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spooky_deep

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    Comment #46164478

    You don’t want a language with non-determinism, arbitrary IO, impure functions etc. for build configuration ideally. I guess the answer to your question is OCaml has unmanaged side…

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    Comment #46161187

    They don’t know how good they really have it :)

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    Comment #46159416

    Horrible. Would’ve been much nicer if they’d reached for Scheme.

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    Comment #46159410

    CMake was never declarative AFAIK? CMake today is effectively an eso-lang / Turing tarpit with some “modern” declarative conventions that people try to push.

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    Comment #46159406

    You need unbounded recursion no?

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    Comment #46157694

    None of those are close to peak HBO content sorry.

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    Comment #46145507

    They already are? All popular models have a team working on fine tuning it for sensitive topics. Whatever the companies legal/marketing/governance team agree to is what gets tuned.…

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    Comment #46105382

    Do the problems get harder each day?

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    Comment #46089095

    Paris is not bike friendly (much better than a decade ago of course)

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    Comment #46088609

    Why the Copenhagenize Index when Copenhagen is not particularly bike friendly by Dutch standards?

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    Comment #46088606

    100%. Only a North American could consider Montreal bike friendly.

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    Comment #46051384

    What’s a good way to include Unison code in a more traditional Git monorepo?

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    Comment #45991180

    I can say why I bounced off of Nix. Lots of package combinations didn’t work and I was not skilled enough to figure out why. The error messages are terrible. They don’t provide eno…

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    Comment #45918485

    I’d bet that most PC Windows gamers care a lot more about Steam than they do about Windows. If Microsoft did anything drastic - like blocking Steam like Apple do on iOS - it would …

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    Comment #45918458

    You mean PS3 Linux?

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    Comment #45855667

    Google blessed Python at a time when Java didn’t even have lambdas.

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    Comment #45852057

    A good compiler will make the lists disappear in many cases. No runtime overhead. I actually love single linked lists as a way to break down sequences of problem steps.

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    Comment #45820610

    Property based testing is fantastic. Why is it not more popular? My theory is that only code written in functional languages has complex properties you can actually test. In impera…

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    Comment #45757256

    The irony here is UV is written in Rust.

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    Comment #45757222

    Python is slow due to design decisions in the language. For example operator dispatch is slow without some kind of static analysis. But this is hindered by how dynamic the language…

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    Comment #45719013

    Roc Lang could be a nice fit. They are very precise about numbers.

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    Comment #45633665

    When DuckDB queries across multiple sources (say, Postgres and a CSV) does it first load all data into DuckDB or is it smart enough to only pull minimal data needed for the query o…

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    Comment #45630373

    Type checks are proofs across all inputs. Tests are proofs across a given set of inputs. They are complimentary. If you want really robust code, use both.

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    Comment #45614510

    Scala still offers lots over modern Java. The issue for me is that Scala design lacks focus. They say yes to too many features.

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    Comment #45560462

    Yes it was too rigid. Too much boiler plate. The design space of functional UI is still being explored.