Verdex

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by Verdex 4y ago
I would personally try to get the new job to delay my start date if the alternative was to hunt for a new job while having none.
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by Verdex 4y ago
* yeah this is convoluted. There are better ways to factor such a function. However the point is that something can be 'pure' but still not a good candidate to be pulled out of context.
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by Verdex 4y ago
Well not necessarily just 'pure'. You also want unsurprising. For example imagine a pure function that takes a string and returns a string. The returned string has every character lower cased. Okay name it to_lower and move it
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by Verdex 4y ago
Yeah, this was the part that also occurred to me. With 1984 the threat that someone could watch is chilling. With our tech level everyone could be constantly watched and evaluated in real time by some sort of AI. There are two directions
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by Verdex 4y ago
I found Gervais Principle to be fascinating. Although, like you say the book definitely has it's problems. Fortunately, years before I encountered Gervais Principle, I had already seen a similar thing with technical books. Just beca
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by Verdex 4y ago
This is an interesting statement to me. I have a potentially crippling difficulty in understanding people and relationships. It's not entirely clear to me what I can do to help work through it or increase my skill levels with respect
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by Verdex 5y ago
The experts are saying this was intentional, and I'm happy to believe them. Having watched the video back when it came out, my first thought was that maybe he was panicky or a second (third, fourth) rate pilot. Of course, I don't
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by Verdex 5y ago
I've kept my reciept for the cable equipment that I returned when canceling my service. 6 years ago. I plan on keeping it until after I'm dead (don't know what my next of kin will have to deal with) just in case. I don&#x27
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by Verdex 5y ago
Personally I like the idea of modular phones such that you can swap out only components that are obsolete or damaged. Although, ultimately, this feels like a market/advertising issue over a technical issue. While I'm not convince
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by Verdex 5y ago
To add to your point. New R&D for plastics is probably where the solution to microplastics is going to come from. Some researcher building the next superplastic pauses to say "hey that's funny" and bam we've got a n
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by Verdex 5y ago
I'm not a Erlang guru by any stretch of the imagination. But I would have thought that the privacy that matters the most in Erlang would be the privacy of being able to control what messages you respond to. That being said, I thought
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by Verdex 5y ago
Each of my children have required some extra medical attention. As well as my wife's pregnancies. Total cost per child hovers around $100k so far. But obviously no one can pay that so either it's insurance or it goes to collecti
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by Verdex 5y ago
I've been hoping for exactly what you're describing for several years now. Personally I want Xenomorph protagonist remake genre. Basically a genre where you take a movie and remake it with the protagonist being a xenomorph that t
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by Verdex 5y ago
The comment you are replying to was using mousetraps as a metaphor. ...at the end of the actual description of what it was talking about. It's an executive summary, not literally talking about mouse traps. Specifically it was talking
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by Verdex 5y ago
Yeah. With the pie in the sky being, "make me star wars but with dragons and double check all copyright infringement cases involving star wars to make sure the end result is unlikely to infringe." Edit. Or heck if the input para
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by Verdex 5y ago
> all I'm trying to say is that I have decided not to think in the way you just did e.g. "where's that study which supports what I already believe?". Hmm. It looks like you're ascribing to the above comment the t
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by Verdex 5y ago
Yeah, The Common Law has been in print since 1881 where we see "felt necessities of the time" show up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr.#The_... And while it does feel uncomfortable to t
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by Verdex 5y ago
> it's not reasonable to expect the following driver to constantly be considering the possibility that the driver in front will slam on the brakes for no reason Whether or not it's reasonable is immaterial. If you constantly
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by Verdex 5y ago
Yeah, tailgating the person in front of me because the person behind me is tailgating has always felt like a: "well, now I have two problems" kind of situation.
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by Verdex 5y ago
Yeah, I feel like you kind of need similar categories as you see in speed running. For example, there are 100% speed runs, any% speed runs, no glitch speed runs, etc. Similarly, building an entire game from nand gates is a different kind o
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by Verdex 5y ago
Also check out the "sequel" https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/attapl/ . Pierce wrote the first book whereas this one is a series of articles edited by Pierce. However Advanced Topics covers a few areas
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by Verdex 5y ago
I enjoyed The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages by Simon Peyton Jones. It's how you would implement a Haskell like language (well, Miranda like, but that's more or less the the closed source precursor to haskell)
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by Verdex 5y ago
I think Eve Online uses python.
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by Verdex 5y ago
I guess you could tape it shut and then carefully remove the tape when you get it. Once you have something you want to "send to the past" you use whatever natural stickiness comes with the envelope.
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by Verdex 5y ago
Common lisp is dynamically typed. There are type hints that you can give the compiler, but I believe that's only useful for generating faster assembly. Also you can get compile time warnings from macros, but that's much closer in
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by Verdex 5y ago
What you appear to be saying is that people who like type systems must be ignorant because with experience you suspect they would think differently. This seems to me to be extremely uncharitable point of view. But let's roll with it. I
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by Verdex 5y ago
I think the key is the following: > It explicitly does automatic global analysis They appear to think that the borrow checker isn't achieved with type theory, but with some other technique ("global analysis"). Although, to
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by Verdex 5y ago
Well, not common. However, I wouldn't say 'nowhere'. https://misorobotics.com/flippy-2/ Looks like it's a work in progress.
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by Verdex 5y ago
I'm convinced that in 50 years all "general purpose" programming languages will be some sort of ML derivatives. Just looking at the feature sets they keep adding on to existing languages (like for example C# where the langua
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by Verdex 5y ago
Yes. Your statement is correct. It's "basically harmless" once it enters your body until it bumps into nerve cells. At which point you're almost certainly going to die unpleasantly. My grandfather worked with rabies a

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