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Dope. Thanks. Have you written much Prolog? I was thinking about in Prolog terms and I think it’s the hardest paradigm to avoid the scoping problem in

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Are you better at inventing than the worker is? Are your subsequent inventions better than the art they create? Do we really need double the widgets? I mean, the top post on this s…

I’ve asked Bing about sexual health questions and been told it’s not okay to talk about that. I asked it a question about Christianity and it stated things with the tone and certai…

Count me unimpressed too Bing Copilot can’t even answer simple questions about businesses in a particular city without lying. When confronted, it will apologize and then repeat the…

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If I wanted to deeply pedantic, I think the blocks associated with those monady bits keep the parameters in scope longer than needed. But I never got into Haskell so I don’t really…

I’m a contrived idea man, not a contrived solution man, damnit.

What if someone works 30 hours a week performing a service which is not yet automated, but uniquely theirs, like their own standup comedy. Contrast that with the replicable softwar…

I still don’t fold clothes. I just buy stuff that doesn’t wrinkle. Work smarter not harder.

In the first case no, in the second yes. Great that you reduced the need to work. You are a hero to society. Not great to use that as a reason to control others.

Devil’s advocate: they’re both clerks and the liquor store is more dangerous, so yes they should be paid more

Hey I’m down to party with some monads, but I leave that as an exercise to the reader. One note: each variable only gets assigned to once, so FP won’t magic that away. The side eff…

The logarithmic decay could be more about more and more people hitting their satisfaction level, than about what the wealth can purchase. In other words, very few people actually w…

I think genuinely most people don’t want to exert power over others, so the value doesn’t increase for most

I appreciate your interest. I’d argue that even declaring ‘c’ is against the spirit though. To say nothing of the eldritch shadow cast there (no disrespect, I think we’re both enjo…

What about different working conditions? Is one hour in a coal mine the same as one hour as an actor? What if a person has a debilitating illness that prevents them from working bu…

You are morally and intellectually superior.

I would have paid double my taxes over my career if the US would spend it on elevating the poor. But asking me to not retire, to give away my savings to very few people? What, that…

My personal pet peeve is how every retirement calculator bakes in an assumption like “you’ll NEED 75% of your current income as living expenses when you retire.” Like your salary w…

I had a great manager who was a coding genius, always available to pair even if it took hours to explain something, and has been a friend for years after we both left that company.…

a = getInt(); b = getInt() + a; c = getInt(); d = b / c; puts(d); puts(c); puts(b); puts(a); Nothing in the middle of this code prevents using ‘a’ even though it isn’t relevant to …

For real though. This was my biggest frustration when I was an SE. Want people in a large organization to ignore your ideas? Speak them out loud. Want them to follow them as dogma?…

When I was a kid I would tell my parents I cleaned my room, then they’d look in the closet and see everything in a pile.

you are specifically the person who should get a case. Or wipe your hands or something? This is an absurdly high rate of breaking phones. no one here has any incantations or runes …