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That's great, even though specialized generics are still missing. I think these improvements will be especially beneficial for Scala, because it is such a powerful language, but ab…

I keep telling you what's what and you do nothing but gaslight me by trying to turn my words on me. Language wars are silly and pointless. Someone tells me he/she uses language xyz…

> It was always .NET No, it was not. What's called .NET now used to be .NET Core. And then there's .NET Framework which was commonly known as .NET. > "cannot be tweaked at all" Are…

> Compare this to the constraints and workarounds that Kotlin and Scala have due to type-erasure on the JVM. The creator of Scala disagrees: https://youtu.be/Xn_YpUtXWT4?t=850

> inaccuracies Like what?

Looking into the negative comments is quite amusing. Not only do most of them contain technical inaccuracies, but of course, they also need to mention how great .NET supposedly has…

Language design isn't just about adding every possible feature. For example, someone mentioned operator overloading. As someone who has written a lot of Scala, I think operator ove…

> I cannot understand why Jetbrains keep the VM settings as constrained as they do. It's a big difference. A lot of the things JetBrains does are questionable, particularly the way…

> It's not an either-or. You can combine TPM with passwords which makes it far more secure than password alone. No. I have already explained it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

Lots and lots of smattering around here. If anything, this is a secure boot flaw (and partially TPM), but that is a separate conversation. Also, it's been known for years that TPM …

> The recent trend towards conspiracy theories against things that are trivially discoverable is so frustrating. So true.

> No, the KEK is stored inside the TPM No. Technically, TPMs can store secrets (limited due to little nvram), but no FDE implementation as far as I'm aware does this. TPMs wrap/enc…

> Majority of hard disk encryption done in the HDD/SSD controller is 100 times more crap than BitLocker itself. It's littered with bugs and security vulns. Anybody using it is insa…

> Since there's a ton of misunderstanding in this thread True. It's unfortunate, amd a lot of false information being spread there. > the KEK is stored inside the TPM That's not ho…

Well.. https://github.com/doy/rbw/blob/main/Cargo.toml#L16 You're still pulling a lot of dependencies. At least they're pinned though.

> KeePass users continue to live the stress free live. https://cyberpress.org/hackers-exploit-keepass-password-mana...

For starters, they should stop forcing people to create an online Microsoft Account.

Java really isn't fast unless you're basically writing C style Java. Abstracting is expensive in Java and if one can't abstract, what's the point of writing Java in 2026? After all…