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by sdegutis 7y ago
Reduce shouldn't be considered in the same category as nullish-coalescing. Reduce is on par with array.map. It's perfect for when you have an iterable and want to reduce it down, pair by pair, to one item. It should be used when t
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I wonder if there's a philosophical correlation. Mental breaks from reality are increasingly common as society increasingly condones and encourages escaping reality in many ways, including recreational drug use, television and video ga
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by sdegutis 7y ago
> That's an overreaching interpretation of what I wrote. That's a fair point. I'm extrapolating a bit from many other people I know, including nominal Christians and Catholics and my past self. > One can pursue the trut
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I suppose you're right. Even the intellectual elite becomes irrational in the face of discussions over religion. Which explains why they replace it with discussions over politics, whereby they can at least exercise their agnosticism th
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I'm surprised you would call a genuine pursuit of authentic truth a fetish, and admit to enjoying an illusion. But I guess I shouldn't be. That's why people pass on the Santa Claus tradition, and those who enjoyed it when the
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by sdegutis 7y ago
> but I feel like there's a majority that has at least respect for the cultural institution, even if we don't wish to participate. Most of the anti-religious sentiment is expressed by invisible downvotes and flags, so people do
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by sdegutis 7y ago
"Won't work" implies that I have some sort of goal of trying to convince anyone of religious truths, which I don't. I also don't think it was a tangent to say that _why appeals to a religious desire within us. It&#x
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I was extremely interested in the _why situation when I first started my professional career (and started learning Ruby), which was shortly after he left. Maybe once a year I would search online if there was any news on him, and when there
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Spotlight has not been useful to me in over half a decade. It never finds the files I need, despite the fact that I know they're there, I know I typed them right, and I know its settings hasn't hidden or ignored them. And instead
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I've been internet free for almost a year and a half, and it's wonderful. My ADHD has entirely gone away. I'm reading anywhere from 30-60 minutes every day. It sounds like you're on a similar path. I'll pray for you
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I don't use any Safari extensions. Regarding ad blockers, my solution has just been to stop using the internet so much. I almost exclusively use it for work now. So I run into almost no websites with ads. I heartily recommend going int
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I generally use Safari for everything and Chrome+Safari+Firefox when developing. When on Mac, Safari just feels the smoothest and seems lightest on battery.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
> I'm not entirely convinced that that is the case, TypeScript can be it's own language in itself. Not really a problem now but a few years back people struggled to even learn new versions of JavaScript in itself, let alone a t
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by sdegutis 7y ago
(Not GP.) You've clearly put a lot of work into this, a lot more than a lot of people could. I think a lot of people will gloss this over, but I thought about what I would want if I put the same amount of time and effort into something
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I just heard of T. S. Eliot for the first time very recently, when I discovered this poem of his: It is hard for those who have never known persecution, And who have never known a Christian, To believe these tales of Christi
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Mafias are downright cults.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Balance is of course important. But purpose is just as important. We must have good and useful reasons for everything we do. Anxiety and pain are just indicators that something is off balance or being done without good purpose and reason. T
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by sdegutis 7y ago
> Swift and Objective-C are pretty easy to work with > and get quite close to the performance of C/C++/Swift. In some cases, identical performance. ;)
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by sdegutis 7y ago
> Haskell is easier to learn than Rust because it's literally just math. That explains why it was so hard for me to learn: I'm awful at math. The most advanced math I could understand was high school algebra.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
In JavaScript and similar languages, “yes.” It’s really a lot simpler than you’re making it. Closures are great in these languages and incredibly useful for rapid prototyping. Especially in Node.js and in browsers.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I’d agree, basically Haskell is focused on academic purity and abstract experimentation while Rust is focused on being equally practical and innovative at the same time.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Web frameworks convert strings to business logic, web apps deal only in business logic. Fortunately the web framework is only written once to support multiple web apps.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
It seems to have remained pretty much exactly as it arrived.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Hey nice to see you here, your SO posts have tremendously helped me learn Rust. I think Haskell is just too abstract for most of us. I love Rust traits and see how it directly came from Haskell but I couldn’t learn Haskell even after like 3
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I’m on the fence to whether to care about any of this. On one hand I’ve no time for nonsense anymore. On the other hand, it sounds like it means SO will degrade (even more) because of it.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I think this is misplaced causation. Don’t discount the fact that a significant number of programmers just like novelty and like Rust because it’s new in the same way Haskell is new to a Java dev. That said, Rust’s domain does seem wider th
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Fulton Sheen says that to stop violence, we need to resort to violence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHaizmIj3ck&t=2000s
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by sdegutis 7y ago
The one I've been keeping an eye on for a few years is https://www.aseprite.org which unfortunately I have not yet needed for anything, but hopefully it helps you.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I'd say Rust is the improvements to C that I've always been wanting: better type safety, real generics, first-class closures, and OOP without inheritance, only using structs to structure data, leaving code execution to just functi
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I think GP gets it. This checklist does a great job making several different valid points, and at the heart of them seems to be the fact that there is no Perfect Language. Discovering this checklist helped me a ton back when I was turning d

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