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I don’t see a difference between pass by copy and pass by value. The mutability difference is that part of a struct can be modified in place, which value classes can’t: the value of a complete value-c…

> But careful: == looks at internal state, which isn’t always what the object represents, so for “is this the same data” comparisons keep using equals. So == for value classes will basically be lik…

There’s https://github.com/thanhvg/emacs-hnreader , but it doesn’t appear to support commenting.…

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I don’t like it either, but as an easy solution it’s still the lesser evil for me. At least they do allow running 20-year old binaries.

Not immediately, it took about half a year of watching sales numbers drop, and they still have restrictions.

Yeah, not dramatically cheaper.

I thought you were using emacs?

Luckily, one can still revert to the classic calculator: https://win7games.com/#calc

They didn’t do this practically, the “tracking label” is just an analogy to convey what they did mathematically. The word “barcode” is also only used because it might be more accessible to the laypers…

The difference is that a violin player can predict how the known violin will behave under all relevant circumstances, will know how to get the right tone out of it, while you’re generally unable to pr…

People who don’t want Macs or who want more powerful hardware are.

The name made me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rian_and_Laureline .…

Same, it was a slog and difficult to figure out what was going on.

The paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22783

Windows Enterprise provides a much better experience than Windows Home, even more-so if you have domain admins that care. You can also largely get to that with Windows Professional and some tweaking.

Maybe this will fly in the US, but I don’t think it will in the EU and other places, with regard to laws making covert advertising illegal. There’s also the difficulty of proving to the advertising cl…

Buyers of consumer storage, RAM, and GPUs care. People affected by the data center buildouts care. Workers losing jobs due to underpriced tokens care. People on the receiving end of AI slop care.

They are in the sense that the recommended supported length is only 8000 bytes. There are no such specified length recommendations for HTTP body size.

AI seems to have a different impact here: https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/why-do-kids-hate-ai-gen-z-bac... …

The economics of it (token cost) means, however, that what will be chosen most often is the barely sustainable minimum level of quality, aka race to the bottom. AI is more cost-sensitive in that way t…

What would be “the task”, other than physical labor or doing dull RLHF work, unless you’re in the 1% of exceptional intellectual talent that AI won’t be able to replace yet?

The computer market was also much smaller and society much more independent from it at the time.

Query parameters are length-limited, because HTTP URIs are: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9110/#section-4.1-5 . There is no expectation for arbitrarily long HTTP URLs to…

My impression is that in Europe much fewer people are convinced that AI-maxxing is necessary or even a net benefit.