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    Comment #43700979

    Interesting write up. It should be part of their documentation, it's helpful to have historical contextual info like this.

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    Comment #42603950

    for functions that don't escape the current compilation unit (`static` functions, anonymous namespace functions), can/do compilers ignore calling conventions and do the faster thin…

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    Comment #41664556

    Oh yeah, re: SQL expect - I always wish joins had a "cardinality assertion", like a regex *?+ (or ! for exactly one)

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    Comment #40140362

    Fell for the Crosstrek but then got the ick with that dash tablet

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    Comment #38141455

    C++ only needs 4 things: gradually-introducable memory safety, static reflection, first-class compile time string manipulation, and adoption+refinement of its modules feature.

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    Comment #37605901

    Love me some lateral join / cross apply. Correlated subqueries and visibility in the where clause?! Whoo.

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    Comment #37176756

    The backtrace argument is good, but I wonder how valuable traces would be in a world that never experienced reads-of-nothing (npe, reading from undefined, reading out of bounds arr…

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    Comment #36502020

    This is a problem, seems like ctes and views are a possible ormless solution here

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    Comment #36501906

    Thanks man I really feel the same when what should be 2 joins, becomes an all day hellscape of inspecting orm emitted sql, to debug why its blizzard of exists-subqueries is absolut…

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    Comment #36375451

    Often we just want "totally adhoc result set, but constrained using some common where or join." We keep on with the orm, but it's basically a slow and complicated form of a view at…

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    Comment #36191910

    Sort of an homage to the windows registry, but it's not a "secret 3rd thing" it's just another folder.

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    Comment #35911571

    Neat. It makes me wonder if there is work on mechanical computers at around the atomic scale.

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    Comment #35808623

    Ha I never wondered what the physical/life version of a shared library is until I read your post so thanks for that.

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    Comment #35709593

    Gradle is totally undiscoverable. Some autocomplete and goto def would be nice for gradle kts files.

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    Comment #34759323

    Can you add any number of A's, or just 1, or shorten it by 1, and it still is functional?

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    Comment #34140569

    The anti-singularity, where an AI produces decreasingly correct versions of itself.

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    Comment #33746008

    It's neat to see `foo` in "ancient" texts.

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    Comment #32887603

    Roaches of the sea

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    Comment #32872580

    ...and then there was a perf regression cause the jawns were being autoboxed to Jawns...

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    Comment #32832407

    Node heap profiler in chrome is pretty good, often it will show the largest retainers and if your hookes to a live vm (not a snapshot) you can inspect the object and eventually go …

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    Comment #32803787

    Really would like "select * except ..." and a non-dynamic-sql way to remap column names

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    Comment #32443886

    Many reports of drought in europe, I had wondered where that water went (it doesn't just evaporate into space...right?)

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    Comment #32217910

    >Priapus weighting his dick in Pompei Ah the origin of priapism, it all makes sense now. Not sure if that's an honor or not for the guy.

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    Comment #32009589

    An interesting game. The govt could then raise the fine, but would they risk bankrupting the hospitals by pushing too far?