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If someone paired this with a code-lite GUI designer, the world would be a brighter place indeed

(rewrote this to be less insufferable) It's not about saving a single return statement, even in the elvis case. How many times have you written code along the lines of "if this isn…

No I believe he's basically formally correct. You need to be able to "wrap" values and then also "wrap" functions in the way you expect. That's literally it. Btw, the list monad ex…

Somehow I hear this all the time, but the haskell people have to realize that code patterns are absolutely a thing in all languages, ever? A lack of syntactic sugar doesn't mean mo…

no, you do not.

Like many things in life it is far easier to give examples than it is to describe the thing. Examples of monads are Promises and Elvis operators (for values that can be nullptrs). …

I mean, you can just... Not annotate something if creating the relevant type is a pain. Static analysis \= type hints, and even then... Besides, there must be some behavior you exp…

I counter by asking if renting them would have saved you money. It's what I do when I need tools I don't usually use

Technically yes, but... it's moderately tricky to get an LLM to play good chess even though it can. https://dynomight.net/more-chess/ This is significant in general because I perso…

If anything, I take corporate greed as axiomatic. Saying something happened because of it is stupid. There's no information in it. And hey, look, turns out the article was AI slop …

Something can be falsifiable without being false. F=ma is falsifiable but not false. With humanities stuff it's less clear cut, but I'm inclined to be skeptical of ideas that expla…

If your framing is unfalsifiable, I question its utility.

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Blender is nothing like chromium. It's not made by a big company, it sprung up in an extremely for-profit niche (and it has like 4 serious competitors that are all actively in use)…

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It's a question of timescales and degrees and magnitudes, not of binary "did or didn't destroy". If we hadn't stopped redwood logging in the 20th century, yeah, the ecosystem would…

In fairness this appears to be the direction we are headed anyway

What are you talking about lol, the prose, characters, and themes are all extremely flat. I would say the sci-fi things are what make it good.

If you define quality as "layered and meaty" there are many much better books. Roadside picnic (and its less Russian counterpart, Annihilation), left hand of darkness, Solaris are …