I have two questions.

1. After the revolution, how to you prevent the people that were influential during the revolution from seizing power for themselves, becoming the new bourgeoisie. This happened time and time again in practice.

2. Even in the best case scenario, the decisions on what to produce become centralized in the hands of politicians. Political systems that we tried so far don’t work that well in practice. Is this really the best solution?

I started exercising, I quite embarrassingly couldn’t do even a single push-up, I can do 20 now.

My Ender 5 has been lying around for 3 years, maybe I’ll dust it off during the weekend :)

When does the narwhal bacon?

You write it in vim and then copy paste it once you are done.

BTW, why do you need a markdown editor?

None. I’m kind of surprised most people don’t use lemmy the same way as reddit, I assume nobody just browsed /r/all?

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

It’s a time machine that teleports you to 3am the next day.

Sanmill

Basically nine man’s morris, it’s pretty fun trying to beat progressively harder AI. Each difficulty requires a different (better) strategy. It’s like unlocking levels in a puzzle game.

Play chess.

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I would just pick the value from the root of each underlaying balanced binary tree, easy.

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Just buy a new SSD to install Linux on. If you decide to switch back just plug the old one in.

I quite enjoy Nix flakes for this. Only certain languages have good support though (C, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, …).

It’s easier to write that much if you are just making stuff up…

I don’t have 2 mil, how do I get out of this? File for bankruptcy?

Stand a little out of my sun.

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Well, most people installing Arch for the first time have no idea what a typical Linux install does under the hood. That makes it a worthwhile learning experience. The same commands you use during the setup you can later use to fix or change things. It basically forces you to become a somewhat proficient Linux user.

On a phone with spyware installed that wouldn’t do anything. There are probably ways to get rid of it, but how can you be sure?

Nope. Monads enable you to redefine how statements work.

Let’s say you have a program and use an Error[T] data type which can either be Ok {Value: T} or Error:

var a = new Ok {Value = 1};
var b = foo();
return new Ok {Value = (a + b)};

Each statement has the following form:

var a = expr;
rest

You first evaluate the “expr” part and bind/store the result in variable a, and evaluate the “rest” of the program.

You could represent the same thing using an anonymous function you evaluate right away:

(a => rest)(expr);

In a normal statement you just pass the result of “expr” to the function directly. The monad allows you to redefine that part.

You instead write:

bind((a => rest), expr);

Here “bind” redefines how the result of expr is passed to the anonymous function.

If you implement bind as:

B bind(Func[A, B] f, A result_expr) {
   return f(result_expr);
}

Then you get normal statements.

If you implement bind as:

Error[B] bind(Func[A, Error[B]] f, Error[A] result_expr) {
   switch (result_expr) {
       case Ok { Value: var a}:
           return f(a);
       case Error:
           return Error;
   }
}

You get statements with error handling.

So in an above example if the result of foo() is Error, the result of the statement is Error and the rest of the program is not evaluated. Otherwise, if the result of foo() is Ok {Value = 3}, you pass 3 to the rest of the program and you get a final result Ok {Value = 4}.

So the whole idea is that you hide the if Error part by redefining how the statements are interpreted.