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FooBarrington

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  • Exclusive: Tesla presented misleading ‘Full Self-Driving’ safety data to European regulators

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  • Could you expand on some of these challenges? We haven't had these issues in any companies I've worked at, but those were mostly on the smaller side.

  • C++ takes decades to master

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  • As a passionate Golang hater, I can gladly explain!

    • It's not just the repeated if err != nil, even though that's already bad enough. But the really fucked up part is the := bullshit. It makes moving code around unnecessarily annoying, and it's telling that few other languages share Golang's approach.
    • The lowercase/uppercase rules for private/public stuff is theoretically not a horrible idea, but it makes the code look much more inconsistent. I find _ much easier to read, and this leaves upper/lower to signal other details. But I see that this is mostly personal preference.
    • Fairly basic operations take much, much more code than they should (e.g. deserializing JSON while handling extra args, or basic functional operations - though that should change sooner rather than later with the new generic methods, right?)
    • The decision to initialize every non-pointer primitive with the "bottom value" (or whatever it's called again) makes sense in isolation, but it's really unfortunate that they don't support additive types, because this means a bunch of common tasks need to use pointers, and unfortunately the type system is worthless when it comes to preventing segfaults caused by bugs with pointers.
    • I find that most Go libraries have basically no documentation, if you're lucky you get an example that might vaguely be related to whatever you want to know. I've had much better experiences in other languages.

    All in all IMO most Go code is 5x longer than necessary to actually express itself in a readable manner, all because the language still doesn't have proper error handling or generic support (until recently at least). At the same time it's fairly inflexible, the type system is still shallow and basic, and it's still way too easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

    The only good thing Go has going is the single file deployments, but I'll gladly spend one hour of every remaining day of my life setting up containers, if it means I never have to touch anything Go again.

  • JD Vance Tells U.S. Air Force Grads They Can't Boo His Commencement Speech Because 'I'm the Vice President of the United States'

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  • A lion does not concern himself with the opinions of sheep.

    So please don't be mean, sheep, or the lion will start crying.

  • Daring Fireball: What Is a Dickover?

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  • Weird question to ask through radio, over.

  • Majority of Android users aren't sold on Gemini Intelligence, survey reveals

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  • AI could be useful if it could orchestrate more complex tasks that the relevant apps don't natively support. But of course that's not what we're getting.

    I use lots and lots of timers every day to structure my chores and work. For example, I'd sometimes love to be able to start one timer, and have another one set to automatically start as soon as I stop the ringing from the first (which might take a few minutes).

    Very simple requirements, but specialized enough that I'd have to write it myself. But I can't see phone AIs supporting something like this in this decade.

  • US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’

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  • That's good! But I'd still prefer if I and the other 44% could at least say "please stop producing and sending us trash".

    They should really make mailed advertisements opt-in, but of course the industry won't do that. And this what makes it cancerous IMO: they never give up trying to inject ads into people's lives.

  • US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’

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  • OTOH, it seems like ~44% of junk mail gets thrown away without ever being opened: https://zerojunkmail.org/environmental-impact

    That's a bunch of environmental destruction and personal annoyances caused, so the label "cancer" seems fair to me.

  • TIL: gendered button/zipper placement on clothes (and a guess at why)

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  • Yes, it's pretty common knowledge that this is how many fashion trends were set. Unless you're educated in the field and know that pop sci is wrong on this, there are less condescending ways to ask this.

  • Post-modern internet media critic.

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  • It's cool that you enjoyed it! But there's no need to pretend that this is a binary choice. Guardians of the Galaxy is also capeshit with a stoic woman, yet IMO Gamorra is a much more interesting character than Captain Marvel.

    I also liked many parts of the movie, but some other parts were big enough misses that I'm not really interested in rewatching.

  • Post-modern internet media critic.

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  • A good alternative is to find ways to make people smile instead :)

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  • A big argument for "not all matter must necessarily interact electromagnetically" is that we know of particles which don't interact with the strong force - why should that fundamental force be special?

  • Making a difference, one date at a time.

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  • Yes, and since that's the wrong place I kept looking, and found the link I just sent you

  • Making a difference, one date at a time.

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  • Making a difference, one date at a time.

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  • That's a different kind of array (Float32Array etc.), not the "normal" kind.

  • Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work

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  • Linux is Getting a New Default Folder in Your Home Directory

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  • New installs, or new users? I'd assume the latter?

  • Microsoft Teams users are extremely angry at new banner asking them to pay

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  • I'm also not a fan of Slack, but it doesn't break new things every week while also putting ads in your face, so that's a plus.

    Teams is also only communication.

  • Microsoft Teams users are extremely angry at new banner asking them to pay

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  • Slack isn't great, but at least a few years ago it was much, much better than Teams

  • God keeps his finger on the c constant slider

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  • Imma be real with you. If you show me a cool thing you made in a couple days, and your "days" aren't 24h long... That's just sad