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This is a cheap overgeneralization.

What can we do to make rent-seeking hurt society less? Imo we should start by decoupling money from power. Right now, people are forced to participate in the rent-seekers game beca…

A zipcode should be plenty and grocery websites do that already.

Very cool :) I got a good enough score in the basic scenario by playing around a bit but it would be cool if you could link some kind of tutorial (e.g. to a digital PID video or so…

The fact that it happens 1) at/around powers of two 2) regardless whether using GC or preallocating makes me think its got to do with cache sizes. For example, the M2 macbook has a…

Elm comes to mind. Mentioned a bunch on HN but you probably wouldn't call it widely used...

Well no, obviously. Nix has not solved the rice theorem. But you'll have this problem whether you're using BuildKit or Nix. Difference is with Nix the final image only contains you…

Like it or not, team dynamics are a part of engineering.

Not OP, but I think it's a valid approach. You gain: Model consistency guaranteed by the database, your backend basically only acts as an external API for the database. You lose: M…

IMO the Python version provides more information about the final state of res than the Go version at a glance: It's a list, len(res) The Go version may contain some typo or other t…

Effect systems spring to mind but they're rather esoteric (in the Java world).

Try using it for concrete problems you have today, start small. I used it to write a small calorie counting web app and some other tiny projects and picked it up that way.

There's no null in Haskell to check for. Go check it out!

This would be even more palatable if it involved some more design patterns.

Does that change anything though?

If you haven't already, read "Gödel, Escher, Bach". It sounds like you would enjoy it. For me its more of a "pick it up somewhere in the middle and get inspired" than "front-to-bac…

Would you mind expanding that? I always assumed that renting, lending or buying anything constitutes a contract technically.

Except that you're not allowed to take out a mortgage and denied credit if you're poor, which means you're stuck spending your money for necessities and therefore being poor. The s…

This attitude is how we get stuff like the GTA V O(n^2) JSON deserialization bug. I get it, nobody is implementing quicksort on a day-to-day basis, but being taught the ideas behin…

They have an interesting idea of "achieved": > Currently, only NVIDIA v100 GPU simulation is supported, and all GPUs mentioned later in this post are simulated v100s. So unless the…

> us-vs-them mentality is very popular in radicalizing say well-meaning patriots or heavily left-leaning folks into properly stupid irrational positions, siloing them into self-fee…

In Haskell you have a lot of options to type your functions in a more granular way. Consider the type class MonadIO, which lets you specify that your function works on any monad th…

> am I required to forget that you came into my store? No. Your head is not covered by the GDPR. It requires you to not keep a record of all your clients' personal info without a l…

Just store it by selling it to your neighbor state or country and buying it back when their renewables are at peak :)

I think you're conflating the terms capacity and peak production here. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the peak production makes German electricity cheap enough to make ever…