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Re Iridium satellites: unfortunately, they are being replaced by a new generation of satellites which do not produce flares and thus likely won't be seen by the naked eye anymore. …

No, as I mentioned, only those 'when'-expressions, the result of which is used as a value, must be exhaustive. Those which are not, we call them 'when'-statements, correspond to an…

It's an error only when the 'when'-expression is used as a value, like assigned to a property, passed as an argument or returned from a function. Otherwise it's not an error. There…

Could you please give a few examples of "all the broken, half-designed stuff they are trying to ship"?

Could you please explain how the internal representation of null in the language's type system has any effect on the semantics of code written in that language?

Could you please elaborate on running being damaging?

The free version is also Windows-only

In fact Kotlin doesn't have reified generics. This idea was planned in the beginning and was reflected in the old docs but abandoned later. I believe there's no reference to reifie…

Not sure why they conclude that "bergamot essence may induce muscle cramps" etc based on a single case. What if the man had an allergic response of some kind and 99.99% of the popu…

Most of the time you can omit type arguments: val arr = Array(height) { x -> Array(width) { y -> Tile(x, y, Terrain.GRASS) } }