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Re:The Dutch Love Their Bicycles. Helmets? Not So Much. on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:11PM (#43723209)
This is a case of the rest of the world missing the forest for the trees. Wearing a helmet is always safer, but infrastructure is what makes cycling safe.
I've been writing a lot of OCaml lately and I'm impressed with the state of its LSP and development experience. I've had no issues with the LSP, dune works great. Having to use both opam and dune is a bit confusing, but it gets the job done.
Re:Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in City of London on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:36AM (#35232109)
Another interesting fact is that at least some of the cycle lane markings are projected rather than painted because otherwise they would be covered by the snow.
Are you sure you are talking about Chile? As far as I know it doesn't have a child labor problem nor is it a big producer of rare earth metals.
This is a dumb feature for a modern CPU, the really smart part is out-of-order execution and other optimizations that CPU's do behind the scenes
Re:Breaking up with Python on Thursday December 29, 2022 @04:42PM (#34178413)
Doesn't JavaScript suffer from most of the same issues the author raises about Python.

> Documentation

JavaScript wins here thanks to MDN, but it's not the official documentation.

> Package Management

I agree that Python's package management has its issues, but JS is insane in this regard

> Standard Library

JavaScript's standard library is definitely smaller than Python's

> Slow

This is clearly a win for JS

> Size

When comparing the slim official Python docker image with the equivalent NodeJS image, Python wins in size

> Syntax

This is the most subjective point. I prefer Python's syntax because it's less noisy, but JavaScript's syntax is more consistent.

Regarding type annotations they don't do anything at runtime, but they are extremely useful for IDEs.

Re:One in five UK households cannot afford to be online on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @06:05PM (#31674961)
Here in Chile the government forced carriers to allow easy switching between them and banned selling phones locked to one carrier. This was really effective at bringing the prices down. Now I can get 200GB a month for ~15USD including 5G from almost any carrier.
I recently discovered that you can do

  cat file | clip.exe
which as expected will copy to your clipboard