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bananamogul • yesterday at 5:34 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Ten minutes later, I'm still trying to figure out the role of "thus" in this headline.

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radicality • yesterday at 5:45 PM

I think it’s clear from the “Motivation” section, as it’s actually preceded by another sentence there.

> Apple has transitioned its hardware products to the AArch64 processor architecture and is phasing out support for x64. Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port as of JDK 27.

ZiiS • yesterday at 5:45 PM

The phrases is taken from the email. Apple stopped ... thus Oracle ...

ajkjk • yesterday at 5:37 PM

I like it. Bring back thus as a normal word. Also thusly.

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