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Most laypeople I know haven't seen an ad blocker in action ever.

Is there a name for the phenomenon in which you look at something and know that there is something wrong with it but struggle to identify the problem? I got this feeling looking at…

How do you run this thing? What kind of hardware do you need?

Isn't this like the P vs NP problems? Once you have a solution it is easy to verify?

Strangely, I knew this one. Once you hear this word it refuses to leave your head.

Apparently I am Stephen Fry in disguise :D My score: 78,000 words, 20/20/19/18/18.

Windows Vista / 7 was peak UI for me.

I have an RTX 5090 card but it only has 32 GB RAM, can something like this work on my machine?

What are some good alternatives (to Xilinx/AMD) for hobbyists / small outfits?

English is a "romance" language then.

Cringe?

Here's a quote from the article. Hopefully this helps the people with rose tinted glasses get some perspective... >Lotus Notes is used by millions of people, but almost all of them…

It was bad. There was a dedicated site called lotusnotessucks.com or something like that. It does not exist anymore but here is an article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/tec…

Where's the rest of it?

India went through something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India) .

It will use robots to replace pesky humans. The robots can refuel and maintain the power plant etc.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/carpente... a person whose job is making and repairing wooden objects and structures

I think you have misunderstood what a carpenter is. A carpenter is someone who makes wooden furniture (among other things).

I am not sure I if I can speak to that in general but personally I discovered functional programming late. Object oriented programming was all the rage when I got initiated and tha…

IMO the ELM architecture only works with pure functions. It doesn't work with languages which cannot provide this compile time guarantee. Also functional programming needs a differ…

I agree. Doesn't contradict anything I said. So I will assume you posted the link in support of my argument :)

> Some common design patterns are so flexible that if you really implemented them in full generality as, say, some library function, its interface would be so complex that it likel…

Here you go: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/fppatterns/

> I'm using MVC design patterns for some codebases, I'm using DDD plus Event sourcing and Event Driven for others. All examples of OO nonsense. There is only one pattern you need (…

Design patterns exist to paper over language deficiencies. Use a language which is not deficient.