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I wouldn't really buy this in the first place for $20, maybe on sale, but in addition you can get it for free on mobile if you have a netflix subscription, so I'd have to imagine t…

Even Javascript has a similar syntax, though `yield` / `await` only works for certain "monads" (promises seem close enough)

Well, why would it be taken as a given that programming should mimic the hardware? Pure functions are easier to reason about (there may be exceptions of course), that's why they're…

The idea that anyone who's opposed to narrow government regulations is somehow brainwashed by the Kochs is just an unsufferably smug attitude towards people you disagree with. It's…

If you check out the linked paper you'll see the title is "One-shot Algebraic Effects as Coroutines" - the keyword being "one-shot". In general every Monad can be expressed "interp…

No? https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366537312/Chat-control-E...

You don't have to memorize that log(5) = 0.7 if you know log(2) = 0.3 since log(5) = log(10 / 2) = log(10) - log(2) = 1 - 0.3 = 0.7. Also log(8) = 0.9 because log(2^3) = 3 log(2) =…

What, the anal beads is not a sensible theory? /s

This is a really intuitive way of thinking about it. The best way I could work this out was to start with the special case of pure scaling in a single direction. For instance when …

I'd imagine you can use a keyboard shortcut as well to open this menu, but based on the text cursor, rather than the mouse one. I do this a lot is vscode to auto-fix issues and aut…

if (!memory[s1.id]) { memory[s1.id] = 'harvest' } ought to do it.

Yeah, the main coherent point I take out of this is that it makes sense to provide capabilities rather than to check them, i.e. if you have access to a certain API then you're by c…

Not having it funded by the tax payer is not the same as outlawing it. This all comes down to whether critical race theory is truly an unacceptable set of ideas, like e.g frenology…

It’s hardly authoritarian to disallow certain ideas being funded by the tax payer. We wouldn’t be upset if frenology wasn’t allowed in government agencies. I think the idea behind …

Found the guy who completely missed Kotlin, TypeScript and Scala.

Monads are among the simplest abstractions you can find in computing. Compared to almost anything you need to understand in software development (how the hell do I make webpack do …

I've heard the objection about complex number not being real many times. I think the sensible answer is to argue that the natural numbers don't "actually exist" either. They're an …

Sure, well aware that Babel and Webpack are not the same thing. SWC has a Webpack plugin, whereas ESBuild seems to aim to replace both Webpack and Babel. Correct me if I'm wrong. T…

I believe something like this project is inevitable. You're probably thinking "Where's the Rust version of this?". I'll save you a roundtrip to Google that'll find you SWC. [1] SWC…

It's almost a meme at this point, but the solution, of course, is algebraic effects. Among other things they let us implement checked exceptions, but in a sane way that's safe with…

As a westerner who's lived and worked many years in Poland, the factor that seems to explain a lot of this is that wages in Poland remain extremely low compared to most of western …

"MegaCorps" in any kind of healthy market will still compete on price, so simply stating that they will "pocket the rest" of AI-related productivity improvements is ridiculous. The…

Algebraic effect handlers no doubt seem to be the future of getting side-effects under control in programming languages, much like in the way of what immutability has done for data…