zeeboo · HackerTrans

It is indeed manufactured specifically to show the existence of "normal" numbers, which are, loosely, numbers where every finite sequence of digits is equally likely to appear. This property is both ubiquitous (almost every number is normal in a specific sense) and difficult to prove for numbers not specifically cooked up to be so.

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https://go.dev/doc/faq#generic_methods

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Go's GC has been precise since 1.4 released about 13 years ago.

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You forgot to list the most useful feature of adding generics: people on the internet can no longer say "lol no generics", drastically reducing the amount of garbage comments about Go.

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It's for people who think racism is wrong and want a reason to avoid being introspective about what they can do about living in and benefiting from a society built on racism.

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Again, it's not just malicious updates. Normal updates can also introduce security vulnerabilities. For example, I have a dependency at v1.0 and v1.0.1 introduces a security bug unintentionally. It is eventually fixed in v1.1. If I wait to update until v1.1, then I am not vulnerable to that bug whereas an automatic update to v1.0.1 would be vulnerable. My point is that in expectation, updating your dependency could be just as likely to remove a security vulnerability as it is to add one.

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My statement had nothing to do with intent. Conversely, once a vulnerability is introduced (intentionally or not), you don't want every developer to update their deps to the newly insecure version.

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Every change that fixes a security issue implies the existence of a change that introduced the security issue in the first place. Why is bumping a version more likely to remove security issues instead of introduce them?

The reason why older is better than newer has more to do with the fact that the author has actually tested their software with that specific version, and so there's more of a chance that it actually works as they intended.