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> Informing everyone, right down to the janitors (and all respect to janitors) where we are going and why. But it isn’t a coincidence that you chose to single out the janitors as t…

> Unfortunately, even now, it seems that there is a lot catching up to BK still to be done. To be fair, we had kernel level programmers working on it, we don't think anyone will pi…

Presumably people agree that we should “retire sociology” considering that I was being sarcastic.

Write once, install JVM everywhere.

We should just retire sociology. It’s all just human nature, and what that means is just obvious to everybody.

Thanks, that’s a good suggestion.

16GBs of memory isn’t enough for me anymore.[1] Although that is mostly due to Intellij and the Web at large (my browser). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26120743

The problem ? You would have to ask the poster that you initially replied to.

All the layers that I see Rust and Zig are introducing have to do with the compiler. And if advanced compilation is a “layer” then Mr. zero-cost-abstractions C++ shouldn’t throw st…

> Frankly, if you were to boil down the "unsafe" C vulnerabilities it is a small class of exploits, suitable for automated detection. Ah, it’s simple, then. We will await eagerly f…

P has chronically bad taste when it comes to all things PL-related.

This comment is as low-effort as the hypothetical examples. Will they do things in that way? Heck, let’s just ask: are they doing things in those ways? crickets Just meaningless rh…

I don’t get why this is off by default for debug builds though. Maybe that’s a separate concern.

The Result type is specifically designed to store value-or-error. One may use it diffently but that’s what it’s made for. The library designers had a choice between making a generi…

It took Java until Java SE 14 (last year) to produce NPE stacktraces which actually tell you which variable was null. At least in Rust third parties could have created a library to…

Bringing up points like the second/third world wages in a conversation about first-world pay will benefit neither first-world workers nor any other worker (which begs the question …

I didn’t say something about the progress of space travel. I made an observation about how technological progress and centralization are correlated. And I don’t think societies in …

I won’t call you crazy, but I will call you naive. Modern civilization was what brought us centralized states and corporations. And yet we always seem to think that that next hill,…

They don’t have the mental capacity? In what sense?

Beware of loudest people in the room bias.

Aah, but will the cameras get enough shots of my tongue? Linguametrics, you heard it here first, folks.

Pretty much correct. It’s a bit ridiculous that high-tech gadgets (rare earth metals and all that) are sometimes considered to be environmentally friendly. Still though, consumptio…

0.3% of my whole life just to test out one single programming language doesn’t sound unreasonable.

https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics