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by rrradical 4y ago
This is not a very good article. > The reason people started embracing functional languages was that, for the most part, they did away with state in favor of just passing functions everywhere. No no no. They did not 'do away with st
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by rrradical 4y ago
> Why would that be odd? It does happen in sport, and nobody cares (nor should they). Why would that be odd? You just quoted the author as saying they looked for months to find non-white candidates and failed. Do you work in tech? That&#
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by rrradical 4y ago
Has there ever been a poor person that has succeeded in our society? Of course. Therefore I proved money doesn't matter. (Do you see how stupid this argument is?)
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by rrradical 4y ago
It's not another debate because that debate never happens. People will use the same arguments to justify university selection, etc etc.
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by rrradical 4y ago
> Discrimination in selecting who to interview is absolutely a form of discrimination. Exactly. That's what the parent comment is saying. But they are thinking about the entire funnel, not just the end of it. By the time a slate of
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by rrradical 4y ago
> Even more so when politicians and residents are pushing to shrink your budgets. Besides the public discussion which we all heard, do you have any evidence that policing budgets actually shrank? My understanding is that they largely did
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by rrradical 4y ago
More info on the extension they referenced here: https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/cont... But basically it's a meta-extension that flips on a bunch of extensions that most has
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by rrradical 4y ago
I think there's room to be a lot smarter here. For example, is the thing you're trying to do a single time task or a habitual task? If it's a habitual task, e.g. practice guitar or write my novel or get 1 hr of code review do
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by rrradical 4y ago
Some people are happy enough living through an 'I' perspective (I have this, I have that). Some people can't be happy with that, and look for happiness through success as some kind of 'we' (we as a family, we as a c
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by rrradical 4y ago
It’s not explicitly enumerated more than anything else we’re talking about. It’s always up to interpretation. Does the constitution say where to draw line between me bearing a knife and a nuke? Nope, ‘arms’ is defined conveniently in the ey
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by rrradical 4y ago
They literally just overturned gun regulations that some states lawfully enacted. You’re cherry picking your views as much as the court is cherry picking their reading of the constitution.
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by rrradical 4y ago
It's quite possible you know more about this than me, but that's not how I remember it. Do you have a citation of a reputable source? This kind of reads like a conspiracy theory.
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by rrradical 4y ago
I get what you're saying, but primaries are a thing, and the range of choices there is typically pretty broad. It's not like the general election is the first chance you get to express your opinion. And yea maybe you have good rea
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by rrradical 4y ago
Genuinely curious what "realistic limits and not just one-sided moderation" means.
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by rrradical 4y ago
What's the point of 'blaming criminals' when it does nothing at all to actually stop people from dying?
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by rrradical 4y ago
I don't think it is rare to have never imagined killing someone. Not trying to be judgy.
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by rrradical 4y ago
The article is about the ACLU. I assumed we were talking about the US.
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by rrradical 4y ago
Those are examples of private companies not platforming certain speech. But how is that a modern change? Are you saying that decades ago, the big media companies at the time (say, NBC, CBS, ABC) platformed a greater variety of speech than n
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by rrradical 4y ago
Discrimination against straight white males? Presumably everyone would agree straight white males were given huge privileges in the long tail history of America. (That's a pretty easy reading of history.) So, if your claim is that they
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by rrradical 4y ago
What are some examples of this? (Aside from the posted article, which is debated in other comments.)
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by rrradical 5y ago
Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) is a really nice paradigm for doing GUI in a functional setting (e.g. Haskell). I build games in Haskell., including UI. It's great.
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by rrradical 5y ago
Nah, I saw this on my last shopping trip to a mega grocery. Bought basically all the items on my list on the right side of the store (produce, other food stuffs) and then had to walk past a half dozen aisles filled with random crap (non foo
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by rrradical 5y ago
Wait, this whole thread is about moving to languages that eliminate classes of security holes by virtue of the language itself. The premise is that being a security conscious programmer is not by itself enough to achieve good security.
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by rrradical 5y ago
Well to some extent these companies are self sabotaging by centering interviews around algorithm problems, not only by selecting a certain kind if talent for further investment of resources, but also by signaling to the market the kinds of
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by rrradical 5y ago
Laws/regulations are a function of, in part, public opinion. Public opinion is a function of, in part, greenwashing.
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by rrradical 5y ago
Some different things you might want to try: - Take a day off. Allow yourself at least one full day of not thinking about whatever you are struggling with. - Take a long walk. Like 1 or 2 hours. - Listen to some music you love. Maybe even g
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by rrradical 5y ago
I've done a fair amount of startup interviewing, and my biggest takeaway was that I had no ability to discern if someone's resume on its own was fluff or real. And often, there seemed to be an inverse correlation between how impre
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by rrradical 5y ago
For the second problem, I had an idea for a different hash function. Basically map each letter to a prime number (e.g. c = 5, d = 7) and then multiply the values in a word together. I guess depending on the length of the words it might over
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by rrradical 5y ago
A friend explained to me recently- if someone comes over to your house, and you want to listen to music, it’s hard to know everyone will enjoy it. If you pick something off spotify, they might not like that kind of music, or vice versa. But
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by rrradical 5y ago
At least there's good choices all around these days. Very recently it was 'everything sucks'.

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