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Comment · 1 month ago
Technically nobody knows, because AlphaZero was never made public. In practice, we know Stockfish 19 would destroy it, because it destroys open-source reimplementations of AlphaZero.
Comment · 2 months ago
I hope app startup times have been improved, at some this regressed massively, from 0.5s to like 2s.
Comment · 2 months ago
The font blurriness har finally been fixed now, at least.
Comment · 3 months ago
The game was first released in 2001, but released on steam on 2021. Needless to say, most players don't play through steam.
Comment · 3 months ago
What are you talking about, only Rust actually forces you to handle errors. Go functions merely return a tuple with an error along with the result, with a convention that you must checktror a non-nil error before using the result.

Rust bakes this into the type system, a function can truly return a result or an error.

Comment · 3 months ago
ARM could change that in the long term, Apple doesn't own them. It would be a generational fumble by ARM to lose Apple as a customer, though.
Comment · 4 months ago
Requires an area around your office that isn't ugly or overrun with cars.
Comment · 9 months ago
> Officially before the one child policy they were at 800 million. After 30 years of 1 child policy somehow they were at 1.2 billion. The math isn't mathing.

Even if I take your numbers at face value, it is absolutely possible for this math to math. To simplify massively, if the average person dies at 80 years old, the population growth today depends on the number of births 80 years ago, compared to today. Not 30 years ago. The population may have grown massively between 30 and 80 years ago, so that the absolute number of births remains high, despite a low birth rate.

Comment · 11 months ago
Haskell is far more dangerous. It allows you to simple destruct the `Just` variant without a path for the empty case, causing a runtime error if it ever occurs.
Comment · 11 months ago
I thought this problem was Wayland's reason for existing?
Comment · 11 months ago
As long as you're willing to stay on some old LTS distro, you'll be fine for at least another 10 years. X isn't going anywhere.
Comment · 11 months ago
Depends on your definition of "major". Small utility functions are added on nearly every release, but they definitely aren't major.
Comment · 11 months ago
Rust's standard library hasn't received any major additions since 1.0 in 2015, back when nobody was writing web services in Rust so no one needed logging.
Comment · 1 year ago

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