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I find it so sad that people wasted millions of hours and lines of code rewriting over and over basic constructs that should have been on the language in the first place. How many …

Some source or citation or context is needed here, is this the work of a 2 person no profit or a trillion valued pre IPO company?

We can have the same argument about memory unsafe languages: "it should be the programmer that checks that the memory it's accessed in a safe way and not the machine"... and yet af…

I think that the best feature that go was able to create is a very strong community around the language, where practices are as important as the language itself. Maybe these practi…

If you have ``` a, err := f() b, err := g() if err != nil {} c:=a+b ``` The language will happily build and run, even though it should prevent to let you shoot in the foot.

We did this by using the ASTs you can go quite far without embeddings and the result is easier to debug and follow what's going on.

I implemented this for a large monorepo last year, it runs as an analysis during code review and it shows what are possible similar snippets wrt the code under review. It was a ver…

The kind of issues that you might face if you have dependants could be something along the lines: well Timmy, we'll need to cut your leg instead of trying solution x that might sav…

The salary gap in Europe is *huge*, at Meta and other big tech you can easily make 3x (after taxes) of what you'd earn in a European company for the very same position, same amount…

Someone high up said something along the lines that they want to see some progress and someone down below looking for a promotion pushed this. This has always been happening but I …

Very surprised to see German there. Any way that I can learn more about this? Does anyone happen to have sources or links?

It would seem in this design that all the tools should be called through a wrapper that understands the vault and provides the credentials to the tool in the right way. How otherwi…

What's crazy here is that a government I'd requiring de-regulation while companies are trying to keep stricter rules. What a time.

Subscribers should be aware what they are supporting. I think that keeping an OpenAI account can be considered an active support of this decision, at least for private people who c…

> I don't see how OpenAI employees who have signed the We Will Not Be Divided letter can continue their employment [...] Sometimes money is more attractive than morality. So I gues…

I would have said that this is covered under vanity sizing. I have the feeling some consumers might be more inclined to buy a product if it has size M instead of XXL, even if the p…

> bring it to your neighborhood tailor. Most alterations are simple and not very expensive. I think, this is a misconception, some "simple" things like resizing a shirt, when done …

I don't think you are wrong, I do want guardrails and personally try to ensure that there are those guardrails before driving. However, it seems that a lot of people cannot wait fo…

I dunno, tbh I'd be in the camp of putting a banner 'run this at your own risk' and then let it go wild. Some people are going to get burnt, probably quite bad, but I guess it's mo…

I think that Google has some partnership with Deutsche Telekom where they provide the software and Deutsche Telekom Runs it because Google doesn't have the encryption keys. In that…

Thanks!

> 504MiB shared L3 cache What CPU are they using here?

At least in certain countries there are high taxes on cigarettes and alcohol probably also to cover such costs

If you kill someone when drunk driving you face more serious consequences than if you weren't drunk. There should be similar consequences here you get a disease you could have vacc…

Germany is incredibly under developed in the digitalization plus the amount of red tape to do even basic things is also very large as well. Getting rid of these things takes a lot …