> There's a divide between people who enjoy the physical experience of the work and people who enjoy the mental experience of the work. If the thinking bit is your favorite part, AI allows you to spend nearly all of…
I happen to be a shareholder in EA as part of a diversified portfolio. Not that my vote matters but I'll definitely be taking PE money. +20% in one day is nothing to sneeze at. From the other comments about EA's games,…
Speaking as a C# developer, who had in the past wanted to learn F#, but never got very far. What discourages me every time: - C#'s good enough. Nothing's stopping you from writing functionally-oriented code in C# (and I…
C# 1.0 did not have generics, period. So the standard dictionary (Hashtable†) type took keys and values typed as "System.Object". As seen in the linked documentation this class still exists in the latest .NET to this…
> On the other hand I cannot not help thinking that this is similar to the arguments brought forward when the internet was new. How could correctness and plausibility be established if you don't have established…
Interesting examples from that wicked language, thank you! (Studied French before but unfortunately lost interest.) You're right about the context and grammar being usually sufficient to disambiguate. I thought about…
Just wanted to add some color here. The various written forms for native words (和語) like 聞く and 聴く aren't really coming from different words, they were most very likely the same word originally. Only that because…
I'm sure what I'm going to write are not new insights but, to add to your point, generally we expect to consume information much quicker through reading than through hearing. When reading, say English, we don't really…
> There's a divide between people who enjoy the physical experience of the work and people who enjoy the mental experience of the work. If the thinking bit is your favorite part, AI allows you to spend nearly all of…
I happen to be a shareholder in EA as part of a diversified portfolio. Not that my vote matters but I'll definitely be taking PE money. +20% in one day is nothing to sneeze at. From the other comments about EA's games,…
Speaking as a C# developer, who had in the past wanted to learn F#, but never got very far. What discourages me every time: - C#'s good enough. Nothing's stopping you from writing functionally-oriented code in C# (and I…
C# 1.0 did not have generics, period. So the standard dictionary (Hashtable†) type took keys and values typed as "System.Object". As seen in the linked documentation this class still exists in the latest .NET to this…
> On the other hand I cannot not help thinking that this is similar to the arguments brought forward when the internet was new. How could correctness and plausibility be established if you don't have established…
Interesting examples from that wicked language, thank you! (Studied French before but unfortunately lost interest.) You're right about the context and grammar being usually sufficient to disambiguate. I thought about…
Just wanted to add some color here. The various written forms for native words (和語) like 聞く and 聴く aren't really coming from different words, they were most very likely the same word originally. Only that because…
I'm sure what I'm going to write are not new insights but, to add to your point, generally we expect to consume information much quicker through reading than through hearing. When reading, say English, we don't really…