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"May well be added at some point" it said and added they were at some point.


> "May well be added at some point" it said and added they were at some point.

That is a very selective quote which does not reflect the context I provided. So I will extract a selective quote which negates the above:

  We haven't yet found a design that gives value
  proportionate to the complexity ...


I don't know how you're reading the quotes you provide, they seem to directly contradict what you're saying.


It's not good Go code anyway. In Go you would use a for loop. Just because Go has generics nowadays doesn't mean you should abandon good taste and write ML/Haskell/Rust/C# in it.


Sure it's a bad example. But you can't simplify something like this without losing type safety:

    SortBy[T, K comparable](slice: []T, key: func (T) K)


Isn't that just how one falls asleep? I've been doing this every evening for decades.


"Just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that statement! Many people struggle greatly with falling asleep. Personally, while I agree with you, if you are the type of person who struggles with clearing the mind, it's hardest to do when exhausted (hence common advice to practice mediation early in the day)


Of all the messages they could have sent they chose the most boring.


lets play a game HN, what would be the best alert to send?

mine would be something scifi, like "ALIENS HAVE LANDED" or "PLUTO DECLARES WAR"


The world needs more confusing positivity.

"You are beautiful and wonderful - keep going! (unlike this systems security)"


Keep on keeping on.


Most dangerous one:

"This is Army Commander Tomás Miguel Ribeiro Paiva. We have chosen to take command of the country to protect you against serious crimes against the people that we have become aware of. Remain calm and continue with your daily duties."

(Except in Brazilian Portuguese.)


Scary stuff.

I guess so scary that there isn't a single person willing to try it. But yeah, that is the most dangerous one possible.


Not a message, but a date. There's this huge national exam called ENEM that is like SAT that every Brazilian in age to enter a college takes. Millions of students are taking it every year at the same date and time, as its result is what determines who enters in the best universities. Obviously, security against cheating is a huge concern and so everyone must have their phones turned off and sealed in a bag that stays in front of the class until they finish the exam. Now I can only imagine the chaos that would be if an alert was sent in that day.


If they’re turned off presumably the alarm wouldn’t go off


I read this as the implication being that at least some people’s phones would still be on them, and it would suddenly be very obvious.

Which incidentally, how do you enforce a rule like this without serious security like pat downs or metal detectors? Because otherwise you could easily sneak a phone in through the sophisticated hack of owning two phones…


Yes, I meant that not everyone actually turn their phones off, most just switch it to dot not disturb mode, which is overridden by those emergencies alerts.

And as for enforcement, yeah there isn't an effort in trying to avoid anyone sneaking in an extra phone, it's basically grounded on good faith and the fact that if they catch your phone with you (or even if it rings in the bag), you're eliminated from the exam. That's where I think the chaos would arise. If everyone's phones alerted at the same time, the examiner wouldn't know what to do.



METEOR STRIKE IN 8 MINUTES


DONT BELIEVE THEM


Any of the Sims 1 prank phone calls would be amazing


ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US


Tom has added you as a friend!


“BRAZIL ELIMINATED FROM WORLD CUP”


This would create more chaos than any other suggestion so far. Well done.


Wouldn't. There isn't a single Brazilian who doesn't know Brazil's current world cup status. The entire country stops when there's a game. Nobody would fall for that.


Add “For cheating” (spying/drugs/whatever)


BRAZIL DISQUALIFIED FRKM WORLD CUP


"THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO CAUSE FOR ALARM"


“DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON”


The truth is out there!


"Help I'm trapped in a broadcast center"


When I was around 8 years old I was browsing random channels on cable tv - and similar message was on an "infornation channel" (which consisted mostly of various scrolling texts). Hope the poor person stuck there was freed.


"ALL DEBTS HAVE BEEN ERASED. JUBILEE."


Wake up, Neo...


"PIX will be discontinued today"


"Due to deteriorating economic conditions, we have decided to abolish currency altogether. The Real is now worth nothing. All trade will henceforth be performed exclusively in gold."


surely you mean dogecoin


I got a new job! from seank


THE DISPLAY IS A LIE


FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT


ARGENTINA IS BETTER THAN BRAZIL


US/Trump nuclear attack would make people freak here in Brazil.


This is not a test. This is your emergency broadcast system announcing the commencement of the Annual Purge. Any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for 12 continuous hours.


At least it wasn't a crypto scam.


...as far as you know...so far ;-)


He's probably dead by now.


> It seems to me that humans often fall into the trap of anthropomorphism.

That's true, but they also often fall into the trap of exceptionalism.


This text lacks information about why it is being sunset.


Indeed. It's weird they write so much with addressing the elephant.

So lets discuss it...

From the start I thought that the TechEmpower Benchmarks were testing all the metrics the JVM is good at, and non the JVM is bad at (mainly: memory usage, start-up time, container size). I got the idea back then than they were a JVM shop (could not confirm this on their current website).

Lately the JVM contenders are not longer at the top. And the benchmark contains many contenders with highly optimized implementations that do not reflect real life use.


Maintaining something like this is probably a little bit stressful.

We all know some of us take our language and framework choices as seriously as religion. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a lawsuit involved.


A third that will never have a wife.


That's not how it works. A similar fraction of women are apparently looking for just such an arrangement.

Dunno how we fix this. I suspect it can't be fixed.


"Group A wants X. Group B wants X. That needs fixing." In the name of feeedom of choice, I imagine?


You say the same about neo-nazis?


Take a deep breath, then let me know if you still want your false equivalence to be treated as a reply.


Well to be fair strict patriarchal values were the backbone of far right movements.


The second paragraph disagrees with you.


And if were true, Darwin would've already taken care of the problem.

Fact is, it's not true. The survey, whose authors work in a field where a 50% replication rate justifies breaking out the champagne, clearly didn't represent tens of millions of white and Latinx women in religious communities.

These women are almost literally bred to submit... and I say 'almost' only to contrast the recent past with the not-too-distant future. Who do you think put Trump over the top?


> We would immediately build better telescopes to track it precisely, refine its trajectory models, and begin developing propulsion systems capable of interception

That's not what would happen. We wouldn't mobilize. We'd fragment. Within days, the prediction would be declared partisan. One bloc would call it settled science; another would call it statistical hysteria. Billionaires would quietly commission private shelters while publicly funding studies questioning whether the asteroid even qualified as "large." News panels would debate whether the projected impact zone was being unfairly politicized. Conspiracy channels would insist the asteroid was fabricated to justify global governance. Others would insist the real asteroid was being hidden. Amateur analysts would flood the internet with homemade trajectory charts proving the professionals wrong. Death threats would arrive in astronomers' inboxes faster than research grants.


The film "Don't Look Up" is very similar to what you describe.


With a statically compiled language it is usually culled through dead-code elimination (DCE), and with static linking you don’t ship entire libraries.


The technology to cull code can work for dynamic languages too, even tho it does get difficult sometimes (google closure compiler[1] does dead code elimination for js, for example). It's just that most dynamic language users don't make the attempt (and you end up with this dependabot giving you thousands of false positives due to the deep dependency tree).

[1]https://github.com/google/closure-compiler


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