Lacaranian

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   by Lacaranian 3y ago

   I love everything about this! I think a lot of code could benefit from restructuring via ADTs, and ser/deser is an important piece of that story. But I suppose I do have one nitpick. Using a fallback for asymmetric fields in sum types
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   by Lacaranian 4y ago

   There's one perspective (popular in funtional programming circles) that says data structures simply _are_ a special sort of function; that is, one that take no arguments. Really, in practice this means data is a partially applied, curr
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   by Lacaranian 5y ago

   I do wonder how "normal" human genitalia is compared to the vast majority of the animal kingdom. Though is that simply anthrocentric?
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   by Lacaranian 5y ago

   The card game example you propose is a pretty apt one. One might have any number of cards in a given hand, with any number of varying properties (like for standard 52 card decks, suit and rank). To keep a fixed size feature vector as the in
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   by Lacaranian 5y ago

   Does that mean if someone was raised in a mine are they better at bare-metal development?
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   by Lacaranian 5y ago

   As others here have hinted at, while NNT and NNH are both extremely useful concepts, they (deliberately) leave the consideration of whether a treatment's level of effectiveness, or the magnitude of a harmful side effect, subjective. Wh