chrisoverzero

> “X has lasted a long time so it will last more” is so obviously wrong.

Smarter people than you and I have thought about this problem and come to the opposite conclusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

"I made my max bid $500.00, but I'd have paid $500.01!"

"I made my max bid $500.01, but I'd have paid $500.02!"

"I made my max bid $500.02, but I'd have paid $500.03!"

…where does this process end?

Mhm! Exactly! In the system those other languages use, once you see the variable’s declaration:

    User activeUser

…you’ll always know that `activeUser` contains a User value – something that might have an `Id` property. And the convention is enforced by the language, so it’s easy to communicate. These semantic distinctions are very useful, I agree.

Sure! Let’s say I want to enforce that a variable only ever holds an integer. Rather than put the conventional prefix and the name together, like this:

    var intValue = 3;

…I separate the conventional prefix with a space:

    int value = 3;

…so now my co-workers don’t need to remember the convention – it’s enforced by the language.

(I hope this makes the joke more obvious.)

Not all phrases’ meanings are derivable from the literal definitions of the words that make them up.

> […] it shouldn't take long at all for people to learn the highly consistent naming conventions that tip you off to what type of data is being handled.

I’ve used languages with an approach like this. The difference in what I’ve used is that you separate the conventional part from the rest of the name with a space (or maybe a colon), then only refer to the value by the non-conventional part for the rest of the scope. Then the language enforces this convention for all of my co-workers! It’s pretty neat.

No, we don’t mind. Go ahead.

> Luckily, since type constraints are part of the signature of the method and there is no ambiguity, I am allowed to make this overload.

This isn’t the case. It’s allowed because the question-mark syntax means two different things in value- and reference-type contexts. The signatures really look like this:

    public static IEnumerable<TR> SelectNotNull<T, TR>(
      this IEnumerable<T> source,
      Func<T, TR> fn)
      where TR : class // …and the nullability of TR is tracked by the compiler

    public static IEnumerable<TR> SelectNotNull<T, TR>(
      this IEnumerable<T> source,
      Func<T, Nullable<TR>> fn)
      where TR : struct

This is an allowable overload.

What makes that "most likely," other than that you thought of it?

> How does one put a dollar value on a $10-30 GPT-4 pro subscription?

I’d estimate it at somewhere in the region of $10–$30, personally.

> - Translate feature doesn’t have a copy button

Sure it does. It’s labeled “Copy Translation”. It’s the first button under the translation for un-editable text.

> - Multitasking (apps should shut down after some time spent idle, instead they have to be manually closed)

Apps that aren’t working in the background shut down effectively as soon as they lose focus. Don’t let the list of screenshots fool you – those aren’t running. Don’t waste your time swiping them away.

Is the answer (ROT13 for spoilers):

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After looking it up: Nu, lrf, ohg Beq. Vagrerfgvat ubj gung vzcyrzragngvba qrgnvy yrnxf.

Even later: Unat ba, gurer'f ab jnl vg pbhyq or rira vs gung fngvfsnpgvba pbhyq or birepbzr! Vzntvar n frg pbagnvavat sbhe naq artngvir sbhe naq lbh znc `fdhner` bire vg… Gur fvmr bs gur pbyyrpgvba jbhyq punatr!

> What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal political agenda?

If this is what you are worried about, America is pretty far behind the leading edge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Shinzo_Abe

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/asia/court-dissolution-unific...

You’re responding to a comment containing a method call `thing.makeThingDoerForTest(1, 2, 3)` and saying “That's the trick - it is not test only code.”

Can you square those for me? I don’t get it.

Where are you from that you consider all of these groups to have the same pronunciation?

> First of all, please do not ignore this email, this is not a scam attempt nor am I trying to sell anything, I am just alerting and looking for help closing down a security issue […]

This seems like a good hint.

Did you look into where the Executive Director and the Head of Finance & Funding live? (Cardiff, Wales and Oxford, England, respectively.)

> if you don’t have an explicit type hint in a variable declaration, even readers that are using an IDE have to do TWO jump-to-definition actions to read the source of the variable type.

This isn’t necessarily the case. “Go to Definition” on the `val` goes to the definition of the deduced type in the IDEs and IDE-alikes I’ve ever used.

I want superiority de-coupled from technical expertise in the minds of the people who have the latter.

Taking his personal struggles out of kernel development and onto Hacker News was the escalation – pointing out his hypocrisy is only trying to get people who agree with him to realize that they’re wrong.

> No, they had the option of having a real conversation in private about what we could do to improve the overall situation.

Abusing others individually in public, but expecting a quiet word on the side about “the overall situation” when it comes to your own behavior. I hope you realize something from this.

Sure, but at the time that Apple made the decision, they had $0.0 trillion in billings and sales.

But if you’re constantly pinging the container (as suggested above), it will never scale to zero.

You clicked on a video from Real Engineering titled “How Nebula Works” hoping to get answers to legal and financial questions? I think videos with titles like “How Internal Combustion Engines Work” would also deliberately dodge legal and financial questions. Because they’re not what the video is about.

> The BSL doesn't make it closed source […]

Yes, that’s right!

> But BSL doesn't disqualify software from being open source.

No, that’s wrong: https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html

> The Business Source License […] is not an Open Source license.

> […] changed from liberal to conservative for the first time in its existence.

Not at all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochner_era

It wasn’t a driver.

I find it even more bonkers than that, even. Let's "frictionless vacuum" the problem: I live in a home in which all we eat is breakfast cereal. We need one spoon and one bowl per meal per person. But we own 25 bowls and 40 spoons. When we run out of bowls (that is, when the "dirty" dishwasher is running with a complement of 25 bowls), the "clean" dishwasher still contains 15 spoons. At the next mealtime, we each get a spoon and a bowl. When we're done eating, we put the dirty dishes in… Well, not either of the "clean" dishwashers!

It becomes absurd faster when you consider what a realistic household would own and eat and use. "There's no unloading necessary," he says. Absolutely ridiculous.

> Some of them are just plain bizaree too eg swipe up, right, up to get your apps.

What on Earth are you referring to?

見える only means “look” in the “to seem” or “to appear” sense.

Often in English, we have multiple words for sensory experiences to indicate how much focus is put into the action. “Seeing” a picture is less focused than “looking at” a picture. “Hearing” a song is less focused than “listening to” a song.

> […] rather than collaborate with the creators.

How do you propose AWS “collaborate” with Elastic or Redis Labs under the terms of the SSPL? Also, who do you believe the creators of Redis are?