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> Employee Only: You cannot buy these in stores. They are sold exclusively to ASML employees with a strictly enforced “one per person” rule. Wonder if they include this lego set as…

> They are common Any actual evidence of the alleged scope of this problem, or just anecdotes from devs who are mad at AI, blown out of proportion?

All this reactionary outrage in the comments is funny. And lame. Yes, for the vast majority of the internet, serving traffic is near zero marginal cost. Not for LLMs though – those…

Scraping static content from a website at near-zero marginal cost to its server, vs scraping an expensive LLM service provided for free, are different things. The former relies on …

This is great news, nice win for Scala. It's a great language, I've been working with it for 10 years now. Full stack Scala with Scala.js on the frontend is so very nice. My experi…

^ This meme is from 10+ years ago when Scala was at the peak of its hype driven by the FP craze. Nobody seriously writes cryptic-symbolic-operator code like that nowadays. Scalaz, …

My MacOS "100%" does not have any ads. But I don't use Apple watch or Apple online services, so that's the difference I guess. You don't need to buy a Windows Watch to get ads on W…

Surely we can distinguish MacOS – the operating system – from the online services provided by Apple that happen to have a native app? If you are choosing to use Apple online servic…

I know all about their business models, yet I couldn't care less how much money Facebook gets from ad clicks. Them making a profit is not directly harming me. The things that are h…

The main reason for populism is that the incumbent governments do a consistently poor job satisfying their constituents' preferences and interests, so people get desperate to find …

How is MacOS as enshittified as Windows? It doesn't have ads, doesn't push AI on you, their online services are trivial to ignore once and never think about again, etc. I haven't t…

> stifles disagreement and debate. When I append "reddit" to my google search query, I'm not looking for "disagreement and debate". I'm looking for specific information on non-poli…

The authenticity of old fashioned forums is often outweighed by their poor UX and in general terrible ergonomics. It's no wonder that so few people want to use them anymore. Reddit…

> Comparing React to Web components is comparing apples to oranges. I mean, yes, but you're the one making this comparison, saying that WCs lack reactivity etc. Web Components are …

> If you don't want that, you gotta bring a wrapper or another reactivity library/framework. Being able to use a different library with a component, instead of the component being …

Preferred syntax is whatever looks nicer to you. It's not really two different syntaxes, just one more flexible syntax where if you choose to go full braceless, it ends up looking …

Scala is very much alive, it's just past the initial hype stage, well into the slope of enlightenment / plateau of productivity depending on which style of Scala one is into. It's …

The problem with overly abstract concepts is a problem of specific Scala functional programming libraries, and not of the Scala language itself, or of other, simpler Scala librarie…

Kotlin's adoption is not that much bigger than Scala, and it's no good to me, as it's heavily concentrated in the Android world, which is irrelevant to me. Among other things, that…

Yes, this guy: https://www.youtube.com/@rockthejvm https://rockthejvm.com/ Great videos.

I've worked both at a startup that used functional programming libraries pretty heavily, and a startup that is using as plain of a Scala as you can imagine (no cats / zios / kyos /…

We built full stack web applications: Scala on the JVM on the backend, and Scala.js on the frontend. For the frontend, used React.js (via Scala.js bindings) at one company, and my …

I meant FP libraries like Cats Effect / FS2 / ZIO et al. – they don't really do the things that Akka / Pekko is very good at, such as multi-machine parallelism, but the conventiona…

It became less popular a long time ago as the hype of actors as a programming paradigm died down, and then eventually akka adopted non-OSS BSL license which made many users includi…

Scala has been very enjoyable and productive for me and the teams I've worked on. The first couple years of v2 -> v3 transition were a bit rough as the tooling and ecosystem was ca…