ddellacosta

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by ddellacosta 5d ago
USian here, guilty as charged. Although I imagine it's the same as in the U.K. in terms of a lot of people who eat a lot of crap, while there are still plenty of people who know and appreciate good food, including baked goods. So, ther
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by ddellacosta 17d ago
same crew as is referenced here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513717
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by ddellacosta 17d ago
Heh I was just about to say, people were doing stuff like this at Parsons/ITP a decade and a half ago, at least...haven't thought about GRL in a while, thanks for the flashback
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by ddellacosta 2mo ago
He has promised at least one (1) affordable house, and to make everyone's taxes but yours go up. Seems like a solid choice
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by ddellacosta 3mo ago
> Now, it’s completely different. The moment some obscure demo drops, it’s everywhere, Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, Instagram, whatever. Everyone knows about it instantly. That sense of discovery, of finding a truly underground gem, j
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by ddellacosta 4mo ago
Seriously. Ran into this with Tincan's support text line when I failed to receive the account initialization email to my provider...was immediately launched into LLM nonsense which I bailed out of until a few hours later when a real hu
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by ddellacosta 4mo ago
Strong agreement with this! I managed somehow to jam a drill bit in my Makita cordless drill a few years back. It was just enough of a pain that I didn't feel comfortable trying to fix it myself, so I requested a repair through Makita.
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by ddellacosta 5mo ago
I think it's worth reading this if you want to understand the initial motivation for introducing Monads to Haskell: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/b... (And in the context of
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by ddellacosta 5mo ago
I couldn't help but think of this when I read your comment: https://theonion.com/july-21-1969-1819587599/ "Neil Armstrong on the surface of the fucking moon ."
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by ddellacosta 5mo ago
> It also presents the draw man that solar can only go in huge fields that would otherwise grow food. > There are plenty of rooftops and car parks that can be covered in solar to excellent benefit. It's worth calling this approac
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by ddellacosta 6mo ago
This is a pretty simplified and inverted way to look at it in my opinion. In many ways atonality was the inevitable direction that late 19th century Romanticism was moving in, with increasingly ambiguous tonality expressed by composers like
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by ddellacosta 6mo ago
Myself and most other programmers I know have at least once (more like 100 times) had the experience where you can't figure something out in some code you've been staring at for an hour, then another person comes along and immedia
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by ddellacosta 6mo ago
> The basis of Erlang/Elixir/Clojure is that structs are just inflexible maps. I mean the difference is that Erlang and Elixir have high-quality pattern matching baked in, not to mention stuff like dialyzer and set-theoretic ty
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by ddellacosta 6mo ago
I lol'ed
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by ddellacosta 6mo ago
I dream of a day when everyone is using statically typed languages that support row polymorphism a la PureScript ( https://book.purescript.org/chapter4.html#record-patterns-an... )...
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by ddellacosta 6mo ago
Total digression but yeah, that layout is stupid and the way those words are dropped in using Romaji makes no sense. That's not how Japanese people lay out pages on the web. In fact I don't think I've ever seen a Japanese web
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by ddellacosta 7mo ago
I agree, Clare Grogan is still who I picture when I think of Kochanski tbh, I loved her energy
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by ddellacosta 7mo ago
Haha I went and actually looked and yep, that's it...no wonder I couldn't remember
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by ddellacosta 7mo ago
As an American, Red Dwarf along with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy created a deep appreciation both for British humor and funny sci-fi in my adolescent self. I now own the box set on DVD and even have a random Red Dwarf novel I got
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by ddellacosta 7mo ago
Yeah this is such an important blog for Haskell. A classic that everyone should read: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad... I attended a talk of his at Papers We Love at Strange Loop in 2
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by ddellacosta 8mo ago
> They blamed social media for Americans. I think you meant "blamed Americans for social media" but at this point they both kinda fit
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by ddellacosta 8mo ago
Heh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbmJkMhmrVI
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by ddellacosta 8mo ago
Welp not much I can say to that or to RandallBrown's response, seems obvious our experience and way of thinking is pretty different on this matter. (EDIT: Also fwiw I often use a spoon or whatever to scoop things into the bowl, vs. pou
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by ddellacosta 8mo ago
> In hindsight, the ‘seemingly’ part is key. When astronomers first gazed beyond the solar system, they noticed systematic deviations from the predictions of Newtonian gravity. Most scientists assumed that the problem was due to missing
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by ddellacosta 8mo ago
As a pretty experienced American home baker I don't understand how you can assert that it's faster to measure volume with cups or etc. than to put a bowl on a scale and simply pour stuff in, measuring everything in grams. It'
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by ddellacosta 8mo ago
Makes me sad that PureScript doesn't have more adoption, not that I'm surprised. It's orders of magnitude better than Elm and even improves upon Haskell in some meaningful ways (row polymorphism).
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by ddellacosta 9mo ago
You learn something new every day huh!
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by ddellacosta 9mo ago
This is not a direct response to the question of how laziness obviates the need for macros, but it mentions some specific relevant cases: https://augustss.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-points-for-lazy-e...
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by ddellacosta 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus
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by ddellacosta 10mo ago
I don't actually disagree but you could find similar criteria and write a similar piece for the vast majority of "professional" programming languages, including e.g. Python, JS, and C++, so this is kinda silly. "Computin

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