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It drives me crazy how so many people (of all ages) can't do basic math in their head, at least approximately. You need it constantly and it's so much faster than picking up your p…

What? She's wearing a hoodie and a tee-shirt, how is that inappropriate? And how being young is inappropriate?

Nowadays, with uv (and probably some other tools too) it's pretty easy to ship a python program on a machine that doesn't even have python on it, so it's pretty much a solved probl…

> "making a folder" and "putting a ... main() func" in it You can't do that with python for instance. First, you need a python interpreter on the target machine, and on top of that…

The biggest source of incompatibility isn't in the programming languages. It's either in the specifications ("hmm maybe one byte isn't enough after all for a character, let's break…

> When mathematical notation evolves, old proofs do not become obsolete! There is no analogy to a "breaking change" in math. I disagree. The development of non-euclidean geometry b…

> There's no reason we can't be writing code that lasts 100 years. Code is just math. Imagine having this attitude with math: "LOL loser you still use polynomials!? Weren't those i…

Unless you want to improve your ratio of paid-to-free users and change your userbase in the process. They're pissing off free users, but pros who use the paid version might like th…

I'm not saying it was happening here, I'm just taking this anecdote as food for thought. I'm appalled to learn that those vehicles don't have an emergency stop system. A real emerg…

> the solution is to call the human operators who can control it remotely Sounds like a recipe for failure, to be honest. In a potentially life or death situation, the last thing I…

As a teacher, I have a program I've been using for the last 8 years or so. I distribute the compiled version to students for them to compare their own results with what's expected.…

This is so true. If I was only allowed to keep a single electrical device at home, it would be my washing machine. If I want to exercise, I'll go for a walk while the machine magic…

That's a really great game, congratulations!

It also has range types, avoiding a whole class of bugs.

> clock in, and eat it at my desk But then you're eating during your worktime. I'm pretty sure your "check out, order, take it, bring it back, eat it" routine takes more than 30 mi…

Yes. AFAIK "Table wine" (and table beer in northern regions) was pretty light. Just enough alcohol to kill germs.

Nope. Lunch time isn't part of work time so I don't see why the employer would even care.

You can also switch runtime checks off in Ada. The difference is that, in Ada, the default is to have them on, while in Rust, they are off by default.

Ada also has decimal values. I don't understand why all languages don't have them. Floats are a PITA when dealing with monetary values.

"0 people live within 5 km of Warsaw." (actual value is close to 2 millions). "80.000 people live within 0 km of Paris." (ditto, 2 millions live there). There are many other cities…

Well, turns out the CEO of Orange back then was Thierry Breton, and indeed nowadays Mr. Breton is a European Commissioner, so things turned out pretty well for him.

The issue is that intelligence itself is an ill-defined concept, and an unofficial but broadly-shared rough definition is "what separates humans (and some animals) from unanimated …

It's often a modeling issue. Modeling languages are so abstract and general they give up a part of the problem's structure. The most famous example is the pigeonhole problem, when …

If you do that, malicious writers will have bots buy their books, get the precious "verified review" badge (and bumping the book's ranking at the same time), and give the book ravi…

But then that means goodreads wouldn't be a platform for readers anymore. It would be a platform for Amazon customers only. We already have amazon.com for that. What would be goodr…