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by sunrunner 10mo ago
My favourite "non-mainstream" languages are, depending on my mood at the time, either: - Array languages such as K or Uiua. Why they're good for AoC: Great for showing off, no-one else can read your solution (including yourse
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
Is there anything 'regular' about walking onto stage wearing a cap and sunglasses and then brandishing a chainsaw as a 'symbolic' gesture (at anything other than a chainsaw conference)?
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
> What was your goal? I think the thread has been a bit derailed in terms of my intention, which was more to point out that I don't feel like the qualities that are mentioned in the original article (mentorship, guidance figures, sc
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
> You used probably the weakest reason to discredit the idea of men improving themselves Those examples you posted that actually are good would also seem to me to be universally important for everyone across all genders. '80 Ways to
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
So we can all be schooled in the important manly things such as the '6 Card Games Every Many Should Know' or 'The Dale Carnegie That Will Instantly Improve Your Relationships'?
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by sunrunner 10mo ago
At about 6:00 into this Numberphile video ‘Look-and-Say Numbers’ [1] Conway says that there’s ‘No connection whatsoever’. Myself, I find this highly suspicious. The pattern is the pattern. There are no coincidences. Or maybe there are, who
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
I wonder what the underlying human intuition is for 'prime-ness' and why it might break down with larger numbers. Odd numbers in the rightmost position? The 'shape' of the number (phonaesthesia, the bouba/kiki effec
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
Agree. Plus now I now need to release a security patch for the hand-rolled crypto library I built.
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
Perfect timing, I was looking for something to keep my apps warm this winter since they're not fond of the iPod Socks I've been using (too itchy). For people looking for desktop or TV versions, I can also recommend: - https:&#x2F
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
I'm sure there's no relation to The Doomsday Clock.
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
> every customer has their own idiosyncratic sets of rules for if-this-then-that So Varnish Configuration Language? It's definitely an awkward case that doesn't seem to fit neatly into the landscape.
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
There's a direct correlation between how exciting and fun a configuration syntax looks and how much you'll despise it after a year of having to deal with the fallout of those 'exciting features'. Speaking of which, Pkl l
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
No mention of The Configuration Complexity Clock [1] which I always think deserves a link, but credit to the author for actually keeping it slim and readable over (IMHO) most of the newer additions to the landscape which either declare them
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
> If you are mocking anything in the standard library your code is probably structured poorly. I like Hynek Schlawak's 'Don’t Mock What You Don’t Own' [1] phrasing, and while I'm not a fan of adding too many layers of
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
I always liked the phrase 'Hoist your I/O' [1] but yes, you can only hoist it up so many times until its outside of your application completely (making it completely pure, and now someone else's responsibility). [1] htt
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
> master electrician It’s true, she’s high but she’s grounded (not sorry).
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
There’s also Zara Dar and Chang Hsu’s PornHub/OnlyFans pages for maths and STEM subjects, if we’re going down this rabbit hole…
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
Horizontal or vertical orientation?
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
Ignoring floating point errors, assuming a perfectly spherical cow, and taking air resistance as zero.
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
> most people never experience anxiety in most parts of the world Citation needed? And how much is 'most'?
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
Everyone nose what you did there.
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
> bred by familiarity Bread by familiarity, surely? Sorry for the awful bun. I mean pun.
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
Just like signal strength.
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
Not a guaranteed tell but I noticed the word "surgically" in the opening paragraphs, and from personal experience I find that appears in ChatGPT a lot for me. One of the common phrase tropes I find is something like "Here&#x2
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
This is great, and serendipitous timing for me. After spending an embarrassing amount of time on today's hard before I went to bed I was wondering what kind of metrics could go into analysing the difficulty of any Pips game (and which
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
I remember that post and essentially agree with everything in it and your points too. However there's a real-world factor that I don't think it covers, which is that having ten years of experience in the ecosystem for any langua
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
Fair enough about const and let, the obnoxiousness for me is a combination of the language ergonomics, language ecosystem, but mostly the techno-political decision making behind it.
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
I like the idea of immutable-by-default, and in my own musings on this I've imagined a similar thing except that instead of a mutable keyword you'd have something more akin to Python's with blocks, something like: # Imm
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
As a Python programmer at day job, that is Clojure-curious and sadly only gets to use it for personal projects, and is currently threatened by an obnoxious TypeScript take over, I feel this.
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by sunrunner 11mo ago
I thought the main risk was from being shot by the guards before you made it to the pool?

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