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It really does whip the llama's ass.

For someone who has never written an Android app before but knows Java, what's the "happy path" to getting a native MVP out the door in 2024? Must I learn Kotlin? Is there a "blessed API" or design pattern these days that's better supported than the others?

>Computer integers aren't the real numbers you learned about in gradeschool

Why would anyone think computer integers are real numbers? Anyone who's given it a modicum of thought will know intuitively they're a subset of "real life" integers, not reals.

>using 0,x is a perfectly reasonable and intuitive way of defining things.

I would argue it's neither reasonable nor intuitive. If you want to create some special data type then have at it, but if the behavior of `int` doesn't approximate the behavior of IRL integers, call your data type something else.

>Division by zero is UNDEFINED. How does a calculation return +infinity anyway?

I used the word "approximated" for a reason.

I'll cop to the fact that I was only considering positive integers but your response is needlessly pedantic given the context of what I wrote.

>Zero is a fine answer for integer division by zero.

It's not. Division (edit: of a positive integer) by zero is better approximated by +infinity rather than zero.

In real life to divide something into zero groups is nonsensical, thus the number system in programs should reflect this. In the exceptionally-rare case where you want to divide by zero and it makes sense (can't think of a scenario where that's true but let's stipulate), then you can use your language's equivalent of try/catch or (if (zerop x) ...) to get around it.

Don't fuck up normal mathematics for the rest of us just because some lazy programmer doesn't like to add error checking.

Article 13 absolutely does not imply that unrestricted immigration is a human right. To do so would be to stomp on national sovereignty.

Article 13 concerns freedom of movement within one's own country, and the right of return thereto.

Here in Canada we literally cannot build housing fast enough. The government is targeting half a million immigrants annually, and we recently set an all-time housing starts record of only about half that number.

Sometimes it actually is immigration that is causing problems.

I'd happily buy phones with ethically-sourced components if it was possible. There is no choice available to me as far as I'm aware.

Meanwhile just slowing the fuck down on residential streets is a choice anyone can make and not at all a comparable situation.

Please dispense with the classic HN whataboutism, as it's not curious conversation and contravenes the comment guidelines.

The good old days when 800x600 was considered solid and 1024x768 luxurious

How selfish of you. Don't you care that you're more likely to kill somebody's kids as you fly down the road in your SUV, just to save some time on your commute?

The standard refrain of "it's always been like this" is a great way to avoid confronting the very real problems facing amateur radio.

But despite your insinuation I'm not a "new ham". After a few brushes with the ham community in my area I very quickly decided I wanted absolutely nothing to do with it.

I used irssi for years, but I want something that will work on my phone without the connection dropping all the time if I let the display go to sleep or if I change networks.

>It’s just a bunch of old dudes talking about where they are driving to and gate keeping the spectrum

Yup and the grouchy boomers who LARP as emergency preparedness personnel.

My experiences with amateur radio people have been universally negative, and in my opinion the death of ham radio is squarely the fault of its participants.

>Without an offline history and sane support for multiple clients, it does not really have the same utility. I’m using IRC, but oh my gosh is it a pain to set up and maintain. Bouncers are terrible, so the alternative is IRC clients that basically run their own little server that I connect to.

I agree, but the IRCv3 spec rectifies most of this by implementing chat history and some other niceties, while modern ircds such as Ergo implement server-side bouncer functionality so that you can have multiple clients connected.

It's not there yet, which is why I used the term "dream".

Imagine the utility of discord or slack, except not locked into someone's for-profit walled garden/data farm.

For those of us who still like IRC despite how the UX remains somewhat dated, this is the dream.

>has anyone ever managed to hijack a plane with small pen knife?

Well, the 9/11 hijackers used box cutters. Might as well be the same thing.

I'm not American but isn't a fetish for deregulation a hallmark of your political right, not the left?

Being hyped for <feature other languages have had for years> is totally on-brand for the Rust community.

All mazes are trivial if you adhere to the "keep one hand on the wall" trick.

All my homies hate uracil

This.

It's obvious to everyone who isn't willfully blind that LLMs aren't truly intelligent, and all the mental gymnastics that people go through to try to portray LLMs as genuinely intelligent is just so tedious.

Personally, I think that phenomenon (along with "hallucinations") is fundamentally baked into LLMs writ large.

I think LLMs are a dead end on the path to AGI.

It's more interesting than the umpteenth article on embeddings.

>Maybe a cultural difference between those who experienced LAN parties and those who didn't.

I think this is it more than anything. If all you know is "quick match" matchmaking, it's hard to realize what you're missing. LAN parties were really awesome.

I think, as Blizzard demonstrated, it's not universally true that faster is better.

In some markets it's better to be slower to market with a better product, e.g. Apple

Have you written about this? I'm fascinated by exploit dev.

You are correct, I had a brain fart. Not enough sleep the last few days.

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>A common misconception about wings is that they need to have the classic airfoil shape to work. In reality, just about any surface can create lift and function as a wing

Left unsaid is why aircraft wings have airfoil-shaped cross sections with cambered (concave-down) shapes: they produce more lift for a given wing loading and angle of attack.

This is why aircraft have flaps, as well. They increase the camber of the wing so that the pilot can fly slower without pitching the nose up, which is important for example when maintaining sight of the runaway on landing approach.

I have no idea to which group you're referring.