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EDIT: Just to be very sincere and transparent. The content of this post has been removed to avoid further discussion. I do not think my kind of views are welcome in this community.…

I still can feel very lost when refactoring a complex clojure system as opposed to something like Rust, because you have very little information about all the places in your codeba…

For those who migt've missed the reference: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Wvn-9BXVc

> He doesn't force anybody to use the Epic Store. Unless you want to play Fortinite (which is made and published by Epic Games) or games that have an exclusivity contract with the …

Specter is always on my clojure toolbox. Not only it makes transforming arbitrarily nested data painless, it also is usually more efficient than the average hand-rolled code! A gre…

Fair enough. But that was not my rationale, it was just a made-up corporate rationale that is not too far from what I can observe in reality. Take, for example, lobbyists in right-…

While impressive technology, I still get that eerie feeling of my computer's ownership being slowly taken away from me. The problem is not Github codespaces offering us an alternat…

Worth mentioning that, apparently, this is the programming language that will power DFINITY, an ethereum-like network for distributed computing.

I find the name of the NPS_0487a3ac_throttle cookie suspicious enough, but the article does not comment on it. Is this a common practice? Throttling the website for users who unins…

Genuinely curious. You insist a VCS is not how the industry operates. But then how do those AAA devs manage synchronizing changes across a team of several hundreds of people? I ima…

To be fair, S-expressions are not a made up format and in fact predate most other formats you mention.

What should they do? Static analysis would be nice, but it's probably too complex to adopt in that kind of codebase. In the end, the only viable option is to forbid this behaviour,…

I stand corrected. I did not know numba and assumed it was similar to numpy and others, which do wrap C. I still stand by my comment, though. We need to discuss technology by its o…

The "python is performant because you call into C" argument implies that whenever any fundamentally new algorithm is developed you need to do it in C. This is actually gatekeeping …

I, for one, think the HTML API (as in, the interface presented to the programmer, not talking about any other API meaning here) couldn't be worse. How many attributes do you need t…

Since when are linux users "famously considered cheapstakes"? I was under the impression it's quite the opposite! Of course, all generalizations are just that. But if anything, the…

Yes, auto-updates are built into snap. Also, the "solutions" to disable it are pretty much workarounds [1]. All this looks like just what made me stop using windows 10. [1]: https:…

(Answering a bit late, sorry I missed your reply!) I still don't get it... How do you know when to activate the trap handler if you're not checking every time? It's not enough to w…

But DeepSpeech has already been trained with millions of data samples! I'd feel way better about it if they went for a slightly worse DeepSpeech based implementation, but kept it w…

Wow, that's extremely accurate! Disabling the tab bar has also went this exact route (when you use a tiling wm with tabs, some people like to disable browser and terminal tabs as i…

Genuine curiosity: How can it check the types at the call side quickly ? Let's say I have a function that averages an array of floats. Does the JIT have to check each of the array'…

But the opposite could be argued as well? Taking on a new disruptive problem is a huge risk, and big corps are generally risk averse...

Not trying to take merit away from VSCode, but emacs and tramp mode also do that. And not just with remote machines over ssh, docker containers work as well. Also docker containers…

Your 15/30ms is close to the timings of 30 vs a 60fps videogames. While testing for a single frame you'd probably get very mixed results, most people can distinguish the pattern of…

To be fair, there's a great use case for migrating COBOL to python. But I don't think banks would trust an automatic conversion done using ML...