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tegeek

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About tegeek

A software developer living in Stockholm. Can be reached via tgeek at msn.com

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    Comment #48848618

    At the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2026, an OpenAI system crushed all human competitors in an exhibition match, solving all five problems in the Algorithm Division. Two of those prob…

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    Comment #48206621

    I had been using Antigravity for about 4 months now. I used Gemini Pro 3.1 heavily for small to medium size projects, alongside I used AWS Kiro and Claude Code. Then I use Angtigra…

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    Comment #47763831

    A good effort, but i failed to see any use case why someone will select Lumina over TypeScript. Infact Lumina itself is written in TypeScript.

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    Comment #34806213

    Humans are not going to visit Mars anytime soon, let alone colonize. There are not one but many unsolved technical, economical etc. issues. But its a dream and a wish list. And We'…

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    Comment #31398772

    Most people don't realize how important is the "size" of active military for any country. Turkey is the 2nd most powerful military in NATO after USA. It has access to all modern we…

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    Comment #30876151

    Right now, we've robots and space probes working all over the Solar System with much more intelligence and reliability than any biological rodents.

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    Comment #30146627

    For me, as a developer, Microsoft is a company with deep roots in compilers and operating systems. All of the business empire started from these two foundations. Since its inceptio…

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    Comment #29867981

    Unfortunately, that is not possible. Earth isn't a star and not big enough to provide this much data even outside of our Solar System, let alone millions of light years away.

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    Comment #29867934

    From a philosophical point of view, an event happens at the point when observed by an observer. For us, Humans on earth, this supernova happens now and not 120 million years ago.

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    Comment #28593202

    Objects move pretty fast in space, usually tens of kilometers per second. A 20 meter of diameter object with velocity of 10000 mps is pretty deadly impact from Earth's point of vie…

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    Comment #28539750

    If you take away all the media hype around Alan Turning and just see his contributions, he will still stand out. On Computable Numbers [1] is perhaps one of the top 3 papers in the…

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    Comment #27079759

    So at high level its Pub/Sub and RPC combined together in a single framework. From a developer perspective, you can create a "channel" and then start transmitting messages on that …

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    Comment #26422033

    This is great visualization. Mehrgarh [1] one of the oldest city in South Asia (pre 7000 BCE) is missing. [1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehrgarh

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    Comment #24705647

    First there is nothing called center of a blackhole. What mathematics tells us is exactly what is a black hole. After crossing the event horizon, there is no time so there is no "i…

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    Comment #24696605

    What is more poetic than a mathematical model of a black hole? Look at this A "finished" black hole (The end state of the gravitational collapse) doesn't have a volume or any densi…

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    Comment #24618257

    Most typed languages work like this way. For example, Java compiles down to the bytecode. The JVM bytecode doesn't have preserve generics information. But Java code has generics so…

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    Comment #24616680

    TS compiled to JS without any "overhead". This is not what the OP said.

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    Comment #24616567

    I had been thinking that WebAssembly or CLR could be the target for TypeScript and that would allow to bring her own base class libraries etc. But if you look closely again, the be…

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    Comment #24564584

    One of the remarkable property of ML languages is algebraic data types and then type systems. Look here type Bottom = private Bottom of Bottom Modeling any kind of data is intuitiv…

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    Comment #24419295

    MQM and coalition was brought in power in 1983. Since then PPP has no mandate, they have no power to run the city. There are no funds available to any PPP representative in Karachi…

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    Comment #24418699

    Since early 1980s, Karachi city is not under PPP govt. So it really doesn't matter how corrupt Pakistan Peoples Party is, Karachi has not been voting for them for nearly 40 years n…

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    Comment #23818629

    I agree that whenever I've to "adjust" something in HTML, CSS, its always a struggle with multiple tries and write-run-write-run cycle. But again, this has nothing to do with how y…

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    Comment #23818531

    That's spot on. I mostly work with C#, F# in a day to day job and I build my code only a few times. This is also true when I work with Java, Angular and TypeScript. When I pick a n…

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    Comment #23427056

    Comparing Human Brain with a CPU is misconception. In the past when we didn't have digital computers we used to compare Brain with other machines. And now with a CPU. A Brain from …