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antipuriston Books are physically changing because of inflation

I have no idea whether it helps with headaches, but have you considered getting a reflective monitor, e.g. https://www.sunvisiondisplay.com/reflective-lcd-monitor ?

antipuriston Learn how to unleash the full potential of the type system of TypeScript

No need to show any restraint. It's much more fun to explore and burn yourself once into understanding how much of this power your need. Or twice. Or as many times until it gets more fun to be pragmatic.

antipuriston The hyperinflation gallery

> In one of the last acts of World War II, the Szálasi government took control of banknote printing and issued notes without any cover

In this example, the only important variable was M, as expected.

antipuriston US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years

Given that 0.5—1% of the US population is incarcerated[1], and that getting a prison sentence is far from the only way to become a person of interest, it is quite reasonable to say that chances of getting some unwanted attention from various government and government-adjacent institutions are too damn high to ignore it.

[1] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/01/16/percent-incarce...

antipuriston Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team

They're claiming that by the time the layoffs start, recruiters' inboxes will already be saturated with exMeta CVs.

antipuriston Remote scan of student’s room before test violated his privacy, judge rules

Those scenarios can be better tested through simulations. E.g. to pass a driving exam you are presented with a road situation, and given only a few seconds to respond — this completely eliminates the possibility of looking things up on the internet. A similar approach can be used for other disciplines.

> separate wheat from chaff

Wheat can demonstrate/use the knowledge, chaff can't. Why does it matter whether the knowledge is internal or external, assuming results are the same?

antipuriston What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad

> What good introductions to functional can you people point me to?

When people hear "functional programming" many of them will immediately point you to Haskell (and totally forget to mention The Haskell Pyramid [1]). I'd advise you to stay away from it until you _want_ to go deeper down the rabbit hole.

Play with Elm and Erlang ("Programming Erlang" [2] and "Erlang Programming" [3] books are great) to un-learn imperative patterns, tinker with OCaml to learn a new way to modularize code.

[1] https://patrickmn.com/software/the-haskell-pyramid/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/193778553X

[3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0596518188