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lordwarnuton I'm not mutable, I'm partially instantiated

I have been going through https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~meidanis/courses/mc336/2009s2/pro...

It starts out pretty easy but gets harder and requires more thought. It has different sections on things like list processing or graph problems.

lordwarnuton I learned Haskell in just 15 years

Kind of ironically I've enjoyed the 'Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours'[1] which goes over how to write your own Scheme in Haskell. It introduces some of the more interesting monads although I'm not sure how idiomatic it is.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_...

lordwarnuton New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

Might I suggest the plugin uBlacklist. I use it to block a whole bunch of domains from google search that I don't want to see anymore.

lordwarnuton How Not to Speak to Someone with ADHD

Evidence?

lordwarnuton Eventual Business Consistency

The irony being of course that there are two scenarios.

lordwarnuton The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)

I really like this post. Thanks for sharing it.

lordwarnuton The mysterious dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire

Interesting, I was thinking perhaps it was to hold soft boiled eggs such that it was convenient to dip strips of buttered toast into the yolk.

lordwarnuton Zoomable, animated scatterplots in the browser that scales over a billion points

I don't suppose you have a link to that game? It sounds interesting and I'd love to learn more.

lordwarnuton Ask HN: What Is the Lisp “Enlightment”?

The program that can be written is not the eternal program. The script which can be run is not the eternal script.

lordwarnuton Switzerland’s underground freight project gets start date

How does the evaluation of the feasibility of the proposed law work?

lordwarnuton Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (1987)

It's a form of genital mutilation. It would be wrong to call it a non-issue. It is moral one at the least.

I have no issue with consenting adults getting circumcised for what ever reason they want too. A baby, however, cannot possibly consent to such a thing.

lordwarnuton Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?

Why does that sound bad?

lordwarnuton After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)

I believe that David Graeber was an Anarchist not a Marxist.

lordwarnuton Europe is in a muddle over ritual slaughter

Well the homogenisation of society is a common aspect of fascist ideologies.

lordwarnuton The Abolition of Work (2002)

The quote that stands out to me the most is:

Work makes a mockery of freedom. The official line is that we all have rights and live in a democracy. Other unfortunates who aren’t free like we are have to live in police states. These victims obey orders or-else, no matter how arbitrary. The authorities keep them under regular surveillance. State bureaucrats control even the smaller details of everyday life. The officials who push them around are answerable only to higher-ups, public or private. Either way, dissent and disobedience are punished. Informers report regularly to the authorities. All this is supposed to be a very bad thing.

And so it is, although it is nothing but a description of the modern workplace.

lordwarnuton Looking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens

Well they certainly used racism as an excuse to justify their colonial ambitions. They were conquering for the same reasons any country conquers: money, land, prestige.