interolivary @ interolivary @beehaw.org

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I’ll be treating the freebie as a limited collectable in a video game

Ah so you'll be using it impulsively on the first thing that crosses your mind, only to regret what you did just moments afterwards?

and never use it fearing that I’ll waste it

Oh I see

Conservatives generally have an astonishing skill at coming up with the weirdest bullshit to justify their hate of anyone progressive.

Are you trying to convince yourself or the person you're replying to?

Yeah it's like that but dumber.

Heh, and of course there's a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planking_(fad)

IBM sold machines to the original Nazis, so I guess this time around they at least want to keep up the appearance of giving a shit where their money comes from

Because no way could I dislike modern PHP. Maybe you just have low standards when it comes to programming languages?

I'm not sure which thought is scarier: that you don't know what you're signing up for, or that you do know and you enjoy fixing undecidable formatting fuckups manually

Bit unfair to compare them to the Ferengi.

At least the Ferengi have redeeming qualities

That's a good point about the synergies, something like eg. a type system that's expressive enough to be Turing-complete is going to have some effects. You're right that it might just feel like a "kitchen sink language" due to complexity of the features it has, but then again I suppose it's sort of one and the same where a language's complexity comes from.

But it's no Swift, at least; now that language really does have everything and the kitchen sink.

Semantic whitespace problems can easily be literally impossible to solve automatically. One of the dumbest fucking ideas anybody ever came up with in computing and its inventor if anyone belongs in YAML Hell. As a fuckup it's not quite as bad as null, but that ain't exactly a high bar

The guy in the blog says mb (millibits)

a) does anybody actualy use that? How many people reading this thread can say they've actually seen that in real use or used it?

b) I'm fairly convinced you knew what was meant because it's not like it's uncommon to use a minuscule m for "mega" in colloquial usage

Weird performative pedantry or a joke that flew over my head? I give about a 0.5 probability for both

I mean, wouldn't it essentially have to be storing every possible move (well, state) for as many rounds as you want for the player to be able to play at most? And I'm not sure he can take advantage of the fact that you can end up in the same state from multiple other states, which would remove a lot of the redundant ones

There's a special place in hell for the inventor of semantically significant whitespace.

YAML itself is one of the circles of hell. You have to copy-paste YAML from web etc sources with dubious formatting for all eternity, and the editor doesn't have YAML support. Also you can only use Python

It already feels like Twitter.

Still full of Nazis then, I take it?

It was an analogy for how something infinite doesn't necessarily contain everything you can think of, not meant to be taken absolutely literally (hence the word "analogy" there). Also I got this from some physicist so I didn't pull it out of my own butt, I'll try find a source

I think it's the PHP, makes people doubt your soul's status that you'd subject yourself willingly to it

"Sufficiently powerful" is a bit of an understatement when it comes to Scala. Honestly may have a bit too many features for my taste, it's not a small language

I've been meaning to give F# a go but I never seem to get around to it. Seems like an interesting language

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