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Great. I'm also writing a new language with the same memory management idea (Perceus-style reference counting / ownership). My language [1] is not functional and currently lacks mu…

Lacking a large study, we can't know. Of course the CO2 meter companies benefit if people believe it is true.

There are studies that show cancer risk is higher near a nuclear plant. The reason is likely that poorer people live near a nuclear plant; it's _probably_ not because of radiation.…

Solar, wind and hydro are all much cheaper, far safer and more efficient these days.

I don't have a strong opinion what is better in this case, but my view is: > document and express intent clearly Arguably, the void* does that as well? > Any seasoned C++ developer…

> I choose to use Python because I am productive with it. That, I fully understand. I think many developers are productive in one language: in the one that they know best. Which is…

I'm not trying to criticize, but Python is known to be much slower than eg. Java or Go etc. So for performance-critcal code, why use Python? I find Python to be very good because i…

I understand what you mean; Claude is a tool and does not have feelings, thats clear to me. But how else can I describe what I did? "Wrote to Claude" has the same issue. Posted, ty…

Well... actually, it isn't. I'm also writing my own programming language (named "Bau"). I asked Claude to convert a minesweeper game from C to that language. I only gave some examp…

It is not quite as rare. I calculated it to be less common than being hit by a meteorite, and added a section about that and the Birthday Paradox to Wikipedia, to the article about…

Well there is Google Sheets, Microsoft Office, Figma, and some other heavier web apps.

Sure. But it does save you one instruction: "tee", "get" instead of "set", "get", "get".

You could use "local.tee". It is kind of is "store" + "duplicate".

Well that is how it mostly worked until recently... unless if the developer copied and pasted from stackoverflow without understanding much. Which did happen.

I think the main issue with nuclear reactors is the cost, but yes I agree.

It depends on the use case, but do you consider NaN to be equal to NaN? For an assert macro, I would expect so. Also, your code works differently for very large and very small numb…

For the few days without wind, natural gas is cheaper than nuclear. There is also biogas and hydro. Nuclear is not cheap to turn on off. Also, the insurance cost of nuclear power i…

So if I understand correctly, you are saying the observer doesn't feel like he is in a superposition (multiple states at once). Sure: I agree that observers never experience being …

(This is way beyond my area of expertise so excuse me that this might be a stupid idea.) I assume the following happens: while a (small) subsystem is in "pure state" (in quantum co…

Why do you think so? The code example shows that you can do RLE (run length encoding) without noise / additional space. I'm pretty sure you can do zip as well. It would just be ver…

Yes you can do compression, if the text is compressible. The playground [1] has a "run length encoding" example. Maybe you meant sorting. You can implement sorting algorithms, as l…

There is a programming language that is reversible: Janus [1]. You could write a (lossless) data compression algorithm in this language, and if run in reverse this would uncompress…

The problem of XPath 3.1 is that it is very complex [1] - this is a long page. Compared to the 1.0 spec, it is just too complex in my view. For the open source project I'm working …

> more overloaded than Perl by someone who maybe isn't so great at clear communications. I have the same feeling. The root of K is APL, but to avoid special characters (I assume), …

The point is that you don't need the very latest version. The 20 years old version is enough.