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Re:Monads are monoids in the category of endofunctors by JadeNB on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:15PM (#28477409)
> Starting with words like 'functors' that most software engineers today will not be able to define is not useful.

But the parent post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28476325 to which lmm was responding https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28476569 said "Wait, a functor is just a pure unary function?" If someone asks you the definition of a technical term, you sort of have to at least refer to the technical term.

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