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I actually think COM is an amazing bit of engineering considering its intended use case. It still feels like a much more advanced way of sharing compiled libraries between differen…

You could also use forward slashes, like C:/path/subpath, which has worked since Windows 1.0/DOS 2.0. That's handy when you're entering paths in a Cygwin/MSYS Bash shell, but might…

I don't live in this broken place you speak of and don't feel the pain you mention. Outside of work I sometimes user LLMs to create what amounts to infinitely variable Choose Your …

I'm appalled by how dismissive and heartless many HN users seem toward non-professional users of ChatGPT. I use the GPT models (along with Claude and Gemini) a ton for my work. And…

Is |> actually an operator in F#? I think it's just a regular function in the standard library but maybe I'm remembering incorrectly.

Thank you! I knew this, but of course blanked on it when I came up with an Ocaml example. There are a few other places I prefer F#'s syntax, but overall it's not the reason I'd pic…

F# has diverged from OCaml a bit, but they're still very similar. I mentioned in a top-level comment that F#'s "lightweight" syntax is basically what I want when I use OCaml. I kno…

I like OCaml a lot - but I think I like F# a little more. They're very similar, since F# as essentially Ocaml running on the .NET VM. I know some people dislike the fact that F# la…

For the tangible ones, it's often relatively easy to get financing that lets you spread the payment over the asset's useful life, which solves most of the cash flow issues you get …

It's a lot easier to get financing for a tangible asset like an oven or a delivery truck, which mitigates the cash flow issue. Sure, you can only deduct a certain percentage of the…

Neat! I've written streaming Markdown renderers in a couple of languages for quickly displaying streaming LLM output. Nice to see I'm not the only one! :)

Not yet - I just created a browser-wasm project using the .NET CLI and then experimented with it. I spent a bunch of the digging through .targets files to see what optimization opt…

It works quite well especially in .NET 9! And exporting to WASM works nearly identically to DllExport. I used that to shift all the heavy lifting to .NET 9 AOT compiled to WASM in …

The fun thing about watching a Sprint video for the first time is that you just assume it must be sped up. Eventually you realize that no, it really does accelerate that quickly.

This reply is extra funny given my edited message. And it might still be true.

Come to think of it, it's probably my fault for gravitating toward threads that are going to rile me up. It's been a weird few weeks in Canada - everyone has seemingly united aroun…

Maybe it's just been the threads I've happened to end up reading? The overall tone of the place feels different. And that's okay. Maybe HN has changed. Maybe I have. Maybe both. Th…

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His role in The Day After is the one that always stands out in my mind.

Alaska recently starting experimenting with using drones to drop explosives on snowpacks, so that's another relatively cost-effective option.

Are we looking at the same article? None of the photos look AI-generated to me. Too many small details are correct in too many places. I realize some AI photos are really damn good…

You can download the complete JRuby JAR, which will run happily anywhere you have a JVM.

Or possibly NT::.com I remember seeing interviews with Nortel's CEO where he bragged that most internet backbone traffic was handled by Nortel hardware. Things didn't quite work ou…

I think it depends a lot on the kinds of companies you work for, and also on luck. In my 14 year career, I've never been laid off and only once had a company I've worked at done a …

Unless they've been issuing a ton of new shares recently and then selling them into the market at something resembling the current share price, the amount of capital they've raised…