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> Unit testing will be built directly into languages as an intrinsic part, like compiler optimization or GC.

Rust and Zig have this, right?


And Clojure!


A few weeks ago I learned about tri-point screws when attempting to take out a defective battery in an old MacBook Pro—after spending an hour or two just to get the bottom case off. Pro-tip: watch tutorials until the end before copying what they do...


Just tried this on https://craftinginterpreters.com/a-map-of-the-territory.html and I'm getting weird pauses in the middle of sentences


Know what it is (sometimes text parses with extra spaces causing pauses). Will fix soon.


I do not think extra spaces are the issue (since there aren't any in the link). I suspect it is converting fix chunk of words into audio and before the next chunk there is an awkward pause. Still, very soothing and natural voice.


> It looks like Python/Ruby, runs really fast, and uses very little resources.

You should also check out Crystal, which had its 1.0 release earlier this year: https://crystal-lang.org/ (Although, no Windows support yet.)


Regardless of the ancient world, a lot of people today would say that there’s more polarization with the advent of social media.


AI has gotten really good but will it ever develop the necessary imagination to be able to handle all edge cases? If we ever do reach that point, we should require all cars to be AI-driven only so that bad drivers don’t injure themselves or others when they get into these kinds of situations. Until then, something needs to be done before too many people kill themselves by thinking that autonomous cars are more capable than they actually are.


If Tesla used Lidar for their emergency braking I doubt they'd be driving straight into stationary objects. But Elon is adamantly against Lidar and wants vision only.

Then again, other car companies have emergency braking without Lidar (just radar/camera like Tesla) that doesn't seem to crash into stationary objects, so it sounds like Tesla's software is just not as good at emergency braking.


I'm sure it will never be perfect. But i think at the very, very least, we should be well passed the point of never hitting heavy, stationary objects in the middle of the road assuming sufficient stopping distance.


This is poor quality thinking.

The problem is that the AI is held to an impossible standard of near perfection, yet we happily accept that human drivers kill themselves and others in droves.

The right question is whether self driving is better than the human driver.


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And this is the second departure announcement...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26967555


Stroustrup's talk on this is worth listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLzxrzFCyOs


That was an amazing talk!


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I haven't dug into this yet, but the table of contents appears to be broken.


Author here, looks like I messed up one of the links by accident. Should be fixed now :)


This makes me imagine some secret alien civilization living in the depths of Venus, using its atmosphere as cover


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