mastry

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Why AI Benchmarks Are Total BS(pcmag.com)
2 points by mastry 5d ago|0 comments
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by mastry 9d ago
Not refuting your overall point, but the son wasn’t killed. They reunite at the end of the movie.
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by mastry 2mo ago
Time to try out Antigravity, I guess.
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by mastry 1y ago
See the links I listed above. None of those features solved a language problem as large as the lack of sum types. It baffles me that they even spent time on them before providing a feature that is in such high demand (and has been for more
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by mastry 1y ago
Yep, this is exactly the approach we take. It works ok-ish, but it’s far from elegant. In our case ‘read’ is ‘Switch’. I think it’s a fairly common pattern in C# these days.
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by mastry 1y ago
> We're discussing Windows and all its ad-ware/invasive changes, and someone brings up C# I brought up C# because the article discusses a Microsoft Windows design philosophy that I feel is also reflected in their approach to C#
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by mastry 1y ago
Yes, very clunky. One of the big issues with this approach is that switch expressions still require a default branch because there’s no way in C# to express a completely closed set. This makes future changes to the set (sum type) hazardous.
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by mastry 1y ago
Here are some. I’m not saying these are all completely useless, but all of them should have taken a back seat to sum types. - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/cs... - https:&#x2
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by mastry 1y ago
They're doing the same thing with C#. The amount crap they have added to that language over the years is mind boggling - yet, we still don't have sum types which is the one thing that every C# developer I have worked with _really_
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by mastry 1y ago
Ah - that's good to hear. Thanks for the extra information.
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by mastry 1y ago
> Kodak aims to conjure up cash by ceasing payments for its retirement pension plan. I assume this means payments to retirees. It's a good reminder that (if you can help it) you should not rely 100% on any external source (including
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Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated](cnn.com)
311 points by mastry 1y ago|229 comments
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Fred Smith, FedEx's innovative founder, is dead at 80(cnn.com)
2 points by mastry 1y ago|0 comments
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by mastry 1y ago
This will make you feel better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152
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Star Trek fans changed the name of NASA's first space shuttle(popsci.com)
2 points by mastry 2y ago|0 comments
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by mastry 2y ago
Exactly. See also recent SalesForce comments along these lines.
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by mastry 2y ago
Happy new year from the US South y’all.
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by mastry 2y ago
Seems to be back up now.
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by mastry 2y ago
I wonder if this is related to the NHC outage? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41771629
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NHC Is Unavailable(nhc.noaa.gov)
3 points by mastry 2y ago|2 comments
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by mastry 2y ago
The National Hurricane Center website has been returning "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" for a while now.
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by mastry 2y ago
Is that unusual? Nothing in the article compares it to other fires. Honestly curious. Also, this was a little ironic… > The Tesla truck, driven by an employee, was headed to the company’s battery factory in Sparks, Nevada
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by mastry 2y ago
I eagerly await the release on Apple Books.
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by mastry 2y ago
C# has default interface implementations now, that can be used to create mixins... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/advanced-top...
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by mastry 2y ago
2022
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by mastry 2y ago
NOTAMs are issued for every weather baloon. https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/notam_ht...
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A congressman wanted to understand AI. So he went back to a college classroom(apnews.com)
32 points by mastry 2y ago|1 comments
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A list of major US bridge collapses caused by ships and barges(apnews.com)
2 points by mastry 2y ago|0 comments
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by mastry 3y ago
After what they did to Foundation, I’m not feeling very optimistic about this.
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by mastry 3y ago
Almost three years to come to this conclusion?

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