alexfoxgill

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   by alexfoxgill 5y ago

   +1, i also like Sam Harris's Making Sense which is a little more pompous but still interesting
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   by alexfoxgill 5y ago

   Voluntary tax is charity. The whole point of tax is that it applies to everyone by some set of rules that democracy has arrived at.
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   by alexfoxgill 5y ago

   that probably wouldn't be sufficient to instantly grasp which bracket in a set of five opening brackets corresponded to its closing bracket. humans are not great at visually assessing minor differences in absolute size
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   by alexfoxgill 5y ago

   It is used heavily in Scala https://alvinalexander.com/scala/how-to-use-partially-applie...
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   by alexfoxgill 5y ago

   I will never forget the hours I lost debugging an issue where I had not realised that if you declare any variable in scope that coincidentally has the same name as an implicit that you're relying on, the implicit will be shadowed and u