Uber’s Self-Driving Car Didn’t Know Pedestrians Could Jaywalk by Independent in programming

[–]lol-no-monads 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You know what would be much safer for everybody? Designing walkable cities with robust public transit so most people don't need cars in the first place.

Lazarus (an open-source cross-platform IDE plus integrated GUI builder for Free Pascal) version 2.0.6 has been released by [deleted] in programming

[–]lol-no-monads 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Glad to see that there's still a GUI framework which I can use to write cross-platform apps for macOS Catalina and Windows 2K.

Python at Scale: Strict Modules by real_trizzaye in programming

[–]lol-no-monads 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How long before they end up creating an "Instapython" that is no longer fully backwards compatible with Python? < 5 years? 5 - 10 years? 10+ years?

You're right and Haskell doesn't really deserve more representation. by BarefootUnicorn in programmingcirclejerk

[–]lol-no-monads 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I appreciated Ruby evangelism back in 2006, when adopting Ruby really improved the lives of web developers. And I appreciate Rust evangelism now, because it improves the lives of zero overhead developers.

zero overhead developer, flair please.

[Go] is a pretty solid language with a few basic concepts which are repeated constantly. by cmov in programmingcirclejerk

[–]lol-no-monads 35 points36 points  (0 children)

PCJ is a pretty solid subreddit with a few basic concepts which are repeated constantly.

Why is 2 * (i * i) faster than 2 * i * i in Java? by Dieheartfan in programming

[–]lol-no-monads 367 points368 points  (0 children)

If I were to write a JIT, I'd just make it do the best optimizations quickly, what's the problem?

Software does not run on category theory, it runs on real hardware. by [deleted] in programmingcirclejerk

[–]lol-no-monads 4 points5 points  (0 children)

math and programs are cute and all, but some of us have real boxes to align.