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As others point out, that's F#, but yes C# has `async`/`await`, and has all the `Promise` methods, just under the `Task` class instead (and with slightly different names/calling conventions through out).

There's still a lot of folks who consider themselves .Net experts who don't know how to program with async/await, so knowing about a niche IDE (which I also exclusively use) is asking a lot for those people.

Linux manages just fine without a QC department. However, it also only takes responsibility for the "kernel". Various components around the kernel can be broken, and indeed some filesystems can cause file loss, but users full-well know of those flaws because of the transparent nature of Linux development.

Perhaps a lack of transparency and too many responsibilities under one product (something Microsoft loves to do) is the problem, not the lack of an additional process layer.

That does sound like a punishment for not using it. My statement was more whether they actively sell you a discount for using it.

Tesla's FSD will be good enough when you get an insurance discount for using it.

Well, this does involve generating ads, so...

What's the right size claude.md file in your experience?

For those interested, funding gaps only really became a thing in the 1970's, during Ford's administration [0]. It wasn't until a new interpretation of the Anti-Deficiency Act of 1880 that they became known as "shutdowns" in 1980 [1]. So a relatively recent phenomenon.

Hilariously, prior to that law, the executive branch would overspend early in the year, forcing more spending from congress in order to meet their contracts [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_Un...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antideficiency_Act#Provisions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercive_deficiency

This did make me curious, when did the federal government start "running" on a budget and "shutting down" when it doesn't have enough money? All 250 years, or is this a more recent phenomenon?

Yes, in whatever way congress directs, and as long as it doesn't violate the constitution (if you want to change the constitution, you have to amend it). The executive branch is merely supposed to execute the law as congress writes it. I would be surprised it the law stated "if the entity does not follow the same ideology as the current occupant of the executive branch, then funds may be withheld", and such a law may be challenged on grounds of constitutionaliry...

Are these university administrations the government? Because any private entity is free to censor as much as they want (as we have seen with many entities after Charlie Kirk's murder).

Saying "this private entity censored so now the government can" is not the argument you think it is.

> “The poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”

This Douglas Adams quote could also apply to the internet writ large

The AI, or this person's friend?

> But people seem to not care or understand those differences, and weaponize the concepts, instead of looking at the outcome.

This is politics.

I have a feeling I'll be waiting a long time for the old "Tea Party" to rise up again and start protesting this.

This is an unavoidable result of lazy layouts. With the LazyList in Jetpack compose, it's comically difficult to produce a scrollbar, because the "LazyList" only ever lays out the visible items, so Compose can't really know (unless you actually already know) the full size of the list.

I find the iron triangle of project management reins supreme in a lot of domains: quality is sacrificed in the name of performance.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle

Its original intended meaning was sometimes breaking your social website, not laws.

"In our next OSS project we will steal more carefully"

Unfortunately this is the most likely outcome.

I have a laptop with the same GPU, and Diablo 4 runs really well out of Lutris. Graphics version 570, and the CPU is an AMD with a Radeon 680M integrated. I often play games with FSR on, which probably keeps performance higher?

It already was common.

I love it, I always love these things. Still, given this is a technical site, one small nitpick is that it would be nice on hover to see how many pixels the current object is.

Have the models significantly improved, or have we just developed new programs that take better advantage of them?

A plurality of Americans voted for this government, for better or worse. The courts are one of the primary avenues for the minority to express their will, but they move slowly, although slightly faster than congress.

Sometimes you leave money on the table to increase demand.

> The vast majority, hard to quantify, but I'd guess well over 99% of professional musicians (certainly outside the US) never play a ticketmaster venue. They're not operating at that scale. When they tour it's at smaller venues - there are orders of magnitude more small bars and dedicated venues not owned by ticket master.

This is probably true, but I'm guessing smaller artists are also at much lower risk of scalpers (at least my anecdata backs that up) so probably much less applicable to the problem at hand.

I find these assumptions curious. How so? What is the AGI going to do that captures markets? Even if it can take over all desk work, then what? Who is going to consume that? And further more (and perhaps more importantly), with it putting everyone out of work, who is going to pay for it?

While I respect the desire to save energy, this feels a little bit like barking up the wrong tree. How much energy does it take to load ads in the taskbar and start menu? How much energy does it take to take screenshots every 3 seconds?

On-demand GenAI could definitely change the meaning of "You" in "Youtube".

Interesting. I do recall the U2 needed a chase car for landing [0], but I don't remember the challenges in takeoff. Any good resources on it? The concept I found in this essay occurred to me a few days ago after reading a news article about refueling aircraft for sale [1] and I thought hey why can't "they" "just" build an aircraft that takes off with normal jet fuel and at proper altitude and speed is refueled with rocket fuel? So I had to do a little digging, and it turns out it has been researched by NASA backed scientists, and it isn't even a half bad idea! Better than a lot of "why can't they just" ideas at least.

Anyways - if you have resources on the take off issues with high-performance aircraft, I would appreciate it :)

[0] https://www.jalopnik.com/the-140-mph-chase-cars-of-the-u-s-a...

[1] https://www.twz.com/air/kc-10-extender-tankers-are-up-for-au...