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Is it possible the size of the market for hand woven rugs has actually stayed the same, and the mass produced variety has simply filled the void for the large segment who were never able to afford them?

This comment doesn't help the pedant

I'm not sure I understand, are you suggesting that Tom Scott made it up?

The first use case that comes to mind is if you want a DSL to build expressions that are evaluated later in some different context e.g. when using `polars`:

```python df.filter( pl.col("foo") == pl.col("bar"), ) ```

Sqlalchemy does something equivalent too, and I'm sure there are many others.

I can imagine a pipeline where intermediate stages have been inserted to have some side effect, like debug logging all data passing through.

The problem comes when there are lucrative odds for some unlikely scenario, which you can influence into realisation, and that outcome might be counter to the company's goals (i.e. sabotage)

Huh.

Is there a reason the Zig compiler can't perform type-narrowing for `u` within the `U::A(_) | U::B(_)` "guard", rendering just the set of 2 cases entirely necessary and sufficient (obviating the need for any of the solutions in the blog post)?

I'm not familiar with Zig, but also ready to find out I'm not as familiar with type systems as I thought.

It gets worse the further you go, this was where I had to bail:

> the format is much favored by AI frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyCharm.

Could mean "appear" as in "show up"

> one of the first times

I don't think you can say it's "neither"! :)

I don't think your "obvious" is the same as that of the person you're replying to.

Tough to gauge how impressive this is without a before/after for comparison tbh.

I'd say that the people counting leap seconds are the ones "doing something".

At the point they needed to be inserted, Unix systems carry on counting seconds as units of time as they pass, "ignoring" the need to add 1 for the purposes of accounting.