what about haskell

Treat OR NO Trick

what a beautiful language

it’s floor 5 from monday to wednesday, and floor 2 from thursday to sunday

god i hope so

i wonder why people haven’t made a language that starts indexing at 2 yet. maybe some day

i wish the people making buildings around here knew that. some start at floor 3, others at 5. some start at 0. others at 2. every building has its own story. you need to understand the building before you can understand your position in it.

do you also have minced tables there?

he’s in a better place now

this seems like the only proper way to do anything in C++. it’s a language where there’s 5 ways to do 1 thing and 1 way to do 5 things.

and then they had the audacity to put that picture on the cover of the textbooks

being a prompt engineer is so much more than typing words. you also have to sometimes delete the words and then type new ones

i’m not really sure what IQ has to do with this. it was originally designed to measure people’s proficiency in school. it was not designed to be a general measure of intelligence. that was something that was co opted by eugenicists.

here’s a quote from Simon Bidet, the original creator of the IQ test, about his thoughts on the eugenicists using his test:

Finally, when Binet did become aware of the “foreign ideas being grafted on his instrument” he condemned those who with ‘brutal pessimism’ and ‘deplorable verdicts’ were promoting the concept of intelligence as a single, unitary construct.

you can read more about this stuff on his wikipedia page. (the quote is from wikipedia)

even to this day, there is quite a bit of doubt as to how accurately IQ measures “general intelligence”

playing russian roulette is not going to give you permanent damage every 5/6 times

i feel like javascript could also be

Problem -> solution -> 3 days pass -> all dependencies had breaking changes made -> problem

what a wonderful and beautiful language. i’m so glad i asked

what does the +x do.

this is just like in regular math too. not being a number is just so fun that nobody wants to go back to being a number once they get a taste of it

this was very comforting to read

this is easily fixed by copy pasting the files into a new directory and never opening git again out of fear

they made a very influential isEven algorithm

fortran is a bow and arrow. it was quite powerful and widely used in the past, but i have not met anyone in recent years who uses it other than as a hobby.

i’ve only ever used nano in the early stages of a gentoo install, when it’s too early to install vim and import my dot files 😈

here’s another mathematical approach (that has the added benefit of only working when x and y are both positive).

let f denote the linear functional on ℝ² defined by f(1,0) = x and f(0,1) = y (and extend by linearity). then the operator norm || f || is equal to max(x,y).

the set theorists were already in pain. category theory freed them from their suffering

a little category theory never hurt anyone :)

O(n²) means that as the input n grows, it takes exponential time to process.

this is really pedantic, but O(n²) is quadratic, not exponential. the exponential runtimes are things like O(2ⁿ). when n gets even modestly big (say n=100), youre looking at a difference of 2¹⁰⁰ ≈ 1.26×10³⁰ vs 100² = 10,000. this is just to say that exponential runtime is really in a class of its own.

but otherwise i think this was a pretty good explanation of the concept

very impressive to get that many upvotes on stack overflow with only 4 views

i am already messing up my neck 8 hours a day 5 days a week for 50 weeks a year

i wouldn’t mind a little discomfort if it meant entering monitor heaven