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jam0wal··on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
pro tip, you are using a phone, the carriers know where you are. In a call or not. Admittedly sending the GPS location (or other) adds to the footprint they have of you, but get real, 30 sec for the intelligence services to locate you is only this slow for movies.
jam0wal··on The Big Oops in type systems: This problem extends to FP as well
You both rather miss the point that the op ref talks of making illegal states unrepresentable. An objective that either depends on only handling simplistic data or ... most likely is impossible.
jam0wal··on The Big Oops in type systems: This problem extends to FP as well
Godel's incompleteness theorem indicates illegal states as unrepresentable is impossible at a fundamental level.
jam0wal··on When good pseudorandom numbers go bad
So, you want to use the random function but want a constant output. Simpler to just use a constant array and not impose your bias on a corner case interpretation on random.