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Compared to a language like F# Haskell feels more at ease with itself. F# always has that awful mismatch between it's .NET side and it's functional side where you're thinking "should I use objects here and invoke this way or use functions and invoke that way". And, somewhat ironically, the tooling for Haskell seems at least on par with F# on Windows with free tools (i.e. no VS) and in some spots even better. I suspect that's because F# is and will be a secondary language in .NET with corresponding resource allocation while Haskell is it's own language with it's own support.
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Playing with Haskell again using the nand2tetris exercises. Considering how long I haven't touched that language I'm pleasantly surprised at how natural it still feels. Of course making a simulator doesn't touch on any of Haskell's weak points but still even monad stacks don't fee like an issue even though those are known to be a bit annoying.
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Oh, apparently open source now means stuff like commons clause and libre means the four freedoms. Err, OSI might want a word?
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@purplehippo @maiyannah I'm still waiting for the "you can freely use this shit except if you're a nazi and we decide who's a nazi" license.
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@purplehippo @maiyannah It's a bit harder for them, they'd have to relicense away from AGPL at the same time since section 7 of the (A)GPLv3 voids restrictions on additional restrictive clauses (except for a few reasonable ones). Also it doesn't look like Mastodon uses a CLA so they'd end up having to contact all the license holders. That's already a gigantic pain in the rear even for an uncontentious license change, for a heat generating one like Commons Clause it would amount to a shitfest even greater than, well, Mastodon.
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I really couldn't care less about a company relicensing code to a proprietary license. But the disturbing bit about Commons Clause is that it tries hard to muddy the waters between OSI/FSF compliant FOSS licenses and proprietary licenses. Even saying Apache + Commons Clause is in important respects misleading because there's no addition of rights. Traditionally LicenseA + LicenseB is used for dual licensing, which gives you more options and LicenseA + Exception is used for extra rights relative to license A (e.g. GPL + classpath exception). The Commons Clause however subtracts from the rights given to the effect that the license granted is _not_ the announced license but a butchered version of it.
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Article on HN asking if it wouldn't be better to just leave Twitter and go back to Tumblr. It leads to an interesting question: which is worse? As shit as Twitter is I have extreme doubts that it rises to the level of utter groupthink shite that is Tumblr. Consider, Twitter actually has two prominent sets of opposed obnoxious bully groups (obviously there's the leftists but you need more alcohol than is available in the observable universe to make an argument that Trump is a leftist).
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@johnnynull My point is that even if that is the case (and I'm not disputing it) the apparently coordinated nature of social media companies with a very significant combined market share amount to a much larger impact of free speech than the individual actions of the companies.
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@purplehippo How much drama can you have about a silly game that's about inflicting maximum carnage on bloody demons?
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Note that for all I've heard of Alex Jones he's a real piece of work and sometimes crosses a moral line in my book. But I'm pretty firmly of the belief that action that effectively denies someone the ability to speak to people who are willing to listen should be the result of laws and regulations subject to judicial review and preferably the result of a specific court case.
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A thought. It is hereabouts (EU) considered a very bad thing if companies who's combined market share is a significant part of the total market cooperate to the detriment of the consumer. Accepting as a premise the notion that an online social media provider such as Twitter has the right to ban people from using its services as it pleases just as a company has the right to set prices as it pleases does it not make sense to think of a coordinated move to deny people access to a platform as an equally undesirable analogue to classical pricing cartels? That is, if all major social media companies cooperate to deny platform to a single user should not other rules apply than for a single non-monopoly platform?
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@maiyannah I misread that as execute Java. Which is simultaneously a good and not a good thing.
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@maiyannah The only thing eating more energy and generating more heat than bitcoin mining.
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@maiyannah Only two things are constant: moaning about blocklists and hyping about blockchains.
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@maiyannah Yeah, that's kinda the difference. What you eventually learn as a programmer is to assume that you screwed up and that if things work right you haven't searched hard enough for the bugs yet.
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I frequently think I'm great at coding and I my code will run perfectly. And then I run my unit tests...
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@camoceltic For a while now Mozilla not only jumped the shark but set up an entire theme park with hourly shows of it jumping a basin full of sharks.
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Porn star's publicity hungry lawyer wants to use his newfound fame attacking the president of the united state to replace him. Ah, the land of the free and the home of the crazy presidential candidates. :P
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