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Hi there!

I'm a husband and a father of two. I've been working in Scala for over a decade, and I'm part of the founding team at Paqle.

I work on a full stack programming language called Firefly and I organize a functional programming meetup in Copenhagen:

https://www.meetup.com/moedegruppefunktionellekoebenhavnere/

It's once a month - swing by if you'd like to meet up!

meet.hn/city/55.6867243,12.5700724/Copenhagen

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continuational··on Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU
By requiring transparency? What's the actual problem here?
continuational··on Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap
Basic greenhouse effect: Visible light (and ultraviolet light) comes in relatively unhindered. Gets absorbed by the earth and heats it up. The heat is emitted as infrared radiation. This gets absorbed by CO2 (and equivalents) and reemitted in a random direction. Takes a long time to reach space by chance, so the energy stays in the atmosphere for a while.
continuational··on "Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore
So where are all the successful AI slop products?
continuational··on GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]
I don't like that argument either.

However, the continued existence of society requires other people's children, so maybe it's a pretty important investment?

continuational··on Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes
Very neat. I'm not sure if I missed it, but is there any way to get n equidistant points on the curve?

E.g. for moving an object at constant speed along the curve.

continuational··on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords
Easy to mitigate by only allowing the device that requested the 6-digit code to use the code.

Edit: See first reply, this is not a mitigation at all!

continuational··on Rethinking DOM from first principles
The reason working with the DOM directly is hard is that you have to implement arbitrary patching to go from one state to another.

The entire point of frameworks like React is to avoid the problem, by automatically creating and applying the patch for you.

It's not irrational; quite the contrary.

continuational··on Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided
> Do you have some issue that in Denmark its deemed solvable only through that?

No. On the contrary, our crime rates are some of the lowest in the world.

continuational··on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
Like what?
continuational··on Breaking the WASM/JS communication performance barrier
The extra DOM complexity that would entail seems like a loss for the existing web.
continuational··on How to handle people dismissing io_uring as insecure? (2024)
Programming languages are different. They usually can't be "repaired" once broken, because they need to maintain backwards compatibility.
continuational··on Can Software Be Durable?
Yeah, Super Mario Bros is 40+ years old by now. Runs just fine in an emulator, even if you can't find the original hardware.

Modern SaaS apps can't be run once the company shuts it down. You don't have the code, not even the executable.

continuational··on Row Polymorphic Programming
Firefly can construct any named record from any other record (named or anonymous):

    let point = (x = 5, y = 7)
    let point3d = point.Point3d(z = 0)
We included this feature specifically to make it easy to use named and unnamed records together.

More here: https://www.firefly-lang.org/

continuational··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
Remember that everything you have is the result of other people bringing humans into this world.
continuational··on How to Write Compelling Release Announcements
Also: Please don't announce it as "Thingie 3.5.27". That title says nothing about what's new or interesting about this release.
continuational··on Should we design for iffy internet?
Here's a fun exercise: Put the front page of your favorite web framework though https://pagespeed.web.dev/

(if you don't have a favorite, try react.dev)

We're using this benchmark all the time on https://www.firefly-lang.org/ to try to keep it a perfect 100%.

continuational··on Show HN: S3mini – Tiny and fast S3-compatible client, no-deps, edge-ready
SHA256 and HMAC are widely available in the browser APIs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypt...
continuational··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
Calling someone "immature" can be considered an ad hominem attack if it is used as a way to dismiss or undermine their argument without addressing the substance of what they are saying.
continuational··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
Please refrain from ad hominem attacks.
continuational··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
Isn't this the case regardless of whether you use AI or not? Is this an argument for being less productive?
continuational··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
What kind of data would you want?

I'm 100x as productive now that I eat breakfast while reciting the declaration of independence.

You really should try it. Don't give up, it works if you do it just right.

Edit: I realize this line of argument doesn't really lead anywhere. I leave you with this Carl Sagan quote:

> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

(or perhaps we can just agree that claims require evidence, and not the anecdotal kind)

continuational··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
Hype hype hype! Data please.
continuational··on Progressive JSON
BFF (pun intended?) in this context means "backend for frontend".

The idea is that every frontend has a dedicated backend with exactly the api that that frontend needs.

continuational··on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70
Wait, what's wrong with those narratives?

College is free in Denmark (in fact you get paid to study).

continuational··on Google AI Ultra
YouTube is probably the most expensive streaming app, and there are still ads (sponsored sections) in nearly every video.
continuational··on A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules
Fun!

https://tixy.land/?code=sin%28i%2Bt%29

continuational··on Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US
The EU spends as much as the US on Ukraine, and about twice as much if you count refugee aid.
continuational··on Tippy Coco: A Free, Open-Source Game Inspired by Slime Volleyball
This is great! Especially that you can jump over the net.

A long time ago, I made a clone of the same game for the Ti83+ :)

https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/290/29096.htm...

continuational··on The best programmers I know
I think this "good devs don't complain" mentality risks real issues being overlooked and left unaddressed.
continuational··on You Need Subtyping
This would be a lot more convincing if served with an example of a language where subtyping doesn't lead to more rough edges.
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