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halkcyon··on I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020)
> was the concept of generics a thing before Java implemented it? That is, could they have known?

You can literally google "X lang feature" and it gives you a date. ML/Ada have had generics since the 70s.

halkcyon··on I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020)
> it doesn't feel like the designers necessarily stepped back and looked at the bigger picture

I get the sense that the designers have a huge amount of ego from making C what it is today.

halkcyon··on The antitrust case against Google
Why should anyone care about general consumers? They're just fine being sheep as long as they're comfortable.
halkcyon··on Disclosing networks of state-linked information operations we’ve removed
I'm surprised they're not disclosing the US ones.
halkcyon··on NPM Is Joining GitHub
> That would work for Npm. Npm has enough problems that its worth running your own mirror for business continuity.

And risk-averse businesses do already.

halkcyon··on NPM Is Joining GitHub
Yes you can, it just requires extra configuration and defeats the purpose of using v2 at all.
halkcyon··on NPM Is Joining GitHub
> "weird, complex"

I mean, zip files are hardly complex. PnP is a breath of fresh air and lets you commit packages "safely" to your SCM without LFS. NPM has been experimenting in v7 with similar ideas.

I'm personally quite fond of "zero-install" setup to a repo.

halkcyon··on We don't allow users to pick passwords so we don't store your information
Quite an ironic thread from a security company. "We don't store your password, it's our randomly generated one!"
halkcyon··on S. 386: Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019
> A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the per-country numerical limitation for employment-based immigrants, to increase the per-country numerical limitation for family-sponsored immigrants, and for other purposes.

I'm not sure why we use numerical limitations at all.. Seems weird to have such a broad statue; what makes someone "high-skilled"?

Also weird, it's already passed earlier this year (I must be missing something here): https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr1044

halkcyon··on When hermit crabs confuse plastic trash for shells, ‘avalanche’ of death happens
That is atrocious. I know in some communities, there is an effort to clean up beaches polluted by the world; do these places have such a program?