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811.
by epgui 3y ago
It's not hair-splitting, a SPAC is simply not a Ponzi scheme. That doesn't mean it's a good investment.
812.
by epgui 3y ago
Not everything that is a bad investment is a Ponzi scheme.
813.
by epgui 3y ago
> What on earth makes you convinced that a monad can be implemented in Excel True monads can't even be implemented in Haskell. But if we're being practical, you can totally implement monad-like things in Excel. It's almost
814.
by epgui 3y ago
People who think they hate maths will always try to get rid of the maths and tell themselves that that makes the maths way better.
815.
by epgui 3y ago
The most unremarkable death of academic curiosity.
816.
by epgui 3y ago
That's a practical design problem, not a fundamentally-necessary evolution of code.
817.
by epgui 3y ago
Should the title read "PicoLisp"? Looks like there's a typo in the title of the article lol.
818.
by epgui 3y ago
> and they can be quite useful That's a bit of an understatement, seeing as it's... I mean is it even possible to write a non-trivial application without accidentally implementing a monad? Most people write monads all the time,
819.
by epgui 3y ago
Can you admit that you just moved your own goalposts here? Your claim was literally that monads were invented rather than discovered.
820.
by epgui 3y ago
> It's about the rows and objects, moving the data from the objects to the INSERT statement, moving the data from the rows you SELECTed back to the objects. Not to mention abstraction That's actually the problem. I'm sure
821.
by epgui 3y ago
Monads are a discovery from category theory.
822.
by epgui 3y ago
As a scientist, this is such a dumb take. The incentive structures in science encourage novelty, and there's no shortage of scientists who would love to see their career take off. Unfortunately, reality does not make the greatest dissi
823.
by epgui 3y ago
I worked with Clojure professionally, and one of the things it forced me to unlearn was reliance on frameworks and lots of little libraries for everything. It's just not necessary when your language is so expressive and simple. I know
824.
by epgui 3y ago
You don't really need to (although as another sibling commenter wrote, you might need a sworn statement or affidavit just establishing that you are claiming not to have ordered the thing). You just need the other party not to be able t
825.
by epgui 3y ago
Sounds more like an unfamiliar peg than an inappropriate one, IMO.
826.
by epgui 3y ago
What you say is true, but FP has many different ways of dealing with user input, environment, IO, that are no more complex than imperative procedures (arguably the FP equivalent is simpler).
827.
by epgui 3y ago
SQL is a weird beast. Very much on the contrary, the language has a relational core (note that functional is a special case of relational), at least in principle, but it’s been grafted with so many imperative-style hacks over time.
828.
by epgui 3y ago
I haven't had time to shop around in a number of years, so I probably don't have the most competitive deal. I've carried this cell phone plan since around 2014-2015.
829.
by epgui 3y ago
It has tons of annoying quirks, but I couldn't imagine running a DBT project without it: https://github.com/sqlfluff/sqlfluff
830.
by epgui 3y ago
I love to hate all these companies, but no, they don't control the media. I would challenge that disclaimer.
831.
by epgui 3y ago
That part is not an exaggeration. We don't have unlimited data plans for mobile AFAIK. Anecdotally, I pay around 90$ for somewhere between 6 or 10 GB per month, and I pay extra for long distance calls. I pay through the nose for intern
832.
by epgui 3y ago
There are no such countries AFAIK. Societies seem to find ways to divide into “tribes” one way or another.
833.
by epgui 3y ago
You could just replace “skin colour” with “ethnic privilege” or whatever (which is more the point). I don’t know of any societies that don’t have that sort of problem.
834.
by epgui 3y ago
(Just FYI, one could interpret your comment in totally opposite ways, as it’s unclear what argument you’re referring to.)
835.
by epgui 3y ago
These companies have an oligopoly, they don’t “run Canada” by any stretch of the imagination and even by the most charitable of interpretations.
836.
by epgui 3y ago
Who says anything about corruption? This seems much more likely to be a result of technological incompetence.
837.
by epgui 3y ago
Your message is undecipherable. I have no idea what you’re trying to say.
838.
by epgui 3y ago
The US is basically like a third world country that accidentally became very rich.[0] What bad things? [0] Yes, I know that was a crazy hand-wave over History...
839.
by epgui 3y ago
It's so refreshing to just hear someone say exactly that. (Shouldn't this be obvious to everyone?)
840.
by epgui 3y ago
To me, the results seem interesting regardless of whether they are representative of the population or not. There are questions you can answer without relying on that assumption. For example: "Can you imagine what your search results w

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