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In short, yes.

Why must every language have every feature, mass applicability, and be intended to be the language-to-end-all-languages? Growth or marketshare is not the only valuable aim.

If you want mutable data structures, I wouldn't point you to Haskell.

I've dealt with many shitty code bases and the only way that worked for removing bugs was automation. It didn't matter how many bodies you threw at the problem.

Can't say my experience matches yours. Types do seem to structurally reduce some varieties of bugs, but ultimately the only reliable way I've seen to close the gap is hire disciplined people who care about, and thoughtfully consider, what they build.

E.g., the shittiest codebases I've ever seen were TypeScript. It in no way prevents you writing bugs or slop

That’s why “if” should just be an expression

I have quite literally never had to do Java interop in my Kotlin work. Do you have an example?

In contrast, your statement about F# strikes me as mostly true - albeit my interop was always the other way around (consuming F# code from C#).

This is overestimating the amount of effort involved to game on Linux, imo. It is true that there are a couple games using kernel-level anticheat which preclude their working on linux, but for the most part the effort required to play games on Linux now is zero if it's a Steam game and almost zero elsewhere.

KDE has been great for me on Fedora. What problems have you encountered?

I did the same on my gaming machine in early 2025 to get well ahead of the Win10 EOL. I installed Nobara and have been really happy with it.

My biggest gripe is losing the entire layer of semantics that HTTP gives you. POST is the only verb and different error states are conveyed via error objects in the returned JSON.

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I’m also passionate about building healthy, functional teams who can focus on building the right things quickly.

I’m self-taught and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think honed my ability to distill complex requirements into simple concepts and to communicate well with technical and non-technical folk alike.

I like to unwind by indulging in my hobbies of hand-tool woodworking or music production. It’s another way I enjoy solving problems, albeit in a very different context. Always looking to learn and grow, so I relish the idea of being the least experienced person in the room - it means I’m in the right place :)

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I'm passionate about building functional, healthy teams who can focus on building the right things quickly.

I'm self-taught and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think leaves me in a good position to think creatively about problems and to communicate well.

  Location: Nashville, TN
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I'm a fast learner and interested in pushing my boundaries. I'd love to be the least experienced person in the room - more opportunity for learning!

I'm self-taught and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think leaves me in a good position to think creatively about problems and to communicate well.

  Location: Nashville, TN
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  Technologies: Clojure, Ruby, F#, C#, SQL, JS, Bash, AWS, Azure, etc
  Email: ryan [at] rtroberts.com

I'm self-taught and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think leaves me in a good position to think creatively about problems and to communicate well.

  Location: Nashville, TN
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  Willing to relocate: Yes, maybe even preferred
  Technologies: Clojure, Ruby, F#, C#, SQL, JS, Bash, AWS, Azure, etc
  Email: ryan [at] rtroberts.com

I'm a fast learner and interested in pushing my boundaries. I'd love to be the least experienced person in the room - more opportunity for learning!

I'm self-taught and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think leaves me in a good position to think creatively about problems and to communicate well.

  Location: Nashville, TN
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes, maybe even preferred
  Technologies: C#, F#, Ruby, Clojure, SQL, JS, Bash, AWS, Azure, etc
  Email: ryan [at] rtroberts.com

I'm a fast learner and interested in pushing my boundaries. I'd love to be the least experienced person in the room - more opportunity for learning!

I'm self-taught and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think leaves me in a good position to think creatively about problems and to communicate well.

DAs don't have cases to prosecute if cops don't make the arrest.

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I'm a fast learner and interested in pushing my boundaries. I'd love to be the least experienced person in the room - more opportunity for learning!

I'm self-taught and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think leaves me in a good position to think creatively about problems and to communicate well.

Can you describe what body weight exercises you found helpful? Why do you think those were different than what you were accomplishing with traditional gym weightlifting?

The replies to this are baffling. Of course not. It’s a huge, incredibly diverse and heterogeneous country of ~300 million people.

What’s the motive for reporting inflated temperatures?

Already sold out most places, it seems.

That makes sense. I was mostly looking at one of the Tom's Hardware benchmarks in particular; I don't know what the userbenchmark is actually _doing_. So it's probably more fair to compare userbenchmark to userbenchmark like you did.

However, I think it's still true that the actual release of the Zen 2 processors will make userbenchmark scores much more reliable as the scores regress to the mean.

As far as I know, these processors are not yet released. What's the confidence level that this user benchmark will be indicative of real life expected performance?

It seems implausible that this user benchmark is a good indicator. The Zen 1 architecture exhibited nothing of the sort[0] -- it would be an order of magnitude performance regression.

I expect we'll start to see more accurate tests once the processors are actually released into the wild.

[0]https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-7-2700x-revie...

5 years as a full stack dev, but I've increasingly moved lower down the stack. I'm interested in continuing that trend, even if it takes me out of web development. I've done some machine learning and optimization work in the past and would be interested in pursuing those opportunities as well.

I'm a fast learner and interested in pushing my boundaries. I'd love to be the least experienced person in the room - more opportunity for learning!

I'm self-taught (from books and practical exercise) and my degree is in philosophy, which I like to think leaves me in a good position to think creatively about problems and also communicate well.

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Forward slashes have worked in the terminal for a long time.

  PS C:\Users> cd rthom/Desktop
  PS C:\Users\rthom\Desktop>

This makes a whole lot of sense to me. However, one of the elements of truly productive learning is _focused_ practice; that is, practice with mindfulness and intentionality directed at a specific element. One won't necessarily get any better at decoupling unless it is specifically practiced. To that end, _how_ would one truly practice the skill of decoupling? Or maybe, what resources or heuristics or strategies would you suggest to help draw the lines between behaviours or modules?

The first thing that comes to mind is Gary Bernhardt's talk on Boundaries, or "functional core, imperative shell", but I'm not sure that this is entirely what you're discussing here.

Interestingly I was thinking of her when I made the initial comment - I didn't mention her specifically, in order to avoid spoiling anything, but in my opinion she did not develop at all. Again, I don't want to talk specifically about any further events in the series, but to me, she didn't evolve at all as a character.

Completely disagree. The science was pretty good, for a pop audience, but there was zero character development - beyond Luo Ji, zero characters develop in the _entire series_. I don't want to spoil anything, of course, but you can pretty much decide the rest of the series based on what I've already written. Extremely disappointing.

Yeah, this is really useful. I think it'll break on single quotes: `notes we'll need oranges tomorrow`, but otherwise, it's a very low-friction method, to me.

It's not difficult to fit classical liberalism into the US Constitution. Both are children of the Enlightenment, and have the same philosophical underpinnings.