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1.7x more is not the same as 1.7x as many.

It's a lost cause. "It's two times faster!"

Some TypeScript features are only available through JSDoc. The one I encounter most often is `@deprecated`.

What do you mean? Jsdoc has it

https://jsdoc.app/tags-deprecated


I think he’s saying that only JSDoc has it. Vanilla TS doesn’t.

Isn't that what I said?

There's a Kingdom Hearts joke in there somewhere, but I don't know enough of the lore to make it.

I tried on my own but couldn't beat Claude for punch:

"Disney putting their characters into something called Sora with a confusing roadmap and lore nobody fully understands. We've come full circle"


We're all suffering from the curse of dimensionality.


In-band signaling can never be secure. Doesn't anyone remember the Captain Crunch whistle?


The search deals were already not exclusive. The real impact will be the other businesses (especially GenAI) where Google will be barred from having exclusivity clauses in its contracts.

-update- CNBC has fixed their headline.


GenAI is a bubble, an inflated nothingburger that DOJ ate like a chocolate muffin.


I don't think that blueflow is being obtuse at all. If you assert that genes have an intended way of working, then the questions

> How do we know how things are intended to work? (Intended by whom?)

are very salient. Your reply talking about

> …a specific receptor in the body is not working properly.

just raises the same question again. What does it mean for something in our biology to be working "properly"? Who is deciding what is "proper"?


> …as intended.

Genes and biology in general do not have "intended" purposes.


Genes are what define the instructions guiding biological development and so could be considered to be what defines the intention. With Morris syndrome, factors prevent the genetic instructions from guiding development as defined by the genes. With Morris syndrome, the lack of androgen receptors leads to the genetic sexual development, as guided by the genes, of a male to be suppressed. Swyer syndrome also commonly arises from spontaneous mutations (not being passed from parental genetic material) and can have malignant consequences. A large percentage of those with the condition develop gonadoblastoma.


Who felt this intention? God?


I'm referring to how genes modulate development according to their set of instructions. The way that these genetic instructions are set to be executed can be considered their intention. I'm being liberal in my use of the word "intention" here, but I don't think your absurdist take on my wording was in good faith, so to speak, or constructive.


The state of the universe (including biological facts) has no intentions, i don't know what you are trying to say here or what else you would mean when you say "Intention". It sounds like the sayings of someone who believes in an higher order of things.


Once again, this absurdist interpretation of what I spelled out, based on taking one word out of context, is in bad faith.


Like, you started this subthread contesting neallindsay's (and mine) understanding[1] of "Intention", so this is on you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44714148


Unicode support in Ruby has been great since the beginning.


It's a bit weirder than that, in my opinion. Ruby didn't really gain "unicode support" in the sense we mean it today until 1.9.

Before that, Ruby did "support encodings" in a sense, but a lot of the APIs were byte oriented. It was awkward in general.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180331093051/http://graysoftin...


No, it was not great during 1.x times. But it has been fairly good since 2.0


So for at least 12 years then. 2.0 was released in 2013.


Only if you count 1.9.2 as the beginning. What is being talked about is Unicode by default and maybe Unicode tooling (i.e. can correctly iterate over emojis and not just bytes)


right it was the python string transition i was talking about


Ruby has been extremely slow and deliberate in rolling out frozen string literals. They added a magic comment to opt in to them on a per-file basis all the way back in Ruby 2.3—almost a decade ago.

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/12/25/ruby-2-3-0-rele...

Most linting setups I've seen since then have required this line. I don’t expect many libraries to run afoul of this, and this warning setting will make finding them easy and safe. This will be nothing like the headache Python users faced transitioning to 3.


I hope this is corect - i do agree it has been a long and slow migration path and migrating is fairly easy - migrating python 2 to 3 code was fairly easy as well anyone could do it in their codebase, it remains a big deal and possibly very impactful to make such breaking changes to the behavior of primitives in mature ecosystems. How many gems does the average rails app have, okay they all need to be updated and they sohld be being updated for other reasons, I remain skeptical of how smooth the change is going to be over all ecosystem wise but time will tell.

I agree it has been a well advertised and loudly migration path and timeframe for it


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