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When the limestone of imperative programming has worn away, the granite of functional programming will be revealed underneath -Simon Peyton Jones https://welltypedwit.ch
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man, why doesn't bluesky let me retweet this like, 10 times. it's so frustrating because i actually mostly agree with most self-described "anti-AI" people.

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...

if you're old enough to have experienced the world without the internet, LLMs are not the most impressive invention of your life time jesus christ

you know that feeling where you have a fun idea for a mod for a video game and suddenly you spent 50 minutes reading an aerodynamics textbook full of integrals and have no idea how tf planes work anymore

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oh no what did i do

it's really interesting how technically the most fitting descriptor for polaris is "scripting language" but i'm kind of hesitant to use that in practice because most ""scripting languages"" aren't actually very good at scripting

I'm going to subtweet some people. If you grew up in the US and Canada (and probably elsewhere), and especially if you went to church, you're probably familiar with "sponsor a child" charities, or Operation Christmas Child. There's a bunch of them, and maybe the most well-known is World Vision.

i forgot how much i love rogue one

I know I can't stop people from writing and_then soup just for error handling but please don't attribute it to haskell. that's not what moggi had in mind lol