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by chowells 7y ago
The Haskell documentation generation tool is named haddock. It comes with GHC. I've never run it standalone, so I don't know how involved that is. But I frequently run it with the command "cabal haddock", which takes car
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by chowells 7y ago
Because in the US, tips are not for service quality, they're to boost your server's pay up somewhat closer to a living wage. Obviously they should be banned along with the practice of adding taxes and fees on top of listed prices,
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by chowells 7y ago
The reason people care about inequality is that under capitalism, it's the measure that best tracks with quality of life in the lowest standards of living. Why is capitalism relevant? Because the driving economic force under capitalism
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by chowells 7y ago
Both have a 100% risk of extinction when played infinite times instantly. Doesn't matter which you choose.
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by chowells 7y ago
And top-level Go players believed their best tournament matches to be works of art, unmatchable by computation. That belief grew into a sort of shared perception that they were artists in pursuit of a perfect expression of their art. For ma
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by chowells 7y ago
Yes? When someone puts some effort into making an indirect reference like that, they appreciate their work having been noticed. That's the role my comment was performing.
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by chowells 7y ago
Someone already made Sneakers.
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by chowells 7y ago
What use is signing a reboot request if the bytes are the same every time? At that point it's just a secret and might as well be random, rather than a signed request. (If you're going to use signing, include a timestamp and/o
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by chowells 7y ago
Why do you think she's telling the truth? Have you talked to any mods who think stackoverflow made the right choice, but way too late? I have. They say her behavior from start to finish was incredibly rude and explicit in stating her p
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by chowells 7y ago
That was my read on their initial plan. The way they've changed plans since then just makes me think they're clueless and not following any sort of principled vision. I wouldn't call them frauds now. Now, I call them so out o
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by chowells 7y ago
I mean, there are the famous cases of Xerox and Kleenex. They're what led to the current situation. I can't think of any more recent examples, though. Probably because of lawyers trained on those results.
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by chowells 7y ago
Which "principle" of free speech do you mean? Absolutism: no speech is off-limits. Maximalism: the range of ideas expressed must be maximized. Those two ideals of free speech are incompatible. Variety of expressed views suffers im
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by chowells 7y ago
Bullets are sealed. They don't use the atmosphere as an oxidizer. Doesn't mean they fire well in a vacuum, because there are other factors involved. But you could certainly design a firing system to work perfectly fine in a vacuum
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by chowells 7y ago
I don't know where you walk, but where I walk the sidewalks are jammed full of people legitimately moving slow due to injury or disability and people rudely just standing still and leaving it hard to imagine they could block more space
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by chowells 7y ago
You're going to say it's 1/3. I'm going to say that the problem is not described clearly enough to assert that. For instance, let's say you tell me you have two children. One was born on a Tuesday, the other on a We
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by chowells 7y ago
Depression is rarely the cause of suicide. Suicide is usually the result of one overwhelming moment + means. Having a gun in the household makes suicide significantly more likely. Without easy means, most people get through the tough time a
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by chowells 7y ago
It can't be infinitely old, infinitely sized, and static. That observation doesn't preclude infinitely old, infinitely sized, and expanding rapidly. Other factors make the infinitely old part unlikely, though.
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by chowells 7y ago
I think this idea that "free speech" means that you're not allowed to criticize or take actions based on the speech of others is a bigger problem. This idea that "free speech" makes you immune to consequences is so
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by chowells 7y ago
I absolutely can say that about Haskell. You have to actually learn the language, but it doesn't do anything unpredictable.
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by chowells 7y ago
Nevinyrral's Disk, at a minimum. https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multive...
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by chowells 7y ago
I agree with that. Foldable and Traversable are complete marvels of usability.
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by chowells 7y ago
How many elections have you voted in or been eligible to vote in where a single vote being added or removed would have changed the outcome? Zero? Cool, me too. Voting is not economically rational if it takes more than zero time, given those
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by chowells 7y ago
I have to disagree with the thesis here in its entirety. ADTs and pattern matching are not what makes Haskell good. Every article like this one just serves to show people the non-compelling bits of Haskell. The parts you can use in every ot
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by chowells 7y ago
None of the above. The problem this addresses is facing each front wheel the correct direction when turning. Imagine fixing a pair of bicycles together at the bodies. When you want to go around a corner, the inner bicycle will have to turn
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by chowells 7y ago
Almost none of the orbital sweeping effect comes from collisions. Even Jupiter is tiny, in the scope of space. The majority of orbital sweeping comes from repeated gravitational deflection. Having a tiny radius will reduce the amount of of
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by chowells 7y ago
Gravity doesn't care what size the object is, from far enough away. It would sweep the same area as any other density of planet with the same mass. For something at 5 earth masses, that's not a very big area.
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by chowells 7y ago
Sure, but that's a best practice in every language. Saying "this language makes you do the thing you swear you're doing anyway" doesn't sound like a practical difference. The second-order effect of "everyone ha
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by chowells 7y ago
Functional programming alone is not very compelling. It's just a slightly different way of organizing your code and data, with different tradeoffs in terms of what code is easy and what code is hard. If all you do is present examples o
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by chowells 7y ago
And people were asking what good parameterizing over all instances of Functor or Applicative can do.
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by chowells 7y ago
Sure. Let's look at alterF for the Map type in the containers library: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/containers-0.6.2.1/docs/D... It has the type: alterF :: (Functor f, Ord k) => (Maybe a -

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