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by johnday 6y ago
It doesn't quite fall under your "10/20/30", but a lot of Irish and Northern Irish people were killed in The Troubles by British soldiers - a major event which many remember vividly.
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by johnday 6y ago
The quote you pulled spells it out: - Social priming does not replicate; - Social psychology has a replicability rate of 25%.
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by johnday 6y ago
Interesting article. I think it's worth explicitly calling out that rather than proclaiming the death of Haskell, this article is talking about the children of Haskell and what they are capable of doing from a clean slate and with a cl
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by johnday 6y ago
It is very cumbersome to write nested updates using the old syntax, and overlapping names between records was quite painful to deal with.
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by johnday 6y ago
Sounds like a good idea. It might be harder to delineate when a heatwave is worthy of being named, but I'm sure the Met office (or the equivalent across the Atlantic) can manage it. That said, I'm not convinced that giving it a na
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by johnday 6y ago
What would you actually be buying, if you bought the software without being legally capable of using it?
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by johnday 6y ago
Taxes on income do as you say. There are other forms of taxation which are gaining political ground over time, including a land value tax and (to a lesser extent) a wealth tax.
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by johnday 6y ago
I know that targeted advertising is more effective and I am not disputing that. I did not dispute it in my comment. I am disputing your random assertion that, if advertising became less effective (say by removing targeting), the quantity of
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by johnday 6y ago
> The economic value of a well targeted ad is probably 10x otherwise. > Ergo - unless you are willing to pay for apps - you might now see 10x more ads appearing on pages than otherwise. I'm afraid that this is nonsense. If the ec
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by johnday 6y ago
People have written programs for the rM for doing this, yes. It's not a first-party use case though.
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by johnday 6y ago
In the case of ReMarkable 1, there are almost no issues with vectorised PDFs - when changing pages the screen update is usually the limiting factor, and that's relatively quick. For rasters, though, it does take a while to render out (
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by johnday 6y ago
I addressed this point precisely in the edit! :)
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by johnday 6y ago
Oh good lord, that's horrible!
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by johnday 6y ago
The fairly popular `LambdaCase` extension gives fib = \case 0 -> 0 [...]
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by johnday 6y ago
Standard, base Haskell admits the following definition: let f lst = lst & map normalize & filter (\x -> x > 0) & average Which is barely different from your second presenta
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by johnday 6y ago
For maximum readability I'd be tempted to write the lambdas explicitly. xs = 5 & (\n -> take n [1, 2, 3]) & filter (/= 1) & head & (\n -> take n [1, 2, 3])
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by johnday 6y ago
Movements are built off the back of small victories. It's not a surprise or a revelation that what you paint as 'cancel culture', a concept without personification, is exercising its (limited) power in the ways you describe.
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by johnday 6y ago
> Theoretically if it was known that obeying lead to better outcomes than anything you could do on your own people would follow them without coercion. Anti-mask-wearers and anti-vaccinators have conclusively shown that this cannot happen
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by johnday 6y ago
As a person in a marginalised community (LGBT, so admittedly less marginalised than many in the West), I feel that UrbanDictionary provides an essential service to marginalised people. It is impossible to find out precisely what someone is
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by johnday 6y ago
It's also super laggy for me on Chrome.
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A touch over 65,000. [1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10+furlongs+in+attopar...
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by johnday 6y ago
You would expect that the surplus of space in many US metropolitan areas would make it considerably easier to install and operate metro transit lines, but this seems not to be the case. I suspect the systemic bias towards road users is much
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by johnday 6y ago
Absolutely. It's worth noting that every single effect system implementation that currently exists also leverages monads at the user level, even if they're doing exciting type-theoretic things underneath.
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by johnday 6y ago
Sure, I'm outlining a worst-case. But realistically, even having two different hie versions is enough to make switching environments a Hard Problem.
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by johnday 6y ago
Absolutely. I'm only saying in relation to the idea of "reading Haskell code", it is possible to understand how they work (at the shallowest level) by analogy to `forEach` and to shell syntax. Shell syntax also doesn't e
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by johnday 6y ago
Oh, sure! In that case, mission accomplished with flying colours :)
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by johnday 6y ago
As a PhD student, I don't have enough experience working with Haskell in an industrial context to comment on the engineering concerns. I believe you when you say that these things are all problems. However, I'm aware that at least
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by johnday 6y ago
I promise, you don't need to be a mathematician to use Haskell. If you've written shell scripts before, you understand how Haskell functions calls are written. If you've used `forEach()` in imperative languages then you under
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by johnday 6y ago
Yeah, sorry, my website got nuked from orbit. Hopefully it'll be back up tomorrow.
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> Nowadays, the Haskell IDE engine is good enough for general use. Sadly I am unconvinced of this. If it were true, there would not be an immediate and significant push to make `haskell-language-server`. Having tried many times to get `h

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