As with any new language, it's changed enormously in its first decade, and is now useable in all sorts of environments where it wasn't previously. You can write an OS in Swift today, but you really couldn't do so a year or two ago. The _next_ decade will tell us if it's going to take off broadly.

I would mostly point out that it's a _very_ young language and probably too early to make a judgement about whether or not it will take off in broader use.

Yeah a "gifted kindergartener" is just a kid with rich parents.

What a weird thing to say

e^x because it's the solution to the simplest non-trivial differential equation.

Yes! Geneva is ... fine. Lausanne, Montreaux, Gruyeres, Evian all worth a day trip.

There are many childhood games that really puzzle me in hindsight, but probably the most puzzling was the simplest. When I was 10-12 or so when winter would end and we couldn't have snowball fights any longer, we would just have rock fights instead.

A classic. With a variety of other names from another era that we will not use today.

😬 ooooooof

Spike getting into cricket is also, like, the least surprising thing

fun fact: did you know that tom banchoff is also a deep baseball enjoyer?

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I think I've seen each Thor movie twice, except I've probably seen the first one three times?

Other than that, I've seen a smattering of the others, almost none of them in a single sitting. Might have seen the first Iron Man twice?

I can’t imagine watching any non-Thor Marvel movie more than once. Hard mode for any child of my generation would have to include no Tom Cruise or Arnold Schwarzenegger. 😂

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- Absurd acceleration drew a decent chunk of the traditional German sport sedan assholes.
- "Full self-driving" indulges the assholes who do not take their safety obligations as a driver seriously.
- Plus the greenwashing.

Perfect storm of cyclist/pedestrian hostile catnip

But Dean, it literally tells you to be impatient right there on the page.