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Hensel's lemma is an analytic fact about the radius and speed of convergence of Newtons method in the p-adics.

I think you want sum types which admittedly Go doesn't have in a matchable way. However complex error recovery is an anti pattern for Go.

> However complex error recovery is an anti pattern for Go.

Bit of snark from my side, but that's exactly what makes it less good of a fit for "industry purposes".

Go's error handling is possibly the worst out of any "modern" language, it basically copied C's errno which is not something you should have ever done.


This was exactly my experience when I first read about Go. I was so excited until I found they were repeating the c experience of check every bloody return value separately. That was the worst feature of c - why copy it

Why exactly do you have complex error analysis happening above a component that has the error? That's anti modular.

Because almost my definition you can't handle errors in the component, otherwise you would have a conditional and not an error.

E.g. if I do some IO like "make a copy of these files" and get an error/exception, it's only the caller or maybe even that caller's caller that can properly deal with this condition (e.g. to decide that we will skip the erroneous files or retry).


That's what all these accounting rules exist to stop. No, you can't pretend that equipment breaking doesn't happen. No, you need to account for fixing the roof etc.

Worth it

It's a trade-off: better info versus handling an immediate crisis. If it's not an immediate crisis, you can take more time.

Engineering is trade-offs.


People are dying of these diseases every day

And killing them with an insufficiently tested treatment is not optimal.

For patients. But maybe not to the companies which would have to pay for these large expedited trials

Kids have different maturities and should face increasing responsibilities as they age.

Ultrahigh density polyethylene isn't that exotic.

What about microplastics?

What about them?

They are toxic.

Well, good thing you aren't drinking it then, because the complete lack of electrolytes would kill you far faster than the microplastics. Surely if they can chemically purify the water to chip-making standards they can filter out the microplastics (when they are done with it)? At least one can hope.

JP threw his own money on the table . Silicon valley's VCs whined for bailouts.

And they got them.

This is well known in Perl as the Schwartz transform

Not at interconnect speeds


I'm obese. The drugs are approved. But without another condition they aren't covered by my HMO so I have to go outside.


The horrific state of US "insurance" is that they won't cover this but will generally happily cover a gastric bypass.


They wouldn't for me: not that obese, no other health effects.


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