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by nick_ 10d ago
*Privatized profit. The ~210mil € of public funding wasn't private. It is now I guess, lol. EDIT: Title has been updated so my comment seems out of context.
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by nick_ 13d ago
Are the Rust devs not expanding the surface area of safe Rust over time? Just curious.
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by nick_ 25d ago
gpt-oss is about a year older than qwen 3.8 27b
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by nick_ 28d ago
Nice additions to go. I like to imagine that one day we'll have a language that launched with all the features languages eventually add. The whole ecosystem of packages would be built on them instead of a legacy of more primitive langu
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by nick_ 2mo ago
My most recent manager was exactly like this.
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by nick_ 3mo ago
I fully agree. I think a major meta-problem with patterns is that the straight-forward ones get written about the most, and/or read about the most. Now we have tons of devs out there who pledge allegiance to some subset of whatever pat
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by nick_ 3mo ago
Are you asking what A) the countries that meddle with US elections, and B) their relationship to the US, has to do with Israel, on this comment thread?
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by nick_ 3mo ago
Does the UK or Japan engage in election meddling in the US?
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by nick_ 3mo ago
Are North Korea and Russia "allies" of the US?
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by nick_ 4mo ago
Can you point me to a language that encodes the handling of errors in a less verbose way than C++/Java/C# exception handling?
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by nick_ 4mo ago
You're right about recover being in 1.0 of golang. I definitely fully understand the trade-offs of returning result/error unions vs handling thrown exceptions. Exception handling is clearly superior to me. That said, the typical p
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by nick_ 4mo ago
The anti-exception mind virus of the 2010s did a lot of damage. Go designers finally caved and added panic & recover, but jeez, the damage was done. The whole ecosystem has exception derangement syndrome.
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by nick_ 4mo ago
The convention of explicit error handling after every method call is absolutely bonkers to me. I would never use it for anything serious.
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by nick_ 5mo ago
AFAIK this is called sleep consolidation.
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by nick_ 5mo ago
For the few times a month I need to have two windows/panes visible at the same time, I take five seconds positioning and sizing them then move on.
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by nick_ 5mo ago
Same. Need multiple terminals visible at once? New window. Need a few separate sessions? New tab(s). All the bells and whistles people have shown me over the years... it never even gets close to making me think "oh yea, that's bet
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by nick_ 5mo ago
Do they build a lot of cinder block homes with flat, tarred roofs?
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by nick_ 6mo ago
The blog post points or the flawed spacecraft? /s
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by nick_ 6mo ago
Do you think sex and gender are the same thing?
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by nick_ 6mo ago
TUIs are very in right now. Nostalgia/vintage-computin-aesthetics & guru-gatekeeping around command line savviness are front and centre in the HN-and-adjacent mindshare.
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by nick_ 7mo ago
Is the Israeli intelligence facial recognition system in the room with us now?
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by nick_ 8mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Tha...
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by nick_ 8mo ago
/s?
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by nick_ 10mo ago
The only comic worse is Garfield. I have no idea how anyone enjoys either of them.
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by nick_ 10mo ago
Yep my electronics engineer dad was like "you cannot do this" but it worked! He got me to put an aligator clip wire from case to case so the grounding would at least be joined?
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by nick_ 10mo ago
What?
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by nick_ 10mo ago
Yes, agreed. At this point I have seen many fantastical interpretations of what happened there. I assume popular US media coverage of it was a contributor there.
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by nick_ 10mo ago
Are you referring to the "Freedom Convoy"?
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by nick_ 11mo ago
Are you hinting at the lack of an `AsyncLock` in .NET?
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by nick_ 11mo ago
Agreed. How can a media file sharing app possibly saturate Sqlite's write limit? I would use an app-level global lock on all writes to Sqlite.

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