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by bmitc 2y ago
To a degree, regularly getting coins to pay with is more effort than just having a phone. And these signs always have textable and callable numbers in my experience.
542.
by bmitc 2y ago
Do the signs not have phone numbers on them for both calling and texting?
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by bmitc 2y ago
Poisoning yourself is not the same as being a participant in strengthening and spreading a virus or bacteria and encouraging others to do it.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Less obtuse Haskells have existed for years: Standard ML, OCaml, and F#.
545.
by bmitc 2y ago
What is the relation to Haskell? The language is basically Racket, which is a Scheme at its core. There's very little in common with a language like Haskell.
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by bmitc 2y ago
They mean it as an analogy in the sense of digital plumbing.
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by bmitc 2y ago
I would suggest rethinking that. Google makes that money because they steal data from their "customers". It isn't due to the "brilliance" of their engineers.
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by bmitc 2y ago
It's just a description, not an encoding.
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by bmitc 2y ago
It is important to note that Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf, though. (I am not reducing the struggle she went through. Just commentary on embodied cognition and learning.) There were around 19 months of normal speech and hearing d
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by bmitc 2y ago
Exactly. I'm reminded of Gavin Belson saying something along the lines of "I don't want to live in a world where someone makes it a better place to live than we do" in Silicon Valley .
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by bmitc 2y ago
It's a common tactic in new fields. Fusion, AI, you name it are all actively lobbying to get new regulation because they are "different", and the individual companies want to ensure that it's them that sets the tone.
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by bmitc 2y ago
I was being sarcastic in case it wasn't clear. I agree with you.
553.
by bmitc 2y ago
I thought the solution that everybody wanted was Starlink? Because that will never be politicized or weaponized ...
554.
by bmitc 2y ago
That's kind of my point. Does the JVM really need four different general purpose languages with their own ecosystems to split the JVM ecosystem and userbase?
555.
by bmitc 2y ago
My question is: is how one approaches writing programs in Erlang, Elixir, and Gleam fundamentally different from one another? And is the difference enough for the split in the ecosystem? > Our recent developer survey showed that the majo
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by bmitc 2y ago
Who is choosing anything but Kotlin for new projects on the JVM? The point is that beyond some basic typing things, programs written in Erlang, Elixir, and Gleam will all have the same core structure. Immutable data plus pattern matching pl
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by bmitc 2y ago
This is not about whataboutism. Musk has been supported by many when he shouldn't have been. It was clear from the beginning. Has every Tesla owner or investor divested? No. To be perfectly clear, I am worlds away from today's ext
558.
by bmitc 2y ago
It doesn't matter. Musk's supporters have already heard what they want to hear.
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by bmitc 2y ago
I find it unfortunate. The BEAM is so influential as a VM, that most languages on top of it will be very similar. I don't really like the situation where we have Erlang, Elixir, and Gleam all atop the same VM, and they're all basi
560.
by bmitc 2y ago
It's the Internet.
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by bmitc 2y ago
What about all the "liberals", including many on this site, that not only bought into but actively promoted the cult of personality around Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX? Musk has always been a charlatan, and the majority of this very si
562.
by bmitc 2y ago
But that isn't what has happened or is happening.
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by bmitc 2y ago
AI is more scary because it is so dumb.
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by bmitc 2y ago
These extremist billionaire libertarians are such cowards because they're not really libertarians. They're all for fascist, authoritarian regimes in which they are in control, have power, and make all the money. They are for fre
565.
by bmitc 2y ago
Bad press that never affects them somehow.
566.
by bmitc 2y ago
That's exactly what he is. He's an industrial engineer who rose up in logistics inside Apple.
567.
by bmitc 2y ago
> Firefly is carrying out this mission as a contractor under NASA’s CLPS and Artemis programs
568.
by bmitc 2y ago
Trump basically is Russia. He's a paper billionaire who likely gets direct funding from Russia. He just opened up the Green Card system that makes it trivial for Russian oligarchs to get a U.S. Green Card. He even mentioned them in the
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by bmitc 2y ago
To be clear, I'm not frustrated. Just providing feedback.
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by bmitc 2y ago
This has nothing to do with being grateful or not.

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