A few weeks ago I learned about tri-point screws when attempting to take out a defective battery in an old MacBook Pro—after spending an hour or two just to get the bottom case off. Pro-tip: watch tutorials until the end before copying what they do...
AI has gotten really good but will it ever develop the necessary imagination to be able to handle all edge cases? If we ever do reach that point, we should require all cars to be AI-driven only so that bad drivers don’t injure themselves or others when they get into these kinds of situations. Until then, something needs to be done before too many people kill themselves by thinking that autonomous cars are more capable than they actually are.
An issue I see with this is that not everyone has the time or will to customize their OS to their specific needs. In this regard, it might be arguable that Apple has done a reasonably good job at advertising/showcasing the ease of use of macOS out of the box.
> I recently saw a PR to Scala that’s a great demonstration of exactly this. The private and sealed keywords have been in Scala forever and someone only just recently came up with the realisation that private classes are effectively sealed. Scala’s been in existence for 16 years!
Slight correction: someone came up with the realisation 7+ years ago[1] but someone else came up with a fix only recently
Genuinely curious, at what point does it become worthwhile to try to create a “new HackerNews”? I myself am still figuring out how to be an adult so I don’t feel that I have much insight to give on this. I’m wondering what any remaining older HN users might think about preserving what’s left (if that makes sense).
Rust and Zig have this, right?