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Comment · 21 days ago
> returning 2 values

> act on context structures

Same semantics but mutating context is much harder to track, so yes it is preferred to return 2 values.

Comment · 1 month ago
Depends on the area, but many places in the UK have weekly fare caps so it ends up functionally equivalent to a transport pass.
Comment · 1 month ago
Sure, but in that case they are equivalent to a static function so there's no benefit of lambda other than syntax sugar.
Comment · 2 months ago
Surely the commenter means deleting them in the code, not just the management software. Otherwise, what's the point?

You need to find every occurrence of flag4 and remove references to it. So that boolean expression would need to have `&& flag4` removed.

Comment · 2 months ago
Yes it's been done a bunch of times in the past, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_architecture. Probably most notably lisp machines which the sibling comment mentioned.
Comment · 2 months ago
Oxford dictionary lists cringe as adjective.

Cambridge dictionary lists cringe as adjective.

Merriam-Webster lists cringe as adjective.

Might need to update your understanding.

Comment · 3 months ago
You can't just get something to space and then leave it there for free. Any maintenance is way more expensive than a data center on the ground (be it via extra trips or extra R&D for autonomous operating).
Comment · 3 months ago
Still need the entire browser DOM, APIs, layout, renderers, etc outside of JS.
Comment · 3 months ago
No idea about this project, but it is very possible to compile a dynamically typed language, without large VM/runtime. See Common Lisp, Julia
Comment · 3 months ago
> Space in NYC isn't cheap. Space in space is free.

... what?

Say what you want about starship etc etc, but space in space is far from free and will be for a long time.

Comment · 3 months ago
The UK loves to take various infrastructure and industries private and public depending on which government is in power at the moment. See also trains, water, etc
Comment · 3 months ago
I would like to know if text is LLM generated even if I can't tell from the content itself. For me it's a matter of attention (hah) and a quality signal. The poster expects to spend a minimal amount of effort on the post, and all the readers will have to spend the same amount of attention whether its LLM generated or not.

To me, it's disrespectful to expect someone to waste their day reading every word of a blog post when even the author has not read every word. It shows that you value your time over your reader's time.

Comment · 3 months ago
False equivalence, text processor leaves the authors intention completely in tact and is deterministically controlled completely by the author. Not true for gen ai
Comment · 3 months ago
Also bit twiddling is very useful in a scientific language when you want to "simulate" a lower level embedded processor, typically fixed or floating DSP or controls code. For example MATLAB/simulink are very commonly used as a high level language before porting the algorithm to a DSP, FPGA, or ASIC, and for this they support bit twiddling and integer/fixed point arithmetic.
Comment · 4 months ago
Faster than rustc (the main rust compiler written in rust). Obvious from the context.

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