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  • Imagine you have traveled on a high plateau with a beautiful view of the land. Now you are on a downhill trail to the woodland base of said plateau and some lone trees are now growing next to the trail. "Every now and then a big tree blocks my view of the beautiful landscape" you complain. "Should I assume this is the new normal" you wonder. Unbeknownst to you just a bit further the trail will enter the forest.

  • In German y is not pronounced as "why", but instead as "Ypsilon". You win some you lose some I guess.

    More infuriating is "e" - it's pronounced as "I" ffs! But when in a word only if it's the first letter or something. Otherwise it's pronounced as "e" as it rightfully should be!

  • I sometimes like reading or listening to stories of people scamming scammers. He used this exact thing to really confuse the scammer.

    "Please type in double u double double u...."
    "Alright, I typed in double u double u double..... It says page not found" (i.e. uuuuuu)

  • So the core concept is that when you validate some property about input you should also transform the input into a new form that represents the new guarantee in the type system.

    This is very, closely related to the "make invalid states unrepresentable" concept. If we have validated our list to be non empty, we should return a non empty list - after all an empty list is now invalid and as such the type system should exclude that possibility.

  • Have you looked at Elm?

    It's very much not JavaScript, but I think that comes with the territory of wanting something significantly different.

    For what it's worth, with wasm you could use any language that compiles to it as a frontend language. Rust has a few frameworks that can compile to standalone wasm web pages.

  • Like ... Have you ever read a word with w in it?

    I kinda know what you are getting at - if you dictate a word by pronouncing each letter separately you need to add stuff to each one to make it stand out - but Jesus Christ, what a question.

    Hodoubleu is the doublueather today? Only a fedoubleu oubleuhite clouds in a clear blue sky.

    Thanks for making me laugh!

    Edit: in German it is pronounced "we", with the e like in ketchup.

  • I mean, there are real projects. I know that the orca population near Vancouver is a focus of decoding mammal language.

    They have recordings going back like 30 years and log books to connect the calls to orca behavior. Last I checked (a few years ago) they were pretty far with unsupervised learning on the audio data and we're going to tackle the (barely readable) logbooks next.

  • No.

    The only one I'd trust without having to do more research on their reporting quality is netzpolitik.org. Not sure how much of a newspaper they are though. I'd consider them digital activists - with sound positions based on facts, but activists nonetheless.