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Keats blamed Newton for taken the magic out of the rainbow with a prism. Personally I think the magic only got greater.

To be fair, the average person already doesn't know how to do simple arithmetic.

After reading all that (ok skimming), he does mention nullable types, but doesn't go into them at all. What's wrong with having the option of defining if something can be null or n…

I am using this mouse because of that, and it works for me: https://www.contourdesign.com/collection/contour-slidermouse

Seem to me that whether or not people will be asked to "come out of retirement" will completely depend on how good the LLM's will be in 20 years. This seems to happen a lot in the …

Diplomacy has been tried multiple times before, even with security guarantees from the usa. Still Putin invaded. There can not be lasting peace without actual guarantees (for which…

The PAL (Platform Abstraction Layer I assume) is just the stdlib that is provided. The stdlib is not the same for all platforms, as can be seen in the documentation. A regex implem…

I'll add my julia attempt that animates and works with webgl: http://julia.perses.games/

This might be an example of what you are looking for: https://medium.com/@noclador/putins-plan-4652895de8ba

Alternative way to count the vowels in Kotlin: val numVowels = countVowels(getDTO()?.string ?: "")

I would like to see that number as well, I actually expect it to be a lot more than a million. Take 1000 times the clock rate, 4 cores, multiple instructions per clock instead of m…

It's saddening to see that wearing a mask to prevent infection from a virus is in any way political.

> No one will ever suggest cutting the budget for this. This is not completely true, farmers have been protesting the increase of this tax: https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederlan…

Yes, the upside of one language should be that you don't have to write the same stuff multiple times. But if you don't want the downside of having one common denominator holding yo…

There is nothing keeping them from not making some constructs not portable to certain platforms. Mostly they try to do this with standard language constructs (of course), but for e…

Also the taxes are changing so everyone wants one before the end of the year. Q1 2020 wont be this good.

This must mean nothing gets done right? Guess again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)... Netherlands is number 5.

Last night a new version of the vera documentation was uploaded ( https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-docs/blob/master/vera-mo... ). It looks like the changes will allow for more m…

So you're saying the climate is changing? But seriously, the article you link to is directly stating rising CO2 levels as one of the causes as CO2 is good for plants.

As a hobby I have been working on an online tracker, you can fin dit here: https://www.music-tracker-online.com/tracker.html?song=XfK&p...

With the 1.1.4 version they have added a dead code eliminator which really helps with the resulting javascript length. In the example above the resulting javascript file is 440 KB …

Actually the javascript target has been fully supported since version 1.1. For example here is a single page app written with kotlin: https://github.com/rnentjes/simple-password-ma…

A while back I was looking for an online password manager that you can host yourself (I don't trust my passwords with anyone else). I couldn't find one that matched my requirements…

Actually I would argue that the only "morals proper" are those that one makes for themselves. Externally enforced behavior is not "morals".