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danwilsonthomas

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    Comment #47534894

    I've done a version of this in Godot. It's kind of a hack, but it works and it's all Nodes without needing a script. You could do it more easily in a compositor effect but you have…

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    Comment #46351559

    I've seen something similar when using Pydantic to get a list from structured output. The input included (among many other things) a chunk of CSV formatted data. I found that if th…

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    Comment #45956976

    Imagine you have users that want to view an XML document as a report of some kind. You can easily do this right now by having them upload a document and attaching a stylesheet to i…

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    Comment #17468064

    I've seen this idea a lot from members of my team that when you use a state management library then absolutely everything has to go through that state management library. This resu…

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    Comment #15602216

    Part of the reason why I personally was so upset by the talk was that it felt as if there was no room for discussion or debate on the points raised. In addition there was what felt…

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    Comment #15588901

    > This should be really interesting, considering that Code Review and Automated Tests are far more likely to root out important bugs than a type checker. Not to bring up the tired …

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    Comment #15587699

    I did no such thing. I picked a `foo` to prove a point: That the type inference engine is more than capable of inferring every type in a reasonably sized program, and the toy examp…

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    Comment #15582687

    I was thinking about this sentiment: And that "one single place" is for this trivial toy program. Now imagine the impedance across the delivery of a real business app. That seemed …

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    Comment #15577604

    I tried this, because my first thought was that this was much the same as the first example. Certainly Haskell doesn't have a variadic addition function by default but I don't thin…