ternaryoperator

There are many exceptions to what you state as an ironclad rule: i bought a display case for my baseball, i bought an album for my photos, etc. “for” can go in either direction.

It does not exist in Java. Comments in Java do not change code.

Agreed. There is definitely a similarity to BDD.

J6 is not a strong counterexample, IMHO. Part of the problem with Epstein is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt," for which evidence is needed--and, it appears, hard to come by. Whereas with J6, there were thousands of hours of footage showing the crimes being committed (and in many cases bragged about), which made prosecutions much easier.

He studied them diligently. His book Digital Typography gives lengthy accounts of his research and includes photographs and examples of how he chose various aspects.

But if you go to the search box at the bottom of the HN page and type in 'go' the first hit is "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free," In the top 10 results, only _two_ are about Go, the language.

Whereas the first 50 golang hits are all about the language.

You might have your preferred approach, but there are good reasons for using golang.

The use of "golang" for posts and comments is desirable IMHO because it greatly facilitates search, especially on sites such as HN that cover many languages.

Yowza! Lines 1566-1637 consist entirely of closing braces. That's 70 closing braces in a row. Beyond the nightmare of maintenance, it's got to be a performance drag on the compilation.

That's progress over where it was a year ago. But the almost complete absence of packages that run on Windows makes the progress made so far more of a curiosity than a usable option--alas. I'd use Swift in a heartbeat if it had even a semblance of a decent ecosystem on Windows.

How is Zig an EU language?

Well, given the detailed statistics re reading in the US, I think she is speaking for more than herself, no?

It has importance beyond that someone else bought the bonds. It also suggests they will not be buyers in the future. If they represent the beginning of a trend and Europe stops buying US bonds, that will be a serious blow to the US economy.

I agree fully with your comment, but I wish to point out that Larry Ellison's was a programmer at the time that the company that became Oracle was founded by him and his co-founders.

> The stdlib is one of the most complete

Coming from Java, I find the standard lib very small. A case in point is the collections library: arrays/slices, map, list, ring, and heap -- that's about as minimal as you can get.

If you think this is primarily about drugs and authoritarianism, don't overlook this one important dimension: the country with the largest proven oil reserves in the world is...Venezuela.

[0] https://www.baidarcenter.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/8...

The origin AFAIK stems from the mainframe days. When using BAL (the assembly language for the IBM/360 family and its descendants), xoring was faster than moving 0 to the variable. Many of the early devs who wrote assembly for PCs came from mainframe backgrounds and so the idiom was carried over.

The comment is clearly sarcasm.

It had better be really old Java code. This decompiler supports only through Java 8. We're on Java 24 now.

in fact, use of the article before the highway number is a giveaway that the person is from elsewhere.

> It's also telling that the NYT is the only major outlet to consistently be reticent to state unequivocally that Epstein killed himself. Always said "found to have committed suicide."

Nonsense. "...Mr. Epstein, who died by suicide... [0] "...disgraced financier who died by suicide...[1] etc.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/trump-epstein... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein...

Posted 11 days ago. 65 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45808899

A JVM for Java 21 written in go[0]

[0] jacobin.org

That's an important point you make. A closer-to-SSA IR would have helped in the provided example by forcing the function calls to be completed before their return value being passed to the principal function. I'm surprised Araq dismissed this concern.

Windows and Microsoft apps run on ARM on multiple Surface models.

Wait…so you’re saying computer science isn’t science? /s

You are literally arguing against history, not me. The history I described is playing out even today as more universities abandon preferential admissions for children of alumni.

It reads as reasonable but is really saying: no diversity hires. That’s more significant in universities than in the job market. In general, the most educated Americans are the children of the wealthy. So without DEI, the faculty, which is thereby a product of the economic elite, will be teaching primarily the children of that elite. Universities recognized the problem with this closed system long ago and used DEI as a way to address it. That’s what the Trump administration is targeting in part with these compacts.

Univ of Virginia announced yesterday they would no sign. So now it’s five universities.

Why do you make PDFs of github checkouts?

Steve, thanks for taking the time to point me to this on-point passage.