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Steve Canon
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Not-a-number sommelier, purveyor of fine zeros and infinities.
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.
October 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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.
October 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Yeah a "gifted kindergartener" is just a kid with rich parents.
October 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
What a weird thing to say
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
e^x because it's the solution to the simplest non-trivial differential equation.
September 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Yes! Geneva is ... fine. Lausanne, Montreaux, Gruyeres, Evian all worth a day trip.
July 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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.
July 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A classic. With a variety of other names from another era that we will not use today.
July 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
😬 ooooooof
July 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Spike getting into cricket is also, like, the least surprising thing
July 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
fun fact: did you know that tom banchoff is also a deep baseball enjoyer?
July 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Would
July 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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?
June 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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. 😂
June 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
would
June 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
- 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
June 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
But Dean, it literally tells you to be impatient right there on the page.
May 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM