data. Languages that correct the problem have two sep…

I nominate this post as an archetypal example of content that belongs on the Hacker News site. Thank you for sharing; I'm so glad for you that it worked out.

Or -- hear me out on this one -- we could ban wind energy, raise costs for electric vehicles, and use government resources to promote increased use of coal and oil. That would have…

I frequently have trouble understanding both sides!

Yes, BUT... If, indeed, the park was rented out for a private affair and the person managing that affair asked that someone be removed from the property, then like any case of tres…

I suspect that the implication in context was that the 51st state would be Greenland. Which doesn't really help make this less of a diplomatic faux pas.

I find them gorgeous. Admittedly, the term is unavoidably subjective. But what I like about them is that they are distinct, and that each one has character. Honestly, the fact that…

> The US is really shooting itself in the foot here. Not exactly. The close buddy with the owners of several other AI companies who has a known dispute with Anthropic and who has s…

So apparently you believe that a 17-year-old should not be allowed to (a) order a pizza; (b) drive a car; (c) adjust the thermostat, unless they live in a sort of pre-internet Amis…

If you don't want to be called out for putting zero effort into the books that you publish, you probably shouldn't put zero effort into the books you publish!

Nicely done! I always felt that Python's "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." was a bit of a mess. Obviously (to anyone who was around at the tim…

I did. Then the rules were changed.

I don't think that's the real issue. The problems with billing and dashboards at cloud vendors are not new within the past few years, they have existed far longer than the LLM codi…

There is one little-discussed down side to ever shorter-lived certificates...

Haven't you heard? Under the new form of government in the US, random tweets from the President ARE government policy, superseding laws and any act of Congress. The Supreme Court h…

Does it? How do you know? If they start excluding random content (eg: .git) without effective notice, maybe they AREN'T backing up everything you think they are.

Some companies are in the business of trust. These companies NEED to understand that trust is somewhat difficult to earn, but easy to lose and nearly IMPOSSIBLE to regain. After re…

So you are suggesting that a private communications and messaging system that proports to offer reliable anonymity is a reasonable use case for more-or-less unsupervised developmen…