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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
It's a gripe against booleans in general along with `if` in particular, so I'll refer to them interchangeably. Since you are a Rust programmer familiar with the benefits of `Option`, `Result`, and `?`, nothing I write will be that
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
This is imo one of the most underappreciated features of Haskell and its cousins: how it can contain booleans and banish `if` entirely. I've said it before, but future generations will scoff at our enthusiastic use of `if` in the same
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
Don't throw away your CDs yet. Vinyl has been so thoroughly funko-popped that kids can't afford it anymore. Every time I'm at a second hand shop, anyone under 25 is looking for CDs instead. Someone out there wants your Papa R
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Nadocast(data.nadocast.com)
2 points by jim-jim-jim 2y ago|0 comments
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
If X is encroaching on Y and you're all the way over in Z, you're not defending yourself; you're deliberately getting getting involved in someone else's problem. Maybe the numbers are in your favor, or it's "th
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
I think most Americans of various stripes would endorse this. Europe is more than welcome to saber-rattle on its own budget.
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
This thread is interesting; so many tools and libraries referenced that I am not familiar with at all. I think some of us are writing very different languages. I've used Scala my entire career at multiple companies, and Typelevel has b
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
> You'd also be essentially legitimising the right of conquest Documenting reality doesn't endorse what happened. Istanbul was Constantinople. Shit happens. If I'm travelling, I'd much rather the flags and borders ref
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
So the only relief he gets is from antibiotics, but neither he nor his doctors mention bacteria once? And he draws a bunch of useless graphs instead?
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
My criteria are: - 500GB+ - Ability to sort by the albumartist tag (listen to heaps of compilations) - Ability to export play log - Functions like any other external storage device for transfer purposes Anything out there? Last I checked (1
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
I detect an undercurrent of pride that drives you to ascribe undue agency to your work. "Brainwashing" isn't real. Bleak material circumstances sow division, not memes. Oversocialized urban professionals have only pushed this
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
All countries need this; Japan's just the only one that did something about it. I'm sure NYC ladies would love segregated cars right about now.
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
Do you keep a personal pen and ink journal? If you only write formal articles for a public audience, it's like being a football team that only plays on Sundays with no practice otherwise. Ink is essential because it slows you down and
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
btw I rewatched Black Robe and it does not really deal with this theme. Still a great movie though.
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
More specifically, it's Betadine's sore throat gargle formulation, which is povidone-iodine. I don't know if that's any different. It's presumably safe when properly diluted. I imagine it's suggested for its an
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
Been thinking lately about what it means to be factually incorrect, but ultimately "right." A 9/11 truther isn't in tune with immediate reality when he suggests the towers were brought down by a controlled demolition, bu
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
> There's a reason why Arianism keeps recurring over and over again. I don't have the numbers on hand, but I recently read that a remarkable number of US Evangelicals regard each member of the Trinity as an autonomous entity. T
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
I haven't ingested stimulants since university, but a few surprising things put me in that familiar state of deep, almost euphoric concentration. I don't know why any of these work; it's up to you to determine how crazy I am.
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Eyes Wide Shut: Hidden in plain sight(boydrinksink.com)
128 points by jim-jim-jim 2y ago|87 comments
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
Last I checked, nobody has even updated Afghanistan's flag yet.
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
I'm not arguing against tests as much as I'm suggesting that sufficient typing can provide a similar form of interactive refactoring that the author claims TDD facilitates. Numerical functions are usually good candidates for tests
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
Any fad historians here? I got into the game late, but my impression is that TDD peaked when untyped interpreted languages like Ruby and JS were en vogue. A lot of the maintenance/brownfield benefits the author cites can also come from
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
> Suppose we talk about tagged unions specifically, would it be conceivable to just nominate one variant as the default variant? My experience with Go is just as recent as yours, and I'm happy to eat shit if I'm completely off
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
Wonder if he ever read Stoner .
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May 27, 1997 Central Texas Tornado Outbreak(storymaps.arcgis.com)
1 points by jim-jim-jim 2y ago|0 comments
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
I didn't coin the term and I forget who did, but "meta rock" songs are almost universally awful: rock songs about how much rock rocks.
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Electrical Network Frequency Analysis(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jim-jim-jim 2y ago|0 comments
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
I am not very fond of AI, but even for stupid fun I've had trouble getting it to compose in the vein of cheeky authors like Marquis de Sade, Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, and William Burroughs. I've similarly had it refuse Francis
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
Much like Google itself, Youtube has been trending towards ushering users to a minute collection of blessed official/popular sources, often news channels. Maybe it's in response to kvetching over ``disinformation?" Idunno, bu
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by jim-jim-jim 2y ago
I also did all three volumes and found the extra 1,000 to be a waste. Really polluted my Anki. > The time is better invested in simply studying how to distinguish visually similar characters. But you still have to know what you're d

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