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You have to be careful with everything Pike says. It's not just limited to Go.

Don't confuse the shortcomings of the tools you use with your intellectual limits. This is a very insidious philosophy and there is no good reason to internalize it. Always remembe…

I don't think Go's proposed system is parametric either. It's not clear to me how their contracts actually map to generics so I have no idea if Pike is telling the truth or just "t…

> Although it's far from certain, after over a decade of work it looks like a design for parametric polymorphism, what is colloquially but misleadingly called generics... What exac…

I don't actually blame the writers for this though. The technology that made a lot of journalists obsolete is also one of the reason everything has become click-bait to appease the…

I don't think I am. This writer specifically keeps writing very "lightweight" (to put it mildly) articles: https://www.wsj.com/news/author/deepa-seetharaman . I'm not sure what val…

Thanks.

I think the writers know these stories get traction so they just keep doing a variation on the same theme. They're not really in it to explain anything. They just want the clicks a…

Currently using samsung galaxy buds+ and pretty happy with them: https://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/galaxy-buds-plus/ .

Re: dance. My current cardio routine is improv dancing and it's definitely a lot of fun. Re: drilling. This applies in any domain, even programming. Pick small problems and do vari…

GitHub has several projects that automate setting up a wireguard VPN on various cloud VMs without K8s: https://github.com/topics/wireguard . There's also this tutorial that sets up…