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> Americans are speaking less and less to one another. The number of spoken words uttered by the average person fell by 28% between 2005 and 2019.

Is it just me or does anyone else turn skeptical when seeing these precise numbers given to something that seems essentially impossible to measure with this accuracy?

Where do you go if you’re looking to leave the US with family and you only speak English?

I think the number to Iran grew since the $300b number.

> I think it makes me a better programmer because I can bootstrap the knowledge needed for a new project much faster

faster != better

A lesson from The Incredibles which we didn’t collectively learn.

It seems human beings spend a significant portion of their lives trying to figure out how to live as little as possible.

Sure, but if you take that view, everything above assembly is a QOL improvement and we really don't need anything. That definition is pretty useless though.

You clearly haven’t observed anyone actually using AI.

You say that the optimal state of society is for everyone to apply programming and logic etc. but the obvious final result of these developments is that no one will.

Not really, the `any` type doesn't let you perform any operation on it with runtime dispatch like dynamic typing does. Moving logic into json isn't a language feature.

Funny how all these dynamically typed languages are gradually becoming typed, but none of the statically typed languages are gradually becoming untyped.

Ah, then they’re implementing needless features! What’s worse! lol

Ah, I guess to err isn't human after all :)

You added the word "want", the OP said "need". "We don't ever expect to add X" implies "we don't think we need X."

Whether they made a good decision or not, or changed their mind or not, is beside the point (I think they did, and they did!). I was merely replying to the claim that

> They didn't say they never wanted to do generics, but that they did want to take their time and do them right.

The OP didn't mention generics or generic methods :) They referred to something that was added, after the Go team didn't anticipate adding it. Sounds like a fair point to me!

I'm not mad, I'm a proponent of stronger type systems. I'm just correcting the record about

> They didn't say they never wanted to do generics, but that they did want to take their time and do them right.

“Opt-in by default” = opt-out?

Hi! I'm a human being that is trying to understand the world and make friends along the way. I see you are too! Pleased to meet you.

You asked the question

> Where did "they" say "we" didn't need generics?

And I (re)posted a quote from them, which sounds to me like, at the time, they believed that "we" Go users didn't need generics.

They may have changed their mind, which is totally fine! But I do think it sounds like the person you were replying to wasn't commenting in bad faith or misunderstanding or fighting a straw man as you posted. Seems like a reasonable interpretation of what the Go devs had said at one point. To each his own though!

From another commenter here:

> The post quotes the Go FAQ as saying, "we do not anticipate that Go will ever add generic methods".

From another commenter here:

> The post quotes the Go FAQ as saying, "we do not anticipate that Go will ever add generic methods".

"In Minecraft" doesn't mean what it used to. When somebody wrote an 8-bit CPU literally "in Minecraft" it used to be badass. Now it's just a game addon.

Pretty interesting, but what’s the reason of being for Fil-C?

It does:

> Geography. Jeffrey Sachs and others have long argued that geography is destiny: landlocked, tropical, distant-from-markets countries face structural penalties through transport costs, disease burden, and weak agricultural conditions. Malawi has all three. Sure, but the empirical literature pegs the landlocked penalty at about 1% of annual growth. This is meaningful over decades, not enough to close a gap this large in per-capita income. Rwanda is more landlocked than Malawi and has grown faster. Uzbekistan is double-landlocked and has roughly tripled per-capita income since 2000.

Did you even ctrl+f?

The issue for me is that I seem to really "page out" parts of my life that aren't relevant to the situation I'm in. If I were to sincerely answer the "how are you" question, I would have to pause for ten or twenty seconds to think about how I am, which obviously doesn't fit the interaction. Any tips on how to avoid this? I'm a chronic over-preparer and I've tried to equip myself with answers to every conceivable question and that's just exhausting, so I've wanted to avoid that.

This line again.

That’s a pretty non sequitur. Nobody said he wasn’t concerned with ROI. He’s said that not every decision is based on ROI.

The internet has objectively made life worse, and the people who say it hasn't haven't experienced the alternatives. Many people will never know true joy because of the internet.

The above posts forgot the word "legitimate" before "monopoly": a state is defined as the entity that has the legitimate monopoly on violence within a defined geographic area. A state can cease to have the legitimate monopoly before they cease to have the monopoly.

Yeah, that doesn't mean it's not a bad thing.