greydius

Protip: Delaware has no sales tax.

I first read Harrison Bergeron in 9th or 10th grade.... In a class for gifted kids.

sin(x)/x

Half the games are below the median.

> the Japanese used ivermectin to treat COVID

This is not true.

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-japan-ivermectinan...

What are inadequacies of neoliberal policies?

War is extremely profitable.

I interviewed at a startup years ago that did a similar thing. They set up a half-ass web site to screen candidates with their hastily implemented lisp. I easily did all the screening questions and also wrote a detailed critique of their language (it was lacking a lot of basic things like a reliable way to check for equality). The whole thing felt like a pet project.

> toAdditive ((toMultiplicative a) <> (toMultiplicative x)) <> toAdditive b > This is of course an insane way to program

If you have a set with two binary operations, then a monoid isn't the correct abstraction.

How would you propose to define <> so that a<>x<>b means ax+b and not e.g. a+xb. And how would your proposal be materially different from newtype conversions?

Health insurance

> Multiple monitors, high res monitors, printers, gaming and Bluetooth come to mind.

I'm running Ubuntu with two 4k monitors, an HP printer, and a bluetooth mouse. All of this works perfectly without any fiddling. I've also played quite a few games on this machine thanks to Steam and Proton.

Citations needed

Subject of a cool song by The Claypool Lennon Delirium

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XcOHiGonWwU

I wonder if he ever heard of Henrietta Lacks.

> one can pop in after 20 years and nothing has changed

20 years ago Clojure didn't exist and Ruby was practically unknown outside of Japan

Frank Zappa was smarter than everyone at that table.

Being a monopoly is never an inherent disadvantage. The only threats to a monopoly are government intervention and poor management.

I think the reason this word choice is divisive is that male/female refer to biological sex, whereas man/woman refer to gender roles. A large segment of society recognizes that gender is something people are free to choose.

- building and maintaing roads is a government handout. It artificially lowers prices.

- building and maintaing roads expands the role of government. It's an extra program for the municipality to manage.

- Expanding government programs is a tax on residents, even if they don't benefit from building and maintaing roads.

- building and maintaing roads is hostile to business. Companies cannot reasonably compete with a service that the government pumps money into.

Of course. But if you see something that none of the people around you see, then you might want to question your own sensor or signal processor.

> reliable encounters with one sensor

There's no such thing. An anomaly that doesn't appear on multiple sensors is a defect with your sensor.

Hard choice indeed

> "[verb] the [noun]" is pretty natural

For an English speaker. There are many human languages that put the verb at the end of clauses. Japanese is one example.

Noone needs a fancy car. Noone = zero people.

I'm leaving next month.

> all the common culprits for memory bugs in C would be the code marked unsafe if rewritten in rust

You've answered your own question.

Camel is rakuda. Raku means easy, comfortable, without trouble, etc.

There is no correct way to turn "1 cup flour" into a mass. For one thing, you can fit more into the same volume by compressing. But more importantly, the material is ambiguous. There are many different kinds of flour with varying physical properties.

It's unfortunate that so many people in the software profession have a negative attitude towards these concepts. Despite its unfortunately alien name, monad is a great abstraction for patterns that come up often in this field.

> So what is the IO monad, the most famous of them all?

IO is the State monad where the state is the entire universe.