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by simplify 1y ago
A child doesn't always a mental "why" reasoning for their actions. Sometimes kids just behave in coarse playful ways, and those ways happen to be very useful for mental development.
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by simplify 1y ago
> Why is that a problem to you? Because seculars/athiests often believe that they're superior to the "stupid, God-believing religious" people, since their beliefs are obviously based on "pure logic and reason&quo
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by simplify 1y ago
Everyone has a "religion" – i.e. a system of values they subscribe to. Secular Americans are annoying because they believe they don't have one, and instead think they're just "good people", calling those who
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by simplify 2y ago
You really need to define "good" in this sentence. How can nature move beyond nature?
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by simplify 2y ago
No, that isn't right. It's the culture differences, not locations, that are being compared here. Location is only correlated to those differences; being in Japan vs being in the US doesn't guarantee the comparison.
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by simplify 2y ago
The concrete fuckery: (Politico) Lower video quality (NPR) Feeling unwelcome (TechCrunch) Peer pressure
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by simplify 2y ago
It doesn't remember undo history after you close the tab, would love to see that feature though!
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by simplify 2y ago
Something doesn't have to be new to be valuable (XKCD "Ten Thousand" et al). A revolution starts with inspiration.
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by simplify 2y ago
"god complex" is very reaching. No one got physically hurt in this scenario. Also unlikely you can "guarantee" this didn't teach anyone any lessons.
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by simplify 2y ago
Game is actually really good! Was this inspired by Spellbreak per chance? Edit: I see you mention it in your blog post. I enjoyed it just as much!
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by simplify 2y ago
You may not like it, but this is what peak lisp indentation looks like :) Honestly though, this style for ending parenthesis of block-type nodes makes a lot of sense to me. And you still retain the benefit of macro-ing your own syntax when
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by simplify 2y ago
Could be wrong, but I feel like the most tedious part is categorization of transactions. I wonder if any have adopted LLMs to make this better?
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by simplify 2y ago
Virtual DOM is not inherently an issue. Many libraries use it and are much faster than React. The main issue is React forces you to tell it which components to re-render. This causes a bloat of ceremony that makes it endlessly annoying (in
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by simplify 2y ago
What third dimension would you add?
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by simplify 2y ago
Alternative would be interesting, but successor is thought provoking. Do you mean to say most all Prolog capabilities will be possible to do in Meme?
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by simplify 2y ago
Not necessarily, I would think terms can be converted to numbers like how the Ruby vm compiles symbols.
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by simplify 2y ago
Agreed. This reminds me – and I wonder if it could be applied – to Computational Type Theory, which relies on a similar concept of "reducing" types to their primitive forms, actually taking computation into account (something type
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by simplify 2y ago
This is a limited, self-centered way of thinking (not self-ish, just self in the neutral sense of the word). Looking at second-order effects, many companies look up to FAANG for "best practices", which often includes them blindly
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by simplify 2y ago
Certainly, but how they go about it differs depending on their values, no?
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by simplify 2y ago
I don't get it, aren't individual judgements made in the context of culture? How does your example sound funny?
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by simplify 2y ago
Only in low-trust societies. Modern, higher-trust society can only function because this isn't true.
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by simplify 2y ago
There's no inherent reason you couldn't do that. That's another similarity to SQL: the underlying features of the language will depend on which runtime you're using. SQL: Postgres, SQLite, MySql, etc. all have differen
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by simplify 2y ago
Brute force search is just the naive way of finding solutions. Just like you can index a SQL table, you can index a Prolog predicate for better performance.
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by simplify 2y ago
SQL itself is a reinvention of Prolog, poorly. Its core value is that we're stuck with it.
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by simplify 2y ago
TypeScript's unions are still impressive as you can union anything, not just literal types (TIL python has unions for literals, thanks). Out of curiosity, what do you mean by dynamically? Isn't that just a case statement, or am I
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by simplify 2y ago
Understandably so, it's the impressive power of TypeScript's type system. No other mainstream language has arbitrary union types like this.
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by simplify 2y ago
There's almost no material benefit to expressing as an enum. You get type checking either way.
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by simplify 2y ago
FWIW people are still building in the former list and never stopped. It's the "degen" speculators that got loud enough to overtake the public-facing narratives for their own personal gain.
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by simplify 2y ago
First, humility is an under-appreciated virtue in today's world. Second, the idea of "your work and art are an expression of you" is dangerously self-centered, in that it can limit your growth by pushing you conform to accept
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by simplify 2y ago
Well-written article. Introduces what the library is/does, gives background context, includes a high-level overview of the system, and demonstrates how it solves the problem.

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