I am perfectly happy with the original statement.
No, we don’t mind. Go ahead.
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chrisoverzero commented on Nullable vs. Nullable in C# einarwh.no/blog/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
> Luckily, since type constraints are part of the signature of the method and there is no ambiguity, I am allowed to make this overload.
This isn’t the case. It’s allowed because the question-mark syntax means two different things in value- and reference-type contexts. The signatures really look like this:
public static IEnumerable<TR> SelectNotNull<T, TR>(
this IEnumerable<T> source,
Func<T, TR> fn)
where TR : class // …and the nullability of TR is tracked by the compiler
public static IEnumerable<TR> SelectNotNull<T, TR>(
this IEnumerable<T> source,
Func<T, Nullable<TR>> fn)
where TR : struct
I think a lot of people are missing the point. Most likely what's happening here is that the issuers (not Visa/MC) see a large number of chargebacks/fraud for adult content sites and have determined that it's much easier if they don't accept transactions from these sites.
What makes that "most likely," other than that you thought of it?
chrisoverzero commented on Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down news.harvard.edu/gazette/... · Posted by u/gnabgib
This would be true if you left your $ in a vault or mattress ,which no one does. It also fails to take into account utility. How does one put a dollar value on a $10-30 GPT-4 pro subscription? Where does this fit in the 'dollar losing value' paradigm?
> How does one put a dollar value on a $10-30 GPT-4 pro subscription?
I’d estimate it at somewhere in the region of $10–$30, personally.
Off the top of my head:
- Substantially poorer performance
- Keyboard is less accurate
- YouTube videos can’t be played on the lock screen without some tricks
- Apple Maps (it is basically at parity now, however).
- Translate feature doesn’t have a copy button
- The storage bug
- No option for manual cache clearing
- SMB protocol doesn’t work with Windows and doesn’t display error messages
- File transfers are substantially more complicated than they used to be because they want you to pay for iCloud (the workaround here is installing VLC which gives you a drag-and-drop folder you can use through iTunes)
- Multitasking (apps should shut down after some time spent idle, instead they have to be manually closed)
I haven’t used the most recent versions of iOS so I don’t know if some of these have been addressed.
> - Translate feature doesn’t have a copy button
Sure it does. It’s labeled “Copy Translation”. It’s the first button under the translation for un-editable text.
> - Multitasking (apps should shut down after some time spent idle, instead they have to be manually closed)
Apps that aren’t working in the background shut down effectively as soon as they lose focus. Don’t let the list of screenshots fool you – those aren’t running. Don’t waste your time swiping them away.
chrisoverzero commented on Functors: Identity, Composition, and fmap codehakase.com/blog/2025-... · Posted by u/codehakase
Here's a question to test your understanding of functors: Is the Haskell type `Set e` a functor? (Where `Set e` is a set of elements of type `e`.)
Does the answer vary depending on the programming language? E.g. Is the `Set<'e>` type in F# a functor?
Is the answer (ROT13 for spoilers):
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After looking it up: Nu, lrf, ohg Beq. Vagrerfgvat ubj gung vzcyrzragngvba qrgnvy yrnxf.
Even later: Unat ba, gurer'f ab jnl vg pbhyq or rira vs gung fngvfsnpgvba pbhyq or birepbzr! Vzntvar n frg pbagnvavat sbhe naq artngvir sbhe naq lbh znc `fdhner` bire vg… Gur fvmr bs gur pbyyrpgvba jbhyq punatr!
I know this is an unpopular opinion here, but Luigi Mangione as martyr figure makes me extremely uncomfortable. This is a very different situation than the Aaron Swartz or any of the other victims of abuse by powerful people and corporations.
What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal political agenda? It's one thing when you agree with the motive, but are we ready to accept the inevitable outcome that someone decides to engineer a high-profile murder to push a different agenda?
In a lot of ways this is like all the media attention on school shootings: we will see copycats, and the next one may not be targeting an unsympathetic healthcare CEO.
> What precedent are we setting by explicitly making "murder someone" a viable path to making progress on your personal political agenda?
If this is what you are worried about, America is pretty far behind the leading edge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Shinzo_Abe
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/asia/court-dissolution-unific...
chrisoverzero commented on Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language (2023) jamesshore.com/v2/project... · Posted by u/jcartw
That's the trick - it is not test only code. You use the same objects, the same code.
The code has to be written so it takes in the altered unit via parameters or other DI or so it knows that the current system is set to short circuit some calls.
Ie, you could have MyClient(testHTTPClient).GetResource(foo) used in tests and MyClient(realHTTPClient).GetResource(foo). The testHTTPClient would get to the actual connection part and return a configured response or error.
Your entire logic is the same, your code could "receive" a forced 404 or timeout or 200 OK. It is up to the testHTTPClient that is only changing how the http connection is handled.
I call these unit-integration tests. You are checking all units work together while not actually working with the outside world.
You’re responding to a comment containing a method call `thing.makeThingDoerForTest(1, 2, 3)` and saying “That's the trick - it is not test only code.”
Can you square those for me? I don’t get it.
I also maintain a list of these. Here are some I don't see there:
greater grater grader
baron barren bearing
your cees, seas, sees, seize is missing cease
grisly grizzly gristly
pedal peddle petal
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steal steel still
peal peel pill
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Where are you from that you consider all of these groups to have the same pronunciation?
chrisoverzero commented on 'Impossible-to-hack' security turns out to be no security jltee.substack.com/p/new-... · Posted by u/DeLopSpot
> First of all, please do not ignore this email, this is not a scam attempt nor am I trying to sell anything, I am just alerting and looking for help closing down a security issue […]
This seems like a good hint.