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Road to Elm 1.0 15 days ago

IMHO this busywork is (mostly) preferrable, because it meant that any package was truly pure Elm, and you could blindly trust it not to be some wrapper that crashed at runtime.

It's a tradeoff, sure. But this way, Elm didn't become just another "JavaScript with better syntax".

Road to Elm 1.0 16 days ago

I haven't tried it, but Elm might be a really good fit for LLMs, because it forbids taking shortcuts.

It's not that it has been glossed over, or was a mistake. It's a tradeoff in favor of simplicity (and compiler / tooling speed).

It is difficult to view Go as a serious language because it fails to acknowledge these decisions, repeatedly. You can't really trust the language in that sense.

The point was to stop oil trades of "petro non-dollars", just like Venezuela.

If countries start getting away with selling oil in other currencies, then they wouldn't funnel back all these vasts amounts of dollars into the S&P 500 and the American economy would collapse.

MCP is dead? 2 months ago

Hank Hill: "Excuse me, are y'all with the cult?"

Jane #2: "We're not a cult. We're an organization that promotes love and—"

Hank Hill: "Yeah, this is it."

It's simply not correct that a judge must always enforce a sentence before any executive action. This is the same everywhere in the world: the executive can take certain preventive or direct action without judiciary. Otherwise just nothing would work, criminals would have it very easy.

You may argue that blocking internet access should always go through judiciary, for some reason. But you can't claim that this was undemocratic, that's just spewing bullshit for the sake of it.

There is nothing undemocratic about this.

The law was already there, a minister in Spain does not only propose or vote on laws, but has quite some executive influence. This has always been so and is nothing unusual.

You can't really operate this stuff in a vacuum, otherwise it would take years to take any actions against illegal gambling, way too late.