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johnnyjeans
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> That's great! Let the compiler figure out the optimal data layout then!

GHC, which is without a doubt the smartest compiler you can get your grubby mitts on, is still an extremely stupid git that can't be trusted to do basic optimizations. Which is exactly why it exposes so many special intrinsic functions. The "sufficiently smart compiler" myth was thoroughly discounted over 20 years ago.
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> You do not think

Actually I do, and I include the inertia and momentum of every piece of the drive-train as well, and the current location of the center of gravity. I'm thinking about all of these things through the next predicted 5 seconds or so at any given time. It comes naturally and subconsciously. To say nothing of how you really aren't going to be driving a standard transmission without that mental model.

Your analogy is appropriate for your standard American whose only experience with driving a car is the 20 minute commute to work in an automatic, and thus more like a hobbyist programmer or a sysadmin than someone whose actual craft is programming. Do you really think truckers don't know in their gut what their fuel burn rate is based on how far they've depressed the pedal?
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For the same reason you wear a seatbelt and not a 7-point crash harness.
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Grok becoming an artificial nepobaby running the entire CVE program with zero oversight sounds so fucking funny I don't even care, PLEASE god make this real holy shit I can't breathe at the thought
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important to note: the US's food safety is already really bad. salmonella isn't a thing you have to worry about in first world countries. can't wait to see what plague demon spawns out of a food industry running amok after the FDA gets gutted.
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> it feels like once that kind of stuff isn't punished, it starts to snowball a change in the attitudes of the site as a whole.

Considering the site has been around for over 20 years and people still call out and flame racism, I think this is an uncharitable and unfounded cynicism. I'm not sure declarative claims of 3rd order effects in a system so chaotic are capable of being accurate.
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Nah I disagree. It's the best one. All of the extra shit other boards have just feels like needless bloat. Honestly the JS extension they added like 10 years ago is a bit much.
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Incredibly spot-on and well-put.
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What was bad about the interview? Can you share any details?
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There is no counter-culture anymore, not really. Society is virtually balkanized.
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Nah, the board culture really did change in the last 7 years. In a past that's not too distant nobody was obsessed with trans folk. That's not to say there weren't vulgarities and unpleasantries, but there was definitely a substantial IQ drop somewhere around 2018 and 2019. I haven't seen the "Install Gentoo" meme in a while, the old board culture was basically replaced with cringe fringe zoomerisms.
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/g/ genuinely was one of the worst boards on the website, but there were a handful of lurkers who made good posts in some of the general threads. the site as a whole was still was a diverse place up until yesterday, with only a few boards being unusably bad, and it was getting increasingly better.

it's a bit sad really. zero-barrier to entry, no login gates, no accounts, and traffic was so high that it moved really fast. it was like a dive bar covered in grime. will be sad to see it go. none of the other imageboards still kicking are quite the same, most are even worse tbh.
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It is not very niche at all. 4chan served a gigantic volume of traffic.
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> Elixir

For me, it's Erlang. I just really like its horn clause syntax, it's so clean and readable. I know a common complaint is lack of piping (and even though you can implement it trivially, the order of arguments for some functions makes it of dubious use) but it's a small price to pay.

> I mean the language is really nice but the C# baggage and runtime was just a bit much

This was my experience with F#. Frankly, I've never been happy with my experience with CLI on Linux, and the toolchain inherits a lot of baggage from its C# heritage. Microsoft's toolchains have a very distinct workflow to them. F# has some interesting aspects to it like active patterns (something I wish was more common in the ML-family), but tbh I'm more than happy with ocaml.
johnnyjeans
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No essentially about it. Hezbollah is part of the government, one of many political parties in Lebanon. Just like most of the other major political parties in Lebanon, they maintain their own militia separate from the Lebanese military.