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by munchler 2y ago
I’m all for a media diet when the news is too much, but it’s a long way from there to “the world needs you to consume less news”. It’s not clear that the world would benefit from a less-informed populace, and the article doesn’t actually ad
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by munchler 2y ago
Since this relies on magnetic sensors, wouldn’t it be possible to jam with a magnetic field?
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by munchler 2y ago
> Why should it matter how many times I "split up" my compounding It doesn’t, but the limit as the number of splits approaches infinity is obviously an interesting (i.e. “natural”) result. The perimeter of a polygon with an inf
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by munchler 2y ago
The combined population of those locations is about 5 million people. Compare with, say, colonial India, which was about 300 million people. I’m not denying the existence of American imperialism entirely, but let’s be real about its scope c
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by munchler 2y ago
Sure, let’s eradicate any remnants of humanity in $BIGCORP that might have somehow survived all the previous purges and traumas.
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by munchler 2y ago
From a geographic standpoint, the conflict isn’t state vs. state this time around, though, it’s rural vs. urban. Blue cities in red states. Red counties in blue states. Not very conducive to conventional military conflict.
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by munchler 2y ago
I think conservative Harvard graduates are among the most eager to impose their will on Harvard. Look at Harvard grad Elise Stefanik, for example.
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by munchler 2y ago
I’ve been renting compute by the hour on Vast.ai and often wonder about the servers I use. Is it reasonable to assume that any such server with, say, a 90+% reliability rating is in a data center, rather than someone’s basement?
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by munchler 2y ago
> This plot [about an intelligent beam of light] wouldn’t be out of place in one of Dick’s mind-bending novels. This experience was, in fact, the basis of a novel he wrote called _Valis_.
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by munchler 2y ago
> If paraparticles exist, they’ll most likely be emergent particles, called quasiparticles So are these just a new flavor of quasiparticle, like an electron “hole”, or are they possibly real particles? The article seems contradictory.
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by munchler 2y ago
I use a copy of Photoshop Elements 10 from about a decade ago. Still works great and prevents me from over-editing my photos with crappy "looks" that make them "pop".
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by munchler 2y ago
> it. In the subject line of his email announcing the deal, he spelled our name "Quarts," and that set the tone for the level of care in what he had bought. This little detail seems to sum up so much about this kind of acquisit
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by munchler 2y ago
> Expanding production without increasing costs is difficult What about economies of scale, though? If you can triple production while only doubling your cost, the unit price should drop.
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by munchler 2y ago
Irel tbbq. V guvax gung'f gur rffrapr bs gur nafjre. Gur shapgbe ynjf unir na vzcyvpvg qrcraqrapl ba gur fhofgvghgvba cebcregl bs rdhnyvgl, juvpu thnenagrrf gung k = l vzcyvrf s(k) = s(l).
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by munchler 2y ago
Let's assume all the functions are pure. Otherwise, even Maybe would not be a functor.
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by munchler 2y ago
I think there are some differences between those two types that are potentially relevant.
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by munchler 2y ago
> Even later: ... Yes, now you've hit the crux of the problem. Does that violate the functor laws?
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by munchler 2y ago
Thanks. I ran into it in a real life situation, and was surprised that the answer is so nuanced. It had me questioning my sanity for a while. :)
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by munchler 2y ago
Understood. I should've left the `e` out, but it's too late to edit now. (I love Haskell, but I'm not actually very good at it.)
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by munchler 2y ago
Yes, I was just trying to be descriptive by including the full signature.
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by munchler 2y ago
Here's a question to test your understanding of functors: Is the Haskell type `Set e` a functor? (Where `Set e` is a set of elements of type `e`.) Does the answer vary depending on the programming language? E.g. Is the `Set<'e&
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by munchler 2y ago
Not the same thing. According to this article, Earth's cloud cover has been shrinking for decades.
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by munchler 2y ago
It's an ad for a search engine.
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by munchler 2y ago
Trump is very popular among low-information citizens. If you corralled more of them into voting, he would have won by more. Call me an elitist, but at this point we'd be much better off if ignorant people stopped voting.
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by munchler 2y ago
He invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which gives him the ability to levy tariffs in an “emergency”. There is no actual emergency, of course, but Congress does not have the political will to stop him.
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by munchler 2y ago
I've tried to use Thunderbird multiple times over the years, but I always end up with a corrupted mailbox after a week or two, so I go back to Outlook. Is TB finally reliable enough to try again? I'd love to ditch Outlook, but I d
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by munchler 2y ago
FWIW, F# is an open source project controlled by the F# Software Foundation, the .NET Foundation, and Microsoft.
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by munchler 2y ago
Type providers are very powerful but involve running arbitrary external software at compile-time (e.g. a SQL Server or Postgres database). This can be difficult to set up and configure reliably in a multi-person project.
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by munchler 2y ago
F# supports both functional and OO call styles. That's why you have both `|> List.map` and `.Select`. It can be a bit confusing at first, but the interoperability with C# is worth it. Array lookup in modern F# is just `foo[0]`. Subt
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by munchler 2y ago
F# is up to version 9 now, and has only improved over time, IMHO. Type providers are a very small part of the story and can be avoided entirely if you want.

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