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by anon_d 4y ago
> writing imperative code in functional languages almost invariably sucks. I don't agree at all! Haskell is extremely pleasant for imperative programming. There's a learning curve for sure, but you get a lot in return. (STM i
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by anon_d 4y ago
I don't think this is accurate at all. Debugging in a strict FP language is pretty much exactly like debugging in an imperative language. Debugging in a lazy FP language requires somewhat different approaches, but still does not have
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by anon_d 4y ago
Functional programming doesn't actually compete with imperative programming. In practice, functional programming is a way of organizing imperative programs. Kind of like how OO is a way of organizing imperative programs. Almost all
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by anon_d 4y ago
Billions of people in this world would agree unreservedly with the sentiment in question. Only a very specific class of people would have a negative reaction to this. If you don't want to "hang with that crowd" then there&#x
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by anon_d 4y ago
I find this phrase "Automatic Currying" that people are using in this thread to be very strange. It implies that `(add 3)` is being magically converted into `(\x -> (add 3 x))` by some fancy front-end feature. But no, `add` is
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by anon_d 4y ago
Compiling functional languages to other high-level language s generally has pretty awful performance compared to simple native compilation. Even compiling to C has it's limitations. The fact that Go has a nice compiler doesn't re
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by anon_d 4y ago
Smoking decreases appetite. A lot of people who quit smoking gain significant weight.
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by anon_d 4y ago
You have been intensely socialized to behave like a robot in person. To wear a mask and not do anything that stands out. People expect this, so doing anything "off script" around other people makes them EXTREMELY uncomfortable.
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by anon_d 4y ago
I don't have a big-picture answer for you, but I'll point out that there are a lot of performance-relevant details that are different between the two protocols. A torrent is basically a filesystem, dumped into a single large bytes
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by anon_d 4y ago
> just to make a few white crypto bros happy. Causal racism
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by anon_d 5y ago
Of course there are a cultural leanings at every "place". What kind of people frequent that place? HN is no different. Anyone can come here and make any argument.
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by anon_d 5y ago
My personal view on Transgenderism is that it should be seen in basically the same way as drug addiction. Drugs also occur naturally and many people dabble in them without much harm. But drug addiction is truly destructive, and almost impo
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by anon_d 5y ago
> but it seems like a fairly trivial one to me. I don't see the difference as trivial. The reality is that, across many cultures, there are men that have a strong desire to abandon the masculine role and to live quasi-female lives.
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by anon_d 5y ago
The Thais have similar concept as well (third gender), but it isn't the same as the western Transgenderism construct. > I find it all rather fascinating and hard to reduce down to silly dogma. The phenomena itself isn't what I&
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by anon_d 5y ago
Since there is no DM feature, I'm going to rail on this a bit more here. You feel alone. - What is your relationship like with your parents and siblings? - What is your relationship like with your aunts, uncles, and cousins? - What is
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by anon_d 5y ago
I have no interest in arguing against any of these points here. All I am claiming is that they are a form of dogma. These beliefs look very silly to everyone outside of this culture. They seem silly to everyone. To every other culture in
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by anon_d 5y ago
There are tons of things like this outside of religion. Almost every coherent group of people believes in some sort of nonsense for political reasons, and as a form of identity signaling. - Many people in this community believe that a fema
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by anon_d 5y ago
People are telling you that you are too judgmental. People are telling you that you need to accept your situation. People are telling you to move to a huge city. Instead, you need to be MORE judgmental. You need to reject your situatio
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by anon_d 5y ago
The reason we are dealing with lots of little echo chambers is because we are in the middle of a war. Our echo-chamber-keepers were replaced, and the new ones are leading us to our deaths. Many different groups of people realize this and ar
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by anon_d 5y ago
But you were born in an echo chamber. There is no "exit from" echo chambers. There is no outside. Your echo chamber is the source all of the stories and symbols that you use to make sense of the world.
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by anon_d 5y ago
There is something implied by that dataset that we are not allowed to notice or talk about. The text doesn't say it, but the commenter is suspect because they should know better than to imply the unspeakable.
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by anon_d 5y ago
Feel like the solutions to so many problems is just tariffs. Tariffs on all imports and exports, tariffs on moving things between states too. Significant tariffs would fuck these people so hard.
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by anon_d 5y ago
I do not think it is stupid nor self destructive to avoid enriching people who believe that Taiwan is a country, no. There is diversity of ideas and dissenting views, and he's free to blog about them, but I am also free to go work on o
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by anon_d 5y ago
We should encourage people to express dissenting views. The idea that we should do anything in our power to avoid good outcomes for someone that expressed ideas that we don't agree with is worse than hateful and evil: it's stupid
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by anon_d 6y ago
Writing functions that receive other functions as input can lead to over complicated code that's really hard to read. I work in FP languages, and I find this type of code extremely intuitive and easy to understand. I suspect that y
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by anon_d 7y ago
We can't fix this. The whole HN narrative around this presumes that this is an unnatural outcome caused by the bad incentives of tech platforms. This is just wrong. The polarization comes directly from people being able to communicate
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by anon_d 7y ago
It doesn't matter. "White male" is a slur now.
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by anon_d 7y ago
This is an amazing idea.
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by anon_d 7y ago
ADHD is your mind violently rebelling against the useless bullshit that you trying to force it to do.
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by anon_d 7y ago
You have basically the right idea, but I think you are missing something important. ADHD is a "disorder", but it's root cause is intrinsic, genetic. Different people are different. ADHD isn't about "being human&quot

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