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  1. @estro22 @viktorklang @jsuereth Wasn't my move. :-)
  2. @estro22 @viktorklang @jsuereth g1
  3. @bhaaratcrckt It matters a *lot*. I can taste the difference between 155 and 160. 135 is like a baby bottle by comparison.
  4. @zerology Dark Matter actually bothers me a lot less. It makes perfect sense to me that our universe would contain non-EM-reactive matter.
  5. @zerology The cosmological constant cannot account for the *acceleration* of cosmic expansion, iirc. That's the weird bit.
  6. Dark Energy is the modern day aether. Widely understood to be a scientific deus ex machina, but presently lacking a rational explanation.
  7. Dear coffee baristas of the world: If you are "steaming" milk for a latte at 135° F, you are *warming* it, you haven't steamed it yet.
  8. @fogus I'm not sure. It's possible.
  9. I just realized: I spend my entire life staring at a sheet of glass with colored dots projected behind it.
  10. @JorgeO @eric_brewer The CAP theorem has a formal proof. If F1 is truly consistent and available, it must be horribly non-performant.
  11. @ricky_clarkson I didn't realize he *hadn't* replied! I have bugged him accordingly…
  12. @jamesiry @runarorama @jedws Yeah, that's the downside. One way to avoid that would be to require an annotation on the trait. (e.g. @adt).
  13. @runarorama @jedws Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I feel like I could really get behind it. Shall we propose on the mailing-list?
  14. @jedws @runarorama Decomposition by specific type helps even without overlapping ADTs. Really, I do this all the time.
  15. @runarorama @jedws Actually, that makes some sense… That leaves the flexibility to do `new Case1` while letting `Case1(…)` behave correctly.