tfha

Nah at least in chess all the grandmasters lean heavily on the chess engines, including studying top games between the best AI

Acting responsibly as a researcher who has discovered a vulnerability requires delicately balancing a question of two greater evils. Will more people get hurt overall if we announce the vulnerability sooner, or will more people get hurt overall if we wait until the vendor is ready?

In most cases, working with the vendor to allow a patch and a warning to be released is the path of least harm. But sometimes the right decision is to announce a vulnerability before the vendor has issued a patch.

Doesn't phase 0 exclude the ability to transfer money? The whole point of a "currency"???

The first time I ever heard the Numa Numa song was when I was 10 and had the flu. I was puking in the hallway and had intense nausea for hours. My classmates kept playing the song because it was the new viral thing.

It took me over 10 years before I could listen to the song without feeling sick. It's fine now though.

I'm pretty sure part of the job of a bodyguard is to ensure the well being of their client. If they ask for something that improves safety but makes the client miserable, they are not doing their job.

Those are the cases where the parallel construction was caught, right? What about all the cases where parallel construction was used and successfully kept secret?

Maybe I'm missing something but Go _discourages_ nested conditionals. There are even static analysis tools in the idiomic toolkit which tell you when your conditionals can be simplified.

Humans make mistakes. People code review after exhausting days or late at night. Or sometimes they skim more than they intended to. You want to make problems in the code obvious everywhere that you can.

In programming, if you miss an important detail the repercussions can be high. In a million line codebase every idiom that's slightly more complex than it needs to be is going to result in dozens of additional bugs, sheerly because of the increased surface area for making mistakes with that idiom.

Have you used a lot of go? I'm a big fan of rust and definitely like rust devs and the rust community, but I find that people haven't used go enough to "get" it don't really understand just how much it can take away from cognitive load.

Rust and go are not really comparable in this regard, even if rust is much better than most people realize. There are too many ways to approach a problem in rust.

That said, definitely there are plenty of places where rust is a much better language choice than go

This is not my experience at all. We've spent the past few years building a multi-hundred thousand line of code distributed system in go and have found that sticking to idiomatic go has been very beneficial in building the thing successfully.

What is with all of the condescension that other developers have towards Go developers? Go has a set of highly desirable features that are very practical for building large team projects.

Imo it's unnecessarily hostile to compare go to playmobile and diplo, and it really encourages people to overlook the genuinely excellent features that go supports.

That's really not it. The more complex a language is, the more ways there are to approach a problem. The more things to have to learn and adapt to when reading code another engineer wrote.

You want code to be obvious. The senior engineer smiles when the junior engineer reads his code and says in just seconds "I know exactly what this does and have high confidence that it has no bugs."

Simpler languages facilitate simpler codebases.

Loops in go are much less flexible than loops in C, you'd never see code like that in go.

The way many people read code, it's much easier to overlook three characters than it is to overlook three lines with indentation.

That's really strange to me because I find go to be very readable. There are so few approaches to each of the basic programming building blocks in go that once you have read a moderate amount of idiomatic go, everything else just feels easy.