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by mightybyte 2y ago
> That's why, if you like the Haskell philosophy, why would you restrict yourself to Haskell? It's not bleeding edge any more. Because it has a robust and mature ecosystem that is more viable for mainstream commercial use than
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by mightybyte 2y ago
I think the general concept here is putting in place restrictions on what code can do in service of making software more reliable and maintainable. The analogy I like to use is construction. If buildings were built like software, you&#x27
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by mightybyte 2y ago
Here's a long personal interview with Durov. https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1780355490964283565 I know that TuckerCarlson is a polarizing character. My posting of this link is not any kind of statement f
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by mightybyte 2y ago
Ahh ok. I think my source was someone else, but it sounds like they were probably citing Feynman. Good to know.
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by mightybyte 2y ago
I really like an expansion of this idea that I heard somewhere awhile back: Keep a few significant problems in your mind...and also keep a few significant solutions / problem solving techniques in your mind. Then when you encounter ne
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by mightybyte 2y ago
Not endopasta?
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by mightybyte 2y ago
Yes, this post is classic. My answer to Brent's "monad tutorial fallacy" is https://mightybyte.github.io/monad-challenges/ . It was inspired by The Matasano Crypto Challenges that Thomas Ptacek & ot
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by mightybyte 2y ago
The book "Against Intellectual Monopoly" by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine has a decent overview of the arguments supporting this claim. https://annas-archive.org/search?q=against+intellectual+mono...
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by mightybyte 3y ago
Yes, I have similar thoughts. Getting older, traveling more, seeing the hustle and bustle of large cities, becoming more aware of all these details that many people don't think about, etc...has all greatly expanded my world view. One
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by mightybyte 3y ago
Ooh very nice, thanks for the tip!
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by mightybyte 3y ago
Your command line solution doesn't give quite the same result as OP. The final output in OP is sorted by the count field, but your command line incantation doesn't do that. One might respond that all you need to do is add a seco
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by mightybyte 3y ago
I'll second this. Clickhouse is amazing. I was actually using it today to query some CSV files. I had to refresh my memory on the syntax so if anyone is interested: clickhouse local -q "SELECT foo, sum(bar) FROM file('
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by mightybyte 3y ago
It allows you to separate non-stateful business logic from the stateful update logic. Reactive frameworks usually handle the state mutation for you, eliminating the potential for UI glitches where something that depends on the updated stat
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by mightybyte 3y ago
There are many situations where the extra constraints on pure functions are very useful. Pure functions can't segfault. They can't overwrite memory used by other parts of your program due to stray pointer references. They can&#
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by mightybyte 3y ago
I also use plain text files for a lot of my personal organization. My system isn't quite like what OP describes, but it has some things in common. Some of my files are also structured by date as a never-ending journal. This isn&#x27
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by mightybyte 3y ago
Funny you mention that. I do that too, except in my case it's Spacemacs in vim mode. I do go back to them from time to time, but that's mainly because it's an easy ripgrep search of the whole notes directory tree. If I did
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by mightybyte 3y ago
I came to what I think is a related conclusion fairly recently ( https://twitter.com/mightybyte/status/1749513355038220653 ): One of (if not the) most valuable skills in life is being able to choose that you'r
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by mightybyte 3y ago
That volume is not wash trading (i.e. "fake volume" in my words). There is fake volume in crypto but that happens largely on the smaller, less established exchanges that are trying to make a name for themselves. You can see this
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by mightybyte 3y ago
> All that matters is if there if fresh money coming in Every time a trade happens, someone is "coming in" and someone is "getting out". The more trades there are, the more opportunities there are for anyone (includi
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by mightybyte 3y ago
Those numbers aren't new inflows of capital into Bitcoin. They're the total volume traded both buys and sells. There are traders, market makers, etc both buying and selling many times a day, and anyone wanting to make large bloc
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by mightybyte 3y ago
A quick look at the 24-hour trading volumes of the top 10 crypto exchanges (only a single trading pair per exchange of BTC against a USD or equivalent) gives a total volume of ~3.8 billion dollars. Many people say that there is a lot of fa
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by mightybyte 3y ago
In short, the government is special because of its broad sweeping power to make laws that impact everyone. For example, consider the first amendment: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech". This applies t
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by mightybyte 3y ago
Oh yeah, memory is not perfect, and I think that very often you'll have to work with a concept multiple times to fully absorb it. I think we're saying very similar things.
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by mightybyte 3y ago
One person who stands out in my mind for interviewing skill and quality is Sean Evans on Hot Ones. The whole show is a great combination of excellent background research, interviewer preparation, empathy, and the setting of ultra spicy foo
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by mightybyte 3y ago
> Read the documentation. Don't skip over it to the part you want; read the whole thing, cover to cover. I think there are times when this works and there are times when it will be a huge waste of time. In general, I think it'
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by mightybyte 3y ago
Can you give more detail about your self-hosted storage solution? I've wanted something like that for awhile.
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by mightybyte 3y ago
I don't think that's the way it works out in practice. The fact of the matter is that deadlines are missed all the time. In many cases, there is no such thing as 100% certainty that you'll hit a "deadline"--there
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by mightybyte 3y ago
Completely agree with this idea. And I would add a corollary...date estimates (i.e. deadlines) should also have error bars. After all, a date is a forecast. If a stakeholder asks for a date, they should also specify what kind of error ba
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by mightybyte 3y ago
Exceptionally well stated. This agrees with my experience as well.
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by mightybyte 3y ago
This is an interesting idea. For me the magical period of the internet was also the nineties to mid-naughts. But I'm not sure. It doesn't seem entirely age-relative to me. It seems like something changed. I really have no way

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