minebreaker (u/minebreaker)

minebreaker commented on Japan's Creepiest Station tokyocowboy.co/articles/d... · Posted by u/ewf

I've climbed routes in ichinokura a few times. It is impressive, and some of them are quite poorly protected. But 800 climbers seems like an exceedingly high number, and that report seems quite vague and unsubstantiated, even if it does come from the government. So I remain sceptical.

minebreaker · 6 hours ago

Are you a professional climber? "Poorly protected" is ... not the word I'd use to describe those places.

https://4travel.jp/travelogue/11828856

I've only taken the tourist route of Tanigawa-dake. Those photos are scary enough that I won't try Ichinokura.

minebreaker commented on Japan's Creepiest Station tokyocowboy.co/articles/d... · Posted by u/ewf

chrisjharris · a day ago

This is a creepy station, green filters notwithstanding. The article repeats this statement that I've seen elsewhere and always found pretty questionable - that 800 people have died on Tanigawa. I've no idea where this data comes from but it seems very unlikely. If you just want to get to the top by the simplest route then it's a non-technical day hike up a not-very-high mountain. It's also a multi-pitch rock climbing area but I'd struggle to imagine that 800 rock climbers have killed themselves there over the past 100 or so years.

minebreaker · 13 hours ago

I believe the number is correct. The source from the government: https://www.mlit.go.jp/tagengo-db/common/001556845.pdf

I assume you've never been there. 一ノ倉沢 is really impressive and dangerous.

minebreaker commented on It’s not wrong that "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 (2019) hsivonen.fi/string-length... · Posted by u/program

mrheosuper · 4 days ago

>We’ve seen four different lengths so far:

Number of UTF-8 code units (17 in this case) Number of UTF-16 code units (7 in this case) Number of UTF-32 code units or Unicode scalar values (5 in this case) Number of extended grapheme clusters (1 in this case)

We would not have this problem if we all agree to return number of bytes instead.

Edit: My mistake. There would still be inconsistency between different encoding. My point is, if we all decided to report number of bytes that string used instead number of printable characters, we would not have the inconsistency between languages.

minebreaker · 4 days ago

> We would not have this problem if we all agree to return number of bytes instead.

I don't understand. It depends on the encoding isn't it?

minebreaker commented on Microsoft became incompetent in IT mikekaganski.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/doener

avazhi · a month ago

I think the current title used by OP actually conveys the gist of the article the best.

minebreaker · a month ago

I hope the guideline is clearer. "Unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." is too ambiguous.

minebreaker commented on Java is still worth learning empatheticdeveloper.wordp... · Posted by u/ivanche

saghm · a month ago

I get the point you're trying to make, but there's something ironic about touting a language as "simple" immediately followed by mentioning that using the basic equality operator that's used by pretty much every other mainstream language is "madness". I know every language has warts, but that one is pretty egregious both in terms of how quickly people would run into it for the first time and how easily it could have been avoided (e.g. by using something else for the less commonly needed equality operator, like how Python uses `is`). Having things that look correct and compile fine but then fall for reasons that you have to explicitly learn isn't really "simple".

minebreaker · a month ago

Fair criticism, but it's not really a practical problem. Usually a linter will catch them easily, and even when junior devs ignore the warnings, you can just tell them to use "equals."

The thing is that, equality is the difficult problem. "equals" in JVM languages has a lot of problems. Dynamic languages are much more horrible in this aspect. JavaScript `==` is much worse than Java. Python is guilty too in my view, for using `__eq__` method. The only language I know which solves the problem correctly is Haskell. (Or, `Eq` in Cats)

minebreaker commented on Java is still worth learning empatheticdeveloper.wordp... · Posted by u/ivanche

misja111 · a month ago

I went the same route and am still working as a Scala dev. However Scala adoption seems to slowly go down, unfortunately .. Which is a shame because it's a beautiful language and I love using it as FP together with Cats.

However Java has advantages too: the IDE support was miles better than Scala, build times were shorter, most frameworks were more mature and better supported and the language itself was much more stable.

minebreaker · a month ago

So true. Scala 3 made it even worse. Hope Jetbrains will improve that, but they seem to fully committed to Kotlin.

minebreaker commented on Java is still worth learning empatheticdeveloper.wordp... · Posted by u/ivanche

ivan_gammel · a month ago

Spring is a good choice for new projects today.

minebreaker · a month ago

Spring is so versatile that people use it in every way they can possibly imagine. Spring is fine IMHO if you keep it simple enough and refrain from fancy ideas. Maybe I'm just saying to keep it simple, regardless of what you use...

TLDR: don't use XML.

minebreaker commented on Java is still worth learning empatheticdeveloper.wordp... · Posted by u/ivanche

minebreaker · a month ago

I don't know. I started my career as a Java dev, but what made me grow as a software developer was learning Scala. I learned a lot about functional programming, algebraic data types, effects, and so on.

I'd say Java is a great production language, mostly because it's so simple that I don't need to "learn" it (when you know better than using madness like `==` or Serializable).

minebreaker commented on AI coding agents are removing programming language barriers railsatscale.com/2025-07-... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

behnamoh · a month ago

Counter point: AI makes mainstream languages (for which a lot of data exists in the training data) even more popular because those are the languages it knows best (ie, has the least rate of errors in) regardless of them being typed or not (in fact, many are dynamic, like Python, JS, Ruby).

The end result? Non-mainstream languages don't get much easier to get into because average Joe isn't already proficient in them to catch AI's bugs.

People often forget the bitter lesson of machine learning which plagues transformer models as well.

minebreaker · a month ago

From what I can tell, LLMs tend to hallucinate more with minor languages than with popular ones. I'm saying this as a Scala dev. I suspect most discussions about the LLM usefulness depend on the language they use. Maybe it's useful for JS devs.

minebreaker commented on James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations astronomy.com/science/jam... · Posted by u/geox

cosmotic · a month ago

We have multiple single humans with net worths over a thousand times their budget. The only thing that's staggering is what's getting priority over these monumental scientific achievements.

minebreaker · a month ago

This comment makes me wonder, why don't those rich people make space telescopes just for fun? That's definitely what I would do. Besides, it must be a way funnier than buying Twitter.