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> To do I/O in FP you have to deal with monads No. > The common ground is functional-ish and mostly-stateless programming ("const" etc). C# is actually becoming very good at this, …

> That's a distortion of what I meant. It's really not. GP (or whatever) was saying that perhaps there's a reasonable difference of opinion. You responded by stating the author was…

Side-note: your observation may be valid for this case, but not in the case of backdoored encryption. Backdoored encryption is exactly a pre-emptive action. Relevant b/c I think th…

> Isn't there one best way to serve the people? No. Not unless you are omniscient and all-powerful. And even then, still no, because different people are different and want differe…

> I can't imagine programming without the knowledge of how things work at assembly level. The author's point is that recursion is a pervasive concept that is essential to understan…

> The physical device may not be owned by Apple, but the firmware installed upon it certainly is This is an interesting observation, actually. It suggests that there is a (legal) p…

> Do you think with that sort of OPSSEC that they slip up and use a work phone? Doubtful. After 5 minutes of search I cannot find the story. But there was a super interesting story…

What you're saying makes perfect sense, but law is weird. I would probably talk to a lawyer before assuming that something technically obvious is actually interpreted correctly by …

> "Her dramatic eye movements are self-stimulating her brain hemispheres, a technique called bi-lateral stimulation. By panning her eyes back and forth she is unknowingly using thi…

> If you believe that content creators have a right to earn money there are two ways that can happen: 1) directly - you pay directly for the content that you want to consume or 2) …

I can't speak for chemistry or physics, but that must be an incredibly poor mathematics program? I can't remember seeing anything past calc on yahoo answers and those answers were …

social sciences and natural sciences have pretty much always had vastly different standards for what is acceptable. Getting 5 sigmas in many sorts of psychological studies would be…

"It is bundled with other software and its presence is not disclosed."

ceteris paribus i.e. unicorns and rainbows. You're essentially just responding to every response to your posts with "yeah but more assumptions make it true!"

I think you've misinterpreted me. The problem is not that security work isn't interesting. The problem is that the sorts of security-related things a teacher/parent is most likely …

Children committing crimes using computers is a real problem and should not be disregarded. See the last portion of "Reflections on Trusting Trust". That said, this webpage is dang…