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The use of IQ tests is already suspect, but then I saw that the author is tracking the political leanings of LLMs by using that silly economic/authoritarian political compass - so …

Neurodiverse is a wider collection than autism. It's useful to describe a variety of circumstances without needing to enumerate through them.

privilege, noun a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.

And I'm glad you're privileged enough to be here posting today, boasting of the wealth your workers generate for you :-)

"A small investment" and the ability to take on risk sounds like a significantly privileged position the average worker is not afforded.

That's not what that means at all. Founding a business requires a significant investment of capital.

People were porting it to Linux with SDL at Handmade Pengiun: https://davidgow.net/handmadepenguin/ I am not sure if they've kept up or not, as I haven't kept up with the series, d…

And as someone who has coded both Python and Ruby on the job, and most recently Scala, I find the amount of time I'm debugging runtime errors much less in Scala, which is very valu…

> And makes your code 20% longer Not necessarily true, especially if you are using a language with type-inference or you are able to encode your logic in types. Additionally - what…

You do realize that significantly more complex software has been written for decades without the use of generics, right?

But that's what makes Threes superior, for me - the needing to add 1 and 2, and the fact that they don't match each other makes for a more difficult game that requires much more th…

2048 is most definitely a clone.

Nope. Games are widely varied in their scope and delivery. I am fairly confident there is no single target.

"We'd like to support the editor on Linux some day" is not "editor support is planned for the future."

I assumed since she is part octopus, she probably just got out of the ocean or something /shrug

Lambda expressions are not necessarily first-class functions (I mean, they are in Python, but so is any other old function). First class functions simply mean that a language treat…

My girlfriend worked in crime scene investigation. I think they probably have it way worse than programmers when it comes to public perception of the job based on shows and movies.…

I use Emacs on OSX, just like I do on every other operating system I have to use.

Yes, but unfortunately it can only be a single expression.

Not to be nit-picky, but everything is Haskell is not always a function: http://conal.net/blog/posts/everything-is-a-function-in-hask...

I have been tinkering with Clojure off and on for the past year, and I only recently have started with Clojure's web technologies. Currently the documentation is a mess. I've slowe…

If by "good overview" you mean "often incorrect and sometimes extremely harmful" you are correct: http://w3fools.com/

Solium Infernum is awesome. Fans of strategy games should definitely check it out.

What is the state of using Clojure to develop for Android? Everything I see on the subject is pretty dated. I see that people are saying that until recently getting a Clojure REPL …