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Not really, he explicitly makes the point that it's easier to write useful simple programs in Javascript without the extra stuff, whereas in Rust you need to know about a whole lot…

I read it and was disappointed, it's okay but probably my expectations were too high for this classic. I would recommend Snow Crash instead, another Sci-Fi classic from the same er…

Wasn't there a better technical way to block the scraper? Like blocking IPs/domains at ingress instead of serving requests? Probably you do still pay for request traffic though... …

Am I the only one wishing I could see the original afterwards, for comparison?

I think it did much better on safety in some tests (no I don't have sources, going from memory :/), but is less capable by design on some more trickier scenarios. Basically pretty …

I used to work on compilers & JITs, and 100% this — polymorphic calls is the killer of JIT performance, which is why something native is preferable to something that JIT compiles. …

His "attempt" at self-driving is better than most of the industry, at a fraction of the cost. The man does and tries things. Man in the arena.

While I agree exceptions should not be used for control flow except in the rarest of circumstances (every rule has exceptions — pun fully intended), I think checked exceptions are …

Why use base 36 and not base 26?

Wow that's interesting — trying to cross my eyes produces hellish jitter. I suspect it's because my left eye is slighty lazy. But I was able to superimpose the right cat picture on…

Zig — here's the choice matrix: - You need strong performance, your choices are: * C: nope, unless it's super simple library-type code, must integrate as easily as possible with ev…

The biggest improvement from this (besides maybe performance) is that it should enable much better manually programmed syntax error messages. Those generated by yacc were pretty sh…

Is there a way to import existing corpuses? Thinking in particular of browser bookmark exports and Notion, I'm sure other people would like something else. Being able to parse any …

Oh that looks cool! I was really hoping it would have better emoji support than MessagEase as that is the one think I miss (the ability to search for emoji by name) but alas no.

See MessagEase for a similar keyboard (not programmer-focused) with less keys but letting you use the swiping motion to type ordinary — great for fat-fingered people.

I used to respect patio11's opinions, and obviously he has a lot of valuable knowledge and there are things to learn from him, but some of his takes on crypto have led me to heavil…

Frontend frameworks really do make things simpler once you go beyond small applications though. Automatically re-rendering when the data/model changes is the right thing to do. We …

I think what actually convinces me more than tone is nuance. If you can fairly assess arguments on both sides, recognize when either side makes a good point, and mention when you'r…

A heuristic is a heuristic, and we can do some of our own research too. I was just defending the OP. As for my personal position, I remember looking into things a while back and ju…