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yeah it's down and I get a 500 error

Clojure is very much alive. A dead language looks very different (Ceylon comes to my mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31932085)

Are you sure that you are not the person in your joke: "The physicist John was constantly announcing on radio to let people show him a physical event that he cannot explain. He was a regular on radio and asked several times. Then one day he read this sentence on the internet: JOHN, PUT SOME WORK INTO YOUR RESEARCH, HE WHO SEEKS FINDS."?

The Oculus Quest can also be used to play PCVR games.

Well, you need to be open about new experiences. And until I got my first VR headset I didn't know what I missed. Now I feel that having a powerful GPU and playing a 3D game on a flat screen is such a waste.

However: Does Apple support officially other app stores on their iOS platform or allows to sideload apps in a convenient manner?

The law talks about "a dominant position within the internal market or in a substantial part of it". If we look at the iOS platform, Apple could be seen to have a dominant position there since it is the market maker there.

"Epic flagrantly violated the terms they had previously agreed to"

Epic probably thinks that some conditions are illegal, and therefore void. But that would also mean that Apple broke the contract with Epic when they removed the app from the store.

Does Data.Aeson parse JSON as UTF-8 and numbers as decimal? You know, in real world business applications we don't use float/double or ASCII.

then in about 2 weeks about [2] functional programming sucks and is a toy and his solution was OOP.

which is clearly satire:

"PS> As most of you have guessed, the post is a satire. To all of the new developers out there — don’t take this seriously, FP is great!"

Kotlin:

Some readers will question why this chapter doesn’t include Scala. Although it’s a language that has great support for concurrency, its original guiding philosophy was more centered in functional programming. Kotlin, however, which was inspired by Scala in a way, does have a specific focus on concurrency.

Something similar can be said about Kotlin: The main design goal is the two way interop with different platform APIs (JVM, JS, LLVM). And of course it has many features a modern general purpose language is expected to have. Specifically for asynchronous progamming it has coroutines. However, I think for asynchronous and parallel computing Scala and Clojure have more to offer...

Don't you think it's a little short-sighted to think just in categories like black and white (i.e. coal and nuclear energy)? Coal is also very bad in my opinion. We should work towards using more renewable energy and its research. And what about reducing energy consumption?

It boggles my mind that Germany made a great effort on renewable, and used this extra energy to close nuclear plants rather than coals ones.

Today Germany is still affected by the radioactive fallout (Chernobyl). For example many wild boars in Thuringia are radioactively contaminated with caesium-137. It will still take about 300 years until the radioactive caesium-137 vanishes.

When you want to hire a senior software developer you are the one being interviewed.